NAYPYITAW, 28 September 2021, (TON): According to members of the resistance group “the Zomi Revolutionary Army (ZRA), an armed group based on the Myanmar-India border, attacked a camp set up by anti-regime forces in Chin State’s Tedim Township last week.”

No casualties were reported in the attack, which took place on September 21.

A member of the group, said “one of our members was captured on his way back to his home village and tortured until he revealed the location of our camp. When we learned about this, we fled the area.”  

The camp had been set up by ethnic Hualngo youths as preparation for the formation of an anti-junta defence force. Around 20 people were undergoing training there.

The Hualngo youth told media “in addition to the defence group member, who was kidnapped on September 14, four other youths from his home village were also assaulted.”

He said “three of them were beaten up and then released, but the other two were blindfolded and taken into the forest. They were so badly beaten that they were covered in blood and couldn’t walk after they were released.”

He added “two of the youths also had slash marks on their faces that required medical treatment at a hospital on the Indian side of the border.”