The so-called NUG terrorist group and its affiliates PDF terrorists, with certain intents to disrupt the learning opportunities of future generations of youths creating an uneducated society in the future as well as support them in fear, they conduct all kinds of sabotage and violence such as coercing, abducting and killing students, teachers and their parents; blowing up education infrastructures and burning down education-aid materials, textbooks and exercise books. In this regard,
- On 20 July, a car with PDF terrorists holding arms arrived at the State Agricultural Institute (Dawe) located in Sakhan Gyi village, Laung Lon township of Taninthayi region. They then beat and tortured the teachers including the principal and students of the institute.
- The terrorists repeatedly threatened the teachers to join CDM and leave the Institute by 8:00 a.m. on 21 July. They then forcibly abducted the female principal, her 11-year-old son and five other teachers.
- Similarly, PDF terrorists with motorbikes arrived at the house of U Thein Oo, deputy staff officer of the township agricultural department who was teaching as a substitute teacher at the Institute on 22 July. They then took him to a palm oil farm east of his house and shot him dead using small arms.
It is reported that security personnel are taking necessary measures to arrest the PDF terrorists who abducted a principal and teachers and killed a deputy staff officer. The perpetrators of terrorists will be taken punitive actions as per existing laws.
Source: Myawady Daily Newspaper (27-7-2023)
- PDF terrorists forcibly abducted the female principal, her 11-year-old son and five other teachers from the State Agricultural Institute (Dawe) located in Sakhan Gyi village, Laung Lon township.
- A deputy staff officer of the township agricultural department who was teaching as a substitute teacher at the Institute was also shot dead by the terrorists using small arms.