Sagaing’s Wetlet Starves Amid Junta Blockade

Four people have died amid an acute shortage of food and medicines due to a monthlong junta blockade of the Sagaing Region town of Wetlet, which is surrounded by junta strongholds.

Around 150 junta personnel—including 50 soldiers, local police, junta-aligned militias, and civil servants given military training—are deployed to cut the town off from surrounding villages that are controlled by anti-regime forces, according to Wetlet Township People’s Defense Team.