So-Called PDF Terrorist Group Threatens Student’s Parents, Disrupting Education Sector in Nyaung-U Township of Mandalay Region

So-Called PDF Terrorist Group Threatens Student’s Parents, Disrupting Education Sector in Nyaung-U Township of Mandalay Region

     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 16 June 2025, from 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM, the Matriculation Exam for the Myanmar language subject took place at the exam center of the Basic Education High School (Nyaung-U) examination center in Nyaung-U Township. The students; Ma Khin Thet Htar, Ma Gyu Gyu Su Hlaing, Ma Ya Min Thu, Ma Toe Ei Wai, Ma Mya Mya Thet, and Mg Chan Myae Aung sit the exam test. Security personnel were deployed to provide safety measures at the examination center. Later, at 4:00 PM, following renewed threats against the students’ parents by a so-called PDF terrorist group, Mg Arkar Chan Myae Kyaw, Mg Tun Naing Lin, Mg Tin Oo Hlaing, and other students including Ma Khin Thet Htar, along with their parents, left the exam center and returned to their Ka Lar Tal Village, 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.