Shan Human Rights Foundation
July 2, 2025
Update: SAC airstrikes and shelling kill 8 civilians, injure 29 in resistance-controlled areas of Kyaukme, Mogok and Nawngkhio
Between June 24 and July 1, 2025, SAC airstrikes and shelling killed eight civilians and injured twenty-nine others, damaging over 50 buildings – including seven Buddhist temples, a Buddhist school and a mosque — in areas of Kyaukme, Mogok and Nawngkhio townships under the control of the Ta’ang National Liberation Army (TNLA) since mid-2024.
On June 24, at about 5 pm, a SAC jet fighter dropped two 500-pound bombs on Quarter 3 and Quarter 7 of Kyaukme town, killing four civilians, injuring fourteen others and damaging 10 buildings, including a restaurant, a mosque and a temple. The four killed – three elderly women and one young man — were all in the Sanpya Restaurant when it was bombed, and died instantly. They were: Daw Hla Yee (aged 60), Daw Hla Hla Htaw (aged 53), Daw Hla Tin (aged 55) and Thiha Naing (aged 22). On June 25, their bodies were buried at the Kyaukme cemetry.
Out of the fourteen injured in Kyaukme on June 24, seven were women: Daw Khin Yee (aged 60), Daw Hla Hla Thein (aged 55), Daw Hla Hla Yee (aged 52), Phyo Way Way Kyaw (aged 33), Aye San Moe (aged 25), Pauk Be (aged 22) and Ma Shun Lai Yi (aged 17). Three of the injured were men: U Hla Htay (aged 63), U Aung Tun (aged 55), and Mg Kyaw Zaw Hein (aged 19); and one was a five-year-old boy named Saw Saw. Details of the other three casualties are unknown. The injured were sent to hospitals in Kyaukme for treatment.
Previous to this, the most recent SAC airstrike on Kyaukme town was on May 5, 2025, when two bombs were dropped, causing no civilian casualties.
On June 25, at 11 pm, a SAC jet fighter dropped a 300-pound bomb on Ooh Kai monastery in Mogok town, injuring four civilians and damaging the Ooh Kai temple and five houses.
On June 25, at 10 pm, SAC troops fired eight artillery shells from Kan Kyi village into Say quarter of Nawngkhio town. The shells damaged two houses in Say Quarter.
On June 26, at 8 am, SAC troops again fired four (howitzer) artillery shells into Say Quarter, injuring a man and damaging a house.
In the early hours of June 27, 10-20 minutes before 1 am, a SAC jet fighter dropped two 500-pound bombs on Quarter 7 of Kyaukme town near the Electric Power Corporation EPC, killing one woman named Ma Moe Noun (aged 50) and injuring two young men named Phyo Than Kyaw (aged 19) and Saw Htoo Lyn (aged 17). A District Construction Guest House and two houses were damaged.
In the afternoon of June 29, at 2:30 pm, a SAC jet fighter dropped two 500-pound bombs on Quarter 1 of Kyaukme town, injuring two men and three women, and damaging a Buddhist temple, a Buddhist school and fifteen houses. Between 8:30–9:00 pm, a SAC jet fighter dropped two 500-pound bombs and one cluster bomb on Quarter 7 of Kyaukme town, damaging four houses and a Buddhist temple.
On June 29, at 10 pm, SAC jet fighter dropped two 500-pound bombs on Say Quarter of Nawngkhio town, damaging several houses. After the airstrike, at 11 pm, SAC troops in Nawngkhio fired several shells into the town.
On July 1, at 3 pm, a SAC jet fighter came four times and dropped 11 bombs on Thonze village, 18 kms west of Nawngkhio town, killing three men, injuring another man and damaging two houses and two temples.
During June, there was fighting almost every day between SAC troops and the resistance forces of the Mandalay People’s Defense Force (MDY-PDF) and TNLA along the Pyin Oo Lwin-Mogok road in Nawngkhio township.
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