Mondaingbin () is a village in

Ye-U Township Ye-U Township is a township in Ye-U District in the Sagaing Region of Myanmar. In 2022, the township was split from its former Shwebo District to form part of the new Ye-U District. The township is located in the north-western part of the country ...

, Sagaing Region, Myanmar and is the primary village in the Mondaingbin

village tract A village tract (; also spelt village-tract), also called overvillage, is a fourth-level administrative subdivision of Myanmar's rural townships. As of August 2015, there are 13,602 village tracts in Myanmar, consisting of 70,838 villages. The eq ...

. Mondaingbin is a small village of 400 households and 1,900 individuals in Ye-U Township, located northwest of

Shwebo Shwebo ( ) is a city in Sagaing Region, Burma, 110 km north-west of Mandalay between the Irrawaddy and the Mu rivers. The city was the origin of the Konbaung Dynasty, established by King Alaungpaya in 1752, that was the dominant politic ...

. On 12 May 2022,

Myanmar Army The Myanmar Army (; ) is the largest branch of the Tatmadaw, the armed forces of Myanmar, and has the primary responsibility of conducting land-based military operations. The Myanmar Army maintains the second largest active force in Southea ...

carried out a

massacre A massacre is an event of killing people who are not engaged in hostilities or are defenseless. It is generally used to describe a targeted killing of civilians Glossary of French words and expressions in English#En masse, en masse by an armed ...

of male civilians from the village.

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Populated places in Sagaing Region {{Sagaing-geo-stub