Karen News

On 14 June the column of about 80 junta soldiers started moving through the villages south of Launglon Town. After about a week they stationed themselves in Kanyonkyun Village. 40 to 50 villagers, many of whom were elderly, who had not managed to flee in advance of the junta column remained in the village. The junta soldiers forced the residents…

In recent months there had been fighting between the junta and resistance forces at the Letkattaung military base near Launglon Town. Following the fighting, the junta dispatched a column of about 80 soldiers from the Tanintharyi Region capital, Dawei City, to Launglon Township. Then, on 14 June 2025, the junta column started moving through the villages south of Launglon Town,…

On 15 June 2025, the junta convoy was travelling towards Leiktho along the road from Taungoo City in Bago Region to Leiktho Town in Karen State when they reached Ahlelchaung (lower) Village, not far from Leiktho Town. There, the soldiers set fire to two houses at a road intersection. Junta soldiers based in Ahlelchaung (lower) Village and the Leiktho Town-based…

The airstrike hit a house that the school was being run in at 2:00 pm on 9 June and killed a teacher, two children and the owner of the house, according to a witness from the village. He said to KIC: “The village doesn’t have a junta-run school, so the community was really worried the children would miss out on…

According to officials at Mae La Camp, their preliminary findings indicate that the food poisoning was caused by snacks ordered online and then sold by shops in the camp. The food poisoning victims ranged in age from a seven-month-old baby to a 30-year-old, with some of the affected children experiencing severe symptoms, according to Saw Sunday, the secretary of the…

Since 1 June 2025, the junta authorities, under orders from the Illegal Trade Eradication Steering Committee, have been cracking down on unregistered vehicles in several states and regions, including Mon State. This followed an order made by coup leader Min Aung Hlaing to crack down on unregistered vehicles made at a meeting in Naypyidaw on 20 May. Junta officials have…

The junta holds the road but Thandaunggyi Township and the area of Bago Region between the border with Karen State and Taungoo Town is currently under the mixed control of the junta and the Karen National Union’s (KNU) Brigade 2. Since 1 May 2025, KNU Brigade 2 has banned all travel on the road between the towns of Leiktho and…

Junta troops targeted the returning residents in late May. Five to ten of them have been arrested and at least one, Saw Myo Htwe Aung, has been murdered by the junta whilst in custody, according to residents of Kyondoe Town. On 28 May 2025, Saw Myo Htwe Aung, also known as Ko Pyoo, a young resident of Kyondoe Town, was…

The junta aircraft dropped two bombs, one onto a football field next to the Kwileisu Village School student dormitory and one on the village monastery compound. Later that evening, a village resident said to KIC: “The aircraft made two bombing runs and dropped two bombs. One of them was a cluster type with many small explosives inside, though I can’t…

At around 9:00 am on 25 May, a junta aircraft dropped the bomb on a house where the wedding ceremony was taking place in the Karen National Union (KNU) administered Kyungyi Village. The dead included the bride and two children aged four and six. Some of the 20 people injured in the attack are in a serious condition. A resident…