Chin State: Influx of refugees into Mizoram after houses set on fire in Myanmar Guwahati News – Times of India

Aizawl: myanmar Junta soldiers advancing from the Sagaing area Chin State Myanmar Now, an online news agency based in Yangon, said on Friday that houses and a church were set on fire along the Falam-Hakha road, forcing hundreds of people to flee their homes.
Governance is stepping up reinforcement chin The state in an effort to crush the resistance groups and take back control of the hill state, it said.
The recent clashes in Chin state pushed more refugees into the Champhai and Hanathiyal districts of the Mizoram-Myanmar border during the past three days.
At least 210 refugees have taken shelter in six villages along the Myanmar border, MC Lalramenga, president of the Tuipuiral Group Young Mizo Association, told TOI over phone from Wafai in Champhai district.
More than 40 trucks carrying junta soldiers and an armored vehicle reached Falam on Wednesday.
According to the Chin Baptist Convention (CBC), at least six houses and a church were burnt to ashes on Wednesday in a small Rialati village about 15 km from Falam.
The next day two more houses were burnt in another village.
“Even the church was not spared. They also set six houses in the village on fire. thalanraun, which was a mile away from Realty,” a spokesman for the Chin National Defense Force (CNDF) Pathfinder William was quoted as saying.
There were about 40 residents of 10 houses in Riyalti village, and all the residents of Riyalti and Thalanrao villages fled their homes.
“It was an indiscriminate attack on houses and religious buildings. People are devastated,” the CBC president said.
One junta deployment to attack Chin resistance forces has entered northern Chin state and another has entered the south of the mountainous state from the Magwe region.
needle hatt nA spokesman for the Chin National Army (CNA) said the regime was targeting the headquarters of the CNA, the armed wing of the Chin National Front, as it works with the civilian national unity government to train and arm resistance fighters.
“The conflict will intensify in Thuntlang, Falam and Hakha in northern Chin state. We are ready. We are working with the Chin Defense Forces to stop the attacks.” Salai Hut Nice said.
The junta sent thousands of troops to Chin, Saginaw and Magway to prepare for what would be a massive offensive against the feared resistance fighters.
Lalramenga said they were expecting about 30 refugees to arrive in Wafai on Saturday itself. More influx is expected as Wafai villagers on Friday heard gunshots at the Tuibual army camp in Chin state, not far from the Indian side.

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