Internet Access Amid Darkness and Lives Amid Threats You’re not connected women, mostly Asho Chin ethnic people were arrested and disappeared without letting families or friends know their whereabouts, after a complaint by a military informant, on the suspicion of involvement in an assassination of the military-appointed village administrator, though some escaped the arrests.36 On 21 March, about 30 local men from Ywar Htaung village and Lay Ywar village were detained in a military raid of about 100 troops who opened artillery fires against the civilian community and led the villagers to flee away from the village, without any armed conflicts between the local defense forces and the junta troops.37 On January 31 and February 1, the troops and Pyu Saw Hti, pro-junta vigilante, raided and burned down the Anout Taw village, Bin village, and Ohn Nel Kone village that are situated on the lower side of the local river in Min Kin township, detaining 30 residents as hostages and human shield. 38 Wealthy youths were coerced to pay bribes in detention or imprisonment and some youths have often been plagued by mental health, according to an interviewee from western Yinmabin township. Unlawful arrests are dramatically getting high due to delays in proactive dissemination of information about the movement of the junta troops, triggered by the inability to share information on Facebook within communities in the Sagaing Region and several parts of Magway Region and Karenni State where the military junta has imposed internet shutdown. (5.4) Sexual Violence and Murders of Women The regime troops burned alive a father and his 14-year-old daughter, on 4 April, from Htal Hlaw village who both were tied up in handcuffs on their back, following a gang rape on the girl after they had been arrested in the forest. Villagers who fled to the forest told Radio Free Asia that they heard the scream and cries of the girl and the man.39 "I am sad from the bottom of my heart. The father was in the front room. The girl was in the rear one. The father also screamed as his daughter was being raped. So, they killed him. Then they burned their bodies", answered the late girl's aunt.40 In another case, regime troops from a military base installed in Sagaing Region's Min Kin township raped and murdered two girls aged 14 and 16, and another 35-year-old woman on 5 April.41 The regime troops gang-raped and murdered the older women and mentally ill women in some villages of Pale township in the Sagaing Region where internet connection is cut off, according to the interviewees. 36 ထတာင်တင််းကက်းမှ အရှု ိချင််းလူငယ် ၃၀ န်းြါ်းကို စစ်တြ်ဖမ််းဆ်း. (2022 March 7). Myanmar Pressphoto Agency. https://www.facebook.com/874334009274294/posts/7185126921528273 37 ယင််းမာြင်က ထေသခအမျိ ်းသာ်း ၃၀ ထကျာ် ဖမ််းဆ်းခရ. (2022 March 22). RFA Burmese. https://www.facebook.com/39218993127/posts/10161722908783128 38 မင််းကင််းပမိ ွဲ့နယ်၊ ရာသ်းု ရာအာ်း စစ်တြ်က မ်းရှု ိ ွဲ့၊ ထေသခ ၃၀ ထကျာ်ကို လူသာ်းေိင ု ်း် အဖဖစ် ဖမ််းဆ်း. (2022 February 3). Democratic Voice of Burma. http://burmese.dvb.no/archives/514973?fbclid=IwAR2Yq_XuAOQYxF65xClEEUil1BJ9niW9SVNoqWSa0Zq E7tfrklSSSJVygJk 39 န်ထဲ့ ါမှာ ၁၄ နှစ်သမ်းကို စစ်ထကာင်စတြ်သာ်းထတ အဓမမကျင်ပဲ့ ြ်း မ်းရှု ိ ွဲ့သတ်ဟု မိသာ်းစုဝင်ထတထဖြာ. (2022 April 12). RFA Burmese. https://www.facebook.com/39218993127/posts/10161762709433128 40 ibid 41 မင််းကင််းတင် အမျိ ်းသမ်း ၃ ဦ်းအာ်း စစ်ထကာင်စ အဓမမဖြ ကျင်ဲ့ သတ်ဖဖတ်ဟု တ ု ်ဖြန်. (2022 April 6). The Irrawady. https://www.facebook.com/121507374560090/posts/5555230781187695 21