June 22th, 2022
The Zomi Revolutionary Army (Eastern Command) abducted and beat two civil servants who joined the Civil Disobedience Movement (CDM) and one civilian in Kyeinpeekwat village in Tedim Township of Chin State.
At around 3 pm on June 20th, the members of the ZRA (EC) entered Kyeinpeekwat village. Then, they abducted the CDM male teacher, the CDM police member and the husband of the CDM female teacher near the Baptist cemetery outside the village. They beat and interrogated the detainees for around three hours.
The ZRA told them to leave the village no later than June 25th although it released them.
“They will have to leave the village together with their families if they don’t want to die. They will have to sell their belongings for their survival,” a local from Tedim told the KMG.
The ZRA (EC) arrested and beat them. The villagers had to carry them by motorbikes as they could not walk. One of three detainees has left the village.
Kyeinpeekwat village located about 18 miles from Tedim has more than 100 households and the BEHS.
The ZRA (EC) issued a statement dated June 21st, saying that it detained three persons as they sent information about the activities of the ZRA and disrupted the plan to open the schools according to the desires of the town-elders.
In its statement on May 30th, the ZRA (EC) welcomed the military council’s opening of the basic education schools.
The ZRA (EC) attacked and destroyed the camps of the Chinland Defense Forces (CDFs) in Chin State.
On May 22th, the ZRA (EC) seized a camp of the local defense force in Tedim Township on May 22th, 2021. On June 16th, 2021, the ZRA (EC) attacked a camp of the PDF-Zoland and destroyed guns, rations, medicines and utensils worth over Ks-1.6 million.
In September, 2021, the ZRA destroyed the camp of CDF-Hualngo based in Tedim Township. On December 5th, 2021, U Kyin Shan Swan, a leader of the PDF-Zoland was shot dead by the ZRA in Tedim.
The Chinland Joint Defense Committee (CJDC) formed with 17 Chinland Defense Forces including the Chin National Front/Chin National Army (CNF/CAN), declared the ZRA (EC) as a terrorist organization on April 12th, 2022.
Sent by the KMG