Myanmar Junta Jets Bomb Civilian Homes in Kanbalu — 2 Women and 2 Children Killed
Today, September 28, at around 4 PM, junta jet fighters bombed civilian homes south of Kanbalu Township, Shwebo District, Sagaing Region. The attack killed 2 women and 2 children.
The bombed area was not a battlefield — only residential homes. The jets dropped bombs directly on the houses, burning them down and killing innocent civilians.
This was not a one-off attack. Since September 15, junta aircraft have been repeatedly bombing civilian homes around Kanbalu, Kawlin, and Wuntho, even though no fighting is taking place there — deliberately targeting civilian residential areas.
As of writing, no independent news outlet has reported on this incident. The facts above are based on a field report sent directly to this outlet.
YeYint Nge — September 28, 2026
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မြေပြင်သတင်းပေးပို့ချက် (ဆောင်းပါးရှင်ထံ တိုက်ရိုက်ပေးပို့ချက်) — Field report sent directly to this outlet.
Myanmar Military Bombs Kyauktaw's India Market — 33 Civilians Killed
There is terrible news today. On September 28, 2026, just after 12 noon, junta jet fighters bombed Kyauktaw town in Rakhine State. The targets were the area near the Kissapanadi Bridge and the crowded India Market.
According to local residents, the first jet struck at 12:10 PM and a second jet struck again at 12:14 PM. It was market time, when the market was packed with vendors and shoppers — residents say the bombing was deliberate.
According to the Arakan Army (AA), around 33 civilians have been killed so far and 36 injured. With many suffering severe injuries, the death toll may rise further. Evening reports say rescue workers have recovered up to 46 bodies.
Local aid worker Wai Hun Aung confirmed the toll, saying: "This location is quite far from the fighting and has nothing to do with the conflict." Kyauktaw hospital has not been able to confirm an exact toll, as the dead and injured were taken to different hospitals.
The bombing set fire to cars, three-wheelers, motorbikes and farm trucks parked in the market, destroying them. The Kissapanadi Bridge was also damaged, and passersby on the bridge were killed and injured.
This is the deadliest mass killing of civilians in Rakhine since the bombing of Mrauk-U People's Hospital last December. Also today, at 12:35 PM, two more bombs were dropped near Ngapali beach in Thandwe township.
On September 24, a Y-12 aircraft dropped around 30 bombs near Kyauktaw, injuring 7 civilians, including 2 children under the age of 10. According to the AA's September 27 statement, regime air and artillery attacks between September 17 and 27 killed 6 civilians and injured 16.
Why target civilians? The junta, losing ground on the Sittwe and Kyaukphyu fronts, is brutally attacking civilian towns and villages from the air. The junta has made no comment on this bombing. Reuters says it could not independently verify the details of the incident.
Honey's take is simple — bombing a crowded market at market time is the deliberate killing of civilians. For these mass killings, Min Aung Hlaing will one day face justice. Let us pray together with Honey for the fallen people.
US $2 Billion in Aid Coming to Burma — But Not Into the Junta's Hands
News broke yesterday. The U.S. Embassy in Rangoon posted on its Facebook page: Burma is among the countries that will benefit from nearly $2 billion in new U.S. global health and humanitarian partnerships.
$2 billion. No small amount. With that money coming to Burma, one question arises — whose hands will it reach? The military junta's, or the NGOs helping the people directly?
Digging into the news made the answer clear.
What is this program?
Announced by the U.S. Department of State on August 6, 2026 — partnerships with "faith-based and community organizations" to deliver global health and humanitarian assistance worldwide. The largest such allocation to these groups by the U.S. government in over 20 years.
The money is split into three pots:
$850 million to a consortium led by World Vision: upgrading 2,500+ faith-based hospitals, clinics and community hubs across 17 countries; training, paying and equipping 30,000+ community health workers.
$570 million to faith-based hospitals and clinics through agreements signed with governments.
$538 million for emergency response — to Samaritan's Purse and a World Vision / Compassion International-led group, aiming to help 7 million people across 16 emergencies.
