By Ko Paing / MPA
In Butalin, Sagaing Region, five members of a family who owned a grocery store were massacred by the military, according to sources from the Butalin Revolution.
Around 12:30 AM on October 12 in Bandoola New Ward, near the Buddha Museum, the military council troops raided the home of U Phoe Kyar and Daw Thin general store and killed the family by tying them behind their back and shooting them.
“The patrol unit of the junta raided the house and killed them. The whole town had fled, but this family stayed behind. They threw bodily and killed a seven-year-old girl. The other four were tied behind their back and shot. They were killed possibly because some junta’s informants who bear ill will towards them might misinform that they were PDF’s informants,” said a revolutionary source from Butalin Township to MPA.
The junta soldiers killed the store-owning couple, their seven-year-old niece, their 16-year-old son, and a daughter in her mid-twenties.
The military has been conducting raids and killing civilians in Butalin, causing many residents to flee the town.
On September 30, PDF forces intercepted a military convoy returning from Kutaw Police Station to Monywa, killing 31 soldiers, and capturing 43 others including two captains. Following this, the military has been launching daily military offensives and violent operations on Butalin and surrounding villages.