Phnom Penh
From fire and ashes.
On Monday, October 25, the village of Taal, in Chin State, was the scene of abuses by the Burmese army.
For the second time in two months, a military convoy heading to the nearby town of Falam set fire to a dozen houses in the town.
Eight of them were completely reduced to ashes.
"On August 19, the troops
(of the army, editor's note)
vandalized a Baptist church and destroyed Bibles in the same village,"
lamented the Chin Human Rights organization shortly after this new attack.
A few kilometers further, the scenario repeats itself: on the roadside, three other houses are burnt down by the soldiers.
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For several weeks, the Chin State, in the north-west of Burma, has been experiencing a surge in clashes between the men of Tatmadaw, the nickname of the Burmese army, and the fighters of the “Chinland Defense Force”.
One of the 200 armed groups created in recent months in opposition to the junta, gathered under
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