{"id":68154,"date":"2014-12-11T08:52:19","date_gmt":"2014-12-11T08:52:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.freeburmarangers.org\/?p=60208"},"modified":"2016-07-26T03:52:46","modified_gmt":"2016-07-26T03:52:46","slug":"two-relief-team-members-killed-by-the-burma-army","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.freeburmarangers.org\/my\/2014\/12\/11\/two-relief-team-members-killed-by-the-burma-army\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Relief Team Members Killed by the Burma Army"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two Relief Team Members Killed By the Burma Army<\/h1>\n
11 December 2014<\/address>\n
Kachin State, Burma<\/address>\n

Dear friends,<\/p>\n

We are very sad to write that two of our relief\u00a0 team members were\u00a0killed by the Burma Army in an attack last month.\u00a0 Khine Htet Aung,\u00a0camera man of the Arakan Team (B), and Mai Mg Mg Win, video man of the\u00a0Ta’ang Team (E), who we had trained and gone on missions with us\u00a0earlier this year. Although of different tribes, they joined together\u00a0to bring help, hope and love to all in need.<\/p>\n

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Khine Htet Aung was a camera man for a Free Burma Rangers Arakan relief team operating in Kachin State.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

These were two brave, cheerful and strong men who helped displaced\u00a0Kachin, Shan and Ta’ang people in Northern Burma on a series of relief\u00a0missions this year. Together with us they braved multiple Burma Army\u00a0attacks and never abandoned the people they were helping. Under direct\u00a0fire they continued to document the Burma Army offensive that\u00a0displaced over 3,000 people while we were there and the suffering of\u00a0the oppressed people of Kachin and Northern Shan states. After the\u00a0relief team training and missions with us they were enrolled in a\u00a0training conducted by their allies, the Kachin Independence\u00a0Organization (KIO), at the Woi Chyai Bum Officer Training camp.<\/p>\n

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Mai Mg Mig Win was a video man for a Free Burma Rangers Ta’ang relief team.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

At 12:15 on 19 November 2014, the Burma Army\u2019s Light Infantry\u00a0Battalion (LIB) 390 fired a 105mm Howitzer at the training school,
\nkilling 23 trainees. The Burma Army fired from their position on Hka\u00a0Ya Bum mountain, which has a direct line of sight to the Kachin
\ntraining school, located north of Laiza in Waingmaw Township, Kachin\u00a0State. The shell impacted on the parade ground of the Woi Chyai Bum\u00a0Officer Training School when officer trainees were practicing drills.\u00a0Twenty trainees were instantly killed and three died of their wounds\u00a0later. Our two rangers were training there and were killed in that\u00a0attack. Later on the Burma Army shelled villages and displaced persons\u00a0camps, killing three more people.<\/p>\n

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Khine Htet Aung on a recent relief mission.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This is a tragic loss for us and we miss these two men very much. On\u00a0the last mission with them we grew close with the miles, dangers,
\nmissions and love shared. We pray for their families and know these\u00a0two men and the others who died with them did not die in vain.<\/p>\n

Many good changes have come to Burma but still the attacks by the\u00a0Burma Army continue and still people are killed, terrorized and
\ndisplaced, and the Rangers stand with them.\u00a0We will do our best to continue to help people under attack and get\u00a0the news out. We thank God for men like Khine Htet Aung and Mai Mg Mg\u00a0Win who gave their lives so that others may live.<\/p>\n

Thank you for loving and caring about them.<\/p>\n

God bless you,<\/p>\n

Dave, family and teams<\/p>\n