Five innocent people, including a teenage boy, from Tanintharyi Township’s Taku and Tharrabwin villages were arrested and killed by junta forces, four of them by beheading, on 20 May.

Junta troops opened fire with heavy weapons in Taku and Tharrabwin village tracts, shooting and killing a teenage boy who suffered from mental health problems. They also arrested four people whom they later beheaded, according to a local People’s Defence Force (PDF) known as the Non-Aligned Guerilla Group.

They also set fire to at least five buildings in Tharrabwin Village, including a house belonging to the mother-in-law of Aung Tura, the former Minister of Electricity under the National League for Democracy (NLD) government, according to locals.

Later, on 21 May the Non-Aligned Guerilla Group fought twice with junta forces in Taku Village, at 12 noon and 4:00 p.m. Though the junta troops fired more than 20 artillery shells the Non-Aligned Guerilla Group manged to retreat without suffering any casualties, according to a spokesperson from the group.

About 14,000 people have been displaced from the following 14 villages in Tanintharyi’s Taku Township: Thantike, Ywar-ma, Inn-sheykone, Pyay-aye, Taku-nge, Alae-pine, Lamaine-cot, Tarrabwin, Ashae-kan, Kyauktaung, Sabaekone, Thayarkone, Mei-ngaw, and Taline-Tat. According to reports they are all struggling with the heavy rainfall.