
A military column killed four resistance fighters in their custody on Tuesday as they advanced toward the Sagaing Region town of Khampat, which is held by resistance forces and located less than five miles from Myanmar’s border with India.
Around 200 junta troops, divided into three columns, have launched offensives against Khampat since early November, when the People’s Defence Force (PDF) and Kachin Independence Army (KIA) seized control of the town after days of fighting.
One of these columns, from the city of Kalay, also in Sagaing, detained and tortured seven members of an armed resistance who they ambushed while they were guarding Khampat on Tuesday night. Four were later killed and two escaped with severe injuries; the remaining man was held and forced to act as a guide for the soldiers, according to the Chin National Organisation/Chin National Defense Force - Upper Chindwin Region (CNO. . .