Over 5,000 displaced in Tanintharyi Township face urgent humanitarian crisis amid ongoing clashes

Mizzima

Over 5,000 residents displaced by ongoing fighting in Tanintharyi Township, Tanintharyi Region, urgently need aid, including food, while living in constant fear of junta air raids, according to local aid providers and residents.

The residents have been displaced for nearly three months due to ongoing clashes between the junta and combined revolutionary forces along the Tanintharyi-Maw Taung road (Union Road).

Over 5,000 local residents from villages such as Sin Khun, Ban Law, Nyaung Bin Kwin, Thon Makha, and Chaung Nga Pauk areas heavily affected by the fighting, are now seeking shelter in the forests and mountains to escape the violence.