Local sources say that clashes are taking place between the military and the rebel forces near Taingen village in Kalay Township, Sagaing Region, and Tedim Township, Chin State. The Military council forces have been advancing in thousands of troops from August to October 31 to control the main entrance roads to Kalay Township, namely the Kalay-Tamu Road, Kalay-Gangaw Road, and Kalay-Tedim and Hakha Road.
The Military council forces, who are advancing in this manner, have been carrying out attacks on villages in the southern part of Kalay Township, along the Kalay-Gangaw Road, in the past three days, from October 29 to 31, including the villages of Thauh kyant, Kya Inn, Nat Myaung. A local source said that there has been intense fighting for three days near the villages of Natchaung and Mualpi village, which are located along the main road between Tedim Township (Kalay-Tedim-Hakha).
“The fighting is taking place along the Chin-Kalay road. The fighting is intense. There are about (6) soldiers from the military side. Two comrades from Kalay were killed in the southern battle.” During the three-day battle, six soldiers from the military were killed, two from the Kalay region and one from the Chin resistance. In addition, when the military entered the front line, the military burned down houses in the villages of Thauh Kyant, Kya Inn, Nat Myaung, Natchaung Kye, Chaung Kwa, and Kyun Taw in the southern part of Kalay Township (Kalay-Gangaw road), and also burned down the refugee camps along the road, according to a person helping the displaced people in Thauh Kyant village.
“The village of Nath Kyant was burned and destroyed, and the village of Nath Myaung, and Nath Chaung were burned. The extent of the damage to the houses is unknown. No one dares to enter.” The villages that were burned were burned seven times during the military incursion in 2022, so most of the houses were rebuilt by displaced persons, said a local resident of Nath Chaung village.
” Nat Myaung and Nat Chaung were burned almost completely before, but now most of the houses that were burned again are the houses built by displaced persons.” Due to the military incursion, the villages of Thu Ma, Thayar Kone, Kyar Inn, Kyun Taw, Si san, Tong Ing Su, Lay Ing Su, Nan Chaung, Nat Myaung, Chaung Kwa, Hakha Lay, Than Pho Village, A refugee aid worker from Nat Chaung Village said that the towns of Taingen, Mualpi, Theizang, and Khai Kam, located along the main road in Chin State (Kalay-Tedim -Hakha), have been forced to flee into the jungle.
“Now there are many displaced people. All the villages along the road are being evacuated. Now we know that the army has arrived. We all have to run away.” In Kalay Township, due to the military’s offensive in the north of Kalay Township in August and October, more than 30,000 residents from more than 50 villages along the Kalay-Tamu road, including Khampat, Bokkan, Kanan, Kyuntaw yeshin, Phet ya yeshin, Sawbwa, Wit tok, Zanglen phai, Yanmyo Aung, and Nan Hmun tha villages in Tamu Township, and Yazacho, Mya Sein, Myalin, Letpan Chaung, Pyidaw Thar, Pyin Khon Gyi, Pyin Taw Oo, Mauk Lin, Nan Saung puh, Kangyi, Kantharyar, 56 Mile, and Yanmyo Aung, have been displaced in the forest and mountains for more than two months, said a person who provides assistance to displaced people in Yanmyo Aung Village.
“So far, I haven’t returned yet. The army is stationed in Rajagaha. I heard that the Saobwa is also stationed there. “Living in the forest” In the course of this military campaign for more than two months, on October 27, the military forces killed two pork sellers in Tamu Township, U Kyi Lin and U Man Mann, by slitting their stomachs open. On October 24, local residents said that three people, Pa Kap Sian Mung, (40 yrs), who was carrying food back to their home in Aung Ywa Village in northern Kalay Township, were killed by the Military council forces.
Similarly, on October 19, eight men from Khon Thar village, and on October 20, 10 men from Yazayo village and a member of the CDF-KKG were killed by the military council forces, resulting in a total of (21) deaths, according to local residents. In Kalay Township, the military council forces and the resistance forces fought for more than two months in August and October on the Kalay-Tamu Road, Kalay-Gangaw Road, and Kalay-Tedim Road in Chin State. And the Military council source said that over forty people were killed and over twenty (20) revolutionary soldiers were killed.
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