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June 19, 2025 |
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Ranger medics treat a casualty in the Moebye area, southern Shan State. |
Burma Military Targets Civilians And Loses Ground |
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Conflicts between the Burma Army and resistance forces continue across Burma. In southern Shan State, resistance forces attempt to take the town of Moebye resulting in a large number of casualties. As resistance forces gain some ground, the Burma military retaliates with attacks on civilians. 3,000 people were displaced due to Burma military attacks in the Pekon area. In central Karen State, the Burma military targeted a school with an airstrike, killing five people, including children, and injuring another 20. |
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Left: Rangers treat patients in village days before the Burma Army dropped a bomb onto it. Right: Medics treat injured villager after Burma Army bombs village. |
Top: Rangers treat patients in village days before the Burma Army dropped a bomb onto it. Bottom: Medics treat injured villager after Burma Army bombs village. |
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With three mortar strikes and one clash with the Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA), the Burma Army killed three people and injured six in Kler Lwe Htoo District, northern Karen State. In the same district, Rangers conducted a GLC program for 135 children and provided medical treatment to over 154 villagers in need. In Mu Traw District, the Burma Army used jets and drones to bomb Kataingti Village and overrun a local church compound.
From June 10-12, Rangers visited villages in Ler Doh Township, Kler Lwe Htoo District, stopping by schools, treating patients, and bringing aid to local IDPs. On June 10, in Tha Min Aye Gon Village, Rangers conducted a GLC program for 135 students and twelve teachers. Afterwards, Ranger medics treated IDP patients in the village. The next day Rangers visited Ta Le K Village, where they partnered with local leaders to visit the village school, which has 125 students and 25 teachers. The Rangers then brought aid to IDPs sheltering nearby. The teams were able to give a gift to the school, fit villagers with reading glasses, and give food to IDP families. On June 12th, Rangers moved to Tha Min Inn Gon Village where they conducted another medical clinic, treating 154 people in a village that had no medicine or available medical treatment.
Between June 14th-16th there was an escalation in violence from the Burma Army, which used multiple mortar attacks on villages in Ler Doh Township. On June 14, at 1635 hours, the Burma Army fired two mortars into Nwa A Chaung Village. The attack killed two villagers, Ko Soe Thu, who was 39 years old, and Daw Ma K, who was 65 years old, and injured two village militia soldiers. Then, at 1647, the Burma Army fired another mortar, which landed in Tha Min Inn Gon Village, injuring one villager. At 1650 hours, another mortar was fired by the Burma Army, landing in Pya Ta Linn Village and injuring a mother and child, who were transported to a hospital for treatment. On June 16, fighting between KNLA forces and the Burma Army occurred in Tha Seik Village, leaving one KNLA soldier dead and one injured.
On June 10, in Mu Traw District, the the Burma Army conducted a series of airstrikes against the Kataingti Village in Dweh Loh Township, using jets to drop four bombs on the village, and drones to attack. By 0930 hours the Burma Army advanced in an attempt to seize the local church compound, Noh Poe Htee, which was held by resistance forces. At 1000 hours they succeeded, leaving two People’s Defence Force (PDF) soldiers injured. |
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Left: Rangers giving a presentation to IDPs in Ma Yin Gone Village. Right: Ruins of the school destroyed by a Burma military airstrike in Paing Yat Village. |
Top: Rangers doing a presentation to IDPs in Ma Yin Gone Village. Bottom: Ruins of the school destroyed a Burma military airstrike in Paing Yat Village. |
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Rangers conducted a relief mission and treated IDPs in the midst of Burma military attacks and airstrikes which killed seven people, injured 39 more and destroyed 16 houses in Doo Tha Htoo, Dooplaya and Hpa An districts.
In Kyaikto Township, Doo Tha Htoo District, Burma Army Light infantry Battalion (LIB) 3 from Bilin Township fired three 120mm mortars on Alu Gyi Village on June 11, killing 32-year-old Mg Ngwe Lar, injuring another three people and destroying two houses. On June 14, Burma military LIB 3 launched another five 120mm mortars, at both Zee Kone and Alu Gyi villages, injuring two villagers and destroying two houses. KNLA and Ranger medics provided medical treatment and other assistance.
