27-05-2024, 04:11 PM
‘We Shot Dead All People’: Survivors Recount Horror of Myanmar Monastery Massacre*
The crowd of people that had assembled to attend makeshift funeral rites in a forest in central Myanmar’s Sagaing Region fled in panic as a burst of gunfire threw the memorial service into chaos.
Residents of Lethtoketaw Village in Myinmu Township holding funeral for 33 relatives were slaughtered during a junta raid in second week of May. Junta soldiers also incinerated the village, forcing residents to hide in the nearby forest.
As they were holding the Buddhist funeral rites for their slain relatives, they heard a burst of gunfire from the direction of a junta checkpoint in Gwepintaw Village on Monywa-Mandalay Road, which is 1.6 km from Lethtoketaw.
Ko Nyan, who is in charge of Lethtoketaw Village’s defense team, said: “People fled in panic as soon as they heard the gunshots. Even the monks fled.”
Having already witnessing the slaughter of their family members, the Lethtoketaw villagers were filled with both anger and fear. Lethtoketaw is a large village with over 700 households close to Mandalay-Monywa Road and railroad.
https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/we-...sacre.html
The crowd of people that had assembled to attend makeshift funeral rites in a forest in central Myanmar’s Sagaing Region fled in panic as a burst of gunfire threw the memorial service into chaos.
Residents of Lethtoketaw Village in Myinmu Township holding funeral for 33 relatives were slaughtered during a junta raid in second week of May. Junta soldiers also incinerated the village, forcing residents to hide in the nearby forest.
As they were holding the Buddhist funeral rites for their slain relatives, they heard a burst of gunfire from the direction of a junta checkpoint in Gwepintaw Village on Monywa-Mandalay Road, which is 1.6 km from Lethtoketaw.
Ko Nyan, who is in charge of Lethtoketaw Village’s defense team, said: “People fled in panic as soon as they heard the gunshots. Even the monks fled.”
Having already witnessing the slaughter of their family members, the Lethtoketaw villagers were filled with both anger and fear. Lethtoketaw is a large village with over 700 households close to Mandalay-Monywa Road and railroad.
https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/we-...sacre.html