About 80 junta soldiers entered Nyaung Hla Village in Sagaing Region’s Tabayin Township and set it on fire on 3 December.

An official from Tabayin Township Internally Displaced Person’s (IDP) Support Organisation, a local civil society organisation (CSO) said: “At around 11:00 a.m., a military council column set fire to Nyaung Hla Village. They continued setting fire to the village until evening (around 5:00 p.m.). The villagers fled for their lives.”

An official from the Tabayin Township Brothers Force, a local people’s defence force (PDF) said: “They [junta troops] set fire to Nyaung Hla Village. Now all we can do is wait to see how many more villages they will burn down. The villagers cannot do anything about it, they just have to flee for their lives. The junta troops will have to pay for their terrorist actions.”

The junta troops set fire to more than 54 houses and seven buildings in a monastery compound, in Nyaung Hla Village, according to data released by Tabayin Township IDP Support Organisation.

On the following day, 4 December, also in Tabayin Township, junta troops set fire to the villages of Namyar, Yinkyay, and Mayoekone.

Because of the actions of junta troops many inhabitants of 10 villages in Tabayin Township have been forced to flee their homes, according to theTabayin Township IDP Support Organisation.