Internet Access Amid Darkness and Lives Amid Threats You’re not connected People are subject to such killings by the military and internet blackout may hide a lot of further atrocities. (5.2) Burning Civilian Houses and Villages On 18 January, the military raided and set fire to about 100 houses in San Myo, a village of 210 households in Magway Region's Gangaw district, fired rifles and heavy artillery, forcing more than 1,000 residents to flee from the village. 32 On 22 March, the military torched Moe So village and Chaung Kauk village, with only one house and one monastery left undamaged in the former village in Gangaw township, according to the interviewees. The miliary also burned Luu Tar Tharzi village on 23 March and Hmway Lel village on 24 March as well, the residents said. On 4 February, another 700 households in Hlaw Gar village and Kaing Dwin village in Sagaing Region's Pale township where an internet blackout has been imposed, were burnt down. According to a news article reported by Radio Free Asia, quoting a resident, the regime troops burned 500 houses in Hlaw Gar village, home to 1,000 households, and 200 houses in Kaing Dwin village, home to 260 households, and ransacked civilians' properties on 4 February after the residents had fled the village following the presence of junta troops at the village in earlier days.33 On 31 January, the military and members of the Pyu Saw Hti network, completely burned down Bin village and Ohn Nel Boat village in Min Kin township. Such outrageous mass destructions of civilian property are fueling the outrage of Myanmar people to transform the Spring Revolution into a stronger one. On the other hand, it is grisly to perceive a series of war crimes by the Myanmar military directly targeting innocent people in any part of the country every day like a permanent job.34 An estimate of 9,187 households was burned down by the military and its lackeys from 1 February 2021 to 13 April 2022.35 (5.3) Unlawful Arrests of Civilians The military troops conducted arbitrary arrest and torture in interrogation sessions against many people on the suspicion of having ties with local PDFs and often detained civilians they suspected during a transfer from a village to another or during making inquiries with villagers. On March 5, 30 local youths of Taung Dwin Gyi Township, Magway Region, including 32 စန််းပမိ ွဲ့ ရာက အိမ်ထဖခ ၁၀၀ ခန်မဲ့ ်းရှု ိ ွဲ့ ဖျက်ဆ်းခရ. (2022, January 19). RFA Burmese. https://www.facebook.com/39218993127/posts/10161606577853128 33 ြုလပမိ ွဲ့နယ်က ရာနှစ်ရာမှာ အိမ်ထဖခ ၇၀၀ ခန် မ ဲ့ ်းရှု ိ ွဲ့ခရ. (2022 February 5) RFA Burmese. https://www.facebook.com/39218993127/posts/10161640986628128 34 မင််းကင််းမှာ အာဏာသိမ််းစစ်တြ်မ်းရှု ိ ွဲ့လို ရ ဲ့ ာနှစ်ရာ ရာလု်းကျွတ်ဖြာကျ၊ ကင််းရာမှာလည််း ထြျာက်ဆ်းု ထနသူထတရှိ. (2022 January 31). Mawkun Magazine. https://www.facebook.com/278607422252157/posts/4739610079485180 35 Number of Houses burned down by Myanmar’s military. Data for Myanmar. https://www.datawrapper.de/_/jXRPW/ 20