THE Tatmadaw True News Team held a press conference at the Defence Services Museum in Nay Pyi Taw yesterday, on the violent assaults committed by the AA group at the villages of Kingtaung and Theintan villages in Buthidaung Township.

Secretary of the Tatmadaw True News Team Brig-Gen Zaw Min Tun said the AA members pounded Kingtaung Village in Buthidaung Township in the morning of 25 January, killing two villagers and injuring seven. They also raped the women in Theintan Village, and threatened the villagers of the village.       

At the event, Brig-Gen Zaw Min Tun explained the two assaults of AA group with the help of witness video footages, photos and maps.

Afterwards, he replied to the queries raised by reporters from local and foreign news agencies, according to the news released by the Office of the Commander-in -Chief of Defence Services. —MNA (Translated by Kyaw Zin Tun)