(ANSA) - ROME, SEPTEMBER 23 - Thousands of people have left in recent days a Burmese town near the border with India attacked by regime forces with artillery shells during clashes with the resistance.
According to reports from CNN, most of the 10,000 inhabitants of Thantlang, in the state of Chin, have fled heading to nearby areas but also to India. The director of a civil rights group in the neighboring Indian state of Mizoram said 5,500 people had arrived from Burma in just two districts in the last week.
Last weekend about twenty houses hit by the regime's artillery shells caught fire: the images of the city published on social media and taken from the media show roofs in flames and tall columns of black smoke.
Since the protests began, according to the Association for Aid to Political Prisoners (Aapp) - a non-profit organization for the defense of human rights based in Thailand - the military has killed 1,120 people (as of yesterday).
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