died resisting the military regime. and there have been clashes where villagers have been emptied by military operations in the past few months. in this case, one of the local people s defence forces, these volunteer militias that have sprung up all over myanmar to fight against the military regime, tried to ambush an army convoy that was going through with two improvised explosive devices. one, they believe, detonated prematurely, killing the two volunteers who were trying to plant it. the other went off as planned but the soldiers than went on a sweep through the local communities killing the number of people, as far as we can tell from the accounts given by local residents, and then came across this group of six men and five teenage boys, one only 14 years old, who were hiding. they were captured. there was some shooting so they may well have been shot. their hands were tied and then they were set on fire and their burnt bodies were found later by theirfamilies.