Protests against the military rulers are taking place across Myanmar, on the one hand, and the repression of the junta, on the other. As part of this, junta troops set fire to about 600 homes in the northwestern part of the country, villagers and anti-junta protesters alleged. Earlier, junta forces set fire to several Rohingya villages in Rakhine state. As a result, millions of Rohingya crossed the border and took refuge in Bangladesh to save their lives.
The latest incident of repression of the junta took place last Monday. On that day, the military set fire to about 800 houses in the village of Bin O In Ma in the Sagging region of northwestern Myanmar. A resident of Bin village, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of security concerns, told AFP on Friday that troops had arrived in the village earlier in the day after clashes with anti-people People's Defense Force (PDF) fighters.a villagers fled on hearing the sound of gunfire. At that time, the junta set fire to about 200 houses. The woman added, The soldiers also set fire to my house. A local anti-junta fighter complained that the army had set fire to about 600 houses in the village from In Ma. He told AFP on condition of anonymity that the troops entered shortly after the PDF fighters left the village. They set fire to about 600 houses.
AFP has captured several pictures of burnt houses in these two remote villages in Myanmar. However, the news agency could not independently verify the pictures. A local human rights activist, speaking on condition of anonymity, told AFP that people in those two remote villages were poor. It is very difficult for them to repair burnt houses.
A report by Myanmar's state-run television channel aired pictures of burnt houses in the two villages on Thursday. It said PDF "terrorists" had set fire to the houses. But a report in the online version of the country's Kiribati news agency on Friday said the army had set fire to hundreds of homes to quell the insurgency, according to the PDF. However, they have not been able to confirm that claim impartially. On February 1 last year, the Myanmar army seized power through a bloodless coup.
However, the whole of Myanmar has been in turmoil since the coup.a movement is being taken forward by forming a government of national unity against the junta. In the last one year, more than one and a half thousand people have been killed in unrest in Myanmar, most of them anti-junta.
Myanmar's various ethnic armed groups have also taken up arms to demand the withdrawal of military rule. This has led to more conflict and bloodshed in the country. The situation has escalated to the point where the United Nations has warned that Myanmar is heading for a more complex civil war. The United States and the United Nations have blamed the junta for killing at least 11 people, including children, in attacks on civilians in the region since mid-December. Millions of Rohingyas fled across the border into Bangladesh to escape the junta's oppression.
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