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Zaw Min Tun said the events began when members of the PDF - or People’s Defense Forces, as the local militia are generally known - attacked security forces, who returned fire. In a phone interview Saturday night on state television MRTV, government spokesman Maj. The defense force said the shelling began after fighting broke out when it tried to prevent government soldiers from looting a house in the town. a local militia fighting the military, a Presbyterian Church and a building housing the Pentecostal Church on the Rock were among the 164 structures it had counted destroyed by fire.
“The manner in which the fire was burning indicates that it was not just the incendiary rocket fires but also deliberately torching of houses and structures manually.”Īccording to the Chinland Defense Force-Thantlang. There is nothing left to salvage,” said the statement, signed by the group’s deputy executive director, Salai Za Uk Ling. “Most of the structures on the main street, which has shop stalls and all kinds of businesses, have been destroyed. The Chin Human Rights Organization issued a statement saying the fires in Thantlang had died down by Saturday morning, after as many as 200 houses may have been destroyed. About 20 staff and children in care of an orphanage on the outskirts of the town are believed to be its only remaining residents. More than 10,000 residents then fled the town, some staying temporarily in nearby villages and others seeking shelter across the border in Mizoram, India. 18, and a Christian pastor was shot when he tried to help put out the blaze. Thantlang had already been largely abandoned due to previous attacks by government soldiers.Įighteen other houses and a hotel were destroyed by fire set off by another shelling on Sept. Not only has it damaged one of our offices, it risks destroying the whole town and the homes of thousands of families and children,” said a statement from the London-headquartered agency. “The destruction caused by this violence is utterly senseless. The humanitarian aid agency Save the Children said its offices were in one of the buildings that was “deliberately set ablaze.” There were no immediate reports of casualties from the fire, which started early Friday and burned through the night, according to reports.
Residents of the rugged area have a reputation for their fierce fighting spirit, and have put up stiff resistance to military rule despite being only lightly armed with single-shot hunting rifles and homemade weapons. experts recently warned that the government is planning a major offensive in the country’s northwest, including Chin state, along with the regions of Magway and Sagaing.
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