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KAYAH STATE – As it is plantation season, local farmers from eastern Loikaw Township are worried that they will be hit by heavy weapons fired by military council-based battalions while working in the hillside fields.
“Everyone is worried. Some have been staying in IDP camps. The junta’s fighter planes hover in the area so often as if they are going to bombard anytime. We are feeling worried whether junta council’s fighter planes may drop heavy weapons while working in the fields in this plantation season,” said a local farmer living in Eastern Loikaw.
Amidst the worries, the local people living in the eastern part of Loikaw have to plant corns and paddy in this planting season, said a local.
“This planting is for next year’s food. They are eating what was planted last year. We have to struggle this year to have enough to eat next year. This year, with the current political situation, it is not easy to earn and we have no income,” a local farmer said.
There is no fighting in the eastern part of Loikaw at present, but the terrorist junta council’s light battalion (530) has been firing heavy weapons into nearby villages frequently resulting some local farmers to be injured, as well as civilians living in their homes.
Previously in January, a man from Dawtahay Village, Hteesekhar Village Tract in the eastern part of Loikaw who has been fleeing war, stepped onto junta army’s mine and lost one of his legs while he was on his way home from hillside farm.