In mid-1998 an SPDC column was ambushed by KNLA troops near Kaw Thay Der village and responded by going into the village, calling out all the villagers and systematically beating them. This village has been burned many times over the years. Now some of the villagers have fled to Toungoo town, while others live in hiding in the forest, dodging passing SPDC columns. They managed to destroy approximately half of the entire crop of the village for this year. The 60 families of Bu Sah Kee now have almost no rice to last them until next year's harvest.
Villagers often stay in their farmfield huts during much of the growing season.
Some of the ricefields of Bu Sah Kee village, pulled up and destroyed by IB 26 troops on 6 September 1998. 707 on 29 June 1998. The villagers had failed to obey orders to move to Kler Lah village, so the troops burned all the nicest houses in the village. All that remains of Saw Wah Der village s Christian church, built by the villagers at a cost of 300,000 Kyats and burned by LIB 707 on 29 June 1998. The church was one of the nicer buildings in the village and had a metal roof.