NAYPYITAW, 11 September 2021, (TON): The bodies of three men were found to have been violently killed in Kalay Township, Sagaing Region, after their village was raided by the military.

Locals said that junta troops searched and ransacked all of the homes in Doenwe village, burning down four before leaving that day.

Among the three men found dead the following day was a 30-year-old villager with an intellectual disability. The men’s bodies were discovered outside the village with their hands tied behind their backs. There were signs of torture, including indications that they were beaten and burned with cigarettes.

A man from Doenwe who had briefly returned to the village told media citing eyewitnesses “they slit two of the men’s throats. The other one got his brains blown out.”

In addition to the 30-year-old, whose name was not available at the time of reporting, was another 20-year-old man from the nearby village of Ah Shey See named Wunna, and his uncle, Win Aung, according to the local.

He said “the soldiers damaged all the houses and robbed them of everything. They even took the longyis and killed the chickens. Not a single house was spared.”