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Myanmar: Hundreds displaced as clashes break out in Pekhon, southern Shan State
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NAYPYITAW, 05 November 2021, (TON): According to a representative of one of the anti-junta armed groups “a battle between Karenni resistance forces and the Myanmar army in southern Shan State’s Pekhon Township forced around 300 people to flee from their homes.”
The three-hour clash took place near the 70-household village of Larwhe at 2pm, with the Pekhon People’s Defence Force (PDF), Loikaw PDF, Central Myanmar Regional Operation Task Force, Karenni National Defence Force (KNDF) and the Karenni Army (KA) all fighting the junta’s armed forces.
A spokesperson for the Pekhon PDF said “four members of the Karenni alliance were injured.”
He told media “some junta soldiers died too but we still haven’t gotten the official numbers yet.”
Nearly all of Larwhe’s 300 residents were displaced by the fighting, and junta troops occupied the village, staying in the local monastery.
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