Burma coup resistance notes November 13, 2022
A day after suffering multiple defeats by the armed opposition, the regime steps up terrorist attacks on civilian villages.
Ethnic regions-------------------
Jets and helicopters bombed Kler Lwi Htoo District of Kawthoolei (Shwegyin township on Burmese maps) yesterday following the Karen army’s capture of 3 junta camps. Some homes were damaged but no human casualties are reported, because residents had fled the area ahead of time. (Myaelatt Athan)
Junta troops kidnapped around 16 Kachin government (KIO) officials, such as 7 township-level administrative officers and 9 military cadets, yesterday in Myitkyina, the state capital. They were apparently at a karaoke bar, ignoring the warnings of the KIO about their safety. (Mizzima, The 74 Media)
Junta scorched earth village terrorism campaign---------------
A Russian-supplied attack helicopter fired on several villages of Yesagyo and Myaing townships in Magway Region this morning, causing residents to flee. Now troops are burning Tangyi and Shwe Hlan villages in Yesagyo. (People's Spring) Likewise in Kantbalu township of Sagaing Region troops are burning Inma village. In Myaung township, troops are burning Myitsone village again; all of the 1,000 or so homes have been destroyed. Yesterday troops burned Wabochaung village in Wantho township of Sagaing Region, and by this morning nothing was left. The people ran with just their clothing, and now everything they had is gone and they are homeless. (Khit Thit Media)
A PDF counter-attacked a junta village terrorism gang in eastern Wetlet township yesterday; results are not reported.
People’s Defense Forces (PDFs)-----------------
In Sagaing Region, a local defense patrol in Chaung Oo township flushed out 3 Pyu Saw Htee terrorists who were hiding in a trench yesterday; all 3 died. In Shwebo town, PDFs lobbed bombs into a bunker containing 10 junta troops guarding a junta road admin office last night, killing 2 of them and wounding others. (People's Spring)
In Wantho township, the entire fire brigade of 11 members was abducted on Nov. 10 and hasn’t been heard from since. Firefighters are under the junta’s interior ministry and have doubled as auxiliary junta troops, so speculation is that a PDF arrested them. After the coup, fire brigades have declined to save homes torched during junta terrorist assaults in villages. (People's Spring)
In Monywa city, capital of Sagaing Region, a junta patrol was blown up last night by an urban PDF, killing 5 troops. (Myaelatt Athan)
Political and economic-------------------
At a meeting of 1,500 Karen leaders regarding Karen armed unity, the Kawthoolei government (KNU) joined the Chin and Karenni leadership in rejecting the junta’s 2023 sham election as merely a stunt to lend legitimacy to the illegal military regime. They said the 2008 military constitution is dead due to the Feb. 2021 coup. (KNU)
Overseas Burma citizens and friends in South Korea held a football tournament yesterday to raise funds for the National Unity Government. (Khit Thit Media)
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