Thousands flee as Myanmar junta forces torch Magway villages

Escalating clashes and raids by regime forces have displaced more than 6,000 civilians in Magway Region’s Salin Township since late last week, according to local sources.

Junta troops targeted two villages in the township last Thursday in retaliation for an ambush by resistance forces, the sources said.

“They burned down at least 56 houses in Ka Hnyat and Tha Yet Khon after they were ambushed,” a spokesperson for the Salin Township People’s Administrative Team told Myanmar Now.