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KAREN STATE – Karen National Union (KNU) Mutraw (Hpapun) District, Brigade 5 issued a statement saying that they seriously request the United Nations (UN) and the world’s major democratic countries to take actions on the junta council which committed human rights violation by targeting unarmed civilians without differentiating between the armed groups and the civilians.
KNU Brigade 5 and its alliance forces had attacked the junta council’s Khaypu military camp in KNU brigade 5 territory, on September 6. KNU issued on September 13 that they opposed the brutal junta council responding to the attack with airstrikes targeting unarmed civilians.
The junta council dropped over 500lb cluster bombs over four places in Hpapun District using jet fighters, after the revolutionary forces captured the junta council’s Khaypu military camp. Due to the junta council’s airstrike, three students and a teacher were said to have been killed and four students, one teacher and a civilian were reportedly injured.
The junta council continuously committed violence and the human rights violations over the civilians not only in Hpapun District, KNU territory but also in other states and the districts in Myanmar.
The junta council frequently conducts airstrikes and heavy weapon attacks on the civilian villages and farmyards whenever they engage in clashes against the revolutionary forces and the Ethnic Armed Organisations after they (coup council) seized power from the elected civilian government.
Hpapun District Brigade 5 announced that they oppose the junta council’s human rights violations on the civilians and urged the Karen ethnic people who live in the country, in the border regions and abroad, to unitedly fight against the junta council.