Junta pushes IDPs in Ayeyarwady's Ingapu Twsp to return home by Sept. 7

By Admin 03 Sep 2025

DMG Newsroom

3 September 2025, Ingapu, Ayeyarwady Region

Myanmar's military regime is pressuring internally displaced people (IDPs) sheltering in Kwinkauk, Ingapu Township, Ayeyarwady Region, to return home by September 7, according to aid workers and IDPs.

A man who helps IDPs said the administrator of Kwinkauk town met with displaced people on September 1 and told them to return home.

"The Kwinkauk town administrator has been pressuring the displaced people to return home by September 7 because the military has taken control of the villages where they are sheltering," he said.

The displaced people being pressured by the military regime to return home are from Shankwin, Sawpyar, Setsetyo, Pantawgyi and Peinhnekwin villages in Laymyethna Township, and there are thousands of them, according to aid workers.

"We are not in Kwinkauk town, so we are not being pressured to return. The military regime's claim that they have taken control of the Pathein-Monywa road is just propaganda. Even the military doesn't dare to go to those areas, let alone evacuate," said a displaced woman in Laymyethna Township.

Tens of thousands of residents from Yekyi, Laymyethna and Ingapu townships on the Pathein-Monywa highway have been displaced by fighting since early this year, and the stretch of road is still controlled by anti-regime forces.

Since early 2025, the anti-regime forces have been conducting military operations in Yekyi, Laymyethna, Ingapu, Thabaung and Pathein townships of Ayeyarwady Region, controlling at least 10 military camps and other territory.