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KIA members who support terrorism and a so-called PDF terrorist group conduct disruptive acts against education sector development in Momauk Township to create uneducated classes in the society

     With the aims to create an uneducated society following the loss of children’s rights to education as well as to support them by making people very frightened, the CRPH, NUG and their subordinates so-called PDF terrorist Groups, which the Government has declared as terrorist organizations, are conducting various kinds of destructive activities across the country such as intimidation and coercion against students, teachers and parents; abductions and killings of students, teachers and parents; heavy weapon attacks, dropping bombs using drones, arson and bombing attacks on educational buildings. In addition to the acts aforesaid, so-called PDF terrorists, with destructive emotions, are making acts of vandalism against the government’s efforts on education sector development such as putting textbooks and teaching/learning aids to the torch; and taking those forcibly.
     Since they are committing such terrorist acts, on 9 September at 07:40 PM, KIA members who support terrorism and a so-called PDF terrorist group launched an attack using improvised rockets towards No. (1) Ward in Dotphoneyam Town in Momauk Township of Kachin State. One of these improvised rockets struck and exploded near the teachers’ housing within Dotphoneyam Basic Education High School located in this Ward. As a result of the explosion, a primary assistant teacher Daw Aye Chan Phyo (29 years old) and a deputy junior assistant teacher Daw Khin Than Wai (36 years old), who both live in this housing, sustained injuries from rocket shrapnel, and were transported to the Dotphoneyam Town Public Hospital for medical treatment, it is reported.
     Security personnel are doing required investigations to find and apprehend those terrorists involved in the aforementioned threats and to take legal action against them in accordance with necessary security measures, it is reported.