At least 15 civilians died in conflict-related violence in southern Myanmar’s Tanintharyi Region last month, according to local media reports and groups monitoring the situation in the region.
The largest group of victims was in Launglon Township, where junta forces carried out a series of raids on at least six villages south of the township’s regime-controlled administrative centre between October 12 and October 19.
The raids, prompted by the detention earlier in the month of nine junta-appointed census takers by local anti-regime groups, left at least five people dead.
Two of the victims were killed on October 16, according to the spokesperson for the Dawei District Democracy Movement Strike Committee (DMSC), which tracks civilian casualties in the area.
“A 73-year-old woman was. . .
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