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Sai Harn Lin A toddler and two women, one of whom was in labour, are among the latest casualties of regime airstrikes that injured at least eighteen people and destroyed scores of homes in Paikhun (aka Pekhon) and Panglong (Pinlaung) townships in southern Shan State during the last week of April into May. On Saturday, two Burma army fighter jets strafed civilian residential
According to People's Defense Force officials, the ongoing conflict between the local defense joint forces and the Military Council troops at the Pekon-Pinlaung border in southern Shan State has now exceeded three months. Currently Military Council troops are stationed in South Salong village. A news and information official from the 2nd Battalion of the Mobye People's Defense