August 31
In Thamagyi Village, Mahlaing Township, Meiktila District, Mandalay Region, 12 locals including the village administrator and a Pyusawhti militia leader were shot and killed in the early morning of August 31, according to reports.
Around 4:00 AM this morning, an armed group of approximately 50 people entered Thamagyi Village, located southeast of Mahlaing Town, and shot and killed 12 villagers including the village administrator, U Soe Lin Htike.
The deceased include Administrator U Soe Lin Htike, U Chit San Maung and his wife, U Maung Thein, U Zaw and his son, U Win Naing, and U Ohn Maung—a total of 12 people, according to information posted on military propaganda Telegram channels.
"Around early morning, about 4:00 AM, they entered the village and shot them with guns," a local source told Ayeyarwaddy Times.
Ayeyarwaddy Times has not yet been able to confirm which group carried out the attack. It is known that among the deceased was a Pyusawhti militia leader.
Thamagyi Village is located between the Yangon–Meiktila–Mahlaing–Myingyan road and the Yangon–Mandalay expressway. Locals say it is a village where Pyusawhti militias are currently stationed.
Mahlaing Township borders Meiktila, where the military has a base, as well as townships with strong resistance activity like Nwar Taw Gyi, Taung Tha, and Kyauk Pan Taung.
On May 18 of last year, an unknown armed group also abducted and shot dead the village administrator of Wa Khe Village, Mahlaing Township, outside the village.