In the first week of July at Wah Mee Gklah village in Dta Greh Towship, Pa'an District, a man who had been conscripted as a forced labourer by SPDC soldiers at the nearby Gka Teh army camp returned to find his village entirely abandoned. After briefly allowing himself to be recruited by the DKBA, he stepped on a landmine in his village after returning again to see if he could ascertain the whereabouts of his relatives.