Burma coup resistance notes January 11, 2023
Junta bombs Chin headquarters; troops under siege from Karen and Mon forces expect no reinforcements.
Ethnic regions-------------------
Five junta jets crossed into Indian airspace to bomb Chin National Army headquarters at Camp Victoria on the border yesterday afternoon, damaging some buildings and killing 5 Chin troops and wounding 10 others. One junta bomb fell inside India. Photos show no direct hits on buildings, but shrapnel and concussion damage. The camp houses both Chin military members and refugees. A statement from the CAN expresses redoubled determination to defeat the junta. (Khit Thit Media) Currently, Chin defense forces control nearly all of Chin State except for major towns which remain in junta hands.
In Kler Lwi Htoo District of Kawthoolei (Kyaukgyi township on Burmese maps), Karen forces attacked junta troops along a road, killing 7 and driving the rest off without collecting their dead. This occurred Jan. 8. The bodies were only collected a day later.
The following day, Jan. 9, the Karen army and allied PDFs intercepted a column of 60 junta troops at Naung Kone village, starting a 2-hour battle. During this battle 14 junta troops were killed including the deputy battalion commander, but a Karen PDF soldier, who was a teacher on Civil Disobedience strike against the coup, was also killed. Later that day Karen forces ambushed junta supply trucks and fired on troops guarding a Sittaung River bridge, killing an enemy soldier and wounding 3. PDFs who participated said these later attacks were in revenge for the death of the striking teacher. Then yesterday, the Karen sabotaged 2 bridges used by junta supply traffic. Junta troops and their families in Ler Doh (Kyaukgyi in Burmese) are said to be hunkering in their trenches, afraid of drone bombs and more Karen army attacks, and not expecting any reinforcements. (Khit Thit Media, People's Spring)
In Doo Tha Htoo District of Kawthoolei (Bilin township on Burmese maps), Karen forces ambushed 2 junta supply trucks yesterday, damaging both, killing 7 troops, and wounding 4 seriously. (Khit Thit Media)
The Kawthoolei government (KNU) announced that 6 junta soldiers fled their unit in Mutraw District (Hpapun township on Burmese maps) and took refuge with Karen army Brigade 5 during the first week of January. (Karen Information Center)
In Mon State, the Ye Guerrilla Force PDF attacked 2 junta targets early this morning. First it drove all the police out of a junta police station at Lamaing and burned it, destroying the documentation used by the junta to control the local population, and removing appliances. The police simply ran away. A few hours later the PDF used mortars and gunfire to attack a small camp of 20 troops at the Ying bridge, killing 5 of them. No reinforcements were available to come, nor even an ambulance, so the troops buried their dead inside the camp. (Mizzima) The Ye Guerrilla Force and the Mon State Monsters PDFs have taken the place of the old discredited NMSP ethnic army in defending the Mon people militarily.
In Arakan State, local junta administrators in Thandwe town demolished about 20 small businesses along a road because the dictator, Min Aung Hlaing, will visit the town soon. (Mizzima)
Junta scorched earth village terrorism campaign---------------
A delayed report has emerged of 2 villages destroyed and people murdered in Kyun Hla township of northern Sagaing Region Jan. 6-7. 150 troops and Pyu Saw Htee terrorists stole valuables and more than 1,000 baskets of rice from Tanpin Kone and Jadakan villages. They caught 2 villagers hiding, burned one alive and shot off half of the head of the other.
After local activists assassinated a Pyu Saw Htee terrorist leader in Launglone township on Jan. 9, 20 of the terrorists burned part of Hinchodaw village this morning. (Khit Thit Media)
It is now known that the PDFs who fired locally-manufactured mortars and rifles at junta troops burning villages in the last 3 days killed 10 of the troops. (Ayeyarwaddy Times)
The junta has bulldozed a Neolithic archeological site at Taungthaman in Mandalay Region in order to build a road. The site was occupied by an Iron Age civilization until the 1st Century BC. (The Irrawaddy)
People’s Defense Forces (PDFs)-----------------
Yesterday the burning of Panyo village in Myaung township was reported in Sagaing Region. A new report says that was the culmination of a 2-day battle with Myaung PDFs in which 20 junta troops were killed including an officer, and 15 others are wounded including an officer with life-threatening wounds. (Khit Thit Media)
A PDF fired rocket-propelled grenades at a column of 30 junta troops marching out of Meiktila in northern Mandalay Region 2 days ago Jan. 9, killing 7 of them. (Myaelatt Athan)
A PDF in Chaung Oo township drone-bombed junta troops who were coming ashore from a boat on the Chindwin River yesterday, killing at least 1 of them and wounding others. (Khit Thit Media) Further up the Chindwin, a boatload of junta troops coming to join in the destruction of villages in Salingyi township was fired on by PDFs twice yesterday. Wounded troops were sent back, but the number isn’t known. (Than Lwin Khet News) The Chindwin River is not wide at that point during dry season, and junta boats can’t get out of rifle range from one bank without running aground on the opposite one.
Urban warfare------------------
An urban PDF threw a grenade into a soldiers’ bunker in front of junta admin offices in Mingaladon township of Yangon last night; casualties aren’t known. (People's Spring)
In Mandalay a PDF blew up one of 2 junta vehicles that were on patrol last night in Amarapura township; casualties aren’t known. (Myaelatt Athan)
Political and economic-------------------
Citizens are banned from going anywhere in some parts of Irrawaddy Region so that the junta administrators can force their way into homes to collect census data for the fake election. (Ayeyarwaddy Times)
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