Burma coup resistance notes August 7, 2022
Ethnic regions-------------------
In Kachin State, 4 gunmen dressed as junta police entered a police station in the state capital Myitkyina and shot up the place yesterday, killing 4 real junta police and wounding a number of others. (Kachin News Group)
According to a report in the Salween Press, the Karen government (KNU) is in re-unification discussions with the DKBA splinter faction that split from the Karen army in 1994. A smaller splinter element of the DKBA, which was anti-junta, has already rejoined the Karen army KNDO battalion in Dooplaya District.
Junta scorched earth village terrorism campaign---------------
The terror attack on Kainkan village in Depayin township, Sagaing Region yesterday has yielded 7 dead bodies of civilians so far. Junta troops burned down the village as well as vehicles and dozens of motorcycles after the residents were either in flight or dead. (Khit Thit Media)
After the battle of Yazajol in Kalay township yesterday in which PDFs killed about 20 junta troops, the surviving troops burned Yazajol village, including homes and dozens of motorcycles. Most residents escaped, but the few who remained were kidnapped as hostages.
People’s Defense Forces (PDFs)-----------------
In Sagaing Region, a PDF in Tantse township opened fire on a car full of junta police at a road checkpoint, killing 7 of them and capturing 6 automatic rifles. Photo evidence was provided. (Mizzima) In Butalin township, PDFs killed 5 junta troops during the course of 2 clashes yesterday. In Chaung Oo township, a PDF booby-trapped a road yesterday so that when a junta demining team came to clear a road, it was blown up, with the loss of 12 killed and others wounded. When another junta team came to evacuate the dead and wounded, it too was blown up. In all, 22 died and others were wounded; a drone video provided corroboration. (Khit Thit Media)
In Magway Region, PDFs in Myaing township attacked a junta/Pyu Saw Htee village terrorism gang in Dwinma village yesterday using landmines, locally-made mortars, and gunfire, and killed 28 of them. Three PDFs also died in the battle.
Urban warfare------------------
In Yangon, a local junta administrator in Insein township was shot yesterday and is hospitalized; his wife was killed. (Khit Thit Media)
Civil Disobedience Movement (CDM)-------------------
The junta pulled a publicity stunt in Mandalay where it cordoned off an area with barbed wire to keep the public out, then set up tables where soldiers sold meat, vegetables, and other goods to women who were in reality acting on behalf of the junta. It published pictures of the event saying that the army is providing foods to the public. (Khit Thit Media)