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| Sagaing Division The west side of Dipaying Township, In 2023, the locals are fleeing from the villages. When we met on October 21. |
Sagaing Division Locals living in these villages said that more than 10,000 residents of about 20 villages have been forced to leave their homes since the morning of October 21.
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Locals said that at least six houses were burnt down when the army entered 0ba village yesterday.
The column spent the night in Ngwetaw yesterday and returned on the morning of October 22nd, so Sappyatjin, pillow A local resident, who did not want to be named for security reasons, told RFA that about eight more villages, including Mango Tree and Dugalan, are fleeing.
"Right now, the column is passing through Kyi village and heading west towards Suppajin. There are about eight villages that we have to run to again today. There are many houses."
Among the villages that were forced to flee yesterday, only the residents of three villages that were far away from the convoy returned to their villages this morning, and most of them did not dare to return to their villages.
Locals said that until the morning of October 22, there was no fighting between the column and the local defense forces.
RFA reached out to U Sai Naing Naing Kyaw, the Minister of Ethnic Affairs who is authorized to speak in Sagaing Division of the Military Council, about the residents fleeing, but he did not receive a reply.
According to the October 2 release of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA), there are more than eight hundred thousand (813,500) people who have fled their homes in Sagaing due to the conflict after the coup.
