Burma coup resistance notes December 25, 2022
Karen army and Sagaing Region People's Defense Forces put up strong resistance to junta terror
Ethnic regions-------------------
The battle of Kaw T’Ree (Kawkareik) continues in Dooplaya District of Kawthoolei. Junta forces fired many mortars today, damaging some homes and killing cattle but not harming any people, and jets flew reconnaissance missions. Yesterday a Karen PDF attacked 2 junta armored vehicles with drone bombs; one was burned and disabled, and 2 troops were killed and 4 wounded. Junta bombing damaged another bridge, in addition to the one destroyed earlier by Karen forces on the Asia Highway. A junta battalion commander was killed in Kaw T’Ree on Dec. 22. (People's Spring, Khit Thit Media)
A Karen PDF blew up a junta truck in Thayetchaung township of Beit-Tavoy District of Kawthoolei (Tanintharyi Region on Burmese maps) along the Dawei-Myeik road, killing 8 troops and wounding 5. (Khit Thit Media) Also, a PDF in Palaw township arrested the junta warden of Kawthaung prison yesterday, who was traveling in a civilian vehicle along the same road. (People's Spring)
The Kawthoolei government (KNU) announced that indiscriminate junta mortar fire into civilian areas killed a 12-year-old girl and wounded her 16-year-old sister in Dwelo township in Mutraw District of Kawthoolei (Hpapun township on Burmese maps) on Dec. 21. (People's Spring)
Junta scorched earth village terrorism campaign---------------
Junta troops burned 3 villages of Sataung township in Sagaing Region 2 days ago Dec. 23, including Theinchaung, Tandaw Kone, and Guji Kone. Residents had to scramble to flee into the bush, where they are now homeless. Two residents of Guji Kone were seized and murdered by the troops. (Mizzima)
People’s Defense Forces (PDFs)-----------------
In Monywa township local PDFs detonated roadside bombs on a truck carrying junta troops and Pyu Saw Htee terrorists yesterday, killing 7 and wounding 4. The same day, junta troops were trying to build a bunker at a fuel station on the Monywa-Mandalay highway when a PDF opened fire on them for 90 minutes, killing 7. (Khit Thit Media, Mizzima)
Also in Monywa township, PDFs fired mortars and rifles at 2 junta supply boats going up the Chindwin River yesterday to reinforce a junta position upriver with about 70 troops on board. Seven junta troops died and 4 were wounded aboard a boat, and the junta sent Russian-supplied attack helicopters in response. (Mizzima, Myaelatt Athan)
A PDF in Kalay town, Sagaing Region attacked a junta street checkpoint today and found that the troops there were drinking. The troops fled in haste, and the PDF seized a submachine gun. Thirty junta reinforcements then came and shot guns wildly, killing a civilian and wounding others. (Mizzima)
Thirty junta troops and Pyu Saw Htee in Shwebo township went out with stolen combine tractors to harvest and steal farmers’ rice crops yesterday; a PDF lay landmines for them and killed 3. (Khit Thit Media)
In Tisaung village of Myinmu township, Sagaing Region, a local PDF launched an attack on 70 junta troops 2 days ago Dec. 23. The PDF’s drone bombs killed a junta officer and another soldier, and 1 PDF soldier was killed also. Then yesterday the junta sent 70 reinforcements toward Tisaung from Myinmu, when a local PDF detonated 16 simultaneous roadside bombs, killing 3 and wounding others. (Myaelatt Athan, Khit Thit Media)
A PDF in Ye township blew up 3 motorcycles carrying junta troops in Ye tsps yesterday, killing 6 or 7 troops. (Khit Thit Media)
A father and son of the pro-junta Pyu Saw Htee terrorist group was going around hunting for PDF members and threatening the public with a loudspeaker last night, when a local PDF killed them. When a junta vehicle came to collect the bodies, it was hit with a roadside bomb. (Mizzima)
A PDF in Thabeikjin, Mandalay Region bombed a 3-vehicle junta convoy yesterday, blowing up one of the trucks and killing 6 troops. In the same town on the same day, a PDF shot up a junta street bunker at Tagong with 40mm grenades and gunfire, causing an unknown number of casualties. (Khit Thit Media)
Urban warfare------------------
In Mandalay, an urban PDF bombed the security bunker in front of the junta-owned Myanma Economic Bank in Aungmya Thasan township today; damage isn’t specified. (People's Spring)
Political and economic-------------------
A Burma Revolution support group organized a football tournament fundraiser in Nakorn Phatong, Thailand today. (Khit Thit Media)
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