Three big names — World Vision, Samaritan's Purse, Compassion International. All NGOs, U.S.-based humanitarian organizations.
The key point — not into the junta's hands
The embassy's post says it precisely: "Through humanitarian implementers." Meaning the money will be channeled through humanitarian organizations, not given directly to the junta government.
No surprise. The U.S. does not recognize the junta as a government and maintains sanctions against it. Under the Burma Act, the U.S. government is required to work with pro-democracy opposition groups.
Another point — these groups already operate in Burma. World Vision provides aid in 11 of the country's 14 states and regions. Samaritan's Purse has helped in Burma since Cyclone Nargis (2008), ran an office there from 2017–2022, and flew in a field hospital after the recent earthquake.
Honey's take
This is good news. Because everyone knows how much of any aid money would reach the people if it went into the junta's hands. Now this money will flow through NGOs that reach people directly.
But a note of caution — how much Burma will receive, and which local groups will distribute it, has not been officially announced yet. The full 17-country list isn't out either. The $570 million pot flows through "agreements with governments" — so which government the U.S. signs with for the Burma portion is something to watch. A deal with the junta is all but impossible under U.S. policy.
In short — Burma is included in the U.S. $2 billion aid program. The money trail runs through NGOs, not the junta. That's good news for the people — but how much, to whom, and how it arrives is something we'll keep watching. Honey will keep following this and post updates as news comes in.
In Myanmar's business world, the man widely known as "Saya Kyaung" is Aung Ko Win. He is the founder of Kanbawza Bank (KBZ Bank), one of Myanmar's largest private banks, and the patriarch of the KBZ business empire.
Aung Ko Win was born on 11 November 1961 and graduated from the University of Mandalay with a degree in chemistry. Before entering the business world, he worked as a schoolteacher in Taunggyi, Shan State, which earned him the nickname "Saya Kyaung" (Teacher Kyaung).
From teaching, he moved into tuition classes, trade, and mining, and after 1988 he entered the business world full-time. According to a 2012 Reuters special report, a close friendship with Vice Senior General Maung Aye, then a regional commander in the jade-mining region, brought him jade and gem mining licenses and made him wealthy. Reuters reported that he himself admitted, in a 2008 meeting with American diplomats, that Maung Aye had granted him the jade licenses and that the two remained close friends to this day.
The same Reuters report noted that the walls of Kanbawza Bank's buildings display photos of him inspecting jade boulders together with the retired dictator Senior General Than Shwe. The Irrawaddy likewise wrote, in a 26 September 2022 article, that he was exceptionally close to the military government's deputy chief Maung Aye, and that this closeness let his businesses expand rapidly.
On 1 July 1994, he founded Kanbawza Bank Limited in Taunggyi, Shan State. By the late 1990s the family had moved to Yangon and expanded the banking business, growing to more than 485 branches by around 2017. After Mayflower Bank and Asia Wealth Bank lost their licenses in 2005, KBZ emerged as Myanmar's most successful private bank.
The KBZ group is far more than a bank. It is one of Myanmar's top conglomerates, spanning airlines (Air KBZ and Myanmar Airways International), insurance (KBZ MS General Insurance, KBZ Life), jade, gems, mining, fuel, construction, real estate, hotels, travel, agriculture, manufacturing, and a football club (Kanbawza FC).
On the family side, his wife Nan Than Htwe is a former schoolteacher and, according to English-language Wikipedia, the niece of a former State Peace and Development Council official, U Win Myint. He has three daughters — Nang Lang Kham, Nang Kham Noung, and Nang Mo Hom — two of whom serve as deputy chief executive officers of KBZ Bank. In August 2022, the junta appointed Brigadier General Zaw Myint Naing as vice-governor of the Central Bank of Myanmar; The Irrawaddy reported that he is Aung Ko Win's brother-in-law.
In the public eye, he is known as a devout Buddhist and a generous donor. He donated over 3.6 million US dollars to the 2015 flood relief effort, and his daughters' Brighter Future Myanmar Foundation reported donating more than 152 billion kyats between 2008 and January 2019. In January 2021, he donated 3 billion kyats toward buying COVID-19 vaccines, bringing his total COVID-period donations in 2020–2021 to over 14.2 billion kyats.
