Fighting may intensify due to the deployment of more troops by the junta in Demawso Township in Karenni State, said an information officer-in-charge of the Karenni Nationalities Defense Force (KNDF).

Fighting has intensified as the junta sent around 300 soldiers to reinforce their strength to the west of Demawso Township via Taungoo, he added.

The junta is carrying out an offensive. The KNDF is forced to withdraw and be on the defensive as the KNDF lacks ammunition, and our Tumi guns cannot compete with heavy weapons used by junta forces.

 Meanwhile, the humanitarian crisis gets worse every day. Thomas Andrews, U.N. special rapporteur on human rights in Myanmar, said in a statement posted on his Twitter account: mass deaths from starvation, disease and exposure could occur in Kayah State, after more than 100,000 people fled from their homes to escape the civil conflict, “Many of the 100,000 forced to flee into forests from junta bombs are now cut off from food, water and medicine by the junta,” he writes, adding, “The international community must act.”

The IDPs are facing a shortage of food and in need of water, shelters and medicine as the military council continue to block the trade routes in Karenna State.

The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet has warned that violence is intensifying across Myanmar, slamming the country’s military government for being “singularly responsible” for a “human rights catastrophe”.

In Karenni State, Fighting is taking place between the military council and the CDF every day. More than 100,000 locals have fled from the fighting, according to the statement by the UN on June 8th.