More than 300 houses in Hlaing Thayar were invaded and removed : Myanmar

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Yangon, Residents said that the Military Council troops invaded and destroyed more than three hundred homes in Kyungyi Village, Hlaing Tharyar Township, on the morning of May 24th.

It is said that after the military council sent a three-time warning letter to demolish the houses built by encroachers on the west side of the city, Anawrahta Industrial Zone Section (2) on Sampael Road, not only the houses on Sampael Road, but also the homes of Kyunkyi Village were destroyed with excavators.

A resident, who did not want to be named for security reasons, told RFA that in addition to the houses in the village, the Buddha statue in the village was destroyed.

"Suddenly broke into Jasmine Road first. At first, they said that they would only delete the one on Jasmine Road. Once those were destroyed, all the houses in the village and the sixty-year-old Buddha statue were also destroyed."

Residents said that currently nearly two thousand people have been displaced and are suffering.

Regarding this situation, RFA contacted the Office of the Attorney General of the Yangon Regional Spokesperson of the Military Council by telephone, but there was no response.

Last May 23, Yangon Region, Shwe Santhan village group of Mylan Dom Township, More than two hundred houses in Pearl (3) Ward were removed by the Military Council for trespassing.

According to RFA's list, in more than three years of the coup, Ma Mangone, Dagon City New Port The eastern and southern areas of Dagon New City, heel Around 20,000 homes were removed from Mingalandong and Hlaingthayar townships.

On December 2, 2022, the United Nations announced that the removal of residential homes by force without providing replacements for those who were invaded and removed by the military council is a war crime.