Attacks by junta ground troops and militias have forced more than 10,000 civilians in 12 villages to flee their homes since last Thursday as the military continued a newly launched offensive in Sagaing Region.
At around 4am on Thursday, an army column of some 80 troops headed south out of Ye-U—a town on the west bank of the Mu River around 100 miles north of Mandalay—displacing residents of nearby villages on either side of the Ye-U-Depayin road, who fled their homes fearing what the soldiers might do to them.
“We had to leave in a hurry. It's planting season, so leaving now will cause problems. We had to abandon our work and run,” a displaced Ye-U Township resident said.
Before launching the ground offensive on August 12, the junta had been airlifting arms, ammunition, and reinforcement troops into Ye-U. . .
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