CNI News
23 Sept 2022
About 500 local residents were trapped in the intense fighting between Karenne armed groups and the Tatmadaw in Moebye near the border of Shan State (South) and Kayah State, Ko Banya of Karenni Human Rights Group told the CNI.
Since 8th September,clashes have broken out between the Tatmadaw and joint forces of the Karenni Defence Force, Karenni Army and the People’s Defence Force in Kayah State.
Residents of the town were taking shelter in their relatives’ houses and in Loikaw.
Ko Banya told the CNI, “At least four or five hundred people are still trapped in the town. When fighting started on 8th September, many people left the town. Then, the clashes halted on 12th September and resumed on 15th September. The revolutionary forces asked the residents to evacuate but there are about 500 people still trapped in four or five wards in the town.”
IDPs from Moebye (Network for protection of Karenni State IDPs)
Civilians were killed and injured in the fighting and more than 4,000 residents were displaced.
The internally displaced persons from Moebye are taking shelter in relatives’ homes and monasteries, U Than Soe, Patron (1) of the Shwe Loikaw (Kayah) Charity told the CNI.
He said, “Some residents moved to Loikaw and Phekhon. Some people asked for our help to move out. We went to them and transported them to places they requested.
More than 100 houses were destroyed and two men and three children were killed.
IDPs from Moebye (Network for protection of Karenni State IDPs)
Ko Banya said, “As the military has been killing its own people brutally and it can be said that it is the military that killed the largest number of its own people in the world. I think the military will be held legally accountable for all these crimes one day. Everyone is trying to hold the military accountable.”
Since the military takeover on 1st February, 2022, fighting has broken out between the military and joint forces of the Karenni National Defence Force, the Karenni Army, Moebye People’s Defence Force, Pekhon Defence Force and the Karenni Revolutionary Union.
More than 163600 were displaced and at least 436 houses were destroyed during the clashes, according to the latest statistics of the ISP-Myanmar.
