Burma coup resistance notes January 13, 2023
Junta jets bomb schools and temples and kill civilians; Karen forces redouble efforts to expel enemy camps.
The National Unity Government and the People’s Soldiers Arms Production Team (PSPT) say they are manufacturing weapons for PDFs and will soon go into mass production. The PSPT is made up mainly of former Burma army engineers working for the Revolution, with support from the NUG. Some of their weapons are already used in combat, others are in testing and will soon go into production. (People's Spring)
Ethnic regions-------------------
Junta jets killed 5 civilians yesterday in 2 villages of Luthaw township in Mutraw District of Kawthoolei (Hpapun township on Burmese maps). Among the dead are a 2-year-old child and his mother, 2 other people, and a Christian priest. Two other people are wounded. The jets hit a school in keeping with the junta’s war on children, as well as 21 houses and 2 churches. (Khit Thit Media, local sources) Such atrocities do nothing to blunt the Karen army’s battle effectiveness, and only cement people’s resolve never to submit to the terrorist military regime.
Also in Mutraw District, Karen forces have been attacking the strategic Meh Wai junta camp with drone bombs for a month, and in early January have also mounted a ground offensive. The camp houses about 80 troops. During a battle Jan. 4-7, nine junta troops were killed and Karen forces captured a number of weapons, and nearly stormed the camp, but were prevented by the arrival of jet airstrikes. The Burmese People’s Liberation Army also participated under Karen command. Six soldiers on the Karen side were also killed and 20 wounded. Indiscriminate junta mortar fire killed 8 civilians. (Khit Thit Media)
A report just emerged of a battle Jan. 5-7 in remote Dawei township of Beit-Tavoy District of Kawthoolei (Tanintharyi Region on Burmese maps). A PDF fired grenades at troops guarding a bridge on the Htee Khee road, which provoked the junta to send reinforcements. Six trucks carrying 100 troops came, and were blown up by roadside bombs and then fired on with rifles. At least 20 junta troops were killed, as was a PDF deputy commander, and 3 PDF soldiers were wounded. (Khit Thit Media)
A Taungoo PDF attacked a junta camp at Bummaddy in Taw Oo District of Kawthoolei (Htantapin township on Burmese maps) with M79 grenades on Jan. 11; 3 troops were killed, and the junta didn’t return fire. (People's Spring)
The Kawthoolei government (KNU) says that over 4,200 junta troops and BGF proxies have been killed in fighting in Kawthoolei since the coup, and another 3,200 have been wounded. Another 50 were captured alive. (Than Lwin Khet News)
In Chin State, many shopkeepers in Hakha, the state capital, kept their shops closed in protest the morning after the Jan. 10 junta bombing of Chin military headquarters. Yesterday troops kidnapped 17 of the shopkeepers on charges of sedition. (Mizzima)
Junta scorched earth village terrorism campaign---------------
While terrorist troops were destroying Manjeisauk village in Dapayin township, as part of their war on children, they removed all the textbooks from a primary school and threw them in a pond. (People's Spring) United Nations agencies are still treating these people like the legitimate government of Burma.
Sixty junta terrorists burned Kanjigone village in Shwebo township yesterday and destroyed food supplies. Two PDFs counter-attacked and drove them back out again, stopping the burning. (Mizzima)
Pyu Saw Htee terrorists murdered a village leader and his son in Jaukpauk, Ayadaw township in Sagaing Region on Jan. 8 because they refused to turn the village into a Pyu Saw Htee camp. (Khit Thit Media)
Villagers in Wetlet township along the Chindwin River have been fleeing during the night to avoid a column of junta terrorists coming up the bank and firing mortars at them. (People's Spring)
People’s Defense Forces (PDFs)-----------------
PDFs in Shwebo township laid an ambush yesterday for 2 large junta trucks on the Kyaukmyaung road. When the trucks reached the ambush spot they were blown up by roadside bombs, killing at least six troops. A witness says one of them sailed 10 meters into the air. (People's Spring)
Yesterday some Pyu Saw Htee terrorists left their camp at Tawpu in Monywa township, Sagaing Region to get food, but were ambushed by PDFs firing locally-manufactured mortars at them. Three Pyus were killed and others were wounded and carried back to Tawpu. (People's Spring)
Junta census-takers were canvassing in Khin Oo town yesterday to lay the ground for the August fake election, when a local PDF dropped drone bombs on them in 4 locations, causing the canvassers to desist. (Myaelatt Athan)
Urban warfare------------------
In Mandalay, urban PDFs bombed a junta police barracks in Pyijidagon and a ward admin office with grenades last night. Actions against the illegal election are escalating in all urban areas.
Political and economic-------------------
A growing number of ethnic armies, local People’s Defense Forces, and National Unity Government officials are warning that the fake election will not be permitted in their control areas, and those involved in preparing it are subject to eventual prosecution and/or attacks in the short term.
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