Burma coup resistance notes January 10, 2023
Ethnic regions-------------------
Twenty-four junta troops including officers fled their battalion with full weapons in Yatsauk township of Shan State on Dec. 29, and the news is just now leaking out. Junta troops are searching the area. (Khit Thit Media) This is the largest single known desertion to date, and is significant also in that it is led by officers. In Kawthoolei in December, three junta officers refused a command to go to Mutraw District and face the ferocious Karen army Brigade 5, and are now being court-martialed.
Video released by Karenni defense forces show large drones dropping 5 bombs at a time, that fall in a loose cluster causing destruction over a broadened area.
Junta scorched earth village terrorism campaign---------------
Junta troops looted and burned Panyo village of Myaung township, Sagaing Region yesterday. Before torching people’s homes, the troops stole valuables and loaded them in boats to take away. (Khit Thit Media)
Troops abruptly invaded Indainglay and Changnah villages in Depayin township yesterday and began burning them with residents still inside. PDF soldiers and villagers themselves had to rush to evacuate elderly and pregnant residents. A pregnant woman carried a 90-year-old woman to safety from the flames. Some residents were kidnapped by troops and are missing. (People's Spring)
After terrorist troops who had burned Aleikone village in Htee Chaing township were attacked with a bomb and PDF gunfire, they retaliated with mortar fire against the nearby civilian village of Tankone yesterday, killing 2 residents and injuring 7 including children. (People's Spring)
People’s Defense Forces (PDFs)-----------------
PDFs fired on junta supply boats this morning in the Chindwin River in Salingyi township. About 50 troops are on board, and the PDF mortar fire caused some damage and the boat stopped. Casualties aren’t known yet. (Myaelatt Athan)
After the junta tried and failed to recapture a control point on the main highway in Homalin township in northern Sagaing Region on Jan. 5, it tried again for the next 3 days, losing 8 more troops including an officer, as well as some ammunition to the PDFs. (Khit Thit Media)
A PDF rescued 7 family members who had been abducted by junta troops as watermelons (spies for the Revolution) in Theelon village/Pyu Saw Htee camp in Shwebo township; the family members had been supplying information for the Revolution, but were caught, and the PDF action freed them and brought them to safety. When the Pyu Saw Htee discovered them missing, they began a search, leading to an exchange of fire with the PDF in which 2 Pyu Saw Htee were wounded. (Myaelatt Athan)
Yesterday a car carrying junta troops between 2 Pyu Saw Htee camps was blown up by local PDFs in Pakokku township, killing 6 troops.
A junta patrol of 10 troops in Kalay town was bombed by a PDF yesterday; 3 soldiers died. The others then began shooting their guns in all directions, killing a civilian inside a home. (Mizzima) In another Sagaing town center, PDFs opened fire on 3 junta targets simultaneously in Palay town, including the police barracks and 2 bunkers. The firing continued for 2 hours, killing 4 troops; 2 others are missing. (Khit Thit Media)
PDFs snuck close to 2 Pyu Saw Htee terrorist camps in Kantalu township yesterday in Nat Inn and Nyaung Kaing, and fired 60mm locally-manufactured mortars at the places where they were meeting. In the evening they attacked a second time. Casualties aren’t known, but the PDF is keeping the Pyu Saw Htee on the defensive so they can’t loot and burn villages. (Myaelatt Athan)
In Mandalay Region, the junta sent 2 of its local spies to check out and report on roadside bombs planted by PDFs yesterday. The PDFs killed them. (Ayeyarwaddy Times)
An armed Pyu Saw Htee terrorist who was also a Burma army veteran was assassinated yesterday in Launglone township near Dawei.
Political and economic-------------------
The junta called on teachers, Red Cross volunteers, and firefighters to help collect census data in Yangon for the fake election, but most workers didn’t show up, so local junta administrators decided just to interview their allies in the wards. As a result, the census will show only a small, pro-junta subset of the population. (Khit Thit Media) The National Unity Government warns that junta-collaborationist staff who help organize the fake election will later be subject to punishment. (The Irrawaddy)
In another preparatory move for the sham election, the junta kidnapped 13 members and organizers from the majority NLD political party last night. Families say they have lost contact with them. (Ayeyarwaddy Times)
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