Burma coup resistance notes November 3, 2022
Troops pull orphans from bed and throw them in the street; chemical weapons used again; terrorist attacks in civilian villages increase.
More than half a million children are homeless in Burma due to the coup, according to Save the Children. This is out of a total post-coup refugee population of 1.6 million calculated by the UN High Commission for Refugees.
Ethnic regions-------------------
In Mon State, a local PDF twice ambushed a junta foot column 2 days ago Nov. 1 between Ye and Thanbuzayat, killing 9 troops and wounding 5. (Khit Thit Media)
In Dooplaya District of Kawthoolei (Myawaddy township on Burmese maps), junta troops tried to infiltrate the Shwe Nyaungpin area, and Karen army Cobra battalion snipers picked off 2 of them. (Khit Thit Media)
In northern Shan State, a PDF attacked the junta municipal admin offices in Lashio town with grenades yesterday, wounding 2 troops. (Mizzima) Also in Lashio township, the Kokang ethnic army (MNDAA) fought with junta troops yesterday at Lweiwin village. (People's Spring) Attacks in this part of Shan State have been rare.
The Arakan Army says it blew up and destroyed a junta food supply truck yesterday in Maungdaw township of Arakan State, killing 3 troops and injuring others. The AA also fought a battle against junta troops in Paletwa township of southern Chin State yesterday, but results aren’t given. (Khit Thit Media)
The Kachin army says the junta used chemical weapons against Kachin forces on Oct. 24 at Longja mountain, where a siege is still ongoing. Jets dropped gas bombs that rendered soldiers ill and incapacitated. (Kachin News Group)
Junta army desertions------------------
A junta policeman left his barracks in Hpalam, Chin State today and joined the Chin defense forces. He says he has been prevented from doing it earlier because the junta holds their families hostage. (Mizzima)
Junta scorched earth village terrorism campaign---------------
In Paungde township of Bago Region troops attacked a refugee camp of about 300 people on Oct. 29, burning tents and destroying what little people had to live with. Then on Oct. 31 they burned part of Lehpin village, and the next day they tortured a 52-year-old refugee and then murdered him along with a PDF leader and soldier, and destroyed livestock. (Mizzima)
Troops attacked Sandawthakone village in Kawlin township of Sagaing Region yesterday, firing mortars that blew up and killed a couple in their 50s. The troops looted homes, stealing jewelry, phones, computers, fabric, and other valuables. (The 74 Media)
A report in The Irrawaddy says progress is going backwards in some parts of central Sagaing Region, where the regime is coercing villagers to join its Pyu Saw Htee militias while PDF influence is underdeveloped by weak local National Unity Government officials. The Pyu Saw Htee’s only function is to attack civilian villages; they are terrorists, in other words. They extort money from villagers using threats, kidnap civilians for ransom, go on raids with junta troops where they drive people from their villages, loot valuables from homes, then burn down the communities. They are also killers. Entire villages where support for the junta is strong have been turned into Pyu Saw Htee camps, while many other villages around them have been depopulated and destroyed, their residents living as refugees. (The Irrawaddy)
Junta troops burned homes around the Ngathayauk police barracks in Mandalay Region on Nov. 1, in retaliation for a fatal PDF attack on the barracks on Oct. 29. (People's Spring)
In Tantse township, 200 troops looted and burned homes in Gayayt village 2 days ago Nov. 1. This was the second attack on Gayayt. (Khit Thit Media)
People’s Defense Forces (PDFs)-----------------
In Sagaing Region, the son of a Pyu Saw Htee terrorist leader in Ayadaw township was killed by a landmine while attacking civilians 2 days ago Nov. 1. His funeral was held today in the Pyu Saw Htee camp. During the procession, a local PDF dropped a bomb from a drone into the procession; the PDF claims it killed 15 of the terrorists and wounded 20, but all that is clear from the drone video is that there were some casualties and everyone else ran away in all directions. (Khit Thit Media)
A PDF blew up a junta foot patrol yesterday in Myinmu township, killing 5 troops out of a force of 60. (Mizzima) In Shwebo township, a PDF coalition fired mortars at junta troops for an hour, killing 5 of them. Also in Shwebo township, 3 junta mine-clearing vehicles went out with radio signal jammers to prevent PDFs from detonating bombs remotely; the vehicles were attacked and some troops were killed, but the number isn’t reported. In Kyaukmyaung township a PDF blew up a junta foot patrol twice on Nov. 1 and killed 4 troops. (Khit Thit Media)
In Kani township, a large PDF coalition attacked a junta/Pyu Saw Htee terrorist camp this morning for 90 minutes, then withdrew unharmed. They don’t know what casualties they caused inside the terrorist camp. (Mizzima)
In Mandalay Region, a PDF assassinated a local junta administrator in Nwatogyi township who was blamed for providing intelligence to the regime on local resistance activities. Also in Nwatogyi, a PDF drone-bombed a police barracks yesterday, killing a junta policeman and wounding another. (Mizzima)
Urban warfare------------------
In Yangon, bombs exploded in Thaketa, Mingaladon, and Tamwe townships last night.
In Mandalay, junta troops raided and closed a Christian orphanage in Pyigyidagon township last night, accusing it of supporting PDFs. Troops pulled children from their beds in the night and threw them out on the street. (Khit Thit Media)
Civil Disobedience Movement (CDM)-------------------
Overseas Burma citizens in Singapore have raised over US$100,000 for the Revolutionary forces back home since August. (Myaelatt Athan) Meanwhile, a screening of the Burma Revolution documentary film ‘The Road Less Taken’ is being held in Texas, USA, with tickets sold for $25 to $50 each, the money also to support the Spring Revolution.
Australian, Singaporean, and Norwegian banks are still doing business with junta crony banks that directly support the illegal military regime in Burma and its humanitarian atrocities. The governments of those countries have so far refused to impose banking sanctions on the junta. International organizations such as Justice for Myanmar are urging those governments and the banks themselves to stop financing the campaign of terror underway in Burma since Feb. 1, 2021. (Mizzima)
A Burmese arms and drug dealer, Tun Min Latt, was arrested in Thailand in September, and now the Thai government has seized US$50 million of his assets in Thailand. Tun Min Latt supplied weapons to the junta, while also trafficking illegal drugs from Burma to the outside world. He is a close friend of junta dictator Min Aung Hlaing. (The Irrawaddy)
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