December 16, 2025
12 civilians killed, 9 injured in junta air and artillery attacks in Mongmit township, northern Shan State
On December 6 and 11, 2025, twelve civilians were killed and nine others were injured in air and artillery attacks by the military regime in Mongmit township, northern Shan State.
Around 9 am on December 6, the junta first bombed Myitsone village, on the Shweli River 20 kilometers northwest of Mongmit town, with a Y-12 aircraft. Subsequently, at around 9:20 am, while local residents were transporting the wounded and deceased victims of the bombing, the junta returned and bombed the area again with a jet fighter.
These two airstrikes resulted in a total of eleven civilian deaths, including one pregnant woman and two children, and nine injuries. The majority of the casualties were IDPs from the towns of Mongkok and Mongmit who had fled fearing the re-entry of junta troops into the towns.
Although heavy fighting took place on the main road from Mongmit township to Thabeikkyin township after the SAC regained control of Mongmit town in the last week of November 2025, there was no fighting whatsoever near Myitsone village that was bombed.
Numerous gold mines, primarily operated by Chinese nationals, are located on the other side of the Nam Mit river, 3 kilometers away from Myitsone village, where the junta conducted the air strikes.
Myitsone village lies about 8 kilometers downstream of the Shweli 3 damsite. This 671 megawatt hydroelectric dam project was suspended by France’s state-owned Electricite de France (EDF) in March 2021, after the military coup. In August 2023, the junta called for a tender to resume the dam project, but the results of the tender have not been published.
On the morning of December 11, clashes broke out between junta troops and revolutionary forces on the Mongmit-Thabeikkyin road. At around 11 am that day, junta troops stationed at Ma Kyi Pin village, 20 kilometers west of Mongmit town, fired heavy artillery in a westward direction, killing a woman in her 40s tending buffaloes in a field near Yae Ta Khon village.
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