Burma coup resistance notes January 7, 2023
Ethnic regions-------------------
Junta troops clearing roadside bombs this morning were blown up by a roadside bomb in Kler Lwi Htoo District of Kawthoolei (Kyaukgyi township on Burmese maps). Three died and 6 were wounded. The bombs were meant for a junta convoy. (Khit Thit Media)
The Karen army’s 5th Brigade, operating in Mutraw District of Kawthoolei (Hpapun township on Burmese maps), published its combat statistics for calendar 2022: 2,737 clashes occurred (over 7 per day), in which 1,307 junta/BGF troops were killed (25 per week) including 29 officers, and 97 were wounded. The dead officers included 2 battalion commanders, 5 deputy battalion commanders, 6 captains, 6 lieutenants, 9 sergeants, and 1 corporal. Eight bridges and 20 buildings used by the junta were destroyed. On the Karen army side, 50 soldiers died and 180 were wounded, while 41 noncombatant civilians were killed and 99 injured. During 35 airstrike sorties, the junta dropped 182 bombs. (Mutraw News)
Junta scorched earth village terrorism campaign---------------
Junta troops came ashore from a boat in Paukkadah village in Salingyi township 2 nights ago, and yesterday they looted valuables from the homes in Paukkadah and Beya villages and then burned them, leaving 10,000 people homeless.
People’s Defense Forces (PDFs)-----------------
PDFs spent an hour last night firing locally-manufactured mortars into the Salingyi police barracks, causing explosions there. The troops in the barracks did not return fire. (Mizzima) This was the second PDF mortar attack on the barracks in a week.
PDFs counter-attacked Pyu Saw Htees who burned Chaungson village in Tantse township, Sagaing Region yesterday. The PDFs laid landmines on the terrorists’ exit route, so that several of them killed themselves while leaving Chaungson. The total isn’t known. (Ayeyarwaddy Times)
A PDF detonated roadside bombs on 2 junta trucks leaving Monywa town toward Mandalay today, killing at least 5 troops on board and wounding others. (People's Spring)
A PDF coalition launched simultaneous mortar and rifle attacks on 2 junta road checkpoints at the edges of Myaing town in Magway Region 2 days ago, wounding 7 troops and police, of whom 2 died. (People's Spring)
Twenty PDF soldiers shot up a junta road checkpoint in Depayin township last evening, killing 2 of the 10 troops there who stop travelers and extort money from them. (Mizzima)
In Indaw township, Sagaing Region, a roadside bomb exploded on a police vehicle this morning, wounding 4 junta police. (Khit Thit Media)
PDFs fired small grenades into a municipal office and an electric company office to warn junta-collaborationist staff there to stop demanding money for the regime from local residents. (People's Spring)
Political and economic-------------------
The junta’s publicity stunt release of 7,000 prisoners freed only 200 or so political detainees. The rest were criminals whose presence is already increasing crime in the streets where junta police only emerge from their bunkers to extort money and kidnap activists. And of those few activists released, some didn’t even reach home before being grabbed and thrown back in prison, according to the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (AAPP). (The Irrawaddy)
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