Burma coup resistance notes December 26, 2022
Ethnic regions-------------------
Yesterday National Unity Government gave 50 brand-new assault rifles to a graduating class of trainees of the Karen army Cobra Battalion yesterday in Dooplaya District of Kawthoolei. The weapons were presented and a speech given by NUG Prime Minister Mahn Win Khaing Than, himself a Karen. (Ayeyarwaddy Times)
Two junta soldiers defected to the Chin defense forces with full weapons in Htantalan, Chin State 2 days ago Dec. 24. This is the latest in an ongoing series of defections in Chin State in recent months. (People's Spring)
PDFs carried out 2 attacks in Ye township of Mon State 2 nights ago Dec. 24. In one, they fired on junta troops riding motorcycles, killing 1 and wounding 4. The same night they tried to take over a junta outpost at a bridge checkpoint, but were driven back; junta casualties aren’t known. (Ayeyarwaddy Times)
A second junta prison master was arrested by PDFs, this one in Mokaung township of Kachin State on Dec. 24, the same day that another one was arrested in Myeik township of Beit-Tavoy District of Kawthoolei (Tanintharyi Region on Burmese maps).
Junta scorched earth village terrorism campaign---------------
Troops and jets are attacking villages along the east bank of the Irrawaddy River in Maddaya township of Magway Region, in response to a Dec. 24 attack on junta supply boats. (Myanmar Now)
Jets dropped bombs in Saw township of Magway Region today in response to nothing that anyone knows of, killing 4 civilians on the ground. There are no troops or PDFs in that area. (Khit Thit Media)
Junta troops felt like shooting 2 civilians riding a motorcycle in Kalay town, Sagaing Region on Dec. 24. A father of 4 was killed and another man was wounded. (Khit Thit Media)
Using information from a captured junta soldier, a local PDF was able to locate 8 buried bodies of villagers kidnapped by the junta at the end of November. Two were beheaded and all were tortured with handcuffs on. The people were from Natmahoteji village in Indaw township, Sagaing Region, but were buried near another village. (People's Spring)
People’s Defense Forces (PDFs)-----------------
Ten coordinated PDFs launched 2 simultaneous attacks in Chaung Oo township of Sagaing Region last night. One was on a Pyu Saw Htee terrorist camp at Kanji Kone village, in which the PDFs said Pyu Saw Htee casualties were heavy, but haven’t given a number, and they ended up burning the camp. Three PDF soldiers were also killed in the battle. The second attack was at the Chaung Oo central police barracks; again the PDFs say there were junta injuries but don’t have a number; there were no PDF casualties here. The junta responded by sending 2 jets to bomb and strafe. (Khit Thit Media)
In the Chaung Oo battle in Kanji Kone last night, the PDFs captured a dangerous Pyu Saw Htee leader, a militaristic fake monk calling himself Hla Chan, who has caused the capture and deaths of numerous PDF soldiers. He is now being interrogated. (People's Spring)
A PDF in Myinmu township blew up all 3 cars of a junta convoy on the Mandalay-Monywa road today, causing an unknown number of fatalities. (Ayeyarwaddy Times)
A local junta administrator was assassinated in Kin village of Mogok township, Mandalay Region last night. Yesterday a dalan (regime spy) was assassinated in her money-lending shop in Pakokku, Magway Region, and a PDF sniper in Tantse township of Sagaing Region killed a Pyu Saw Htee member who was driving a combine reaper to steal a farmer’s paddy (rice) crop. (Khit Thit Media)
In Minhla and Kantbalu townships, the Pyu Saw Htee led by the “robed terrorist warlord” U Wathawa, the racist pro-junta fake monk, are forcibly recruiting youth and children under 18 for committing humanitarian atrocities in villages. If they don’t get the quota of men that they demand, they seize boys and youth that they find. They also demand cash from households and a heavy toll of villagers’ harvest, or they simply drive the villagers away and steal the entire harvest. They Pyu Saw Htee want to expand these operations into Kyunhla and Tantse townships, but are thus far unable because of the strength of the PDFs in those townships. (Khit Thit Media)
Urban warfare------------------
In Mandalay, an urban PDF bombed a junta-owned Myanmar Economic Bank branch in Aungmyathasan township this morning. The banks are guarded by junta troops, but casualties aren’t reported. (People's Spring)
In Monywa city, an urban PDF shot up a car carrying 7 junta troops on a shopping run this morning, killing 3 of them including a camp commander and badly wounding 2 more. The people’s soldiers were not harmed. (Khit Thit Media)
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