Nearly 1,000 Displaced Villagers in Kanbauk Area Need Urgent Assistance

September 24, 2025

HURFOM: Almost 1,000 people from Yebyu Township, Dawei District, remain displaced and in urgent need of humanitarian support after junta forces burned down homes and forced villagers to flee again.

The crisis began on August 27 when clashes broke out between around 100 junta troops and local resistance fighters in Taung Yin Inn and Se Eain Su villages in the Kanbauk area. Fighting lasted for three days. During this time, soldiers torched 18 houses in Taung Yin Inn and 17 homes, including a monastery, in Se Eain Su, while also ransacking at least 40 more.

Although troops withdrew after the clashes, they returned in early September and ordered villagers from Se Eain Su, Taung Yin Inn, and Phar Chaung to leave again, threatening to shoot anyone who remained. This second wave of threats has left close to 1,000 civilians displaced with no safe place to return.

The displaced include about 20 households (110 people) from Se Eain Su, 120 households (over 400 people) from Taung Yin Inn, more than 100 ethnic Mon residents from nearby farms, and about 300 households (around 680 people) from Phar Chaung Village. Most are now staying in the Kanbauk area, Zardi village tract, and Kalein Aung town, while others are hiding in nearby forests and mountains or seeking refuge further away in Dawei, Yebyu, Tha Yet Chaung, Mawlamyine, and Mudon.

“The military has come back into the village and set up camp. They told us to leave and threatened to shoot if we didn’t,” explained a woman from Taung Yin Inn.

Now displaced for more than four weeks, families are struggling to survive. They urgently need rice, food supplies, medicine, and shelter materials. Many are living with relatives or in makeshift huts built from bamboo and tarpaulin.

This latest displacement comes on top of wider conflict in Yebyu Township. In August, fighting in the Ma Hlwe Taung–Kalein Aung area drove more than 4,000 people from their homes. And on September 16, as more than 200 junta soldiers arrived in nearby villages, civilians from Kyauk Kadin and Kywel Tha Lin were forced to flee again—even after some had just returned.

The situation in Yebyu reflects a deepening humanitarian crisis across Dawei District, where families are uprooted repeatedly by junta offensives and denied the chance to return home with safety and dignity.

Written by HURFOM · Filed Under News