More than 6000 civilians displaced by ongoing fighting in Theinnaw village-tract in Thanintharyi Township in Tanintharyi Region, are in need of food rations and medicine, according to the Nay Oo Myitta, a group supporting IDPs.
Since 23 April, the locals have been displaced by the fighting and the junta’s airstrikes in Theinnaw village-tract.
More than 6200 locals from Theinnaw, Yaypu, Thahtay (East) and Thahtay (West), Minethahu, Banpyae (east) and Banpyae (west) villages in Theinnaw village-tracts, remain displaced, according to the Nay Oo Myitta.
Currently, the group can provide ration supply for five days. We want to fully help them. Food rations are not sufficient for IDPs as we have no donors, said an official of the Nay Oo Myitta group.
“We don’t have a huge budget. We have just raised a fund of Ks-400,000 via our page. Now the price of a bag of rice has reached Ks-115,000. We want to provide aid for them. We have no donors.”
Now the total number of IDPs has exceeded 6,000. The Nay Oo Myitta can reach out to more than 1,200 IDPs alone due to the difficulties and ongoing fighting on the ground, the official said.
Regarding the danger of airstrikes and landmines being faced in supporting the IDPs, the official of Nay Oo Myitta group said: “We are facing a lot of difficulties. We have to look at the sky. We are not steel robots. But in such a situation, we don’t even worry about ourselves. We are more worried about them. We are thinking about the risk of encountering junta soldiers and stepping on landmines.”
On the other hand, the military council has banned the transport of food rations and medicine to the villages in Tanintharyi Township. The IDPs are in need of anti-diabetic and anti-hypertensive drugs. The military council has tightened inspections on the roads.
On 22 April, there was intense fighting between the military council and the joint revolutionary force in Theinnaw village-tract. The military council’s bombardments killed civilians and destroyed houses. The exact number has not been independently confirmed.
The FE5 Tanintharyi, a local research group reported on 13 April that the fighting in March displaced more than 54,000 civilianss in Tanintharyi Region.
Sent by Than Lwin Times.