Mon guerrilla killed by army operation
During the military operation to wipe out a Mon armed group led by Nai Hloin and Nai Bin, the Infantry Battalion No. 282 of Coastal Command surrounded Nai Hloin near Mi TawHlar village of southern Ye township and gunned them down in a major offensive. Those killed included Nai Hloin, his wife and two of his followers, reported IMNA news. The leader of the Mon National Warrior Army (MNWA) Nai Hloin, 50, was born and brought up in a subsistence based, farming family at Khawzar, Southern Ye. He first joined the armed struggle under the Peoples Patriotic Party led by Burma’s former Prime Minister U Nu; and later on served in the Mon National Liberation Army, the military wing of the NMSP. “He left us with so many tales in the area. He was an anarchist, uneducated, and a warlord; sometimes he executed village headmen who did not pay tax to his group. But he has many supporters because local villagers were satisfied with his fighting against suppression”, said a Mon community leader from Ye. After the NMSP reached a cease-fire deal with the ruling military junta in 1995, Nai Hloin and his brother Nai Bin split from the Party in 1997 to resume fighting against the BA in the rural area. In 2001, the group loosely joined with Colonel Pan Nyunt who split from the NMSP and formed the Hongsawatoi Restoration Party in a liberated area in southern Mon State. But after HRP members returned to NMSP, Nai Hloin and Nai Bin choose to remain in the Ye and Yebyu areas. The two brothers led a Mon National Warrior Army of 100 fighters formed with San-She (Long Hair), Nai Bin, JaiDaik and Chan Dein groups in southern Mon State and the northern part of Tenasserim Division. Fighting continues unabated between the BA and the Mon guerrilla groups during military operations in Ye and Yebyu townships. The MNWA group led by Nai Chan Dein recently engaged in a clash with the IB No. 31 and 6 guerrillas were killed according to local witness. In counter-insurgency offensives in the ethnic areas, the BA restricts movement of civilians to block off presumed rebel support during military operations. Whenever villagers leave their villages they need to carry travel ID cards issued by the local battalion, signed by the military officer and stamped with the name of the battalion. If caught without their ID cards they risk being shot on sight. In mid July, the BA Light Infantry Battalion No. 273 rounded up villagers in southern Ye to clear landmines, a standard procedure. A young girl from Krein Kanyeh village stepped on a land mine and died instantly, 3 other porters stepped on land mines three days later, a 38-year-old man died from his wounds, while the other two men were physically maimed, their legs had to be cut off due to serious injuries from the explosion. Since 1988, the BA intensified its military offensives in the ethnic areas to enforce a Burman State.
