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KACHIN STATE – About a hundred junta troops were reportedly stationed at the local residences in Phatma Village, starting around 8 a.m. on Monday (May 18), stated a twenty-four-year-old resident.
“The junta troops are back in the village since early morning. They are not stationed at the school compound but at the residences. They are not deployed at a single house but stationed at several houses. I don’t know what would happen next!,” said the resident.
The junta troops were reportedly sent into the village in four trucks and deployed all over the area, fully armed.
“I couldn’t tell them that they are not welcome to stay in the village. It is frightening and feels like a threat when the junta troops are staying in our village. What if some armed groups came to attack them and have a clash, our village would be in chaos,” said a villager in his fifties.
The local added that the junta troops that usually station at the school are back again and he is concerned that the children could not go to school when the new semester starts.
“I wish they’d just station outside of the village. Since the new semester is coming soon, I hope they are not stationed at the school. The school in Tanja Village was on fire and the cause of the fire is still unverified. I am worried that the same would happen to our school. I dare not say a thing as I am afraid they would do something harmful,” said the local man.
As the locals are concerned about the clashes in the area, they dare not work on farms and stay home, according to the local source.
Two months ago, on March 15, about two hundred junta soldiers, stationed at Phatma Village School, reportedly fired heavy artilleries towards the nearby villages.
The “Phatma Village Tract” is situated alongside the Myitkyina- Puta-O Road and 192 miles from Myitkyina Town, where junta troops and Kachin Independence Army (KIA) forces frequently faced off against each other.