Junta arson attack kills 2 villagers in Myanmar’s Sagaing region
Two elderly men died when their houses were burned down by junta troops in a Sagaing region village, locals told RFA. The men were too old to flee following a previous arson attack and were still living in Budalin township’s Shwe Taung village when a military column entered on Monday and torched 13 houses. “A 92-year-old crippled man and another man who is over 100 years old and could not move were trapped in the fire,” said Min, the township’s communications officer. He said one of the men begged the troops not to set fire to his home. Min, who