Around 8,000 internally displaced people (IDPs) sheltering in Hsi Hseng Township in southern Shan State are in. urgent need of medicine and food supplies.

Th IDPs have come from villages in Kayah (Karenni) State, and Pekon and Moebye in Shan State to the south of Hsi Hseng.

A volunteer working with the IDPs said to Mizzima: 'The IDPs have a great need for donors. Now, people dare not donate to IDPs because the junta keeps arresting donors. The Military Council is afraid that food supplies and medicines provided by donors will be handed over to the People's Defence Forces (PDFs), that's why they keep arresting donors.'

On 23 June, Dr Win Lwin Oo and medical staff from the Pa-Oh Health Working Committee (PHWC) reportedly provided free mobile medical treatment to IDPs and local people in Hsi-Hseng Township.

There is still intense fighting between PDFs and junta troops in Kayah State and Pekon Township, so IDPS cannot yet return to their homes.