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Myanmar air force bombs monastery in Mutraw District after capture of Hpapun
The junta air force is bombing civilian targets in Mutraw District—the territory under the administration of the Karen National Union’s Brigade 5—as Karen anti-junta forces and their allies continue fighting to push out the remaining junta forces
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Ethnic Karen-led forces seize Hpapun town from military
Representatives of the People’s Defence Force, which fought alongside the Karen National Union, says the junta has been forced out of the Mutraw District town
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Military attacks villages as Karen, Mon forces seize police station in Kawkareik Township
Junta shelling killed at least four civilians, including two children, and destroyed scores of houses on the border between Karen and Mon states this week, according to local sources and anti-junta fighters. Two women in Kawt Pauk village—in Karen State’s Kawkareik Township less than a mile from the state boundary—and two children in Dhamma Tha village—located in Mon State’s Kyaikmayaw Township—were killed in the artillery strikes on Sunday, according to a statement by the Lion Battalion, a force commanded by the Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA). The junta’s shelling, which also caused major damage to at least two hundred civilian homes, was a response to attacks on a police station earlier the same day in Kawt Bein village, Kawkareik Township, some three miles northeast of Dhamma Tha. The Lion Battalion participated in the attack, along with other KNLA-commanded units and members of the armed wing of the Anti-Dictatorship New Mon State Party (NMSP-AD). In February of this year, the NMSP-AD broke away from another ethnic political organisation—the New Mon State Party, one of the signatories of the Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement with the military in 2015. Since its formation last month, the NMSP-AD has been allied with the KNLA and other…
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Myanmar air force attacks civilian targets in four states
The air raids, which have damaged hospitals, schools, and residential houses even in areas where no recent fighting has taken place, appear to be aimed deliberately at civilian targets
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Myanmar military’s road blockades obstruct healthcare access in northern Shan State
The regime has stopped medical supplies from reaching towns under the administration of the Ta’ang National Liberation Army, which is reopening hospitals formerly controlled by the junta