The Myanmar military killed 30 civilians, and three Buddhist monks, at a monastery in Nam Hnain village in Pinlaung township in Shan State at 4pm on Saturday.
Earlier that day, at around 11am, the army – or junta – carried out air strikes and shelling on the village, the place Pa’O refugees had been reported to be sheltering, burning down around 50 homes.
The victims were reportedly hiding within the monastery after being displaced from their houses.
Local resistance group, the Karreni Nationalities Defence Force (KNDF), launched graphic and bloody photographs of piles of our bodies, with a number of gunshot wounds, a number of the victims wearing orange Buddhist robes.
Chindwin News Agency stories that the KNDF said…
“The junta requested all the people who took shelter in the monastery to come out and brutally shot them all.”
A KNDF spokesperson informed the Kantarawaddy Times…
“It was like that Burma Army made them line up in front of the monastery and brutally shot them all, together with the monks.”
Aerial pictures of the airstrike aftermath picture the village consumed by fires and huge clouds of smoke.
Fighting between the junta and defence forces has been happening for around two weeks in Pinlaung Township, with heavy fighting breaking out between the junta and People’s Defence Force (PDF) on Thursday, reviews BNI Online.
Thousands of individuals in Pinlaung township have been displaced.
On Friday, the day earlier than the bloodbath, BNI Online wrote an article entitled, “Ongoing conflict persists in Pinlaung, Shan State.” BNI Online reported…
“Since February 24th, ongoing conflicts have taken place between Military Council Troops and the Pa-O National Organisation (PNO) and the PDF.
“The conflicts have resulted in the lack of four civilian lives and the destruction of many houses. The area still remains in turmoil and the fighting continues unabated.”
Fortune tweeted today that some 15 villages in Pinlaung and Pekon townships on the border of Shan and Kayah states have been compelled to flee their properties because of junta raids since late February.
Since Safety seized energy over Myanmar more than two years in the past, Shan State – bordering Thailand – has seen some of the worst violence..