So-Called PDF Terrorist Group Threatens Student’s Parents, Disrupting Education Sector in Nyaung-U Township of Mandalay Region
15 June 2025
Terrorist groups are committing inhumane acts with the intent to disrupt the education system, which is dedicated to improving and advancing children’s learning. These acts include the destruction of school textbooks and stationery, the intimidation and abduction of education staff and students, targeted killings, the planting of explosive devices to destroy educational buildings and sending threatening letters to the teachers.
Since they are conducting such terrorist acts, on 14 June 2025 at 9:00 AM, in Mandalay Region of Nyaung-U Township, Ward No. 1, Thiri Mingalar area, six students of Grade 12 Ma Khin Thet Htar, Ma Gyu Gyu Su Hlaing, Ma Toe Ei Way, Ma Ya Min Thu, Ma Mya Mya Thet and Mg Chan Myae Aung from the Sub-Basic Education High School in Ka Lar Tal Village in Nyaung-U Township, who were temporarily staying in the area to resit the university entrance examination, were forced to leave after their parents received threats from a so-called PDF terrorist group. Additionally, the parents of Mg Arkar Chan Myae Kyaw, Mg Tun Naing Lin and Mg Tin Oo Hlaing, who were also temporarily residing in the area for the same purpose, will come to retrieve them. As a result, security personnel are coordinating with the relevant authorities to ensure the students can continue their examination process, it is reported.
It has been reported that the security personnel are investigating the culprits of the acts of terrorism from the above incident to take effective action in accordance with the law.
MOHA