Notorious Myanmar Military Commander to Lead Clearance Operations
Lieutenant General Than Hlaing, the chief of the Myanmar Police, will supervise junta raids and operations against civilian resistance fighters.
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Lieutenant General Than Hlaing, the chief of the Myanmar Police, will supervise junta raids and operations against civilian resistance fighters.
Reuters visualises the Myanmar crackdown through the stories of seven victims.
HANDOUT / FACEBOOK / AFP Militiamen killed at least nine junta soldiers in northwest Myanmar’s war-torn Sagaing region over the weekend in a two-pronged attack on a convoy heading to Kalay township, while 3,000 villagers fled the area amid intensified raids on civilian homes and in anticipation of a major military offensive, fighters said Monday. The Kalay branch of the People’s Defense Force (PDF) militia said in a statement that two of its units ambushed the convoy around 1:00 p.m. Sunday between Khway Kyin and Than Pho villages, some 15 miles from the center of the townsh...
The civilian defense forces had been tending to thousands of villagers who earlier fled the conflict zone.
Local fighters and ethnic armies battled the regime in several places, a female NLD lawmaker was arrested and the junta shelled an IDP camp among many other incidents.