Beginning the following day, in collaboration with their allied Pyusawhti militia, they have been conducting night raids, primarily targeting squatter areas, and abducting young and middle-aged men. Soldiers, Pyusawhti members, ward administrators, and 100-house-group elders were involved in these forced arrests. The authorities just kept denying they knew where the detainees had been taken,” said a resident of Wahtaw Ward in Myawaddy Town who is familiar with the situation. Currently, youths are being abducted in Myawaddy Town, particularly in wards such as Kyuntaw, Thaepone Gate, Thayatpintaw, Kyaukphya, Hpachaukkaung, Kyankhinkyuntaw, and Wahtaw, according to residents. Currently, junta soldiers stationed in Myawaddy Town, together with allied Karen armed groups, are putting on a show of volunteering, cleaning the town every Saturday and distributing food to internally displaced people (IDPs), according to town residents.