In Hpa An District on June 7, one KNLA soldier was shot by Burma military in the abdomen on the front line in T’Nay Cha Township. Rangers gave medical treatment and transported him to the brigade hospital. Burma military used seven suicide drones on June 11 in T’ Nay Cha Township, destroying two houses. On the same day, Rangers gave medical treatment to a Democratic Karen Buddhist Army (DKBA) soldier who was injured by a landmine in Tatangu Village. On June 13, Rangers assisted a patient from Pulupalaw IDP camp who received eye surgery and gave medical treatment to a Karen National Defence Organisation (KNDO) soldier whose right arm was amputated after a landmine explosion.
On June 9, a Burma military jet bombed a community school in Paing Yat Village, Kyondoe (Krutu) Township, Dooplaya District, killing five civilians, including three children – Wai Yan Htun, Mi Chit Phon, and La Yate Cho – a teacher, Mi Zin, and village elder, U Kula. Another 20 villagers were injured. The airstrike destroyed 10 houses and one monastery building. On the same day, Ranger teams and members of the Committee for Internally Displaced Karen People (CIDKP) visited 97 IDPs in Ma Yin Gone Village. The IDPs were from Kaw Wah Lel and Chaung Nhit Khwa villages. Rangers conducted a GLC program, provided medical treatment and supported 29 IDP families with rice, cooking oil, salt, onion and other essential food items.
In Dooplaya District, the Burma military used artillery in Nger Tine Village in Kaw T’ Ree Township, injuring a KNLA soldier on June 10. Rangers gave first aid treatment and transported him to the casualty collection point but he died shortly after arriving. Rangers provided medical treatment to a teenager with malaria and donated food supplies in Maw Tu Village. Rangers also treated a KNLA soldier in Kaw Koi Village who was suffering from the flu. On June 12, Burma military jets dropped two 300lb bombs on Hteekoh Palee Village. Burma military Y-12 planes dropped another 30 rounds of 120mm mortars near Hteekoh Palee Village. During the airstrikes, bomb shrapnel hit a villager from Ukereithta Village. |
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A KTLA soldier receives medical attention from Ranger medics. |
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The Burma Army damaged property and injured resistance soldiers as clashes and shelling continue in the Mergui Tavoy District of southern Karen State.
On June 13, Burma Army Battalion 561 fired 11 mortar rounds into Htonmakha Village, damaging homes and crops. The next day, on June 14, Burma Army launched a 120mm mortar shell at a KNLA base in Tanintharyi Township. A clash between the Burma Army and KNLA ensued, during which a KNLA soldier sustained minor injuries.
On June 16, resistance fighters from KNLA, Kawthoolei Army (KTLA), and PDF forces launched an attack on Burma Army soldiers stationed along the Tanintharyi River near Hton Taw Village. The battle lasted around 30 minutes, resulting in a KTLA soldier being wounded by a 60mm mortar round. Rangers treated the soldier’s injuries in his upper back, chest, and left knee. |
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Left: IDPs fleeing Burma military attacks in the Pekon area. Right: Rangers treat a casualty in the Moebye area. |
Top: IDPs fleeing Burma military attacks in the Pekon area. Bottom: Rangers treat a casualty in the Moebye area. |
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Fierce clashes between the Burma Army and Karenni resistance forces continue as the Burma Army seeks to regain control of the Pekon and Moebye areas of Shan State. Rangers help fleeing IDPs and provide medical treatment to casualties.
More than 3,000 people have been displaced by Burma Army attacks in the east Pekon area of southern Shan State in the last two weeks. Burma Army rocket-assisted 120mm mortars and traditional 120mm mortars rained down on villages at the northeast corner of Pekon lake from June 8-12. The Burma Army, reinforced by Pa-O National Organization (PNO, a Burma Army proxy) troops, are attacking farther down on the east side of Pekon Lake. At the same time, the Burma Army attacked the town of Moebye at the south side of Pekon lake. On June 12, over 60 120mm rounds impacted into the town as well as RPG and machine gun fire. The situation there continues to be critical. Rangers conducted medical treatments, evacuations, and Good Life Club programs for the IDPs.
From June 15-16, Rangers treated five casualties at the FBR CCP, with another casualty already deceased. Another CCP in the same battle had two dead and over 30 wounded. On June 17, the FBR CCP treated another seven wounded, with one more deceased. Total casualties resulting from this battle is six dead and more than 45 wounded. The battle continues in Moebye, but the Burma Army has been pushed back significantly and lost a quarter of the town, which has enabled people to move back and forth and has allowed IDPs to flee.
Thank you for your prayers for our Rangers in Moebye and the local people who are fighting and fleeing; we continue to pray we can help the people affected there with help and God’s love. |
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