Burma coup resistance notes July 27, 2022
Ethnic regions-------------------
In Karenni State, Karenni defense forces attacked junta troops yesterday at Daw Ngan Ka on the eastern outskirts of Demawso town, killing 3 of the troops and wounding others. The Karenni fighters dedicated the attack to the memory of the 4 martyrs hanged by the junta on Saturday. (Khit Thit Media)
In Mon State, the Mon State Revolutionary Organization shot up a junta road checkpoint yesterday in Ye township, killing a soldier and wounding an unknown number. A junta administrator in Bilin township was shot on July 25, but survived and is in hospital. A dalan in Kyaikto township was assassinated. (Khit Thit Media)
In Kawthoolei (Karen nation) Mutraw District (Hpapun township on Burmese maps), another junta soldier has defected to the Karen army with full weapons. He was part of a food supply convoy in Mae Wei, western Dwelo township. (Mutraw News via People's Spring)
Junta scorched earth village terrorism campaign---------------
In Sagaing Region, the junta has done another of its multi-helicopter assaults today, firing from the air while landing troops, this time in Mu Mandalay village of Myinmu township, where they claim there is a PDF camp. Residents of Mu Mandalay and at least a half-dozen nearby villages are scattering in all directions; no word on burning of the villages yet, or of PDF or junta casualties. (Khit Thit Media) Helicopters are also firing on villages in Wetlet and Sagaing townships. (People's Spring)
In Ye Oo township of Sagaing Region yesterday junta troops burned down Kone Tan village on July 24 and fired mortars into Kone Gyi village, wounding 3 civilians. Besides burning the houses, troops stole some cattle and killed the rest of the cattle and buffaloes, and burned the grain supply for the year. A local PDF tried to defend Kone Tan from the attack but was unsuccessful. (Khit Thit Media)
People’s Defense Forces (PDFs)-----------------
In Sagaing Region, a Myaung township PDF drone-bombed a junta convoy and a gang of troops on July 25 along the Monywa-Mandalay road, killing 6 of them. A drone video shows a bomb landing right between a truck and some troops meeting it on the road; the truck slows to a halt. Another bomb landed between some troops under the shade of some mango trees, injuring 30 of them. (Khit Thit Media)
Yesterday in Sagaing township a local PDF stopped a van carrying 14 people, 4 of whom were pro-junta Pyu Saw Htee thugs. The 10 civilians were released and the thugs were arrested for investigation. (Khit Thit Media)
A junta column of 75 troops was ambushed yesterday by local PDFs between Htee Chaing and Indaw townships; five troops were killed, and the column turned back.
The 13-year-old boy in the heroic rescue by PDF members after he had been shot by junta troops yesterday has died. The captain of the PDF was also killed during the rescue. (The Irrawaddy)
In Magway Region, an alliance of Magway PDFs attacked a column of 70 junta troops yesterday marching from Pakokku toward Myaing, wounding at least 7 of them; it isn't known whether the wounded survived. (People's Spring)
In Mandalay Region, a civilian who participated in junta terrorist acts in Aungsan township was assassinated. (Khit Thit Media)
In Irrawaddy Region, a PDF set off 8 bombs yesterday in Hinthada town, targeting the police station, courthouse, junta admin offices, and a check gate. Some troops were wounded but the number isn't known. After the explosions, there was an exchange of gunfire. (Mizzima)
In Bago Region, an air force veteran and dalan was assassinated by a PDF yesterday. He had informed on PDFs and participated in their capture, and had threatened and extorted local civilians. (Khit Thit Media)
Urban warfare------------------
In Yangon there were bomb blasts yesterday at the Shwepyitha township courthouse, and locations on Parami Road, in Hlaingthaya and Mingaladon townships.
In Yangon today, mobs of pro-junta thugs attacked the homes of Ko Jimmy and U Phyo Zayah Thaw, 2 of the 4 martyrs who were murdered by hanging at the junta's Insein Prison on Saturday. (The Irrawaddy)
In Mandalay, a junta administrator in Chanmyathasi township was stabbed today and his house was bombed by an urban PDF. Afterward, police began shooting their guns in all directions. (Mizzima)
Politics and economy-------------------
The Burma kyat currency sunk to 2,600 to the US dollar, a record low, meaning that it has lost 50% of its value since the Feb. 2021 coup, whereas it had been strengthening before that. Since the junta is still insisting that all external trade be done on the basis of 1,850 kyats to the dollar, traders have stopped doing business and the country is economically isolated except for the black market. (People's Spring)
The American foreign ministry requested that China put more pressure on the illegal military regime in Burma in the wake of the hanging of 4 prominent pro-democracy activists and elected leaders. China responded that it doesn't want to interfere in Burma's internal affairs. (People's Spring) The atrocities in Burma would be nothing out of the ordinary in China under the Chinese Communist Party.