Chin State_ According to a spokesman for the Chin National Army (CNA), the Military Council bombed Thantalang city for the second time in 2023 with a fighter jet. It is said that on January 5th, at around 3:00pm in the afternoon, a fighter plane bombed the area of the Chin Defense Forces, 10 miles away from Thantalang city. “ Twice in Thantalang city and twice outside the city. “ Some houses were destroyed by fire and no one was hurt,”
CNA spokesperson Saline Chetni said that some houses were burnt down in such an attack, but the Chin Defense Forces were not harmed. It is reported that on January 1st, the military council army bombarded the city of Thantalang with fighter jets.
Although there was no fighting on the ground, the spokesperson speculated that it may have been a retaliation for the CDF – Thantalang forces’ drone attacks on military council camps in the past few days ago. In Thantalang city, CNA, CDF(Thantalang) on one side and Light infantry (266) and (222) on the other side live face to face.; On the Military side there are about 80 people including some policemen living there, and there are frequent shooting attacks on each other.
On September 18, 2021, fighting broke out in Thantalang City for the first time, 19 residential houses were destroyed by heavy weapons fire from the military council, and a Christian pastor who came to put out the fire was shot dead. After that, it is learned that the people of the city had to flee to neighboring villages and to Mizoram, India.
The population of Thantalang city was over 10,000 residents and more than 2,000 houses, In June 2022, the city was torched for the 35th time by the military council army, 1,300 houses have been burnt down by the military council, according to the Thantalang Resettlement Committee.
