The junta, alarmed by recent heavy troop losses at a time when it is trying to hold onto territory in which to hold its fake election in August, is in emergency meetings focused on increasing air strikes around the country. To reduce information leaks, it is only informing jet pilots of their targets after they take off from their bases. This information was leaked by watermelon sources (Revolution sympathizers within the military). (Khit Thit Media)
Ethnic regions-------------------
For the 2nd consecutive day junta jets bombed Chin National Army headquarters on the Indian border yesterday. This time, however, only 3 planes arrived and dropped just 2 bombs, and there were no casualties. A medical clinic and civilian homes were damaged. (Mizzima)
In Mindat, Chin State, junta troops kidnapped a local man on Jan. 7, but then he escaped, so they came to his family’s house on Jan. 9 and shot his 17-year-old daughter to death and wounded his wife in the head. (Ayeyarwaddy Times)
Karen army forces blew up 2 junta vehicles Jan. 10 in Doo Tha Htoo District of Kawthoolei (Bilin township on Burmese maps), killing 7 troops at the scene and sending 3 to the hospital. In the same area, the Karen also blew up a junta supply train on the Yangon-Mawlamyaing railroad. The tracks were damaged and the train engine and 3 carriages derailed. (Khit Thit Media)
Karen army Brigade 5 killed 5 junta troops and BGF proxies during fighting on Jan. 8 and 9. (Than Lwin Khet News)
Another Pyu Saw Htee terrorist leader was assassinated yesterday in Yephyu township of Beit-Tavoy District of Kawthoolei (Tanintharyi Region on Burmese maps). After a Pyu Saw Htee leader was shot and hospitalized on Jan. 10, two men were found murdered execution-style by Pyu Saw Htee terrorists today. (Khit Thit Media)
Another junta senior police officer in Ye township of Mon State was killed last night by a local PDF, and a junta-owned Mytel communications tower was sabotaged by burning its machinery.
People’s Defense Forces (PDFs)-----------------
A PDF raided the junta’s immigration office in Yesagyo township, Magway Region early this morning, due to its role in supplying census information for the junta’s fake election. The PDF found no troops guarding the office, but 4 civilian staff were there; they were advised to join the Civil Disobedience Movement and released. Then the PDF burned the office and all its records and documents. (People’s Spring)
PDFs fired 60mm and 120mm locally-manufactured mortars into junta camps at Sanpay Nanthah and Chaungkan in Kantbalu township, Sagaing Region for the past 2 days. Similarly, other PDFs fired mortars at junta troops at Sainnainglekway in Wetlet township on Jan. 10. Since these are long-distance attacks, it has not been possible to ascertain casualties. (Khit Thit Media)
In Sagaing township, officers at a junta camp sent 4 soldiers on 2 motorcycles into town to buy them some breakfast this morning. Two were killed and 1 was wounded by PDF bombs. (Khit Thit Media)
Junta aircraft have been conducting reconnaissance flights over southern Sagaing and northern Magway Regions since yesterday. PDFs are warning the public to beware of possible bombing. (People's Spring)
PDFs bombed a 3-vehicle convoy carrying 60 troops in Myinchan township of Mandalay Region on Jan. 10. Six were killed and 7 wounded. (People's Spring)
The junta is paying slum dwellers in Pakokku to join the Pyu Saw Htee terrorist group and hold guns and stand guard duty at city gates and checkpoints. Some have never fired a weapon. The troops from these stations have been called away to the front lines. (Myaelatt Athan)
Urban warfare------------------
In Yangon, an urban PDF threw a small grenade into a group of pro-junta government staff collecting census data in Tamwe township for the planned fake election yesterday. It caused one injury, and the PDF said for it to be considered a warning to anyone involved in preparing the fake election.
Likewise in Mandalay, urban PDFs set off 5 small explosions yesterday evening as junta census teams were starting to canvas neighborhoods. Nobody was hurt; the bombs were meant as a warning. (Myaelatt Athan)
Last night an unexploded bomb was found and detonated by junta troops in Thaketa township of Yangon. In Mandalay, an urban PDF launched a grenade into a fortified police barracks in Pyigyidagon township; the PDF thinks 2 police were killed. (Khit Thit Media)
Political and economic-------------------
Burmese weapons and drug trafficker Tun Min Lat, a close associate of dictator Min Aung Hlaing, has been under arrest in Thailand since last year, and now Thai police have also seized assets belonging to Min Aung Hlaing’s adult children in connection to the criminal investigation. (People's Spring)
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