May 10, 2017
Maungdaw- A huge and heavily equipped Tatmadaw led force, along with some Hlun Htein and Police personal have started patrolling the destroyed village tracts of Northern Maungdaw.
The forces numbering in the thousands are heavily equipped and some are patrolling in 4 x 4 vehicles conditioned for warfare, many of them fitted with heavy machine guns.
Some of the personal have gotten down from their vehicles and approached community elders saying that unless they finger out the ‘outsiders’ in the village, clearance operations will resume in the area.
The village tracts surrounded by the latest army maneuvers include Bor Gazi Bil, Sau Ra Gazi Bil, Sa Li Frang and Ra Bai La.
These village tracts were attacked by helicopter gunships and rocket launchers resulting in some of the biggest civilian casualties of the entire three month long operation of 2016. After the first wave of attacks by heavy weapons on the villages, Tatmadaw personal armed with assault rifles went in to the area and threw infant children into the fire created by the previous helicopter and rocket attacks. Many men and women were apprehended and taken to undisclosed locations, where they continue to remain unaccounted for.
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