Junta detains six men in Sittwe Twsp

By Admin 06 Jun 2024

DMG Newsroom
6 June 2024, Sittwe

Junta soldiers abducted six men from their homes in two villages in Sittwe Township, Arakan State, on Tuesday night.

Ko Tun Win Naing, 24, from Kyettawpyin Village, Maung Moe Di, 24, U Maung Pyar, 37, Maung Kyaw Kyaw, 23, Maung Tun Lin, 25, and Maung Nyein Nyein Lin, 21, from Aungdaing Village were taken from their homes by junta soldiers at around 9 p.m. on June 4.

“About 40 junta soldiers who are stationed near the village entered the villages and detained some local men. The reason for the arrest and whereabouts of the detainees remain unknown,” said a local resident in Aungdaing Village.

Regime soldiers and their henchmen have been making arrests of civilians in junta-held Sittwe and have been accused of mass slaughter of innocent civilians in Sittwe Township’s Byaing Phyu Village.

The Arakkha Army (AA) said on Sunday that more than 170 junta soldiers, members of the Arakan Liberation Party/Arakan Liberation Army and Muslim conscripts raided Byaing Phyu Village in Sittwe Township late last month and arrested anyone they could find, including children and women.

On Tuesday, the AA updated its accounting of the Byaing Phyu death toll, saying 76 were killed; the vast majority men. Family members have not been in contact with some people arrested by the junta in Byaing Phyu Village.

Myanmar’s military regime arrested 425 civilians in the six months from November 13 to May 13, the United League of Arakan/Arakkha Army (ULA/AA) said in a press release on May 28.