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BAGO DIVISION – Karen National Union (KNU) reported on May 22 that more than 20,000 locals have been forced to be displaced in Moo Township of KNU’s Brigade 3 territory during May 2023.
Since May 10, a total of 21,880 residents from 18 villages near Nyaung Pin Thar Village have been forced to leave their lands due to the human rights violations of the coup regime.
Those 18 villages were recorded as Naung Pin Thar, Naung Cho, Daik Pon, Mee Taing Taw, Aung Chan Thar, Kyaung Su, Myaung U, Yae Oh Si, Kaw Pyin, Kyauk Kan, Naung Kone, Taung Su, Sa Wai, Kyun Taw, Nyaung Pin Seik, Myaung Yoe Gyi, Ywar Haung, and Tat Kone villages.
The statement said that the terrorist junta forces launched two aerial attacks with grenade-equipped drones over Naung Kone Village in Moo Township on May 21, destroying a school building, two civilian houses, and a wood hut and forcing nearly 800 residents to run away to save their lives.
There are many villages where the locals have permanently left their lands in Moo Township due to the brutal junta’s artillery, drones, airstrikes, and offensive attacks, as well as arbitrary abductions and widespread slaughter of innocent civilians.
The KNU also claimed that there are some villages that were burned to the ground by the junta’s arson raids and forest fires, while the villagers were forced to abandon their homes.