Junta troops arrested more than a dozen villagers on Monday, a day after resistance forces destroyed a junta outpost in Ngape Township, Magway Region, according to local sources.
At least 17 people from two villages, including five women, were detained in an apparent response to Sunday’s attack on the military’s hilltop outpost near Ngape Township’s Zin Pyun village, some 22 miles from Magway Region’s border with Rakhine State.
“Four people including two women from Goke Wa village were released on bail yesterday,” a man from Zin Pyun village told Myanmar Now on Wednesday. “Two women from Yae Nwe village will be released on bail today.”
The status of the other detainees, still in custody at a police station in Padan, Ngape Township, remains uncertain, according to locals.
The Chin Defence Force of Asho (CDF-Asho) claimed responsibility for the attack on the junta hilltop outpost. . .
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