Burma coup resistance notes September 5, 2022
Ethnic regions-------------------
In Kawthoolei Dooplaya District (Thanbuzayat township of Mon State on Burmese maps), the Karen army yesterday captured 8 junta officers returning from a training in Ye township. They were disguised as civilians in a private car. The highest-ranking is a lieutenant colonel. Their weapons were captured as well. (Khit Thit Media) Further east, resistance forces attacked a junta checkpoint at Taungkya In in Kaw T’Ree township (Kawkareik on Burmese maps) yesterday, killing 3 troops including a corporal. They had been extorting travelers and making arbitrary abductions. (People's Spring)
In Kawthoolei Beit-Tavoy District (Tanintharyi Region on Burmese maps), PDF ambushes over the past 2 days in Bokpyin township south of Myeik resulted in 4 junta troops killed and others wounded. Yesterday a junta column chased and tried to recapture 3 of its troops who were fleeing, only for 3 of the pursuers to be killed by a PDF surprise attack. The PDF captured some junta weapons. In the same general area, a local PDF fought junta troops yesterday at Lae Thit village of Tanintharyi township, killing 3 troops and 2 Pyu Saw Htee thugs. (Khit Thit Media)
Karenni defense forces attacked junta troops yesterday at Ngwe Taung east of Demawso town, fighting a 4-hour battle. A junta soldier was killed and others wounded, and some weapons were captured. (KNDF)
The Bangladesh government has summoned the Burmese junta ambassador twice to complain about junta shells landing in Bangladesh territory. Junta jets have also violated Bangladesh airspace in their effort to dislodge Arakan Army troops who captured a major junta border camp on Aug. 30. (Mizzima)
Junta scorched earth village terrorism campaign---------------
As junta troops conduct terrorist attacks in Myaung township of Sagaing Region, people from 9 villages there fled their communities during the night with whatever they could carry on foot, motorbike, or ox cart. The roads were a traffic jam of refugees. The junta is destroying Nabat, Bugaing, Myittha, and Ngayant Oh village. At least 15 civilians have been abducted and used as slave porters for the troops. (Khit Thit Media)
People’s Defense Forces (PDFs)-----------------
In Magway Region, PDF soldiers who successfully attacked a junta/Pyu Saw Htee camp at Kanni village, Myaing township on Sept. 2 were given a heroes’ welcome by the local public as they returned home last night. (Myaelatt Athan)
In Magway Region, junta troops occupying the village of Inpin in Pakokku township tried to leave the village yesterday but were ambushed by a local PDF. After a junta soldier was killed, the rest retreated back into the village. Also in Pakokku township yesterday, 3 PDF fighters stormed a junta checkpoint, killing 3 police and capturing two weapons. A photo shows an overturned junta vehicle.
In Mandalay Region, a PDF in Kyaukse township assassinated a local junta administrator, and a pro-junta Pyu Saw Htee leader was assassinated in Meiktila township. In Bago Region, two dalans (regime spies) were assassinated in Thayawaddy. (Myaelatt Athan)
Urban warfare------------------
In Yangon, bombs exploded in Hlaing, Shwepyitha, and Myangone townships last night.
Civil Disobedience Movement (CDM)-------------------
The junta’s central bank president blamed the crash of the value of the national kyat currency on media reporting, and recommended more drastic action against uncensored media outlets as the solution. (Khit Thit Media) The regime tries to arrest its way out of the deepening problems it continues to create, seeing no means other than brute force to address any challenge. Free media outlets have already moved to liberated areas or neighboring countries due to the imprisonment and murder of journalists.
A fund-raising event held yesterday in Baltimore, USA raised US$40,000 for People’s Defense Forces to fight the junta and win. (Mizzima)
Two junta air force personnel, a couple, died at the Meiktila air base recently in a murder-suicide, and the junta then tried to suppress the news. The man in the couple shot both of them. Last week two troops killed 7 others and 2 civilians in another internal murder in Yangon Region. (Khit Thit Media)