In more than three months, around 90 civilians in Sagaing were arrested and killed : Myanmar

According to the list compiled by RFA, in the three months of 2024, around 90 civilians were brutally killed after being captured by the Military Council. In this list, during the battle and the weapon, It does not include the number of civilians killed in airstrikes.

In more than three months of 2024, there were cruel tortures and killings in nine townships in Sagaing. Shwe Bo and Tang Se townships were the most killed.

"If they come into contact with them, they will vote for the villages. They will burn and destroy them."

Last April 6, at around 5:00 p.m., a joint column of the military council army and the Pyu Saw Hội group entered Sha Tow village in Shwebo Township with gunfire and arrested and killed nine civilians.

A woman from Shataw village, who did not want to be named for security reasons , told RFA that she was traumatized by the capture and killing of the villagers, who ran for their lives amid the military council's firing.

"On that day, as if I was not crazy, I run with the kids. Between the bullets Sometimes I even want to kill myself. There is no way. I got a lot here. Without finding any problems with them, they make problems with themselves. People killed. Even people who have never seen a gun in their life are killed. They kill even themselves, those who cannot find a good business, those who are poor, those who have to feed many people.

Among those killed were seven elderly people between the ages of 50 and 90 and two young people between the ages of 20 and 30, for a total of nine. Among them, the grandfather, aged between 80 and 90, Locals said that two grandmothers were burned to death in their homes and four others were shot dead in the village.

Another father and son and a man were taken with the convoy and shot dead when they got outside the village.

According to the list compiled by RFA, 22 people in Collins during these three months. 19 in Shwebo 14 people at Tang Dam one in red Here are five, There are two in the water. Before, there were seven. Six in Kantbalu and ten in Monywa, a total of 86 people were killed in nine townships. Among them, there were only three women, and the rest were men, he said.

A member of the Shwebo Defense Forces told RFA that the military council is killing people in order to depict the malice towards the People's Defense Forces.

"There is no way to break up the revolutionary forces. Every revolutionary force has no fixed place. We are all mobile, so the revolutionary forces are mobile, so we are always in contact with them. If they were exposed to them, they would only vote for the villages. will burn I will destroy it"

It is also considered that the military council has started targeting civilians because of the fighting in Sagaing.

U Kyaw Win, Executive Director of Burma Human Rights Network (BHRN), believes that since the attacks against the military council in Sagaing and Magwe regions have intensified, they are trying to suppress through fear.

"From the Sagaing region and the Magwe region, the army is mainly involved in the revolution. Today, the human resource of the army has failed. The main thing that has been lost is the Sagaing and Magwe region. It has failed in other areas as well, but I see it being targeted more aggressively here. The next brutal actions are to instill fear in people. When this kind of fear comes in, it makes people not dare to rebel against their power."

RFA contacted Military Council Spokesperson General Zaw Min Tun and Sagaing Province Spokesperson Social Affairs Minister U Nyunt Win Aung regarding the arrest and killing of civilians by RFA, but there was no response.

Legal experts and human rights activists point out that arresting and killing civilians in war-torn areas is a crime punishable by death, as stipulated in the Myanmar Armed Forces Act of 1959 and the Geneva Convention.