It is reported that the junta troops burned Kyun Taw Village, Seik Phyu Township, Magway Region, for two days in a row and killed two residents.
After local revolutionary forces attacked a car carrying soldiers on January 28 on the Saw-Seik Phyu Highway, the soldiers entered the nearby Kyun Taw Village and set it on fire, according to some local residents.
“The car with soldiers was hit by a landmine on the road, and then they came into the village near the road using force and opened fire. All the villagers had to run with their clothes on. Nothing could be taken. We only got one or two meals,” said a Kyun Taw villager.
The junta troops set fire to houses for the first time on the evening of January 28th and again on January 29th, but the number of houses that were destroyed by the fire has not yet been confirmed.
“Now that junta troops have left to lie in an ambush in the village, no one dares to enter the village. Nobody dares to go back. They have not even been able to go and pick up the bodies of the two people who were killed. They tried to go and collect them, but the ambushes fired guns and had to run back,” said a person close to the local PDF.
When the junta soldiers entered the village again at around 10:00 a.m. on January 29, two local men were killed in the village.
He said that a 35-year-old man was beheaded in the north of Kyuntaw village, and a villager was also killed in the south of the village.
More than 1,000 people living in Kyun Taw Village are still fleeing as of this evening (January 31).