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Tedim Post / AFP Troops loyal to Myanmar’s junta have killed more than 80 ethnic Chins in the country since the military took power in a Feb. 1 coup, including two infants and a 15-year-old rape victim, a Chin watchdog group said Tuesday. The military killed at least 51 ethnic Chin in Chin state, two in Kachin state, 23 in Sagaing region, one in Mandalay, one in Yangon, and three in Magwe region, according to a statement issued by the Institute of Chin Affairs (ICA)—an entity formed by several Chin civil society organizations together with activists from the pro-democracy 88 Generation Students group in Sweden.
Citizen journalist At least 30 people confirmed to be infected with COVID-19 are in hiding in the jungles of Myanmar’s remote Sagaing region after fleeing fighting between troops loyal to the country’s military regime and a branch of the People’s Defense Force (PDF) militia, residents said Thursday. The patients had been receiving medical treatment at two donor-funded COVID-19 centers in Kalay township’s Ashaysee and Tinthar villages but were forced to vacate the area along after clashes broke out between junta forces and members of the Kalay PDF on July 15, according to a villager who spoke to RFA’s Myanmar Service on condition of anonymity, citing fear of reprisal.
RFA More than 20 civilians have been killed during the past 20 days during a vicious crackdown in northwestern Myanmar’s Sagaing region, a hotbed of anti-junta rallies since the early February military coup overthrew the elected government, witnesses said Friday. Clashes between security forces and protesters have intensified in Sagaing’s Yinmabin and Kani townships, with residents taking up improvised firearms and other simple weaponry after junta authorities tried to arrest a local Buddhist monk in early April. There have been at least six clashes in the weeks between Apr. 2 and 23, said residents who are furious that the military used rocket-propelled grenades to quell protests.