3,000 IDPs in Taungoo Township Need Assistance

Around 3,000 internally displaced people (IDPs) sheltering in an IDP camp near to Taungoo City in Bago Region’s Taungoo Township are in urgent need of food and shelter.

In early May 2025, following fighting with resistance forces to the east of the Sittaung River in Taungoo Township, the junta burned down several villages, including  including Kyauklonegyi, Letpaekone, Saparkywei, and Tawpu, causing thousands of residents to flee and seek shelter in an IDP camp on the west side of the Sittaung River, just outside Taungoo City.

Later, on 23 May, following fighting near to the villages of Saparkywei and Magyipininn, also to the east of the Sittaung River in Taungoo Township, the junta entered the two villages and burned down 700 houses there, causing more villagers to flee to the IDP camp near Taungoo City, according to local sources.