Kyarinnseikyi residents flee their homes due to increasing armed clashes

January 6, 2023

HURFOM: Since late 2022, armed clashes between the Burmese army and the joint forces of the Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA) and the People Defense Forces (PDF) have been steadily increasing in Kyarinnseikyi Township, in Karen State.

As a result residents are fleeing from their villages.

Military aircraft are flying over the villages everyday, and villagers are digging bomb shelters in an attempt to protect themselves from air assaults and artillery attacks.

“During the last few days, aircraft have been flying overhead very frequently. In addition, gunfire is often taking place near our Mon villages. The artillery attacks shake our houses at night. As the armed clashes increase with each passing day, we have to prepare ourselves to flee,” said a young activist from Kyarinnseikyi.

Villagers living alongside Three Pagoda Road have already fled.

“As the gunshots were near the village, I had to close my shop. Some villagers are digging bomb shelters. It looks like there will be more and more armed clashes,” said a grocery store owner from Taung Pauk village, Kyarinnseikyi Township.

According to local sources, about 1,000 families from Kyarinnseikyi Township have fled from their homes.

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