Drone and Artillery Strikes by Junta in Kyaukkyi and Mu Townships Leave Three Injured, Including 11-Year-Old Child, and Damage Religious Sites

June 24, 2025

HURFOM: Communities in Kyaukkyi and Mu Townships of Bago Region are once again under siege as junta forces continue their indiscriminate attacks using drones and heavy artillery. According to reports received by HURFOM from field sources and the KNU’s Kler Lwee Htu District, at least three civilians, including an 11-year-old child, were injured. Multiple religious sites and homes were also damaged.

On 14 June 2025, soldiers fromJune 14Infantry Battalion No. 264 based in Painzaloke, Kyaukkyi Township, fired two 120mm artillery shells into Hpan-talin village and one shell into Thamin Inn Gone village. The shelling injured 26-year-old Naw Gee Lah Paw from Thamin Inn Gone, 42-year-old Naw Mu Mu, and 11-year-old Saw Daung Pyuk from Hpan-talin village.

On 17 June, junta forces reporJune 17aunched another round of 120mm artillery shells—three in total—into Thamin Inn Gone village, causing further panic and displacement among residents.
Just days later, on 20 June, junta soldiers basJune 20at Than Kwin, Mu Township, escalated their campaign. Twelve drone-dropped bombs were released over Ohnshik Gone village. Meanwhile, Yaele and Laekwinpyin villages were hit with several more 120mm artillery shells.

These attacks left at least four civilian homes in Ohnshik Gone and Yaele villages destroyed. Among the damaged structures were a Buddhist monastery and a Christian church in Ohnshik Gone, once safe spaces for spiritual and communal refuge.
Local residents told HURFOM that these villages are not conflict zones and were not experiencing clashes at the time of the attacks:

“There was no fighting in our area. People had already fled in fear long ago, but their homes were left behind. Now, even those are being targeted,” a local man said.
“What the junta is doing here is not just wrong—it’s illegal under international law. These attacks are hitting our homes, schools, and even our places of worship. That’s a direct violation of the Geneva Conventions, which clearly say you cannot target civilians or religious buildings. They’re supposed to protect life, not destroy it.

Dropping bombs on villages where there’s no fighting, where people are just trying to survive, is a serious crime. International humanitarian law is obvious—civilians must be protected at all times, and there must be a clear distinction between soldiers and ordinary people. But the junta doesn’t care. They’re breaking the laws of war, and they’re doing it openly. It’s cruel, it’s calculated, and it’s meant to terrorize us into silence,” said a human rights educator and community leader from Brigade 6 under KNU administration, speaking to HURFOM during a field mission on June 23, 2025.

Local villagers from Taung Yar Kan in Palaw, as well as from Kyaukkyi and Mu, continue to flee their homes in fear of the next attack—many of them now living in makeshift shelters with little access to humanitarian support. [Photo: KNU-Kler Lwee Htu District]

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