Junta arbitrarily detains four civilians in Ywangan

In Ywangan Township of southern Shan State, junta troops extrajudicially detained and abducted four civilians without providing any reason.

On November 15, regime soldiers raided Kyaukhnget Village in Ywangan Township. They conducted door-to-door searches, inspected nearby forests for possible resistance fighters, and then arbitrarily detained four civilians.

“There were quite a lot of troops in the junta column. They mainly targeted villages near the forests, checking everywhere. They were hunting for resistance forces. On days when we heard the column was operating nearby, we didn’t even dare to go to our plantations. And now, they’ve arrested four of our villagers for no reason,” said a 40-year-old Kyaukhnget villager.

The abducted men are in their 40s, and three days later, there is still no news about their whereabouts, he added.

In Ywangan, there have been previous incidents in which junta troops conducted patrol operations and took away local residents without any clear reason.

Between mid-October and the first week of November, seven civilians from Ywangan Township were abducted by the junta and had not been released as of November 17.

Additionally, in the Kyaukmyaung, Theinkone, Tapinpyaw, Kyaukkupyin, and Linway village tracts of Ywangan Township, junta-appointed authorities are collecting between 5,000 and 10,000 MMK from each household under the pretext of funding for conscription batch 19.