More than 1,000 IDPs in Salin Township, Magway Region, are in urgent need of food because they have not been able to return home for more than a year.
After the SAC troops raided and burned down 316 homes in the villages of Chaungsone, Kin Pun Chon, and Kywe U in Salin Township, 1,121 IDPs are living in nearby villages and areas controlled by the revolutionary forces, according to Salin Township (People’s Administration – Pa-Ah-Hpa).
” Chaungsone and Kin Pun Chon are on the side of the liberated area, so the support is fairly complete, but the 348 people from Kywe U live in small groups in the woods. If they want to make a phone call, they have to go up the mountain. The battalion provides rice. Chaungsone village is almost destroyed because no one dares to go back. Kin Pun Chon and Kywe U village no longer have houses to live in. Some of them have gone to their close relatives. There are pregnant women among Kywe U IDPs. If they are about to give birth, it is arranged for them to give birth at the clinic on the side of the liberated area. Over time, we have become overloaded. We also need food. We can’t do it in the long term,” said an official of Salin Township (Pa-Ah-Hpa).
Among the 348 IDPs in Kywe U village, there are four pregnant women, one chronically ill person, two elderly grandmothers without relatives, and four disabled people.
“There is no raid in these days. There are no villages where SAC troops are stationed near us. When they come, they sit in the kan Pyar first. It is close to the 21st Weapon Factory (SAC), and they have jointly come with it,” he said.
On March 28th, the SAC troops burned 123 houses in Kin Pun Chon Village, and on August 18th, they burned 128 houses in Kywe U Village.
On May 15th, 2022, the SAC troops raided a PDF camp and burned down Chaung Sone village, destroying 65 houses.