The Kawthoolei Army, an ethnic Karen armed group formed by the son of a former Karen National Union (KNU) leader, has been accused of killing civilians in Tanintharyi Region.
In two separate incidents—one earlier this month, the other in December of last year—the group killed a total of six people, according to the Dawei District Democracy Movement Strike Committee (DMSC), which has investigated the incidents.
On October 2, members of the Kawthoolei Army’s Sarkasaw Brigade detained three men on their way from the city of Dawei to the nearby village of Pakkari, the DMSC said in a recent statement, citing local sources.
Six days later, the bodies of the men—identified as Sonny, Than Kywe, and Myint Lwin—were discovered near a checkpoint run by the Sarkasaw Brigade’s Battalion 3. All three had been shot and stabbed, the sources said.
This follows the killing last December. . .
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