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Junta’s artillery and air assaults kill villager and injures five in Kyike Hto

HURFOM: From August 9^th to 11^th, 2025, despite there being no active armed clashes in the area, the military junta launched air assaults and small and heavy weapon attacks on villages in Kyike Hto Township.

The Karen National Union (KNU) released a statement on August 19^th stating that the military junta’s attacks killed a villager and injured five others.

At 9 am on August 9^th, a YAK-130 aircraft dropped a bomb on Pane Nell Gone village, Pyin Ga Doe village tract, Kyike Hto Township even though there was no active armed clash at the time of attack. That attack killed a villager and injured four others.

The junta’s airstrike destroyed five houses, three family vans and three motorbikes, according to the KNU statement.

Pane Nell Gone village is under the control of the Brigade #1 of the Thaton District KNU and the air assault has forced hundreds of villagers to flee.

At noon on August 11^th, again there were no active armed clashes, but the 44^th Light Infantry Command launched a 120-mm artillery attack targeting Win Taung and Kyauk Pone villages, Kyauk Lone Gyi village tract, Kyike Hto Township.  The artillery shell exploded at the workplace of local villagers.

At about 3:30 pm on August 11^th, the joint forces of the 8^th and the 3^rd Light Infantry Battalions advanced into Chaung Pyant village, Kyike Hto Township and shot indiscriminately with small weapons. 30-year-old Naw Pan Kyi was injured after being shot in the back.

Naw Pan Kyi was admitted to the Thaton Township General Hospital for further treatment.

According to data collected by HURFOM, from January to July, 2025, the junta’s airstrikes and artillery attacks have killed 131 innocent civilians and injured 264 others in the Mon, Karen and Tenasserim regions.

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