Burma coup resistance notes November 27, 2022
Burma people betrayed by neighboring countries; surprise attack in Kawthoolei Taw Oo District; has the Arakan Army cut a deal with the illegal regime?
The Indian government is turning out to be a major enemy of the Burma people, along with Russia and China. India sent a convoy of weapons for the junta, which entered through Tamu and headed toward Kalay in Sagaing Region on Nov. 25. Various Sagaing PDFs then attacked the convoy with mines, mortars, and drone bombs for 2 days, causing casualties and halting the convoy temporarily. The junta troops seized 10 civilians to use as human shields. (People's Spring)
Thailand is little better. The Thai military is conducting joint military exercises with the genocidal junta at the Mawtaung border crossing in Beit-Tavoy District of Kawthoolei (Tanintharyi Region on Burmese maps), adjacent to Prachuap Khiri Khan province of Thailand. The exercises are causing fear among locals that the junta will perpetrate its atrocities on the communities there. They suggest that Thailand consider its long-term relationship with Burma beyond this coup d'état period. (Mizzima) The Thai military has previously aided and abetted the junta by allowing troops and supplies to pass through its territory to outposts that had been cut off by the Karen army, and it has raised faint objections when junta attack aircraft have breached Thai airspace.
The illegal military regime has abandoned 3 rural police barracks in Magway Region in the past month, lacking enough troops to defend them. It is focusing its reduced strength on defending the township centers, where it is also under attack.
Ethnic regions-------------------
PDFs mounted a surprise attack on a junta camp at Thanmotaung in Taw Oo District of Kawthoolei (Thandaunggyi township on Burmese maps) yesterday morning, firing for 2 hours and killing at least 15 junta troops and wounding others, although another report says all 15 of the troops in the small camp are dead. Two jets then arrived and fired, killing a civilian and injuring 2 in the nearby village, and preventing the PDFs from occupying the camp. Troops threatened to burn down the village, and reinforcements were sent from Taungoo, but the PDFs were gone by then. (People's Spring, Salween Press)
In Beit-Tavoy District of Kawthoolei (Tanintharyi Region on Burmese maps), PDFs opened fire on a junta patrol in Pawatkone village of Palaw township yesterday, killing 5 troops and wounding 5, but 2 PDF soldiers were seriously wounded. (People's Spring)
Karen army Brigade 1 reports continuous guerrilla attacks on junta troops in Doo Tha Htoo District of Kawthoolei (northern Mon State on Burmese maps). Targets during the past few days include junta troops guarding a bridge and others at a fuel station in Bilin township and a police barracks in Theinzayat. Junta troops are killed and injured in one’s and two’s in these attacks, but the purpose is to keep them on the defensive and prevent re-deployments toward other battle fronts. (Kawthoolei government KNU via People’s Spring)
A large number of junta troops has arrived in Thay Baw Bo on the Thailand border in Dooplaya District of Kawthoolei (Myawaddy township on Burmese maps), part of the regime’s ongoing effort to retake its lost camp there. The Karen Cobra battalion and its PDF allies have made a strategic retreat and will continue resisting the invasion. (The Irrawaddy)
The Arakan Army has announced a 24-hour ceasefire with the junta for humanitarian purposes such as supplying food and medicine and harvesting the ripe rice crop. It also spoke of negotiations for a longer ceasefire. (Khit Thit Media) Even during this supposed ceasefire, the junta continues to kidnap civilians and administrators it suspects of sympathies toward the AA. (Myanmar Now) It would make no sense that the junta agreed a ceasefire for humanitarian reasons, since its entire strategy is based on committing humanitarian atrocities against civilians, and it has specifically targeted farmers trying to harvest crops. The Arakan Army cutting a deal with the junta would be a blow to the war effort in general, as it would allow the junta to redirect its firepower from Arakan State toward the other battle fronts.
Aircraft spotters for the Revolution notified that jets are taking off from the junta’s Tada-U air base near Mandalay and flying north, evidently to attack targets in Kachin State. (Khit Thit Media)
Junta scorched earth village terrorism campaign---------------
Today junta troops in Tantse town spontaneously went out and burned down Tanpinsayt village, accusing villagers of feeding PDF soldiers. The villagers now join the 1.2 million internal refugees from regime violence. (Khit Thit Media)
Troops burned down Myitdaw village in Kyunhla township of Sagaing Region yesterday, and shot an old man to death. Troops then fired mortars from the village outward at the fleeing refugees. (People's Spring)
People’s Defense Forces (PDFs)-----------------
The roads of Sagaing Region continue to be deadly for junta convoys. When a 30-vehicle convoy left Monywa on the Chaung Oo road 2 days ago Nov. 25, PDFs detonated claymore anti-personnel mines on the last truck, which carried troops, killing 23 and wounding 7.
PDFs stormed a police barracks at Kailei in Pauk township, Magway Region yesterday. At least 10 troops were killed, and surviving troops fled the station and it was occupied by the PDFs. Two PDF soldiers died in the battle. The junta responded with air attacks, but the PDFs got away. Reinforcement troops then came, burned and permanently abandoned the police barracks, and attacked the nearby civilian village. (People's Spring)
PDFs in Wetlet township ambushed a column of 80 junta troops trying to return to the main town yesterday after destroying villages. Using landmines, gunfire, and locally-manufactured mortars, the PDFs caused an unknown number of casualties and forced the column to retreat to a nearby village without reaching its destination. (People's Spring)
A PDF dropped drone bombs on 15 troops camped at a monastery in Myinmu township yesterday, killing 3 of them and wounding 4. The troops tried unsuccessfully to shot the drone. (Khit Thit Media)
In Magway Region, a PDF drone-bombed a Pyu Saw Htee terrorist camp at Zee Pya in Myaing township yesterday, causing about 5 injuries. (People's Spring) The objective in attacking Pyu Saw Htee camps is to keep them on the defensive and limit their terror assaults on villages.
Junta police have been shooting random people off their motorcycle in Magway town. Today they shot 2 youths who worked as waiters in a tea shop owned by the father-in-law of the police station chief. Yesterday they shot 2 women; one may have died. (Khit Thit Media)
In Yenanchauk township of Magway Region today anonymous protesters hung a banner with a Revolutionary message; when junta police went to remove it, they were injured by an explosion. (Mizzima)
In Mandalay Region, a PDF drone-bombed a junta camp on the grounds of a high school yesterday in Ngazun township; the PDF says 5 troops were killed and 12 wounded. (People's Spring)
Urban warfare------------------
In Mandalay, a tip-off from a dalan led to a junta raid on an urban PDF hideout last night. Three members were abducted, to be tortured for information and contacts and then killed. The PDF, Anonymous Force Mandalay, is advising anyone in contact with those individuals to flee to safety immediately. (People's Spring)
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