​On March 1, 2023, junta forces raided the small fishing village of Tar Taing village in the Sagaing township and tortured and executed 17 people. Troops reportedly surrounded the village of about 400. A survivor told reporters,  "When the army surrounds a village, it has a tactical plan; it does not go in as a group. Soldiers surround the village in columns, spread out, and each column has an assignment. There is a column that arrests people, a column that enters houses and searches for things, and a column that tortures and kills people," (Naing). The soldiers detained dozens of captives in the local monastery and divided them by gender before using a list of names to separate villagers into groups. The following morning, the soldiers took hostages and led them away from the village towards the town of Nyaung Yin before killing them. According to reports, there were three different locations where the killings took place. The villagers collected the bodies, recorded names, and then burnt the bodies- some of which had been so graphically mutilated that their faces were no longer visible (Naing). Troops reportedly planted landmines around the bodies which made retrieval difficult for villagers (Burma News International). Women were violently sexually assaulted, and many bodies were tortured and beaten. The only non-civilian who was killed was resistance leader Kyaw Saw, who was dismembered.