Regime soldiers murdered at least 14 civilians in Sagaing Region’s Budalin Township last week during a series of raids carried out in retribution for a deadly resistance attack late last month.
The victims were all slaughtered over the weekend by a column of more than 100 junta troops stationed in Monywa, about 20 miles south of Budalin, locals and resistance sources reported.
On Saturday, soldiers forced their way into a store in Budalin’s Bandula Ward and killed six people hiding inside, a resident of the town told Myanmar Now.
“No one opened the door when they knocked, so they broke the lock and then killed everyone there after entering,” the local said.
The victims of that attack were identified as store owner Phoe Kyar, his wife Daw Thin, their 25-year-old daughter and 16-year-old son, and two other related children, both under the age of. . .
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