🗓️Weekly update on the situation in Karen, Mon & Dawei since the failed coup: May 2024 | Week Four
⚠️ 2+ Arrested
⚠️ 8+ Detained
⚠️ 11+ Injured
⚠️ 6+ Killed
As the situation worsens in Rakhine, #HRVs are committed by AA & the junta. Everyone must be protected to ensure peace.
Two civilians were killed & five others injured when the military junta shelled Taung ThuHtay Gone village in the Phaya Seik village tract, Bilin Township, Mon State, according to local sources. On May 24, at noon, soldiers from LIB 3, based in Bilin, fired artillery.
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SAC air force pounded Tedim Town with a dozen bombs this morning as it tries to provide air support to LIB 269 troops battling the advancing Chin forces. 2 civilians were killed, a Baptist Church & 2 schools were damaged in separate air raids on 3 villages in the area yesterday.
Shame on @JFA for signing a partnership with the crony Myanmar Football Federation (MFF) led by Zaw Zaw, who financially supported the military's 2017 genocide against #Rohingya. By engaging with MFF, the JFA is #sportswashing for the illegal junta.
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💥 Claim: Airstrike on Sa Ne
☑️ Kyaukpyu, Rakhine
☑️ 19.217023, 93.733919
8 May 2024
On 8 May, Sa Ne village in Kyaukpyu Township, Rakhine State, was reportedly hit by an airstrike conducted by the Myanmar Air Force.
According to a local resident, the airstrike bomb destroyed shops and caused casualties.
One woman was killed, and more than ten others were injured.
Myanmar Witness geolocated the footage of the damaged buildings using Google Earth.
Source: https://t.co/5qgVWFhQRi
#Myanmar #WhatsHappeninginMyanmar
The military is pressuring and threatening residents to remove homes that have already received compensation but remain on the airport project land in Mudon within two months.
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Due to the junta troops being stationed near Mi Kyaung Hlaung village, many surrounding villages have halted their plantation activities. Junta troops in Mi Kyaung Hlaung village, #Yebyu Township, #Dawei District, have forced several nearby villages to cease farming.
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Civilian causalities in junta airstrikes have risen since the 2021 coup from 63 in 2021 to 260 in 2022 and 613 in 2023, the Nyan Lin Thit Analytica research group, which monitors regime atrocities, reported.
Find out more: https://t.co/Y4rfDB99WY
✋🏽🛑 It's time that PTT stop paying blood money to the #Myanmar military junta!
PTT is the largest Thai corporate investor in #Myanmar partnering with MOGE in offshore gas fields and pipelines. 📝 Sign & demand PTT Stop Bankrolling the terrorist junta https://t.co/Y5Tr6tqvqd
#Myanmar junta airstrikes killed over 3️⃣5️⃣9️⃣ civilians, including 6️⃣1️⃣children, and injured 7️⃣5️⃣6️⃣others in the first four months of 2024, according to a recent study.
Find out more 👇https://t.co/Y4rfDB99WY
.@Global_Witness finds a concerning rise in socially & environmentally destructive rare earth mining in #Kachin state, #Myanmar, which ultimately ends up in global supply chains for electric vehicles and wind turbines. Companies need to urgently increase their due diligence!