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Myanmar junta troops kill three civilians in Mandalay Region’s Myingyan Township

The leader of the Pyu Saw Htee forces involved in the incident is a former chair of a local chapter of the military’s proxy party, the USDP

Regime forces, including members of the pro-junta Pyu Saw Htee militia, killed three civilians during a raid on a village in Myingyan Township, Mandalay Region, on Wednesday, according to local resistance sources.

The victims were shot after being captured by a column of around 100 regime troops conducting the operation in Phon, a village near the town of Myingyan, according to Wan Tu, leader of Battalion 1 of the Myingyan People’s Defence Force.

“As they arrived in four trucks, the junta forces apprehended the three men. They claimed the men were informants and executed them by shooting them in the head,” he said, adding that the identities of the men, who were all in their 30s, remain unknown.

According to local sources, the Pyu Saw Htee forces involved in the attack were led by a woman named Thida Yu Mon, a former chair of the local chapter of. . .

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