Myanmar junta troops burn down 370 houses in Sagaing village

Myanmar junta troops torched more than 370 in Inn Sa, a village 20 miles northwest of the city of Sagaing, on Friday. Some 100 soldiers were involved in the attack, which forced more than 1,500 residents to flee.

Opposition forces in the northern Sagaing region have put up some of the fiercest resistance to junta rule since Myanmar’s February 2021 coup, and the military has responded with a heavy-handed offensive.

According to the independent research group Data For Myanmar, since the military coup, almost 48,000 houses in the Sagaing region had been burned down by mid-March. At least 500,000 people have fled the conflict in Sagaing since the seizure of power.