Junta forces arrested and tortured a woman before killing her in Wabyaw Village in Dawei District’s Launglon Township, on 21 June.

Junta soldiers and members of the pro-military Pyu Saw Htee militia raided three houses and abducted a 49-year-old woman in Wabyaw Village on the evening of 21 June, according to an official from the Strike Committee for Democracy Movement (Dawei District).

He said: “The arrested woman was beaten and wounded by the military. She was found dead with stab wounds and a gunshot wounds. The body had been dumped in front of her house.”

The body was dumped by the soldiers at about 1.30 a.m. on 22 June.

Locals identified the woman as 49-year-old Daw Khin Cho (aka ,Mae Cho), a vendor from Launglon’s Wabyaw Village.

A villager said: “Mae Cho and her family lead quiet lives in the village. Every household is terrified as people are being arrested and killed for no reason by the junta.”

This followed the junta force’s killing of three civilians and the injuring of two others in Launglon township on 16 June.

Also in Launglon, over recent weeks more than 30 people, including Civil Disobedience Movement (CDM) participants have been arrested. More than 3,000 locals have fled Township.