{"id":3262,"date":"2023-01-18T04:52:48","date_gmt":"2023-01-18T04:52:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shanhumanrights.org\/?p=3262"},"modified":"2023-01-18T04:53:43","modified_gmt":"2023-01-18T04:53:43","slug":"civilian-driver-shot-dead-farmer-injured-by-sac-and-pno-troops-near-tigyit-coal-mine-in-pinlaung-township-southern-shan-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shanhumanrights.org\/?p=3262","title":{"rendered":"Civilian driver shot dead, farmer injured by SAC and PNO troops near Tigyit coal mine in Pinlaung township, southern Shan State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Update by the Shan Human Rights Foundation<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">January 18, 2023<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Civilian driver shot dead, farmer injured by SAC and PNO troops near Tigyit coal mine in Pinlaung township, southern Shan State<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">SAC and PNO militia troops shot and killed a civilian driver and injured a farmer near the Tigyit coal mine in Pinlaung township, southern Shan State, on January 7, 2023.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On January 3, there was fighting between SAC troops and local PDF forces near Long Karn village tract, west of Samka Lake, Nyaungshwe township, southern Shan State.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/shanhumanrights.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Pinlaung-case-map.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3263\" src=\"https:\/\/shanhumanrights.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Pinlaung-case-map.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1800\" height=\"2300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shanhumanrights.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Pinlaung-case-map.jpg 1800w, https:\/\/shanhumanrights.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Pinlaung-case-map-235x300.jpg 235w, https:\/\/shanhumanrights.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Pinlaung-case-map-801x1024.jpg 801w, https:\/\/shanhumanrights.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Pinlaung-case-map-768x981.jpg 768w, https:\/\/shanhumanrights.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Pinlaung-case-map-1202x1536.jpg 1202w, https:\/\/shanhumanrights.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Pinlaung-case-map-1603x2048.jpg 1603w, https:\/\/shanhumanrights.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Pinlaung-case-map-696x889.jpg 696w, https:\/\/shanhumanrights.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Pinlaung-case-map-1068x1365.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/shanhumanrights.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Pinlaung-case-map-329x420.jpg 329w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1800px) 100vw, 1800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On January 7, about 50 regime troops, including local PNO militia, set up a checkpoint on the main Aung Pan-Tigyit-Pinlaung road, giving the reason that the PDF were active in that area.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">That evening at about 8 pm, the regime forces began indiscriminately firing their weapons, including artillery, for about 30 minutes towards Payaphyu village, about three miles from Tigyit village.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">One of the bullets hit a 40-year-old farmer returning home to Nan Sawng village after irrigating his farmland east of the village. Sai Aye (not his real name) was hit and injured in his leg. \u00a0SAC soldiers took him to Pinlaung hospital for treatment.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Soon afterwards, at around 9 pm, Khun Tun (not his real name) a 35-year-old villager from Kin Moon Chong village, Muay Pin village tract, Pinlaung township, was driving his car along the Aung Pan-Tigyit-Pinlaung road. He was driving fast and braked suddenly to stop at the newly erected SAC checkpoint. The troops then opened fire at his car, hitting him in the stomach and killing him instantly. This was witnessed by a local villager who had been forced by the PNO to guide their troops.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/shanhumanrights.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Pinloung.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3264\" src=\"https:\/\/shanhumanrights.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Pinloung.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2400\" height=\"1600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shanhumanrights.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Pinloung.jpg 2400w, https:\/\/shanhumanrights.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Pinloung-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/shanhumanrights.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Pinloung-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/shanhumanrights.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Pinloung-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/shanhumanrights.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Pinloung-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/shanhumanrights.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Pinloung-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/shanhumanrights.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Pinloung-696x464.jpg 696w, https:\/\/shanhumanrights.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Pinloung-1068x712.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/shanhumanrights.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Pinloung-630x420.jpg 630w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2400px) 100vw, 2400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">His corpse was not transferred to his family, but was cremated by the troops at 2 pm on January 8 at Pinlaung cemetery.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The SAC and PNO militia troops are continuing to block the Aung Pan-Tigyit-Pinlaung road. The SAC troops are from Kalaw-based LIB 7 and Tigyit-based LIB 511 and LIB 512.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Contact<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sai Hor Hseng\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 +66: 94-728-6696\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 (Shan, English)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ying Leng Harn \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0+66: 62 569 5220\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 (Burmese)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Download PDF files &gt;&gt;&gt;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span class='maxbutton-3-container mb-container'><a class=\"maxbutton-3 maxbutton maxbutton-english\" href=\"https:\/\/shanhumanrights.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Civilian-driver-killed-English.pdf\"><span class='mb-text'>English<\/span><\/a><\/span> <span class='maxbutton-2-container mb-container'><a class=\"maxbutton-2 maxbutton maxbutton-burmese\" href=\"https:\/\/shanhumanrights.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Civilian-driver-killed-Burmese.pdf\"><span class='mb-text'>Burmese<\/span><\/a><\/span> <span class='maxbutton-3-container mb-container'><a class=\"maxbutton-3 maxbutton maxbutton-english\" href=\"https:\/\/shanhumanrights.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Civilian-driver-killed-English.pdf\"><span class='mb-text'>English<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Update by the Shan Human Rights Foundation January 18, 2023 Civilian driver shot dead, farmer injured by SAC and PNO troops near Tigyit coal mine in Pinlaung township, southern Shan State SAC and PNO militia troops shot and killed a civilian driver and injured a farmer near the Tigyit coal mine in Pinlaung township, southern Shan State, on January 7, 2023. On January 3, there was fighting between SAC troops and local PDF forces near Long Karn village tract, west of Samka Lake, Nyaungshwe township, southern Shan State. On January 7, about 50 regime troops, including local PNO militia, set<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3264,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[397,413,412,409,233,411,207,189,293,410,408],"class_list":["post-3262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-updates","tag-nyaungshwe","tag-payaphyu","tag-pinlaung","tag-pno","tag-sac","tag-samka-lake","tag-shan-human-rights-foundation","tag-shan-state","tag-southern-shan-state","tag-tigyit-coal-mine","tag-ts73"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shanhumanrights.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shanhumanrights.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shanhumanrights.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shanhumanrights.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shanhumanrights.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3262"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/shanhumanrights.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3268,"href":"https:\/\/shanhumanrights.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3262\/revisions\/3268"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shanhumanrights.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shanhumanrights.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shanhumanrights.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shanhumanrights.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}