Burma coup resistance notes December 29, 2022
The junta is taking rice stolen from the villages it destroys in Depayin township, and distributing it to its supporters in Depayin town. Depayin is one of the townships that has suffered most from the junta’s terrorist village destruction campaign. (Myaelatt Athan)
Ethnic regions-------------------
The junta continues daily aerial bombing in Dooplaya District of Kawthoolei (Kawkareik township on Burmese maps), using Russian-supplied jets and helicopter gunships. They are dropping 500-pound bombs. (Mizzima) Given that airstrikes are usually a response to battlefield losses, the volume of ordnance being dropped would seem to indicate that the junta is losing badly in the latest battle of Kaw T’Ree (Kawkareik) that began Dec. 16.
Junta scorched earth village terrorism campaign---------------
Over the past 2 days junta troops have burned down at least 6 villages in Chaung Oo township over the past 2 days, including Wayah, Ywathit, Nagabol, Kone Tha, Dawjaunglay, and Tandaw Kone. Residents say troops looted belongings from the homes before burning them. (People's Spring)
Forty junta troops burned down Thonlint and Windaunt villages of Sagaing township yesterday. An 80-year-old woman, unable to escape, was burned alive. Local PDFs surrounded the troops as they left the villages, firing locally-manufactured mortars and rifles; they say there were many junta casualties, but numbers aren’t known. The besieged junta troops dug in and reinforcements arrived. The PDFs anticipate renewed fighting in the morning. (Mizzima, Myaelatt Athan)
A bomb exploded at a wedding in Launglone township near Dawei, injuring 6 civilians including children (see photo above). Local PDFs, who do not attack civilians, condemned the bombing, which was almost certainly another stunt by the junta to try to discredit the PDFs. (Mizzima) Launglone is a hotbed of opposition to the junta.
Junta troops burned Zinchaung village of Thabeikjin township, Mandalay Region today. A local PDF tried to mount a defense but was overwhelmed. (Khit Thit Media)
People’s Defense Forces (PDFs)-----------------
Yesterday about 100 junta troops in 4 vehicles left Thabeikjin township to go burn villages in Shwebo township, when local PDFs detonated roadside bombs that destroyed a vehicle and killed 23 troops, according to the fresh graves found. (Khit Thit Media)
A PDF blew up several junta troops and Pyu Saw Htee terrorists who were burning houses in Ywathit Kone village yesterday, killing 4 and wounding 2. (Myaelatt Athan)
A Pyu Saw Htee terrorist leader in Tamu town was fueling up his car on Dec. 27 when 2 PDF soldiers on a motorcycle shot him dead and then moved on with their business. (People's Spring)
A PDF planted landmines in front of 40 troops who were returning to their base after burning Thonlint village in Sagaing township yesterday. Two troops stepped on the landmines and died, others were wounded. (Mizzima)
A group of Pyu Saw Htee terrorists was blown up yesterday in Ayadaw township of Sagaing Region; 3 were killed and 4 wounded. (Khit Thit Media)
A report is in about 2 battles in Taungoo township of east Bago Region. Two days ago Dec. 27 a PDF opened fire on 30 marching troops in Najap village, killing 6 including an officer and wounding 12 more. Two days before that, a similar attack killed 3 junta troops and wounded several. (People's Spring)
Elsewhere in Bago Region, 2 junta police vehicles were attacked with roadside bombs 2 days ago Dec. 27, causing injuries; the PDF members escaped. Today 20 troops arrived and kidnapped a village chief and his 4 sons, although they have no connection to the PDF. Junta media propaganda claims the kidnapped civilians were found to have a number of weapons, but that almost guarantees it isn’t true. (Myaelatt Athan)
In Mandalay Region, a PDF in Maddaya township arrested 2 operatives of the junta-owned Mytel mobile phone network as he was refueling the generators at mobile phone towers. The PDF didn’t harm them, but repurposed 3 barrels of fuel and a truck for refugees’ and the PDF’s needs. (Khit Thit Media)
PDFs fired on a Pyu Saw Htee camp at Son village in Myinchan township on Dec. 27, killing 3 terrorists. When the junta tried to send reinforcements, their vehicle was blown up by roadside bombs planted for that purpose, disabling the vehicle and killing 4 troops. (Mizzima)
Urban warfare------------------
In Yangon, one of the junta’s new 2-story concrete bunkers was bombed in Lathah township yesterday, injuring 2 troops. (Myanmar Now)
Political and economic-------------------
The National Unity Government used drones to drop leaflets in junta camps, inviting junta ‘watermelons’ to spy for the Revolution and earn rewards. (Mizzima)
China is apparently still playing both sides in the Burma civil war, as it always has. Beijing appointed a new special envoy to the illegal military regime, but before going to the military capital Naypyitaw, he met individually in the north with 7 ethnic homeland governments that have their own armies. These ethnic homelands include the Kachin, Kokang, northern Shan, Ta’ang, Arakan, Wa, and Mong La. A Wa representative said the meeting was merely introductory, not substantive. (The Irrawaddy)
Nearly 40,000 Burma citizens are stampeding out of the country *every month* due to the economic collapse caused by the Feb. 2021 coup d'état, according to the UN’s migration department, IOM. This brain drain includes both legal emigration and clandestine cross-border flows, particularly toward Thailand. (People's Spring)
The junta’s kangaroo courts are handing out ridiculously long prison sentences to legitimate elected politicians from the majority NLD party, health and legal professionals, and student leaders. The sentences run from 3 years to decades. (People's Spring) In reality, these leaders will be in prison until the junta is crushed – except for those who are murdered in prison with so-called ‘death sentences’.
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