His honors include the Sithu, Wunna Kyaw Htin, and Thiri Pyanchi titles, and in 2019 he received a special presidential award for being the country's top income-tax payer for seven consecutive assessment years from 2011–2012 to 2017–2018. In January 2021, The Irrawaddy reported, he was awarded Myanmar's highest honor for his services to the country.
Yet those same military ties once drew international sanctions against him. In May 2010, the European Union listed "Aung Ko Win a.k.a. Saya Kyaung" under Regulation 411/2010. The list also covered his wife and daughter, along with Kanbawza Bank, Myanmar Billion Group, Nilayoma, East Yoma companies, and Kanbawza FC. The Australian government likewise imposed financial measures linked to him starting in 2007. Those sanctions were later lifted, and no verified evidence has been found of an international sanctions listing against him in his own name today.
After the 2021 military coup, his empire began to clash with the junta. Myanmar Now reported on 7 July 2022 that the junta had seized more than 20,000 acres of land held by the Kanbawza family.
On 10 May 2022, RFA Burmese reported that his daughter Nang Lang Kham had been stopped and questioned as a suspect at Yangon International Airport. The junta denied, via Eleven Media Group, that she had been arrested or detained.
On 30 September 2022, The Irrawaddy reported an income-tax dispute between the KBZ group and the Internal Revenue Department. Analysts say that under the junta, pressuring top cronies over taxes is used as a way to control business owners.
RFA reported in 2021 and 2023 that mobile money accounts at private banks, including KBZPay, were shut down or frozen on the authorities' orders. That shows the junta's control over private banks, though there is no evidence that Aung Ko Win personally issued those orders.
One caution: claims circulate online that he pulled the strings behind the 2021 coup, but no trustworthy news source has produced evidence to confirm that. This article leaves out allegations that cannot be verified.
In short, Aung Ko Win — "Saya Kyaung" — rose from a schoolteacher in Taunggyi to build one of Myanmar's biggest business empires on the back of friendships with the military government's generals. He remains a controversial figure to this day, a symbol of the military–business nexus.
Son of junta chief Min Aung Hlaing and Daw Kyu Kyu Hla. His sibling is Khin Thiri Thet Mon.
His businesses grew rapidly after his father became commander-in-chief in 2011. They directly benefited from his father's position and military protection, JFM says.
His Authentic Group supplied raw materials to military ordnance factories since 2011. It also sold goods to the military-owned Myanmar Economic Corporation.
His Aung Myint Mo Min Insurance was set up with the military Quartermaster-General. JFM found soldiers are required to buy life insurance from this firm.
In 2013 he won a no-bid, below-market 30-year lease in Yangon's People's Park. On that land he opened a high-end restaurant and art gallery.
JFM says his A&M Mahar helps foreign drug firms win approvals from Myanmar's FDA. His Sky One Construction has built hospitals and buildings for the military.
On March 10, 2021, the US sanctioned him and his sibling Khin Thiri Thet Mon. US: they "directly benefited from their father's position and malign influence." Six of their companies, including A&M Mahar and Sky One, were also blacklisted. Canada sanctioned him in May 2021; the UK sanctioned Sky One Construction in 2022.
January 2023: junta gave his Golden Future Linkage a 40-MW solar deal in Thazi. Media report that his businesses have kept expanding even after the coup.
Bangkok condo deed in his name found at Tun Min Latt's 2022 arrest. (Reuters) That condo, in the Belle Rama 9 complex, is worth about one million US dollars.
He reportedly bought a stake in Little Inya island near Yangon University in 2023. He is reportedly the biggest shareholder in the luxury Inno City condo project.
Media: after the March 2025 Naypyidaw quake, his firms joined the rebuild. Reports also say his companies continue to win state projects even after the coup.
JFM and media say his empire was built on his father's power and military influence. That is why he too is someone who must not be forgotten.
Sources: Justice For Myanmar, Reuters, and public news reports.
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