ChinTeenager Killed as Myanmar Regime Bombards Resistance Town
Junta soldiers at the Public Health Department at Mindat. / CJ
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By The Irrawaddy 13 May 2021
An ethnically Chin teenager was killed and six other members of Chin State’s civilian resistance forces opposing Myanmar’s regime were injured by junta artillery in Mindat on Thursday.
Fighting between junta troops and the civilian resistance in Mindat started on Wednesday night after a ceasefire broke down.
Since about 6am on Thursday, civilians in Mindat have been attacked with artillery based in Kyaukhtu, Magwe Region, 33km to the east, according to a resistance fighter.
“A 17-year-old was killed. They are still firing on us from Kyaukhtu. About six others were injured,” a member of Mindat Defense Force, a civilian defense group fighting the junta, told The Irrawaddy.