Light Infantry Battalion No. 406 arrests and tortures local man during two-day detention

November 11, 2025

HURFOM: On 5 November 2025, troops from Light Infantry Battalion (LIB) No. 406, based in Yebyu Township, advanced into the Yar Phu village tract in Yebyu Township, Tanintharyi Region. During the operation, they arrested 35-year-old Ko Phai Dit from Thar Yar Mon Village after accusing him of sharing information with resistance forces.

According to his wife, he tried to flee and hide in a plantation when the soldiers entered the area, but they found him and checked his phone. “They looked through his phone and messages. Then they asked him, ‘Are you an informant?’ and arrested him. They tied him with rope and beat him,” she told HURFOM.

Local sources said LIB 406 stayed in Thar Yar Mon Village for two days. When the unit pulled back from the village on 7 November, they released Ko Phai Dit. By then, he needed medical treatment for injuries he suffered from the beatings and torture during his detention.

“The soldiers keep moving from village to village. They don’t stay long in one place, but they often base themselves for a while in Yar Phu and Log Tie villages,” a resident from Yar Phu village tract explained.

Although there have been no armed clashes recently in Yebyu Township, villagers report that junta troops, including LIB 406, continue to enter communities, interrogate residents, and arrest people on suspicion. Some of those arrested have not returned and are believed to have been forcibly disappeared, according to villagers who spoke to HURFOM.

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