Junta Troops Brutally Kill Thabyar Villager During Military Operation in Laung Lon Township and Dump the Body

June 29, 2025

Laung Lon Township, Dawei District

HURFOM | 26 June 2025

Amid ongoing military operations in southern Dawei District, HURFOM has received disturbing reports of another brutal killing carried out by the Junta troops. During a troop withdrawal through Laung Lon Township, soldiers murdered a 55-year-old civilian man from Thabyar village and discarded his body near his home.

According to residents and a relative of the victim, U Hla Win, a peaceful and mentally unwell villager who lived alone in a small garden house along Taw-Kyaung Road in Thabyar village, was found dead on 27 June 2025—one day after the military column had passed through the area.

“The troops withdrew from the area, and it wasn’t until we checked his yard that we found his body. His arms were stiff, and his body showed signs of being tortured. We had to call local residents to help cremate him,” a local villager told HURFOM.

U Hla Win had been missing since 26 June. His body was found with his throat slit and one hand tied with electrical wire—clear signs of torture before death.

This incident occurred as the Junta’s column moved from Kanyone Kyun village toward Laung Lon town and further to Dawei. The same unit had previously detained another civilian—U Myo Zaw Aung, aged 46, from Kanyone Kyun—and similarly slit his throat and dumped his body along the route on the same day, 26 June.

The military unit’s violence has sparked outrage, especially as these are not isolated killings. Both civilian men were executed in the same inhumane manner—throat-slit and body dumped—with no accountability.

Additionally, HURFOM previously reported that during the Junta’s 10-day occupation of Kanyone Kyun, one soldier repeatedly raped a 70-year-old grandmother five times over two nights. These grave human rights violations form part of a larger pattern of abuse inflicted by the military on civilians in occupied villages across Laung Lon Township.

Written by HURFOM · Filed Under News