Junta shoots and injures five Pa La residents
August 23, 2023
HURFOM: On August 17 and 18, 2023, the military junta shot five residents from Pa La Town, Tenasserim Division, injuring all.
On August 17, a military truck struck a landmine, causing junta soldiers to recklessly respond with gunfire that injured two villagers.
On August 18, Burmese soldiers shot three men sitting near the entrance signboard of Pa La Town.
“The three men were sitting near the entrance signboard of Pa La. When the soldiers approached them. The men were afraid and tried to run away. Then the soldiers shot them,” said a resident.
The injured victims were sent to Myike General Hospital.
“They are patrolling the town and order people who encounter them to do a U-turn and go back. They recklessly shoot their weapons from their base,” said local people.
The junta has reinforced their troops in Pa La, and they recklessly launched artillery attacks, without cause.
Comments
Latest Headlines
- Junta promises village rehabilitation program but fails to deliver
- Resident killed by unexploded ordnance in Kaw Ka Rate
- HURFOM Weekly Update: Targeting of Civilians by the Junta Increases in Tanintharyi Region
- Five villages flee from junta’s artillery attack in Bilin
- Junta pressures Chaung Zone residents to celebrate festive events
- KNU arrests three youths for drug abuse and extorts money from them
- Junta’s artillery attack kills two teenage siblings
- The Human Rights Foundation of Monland Expresses Concern Over Situation inTanintharyi Region as Burma Army Attacks Escalates
- Junta’s artillery attack injures eight Bilin residents
- Junta imposes curfew and threatens villagers after navy base attacked
Articles in Mon (PDF Format)
Categories
