Burma coup resistance notes September 3, 2022
Ethnic regions-------------------
In Arakan State, the junta continued its 3rd day of aerial bombing today with 2 Russian-supplied attack jets and 3 helicopter gunships attacking the camp taken by the Arakan Army Aug. 30 at Milepost 40 on the Bangladesh border. Some bombs fell in southern Chin State’s Paletwa township, causing hundreds of villagers to flee across the border into India. There is no indication that the bombardment is getting the junta any closer to recapturing the camp. (The Irrawaddy) The pattern after the junta has lost camps to the Karen, Kachin, and Karenni armies has been an enormous and generally futile expenditure of resources to try to retake them.
In Kawthoolei Dooplaya District (Kawkareik township on Burmese maps), a drone-bombing PDF allied with the Karen army dropped 3 bombs on a junta camp at Kyauk Nwe on Sept. 1, hitting a tent where junta officers were believed to be. The small junta force retreated afterward. (Khit Thit Media) Meanwhile, another Karen PDF shot down a junta spy drone last night along the Myawaddy-Waw Lay road. (People's Spring)
In Kawthoolei Beit-Tavoy District (Tanintharyi Region on Burmese maps) an all-day battle took place yesterday along the Dawei-Htee Khee road that leads to the Thai border. Junta reinforcements were called from both Dawei in the west and Myitta in the east. Also, during the month of August 16 dalans (regime spies) and pro-junta Pyu Saw Htee thugs were assassinated. (Tanintharyi Times)
Karenni defense forces ambushed junta troops on Sept. 1 in Hpruso township, but no outcome is reported. The Karenni say that the junta has been trying for a month to gain control of Hpruso, Demawso, and Loikaw townships without any progress. (Kantarawaddy Times)
Five junta and junta-aligned PNO soldiers captured by Karenni defense forces in May in Pekhon township of Karenni region have made contact with their families, saying they are fine and have no desire to return to their units.
Junta scorched earth village terrorism campaign---------------
A junt airstrike in Kawlin township of Sagaing Region yesterday destroyed several homes and killed 4 civilians, including a pregnant woman and a 6-year-old child.
People’s Defense Forces (PDFs)-----------------
In Sagaing Region, a the Myaung township TGR Women’s Drone Force drone-bombed a police barracks in Kyauk Yit village yesterday, dropping the bomb inside a sandbag bunker where it killed 3 junta police and sent a 4th to the hospital with wounds. Afterward the police shot their guns a lot. The TGR force has been drone-bombing junta targets for 3 consecutive days. (Khit Thit Media, Mizzima)
Two trucks carrying supplies for the junta were blown up last night in Myinmu township of Sagaing Region. (Myaelatt Athan) In Indaw township of northern Sagaing Region a PDF bombed the junta police office in Indaw town last night as well as a school where troops are camped. (Kachin News Group) In Shwebo township, local people assassinated a Pyu Saw Htee informant yesterday, and when junta troops arrived to collect the body, they were bombed, killing 1 and seriously wounding another.
In Magway Region, a PDF coalition attacked a junta/Pyu Saw Htee camp at Kanni yesterday, causing an unknown number of junta casualties, while one PDF soldier was also killed. (Chindwin Yoma News)
Urban warfare------------------
In Mandalay, a junta admin office was bombed last night in Pyuntansah township, as was a dormitory for junta-collaborationist education ministry staff in Chanmyathasi township. (Mizzima)
In Monywa city, capital of Sagaing Region, a PDF bombed junta troops traveling in unmarked civilian vehicles last night, killing 4 of them and wounding others. (Mizzima)
Civil Disobedience Movement (CDM)-------------------
In Dawei city of Kawthoolei Beit-Tavoy District (Tanintharyi Region on Burmese maps), junta police have been invading private homes, going door to door, and kidnapping people who were not on the “guest list”, or who had political items in their mobile phones, even watching political news. The police state requires families to submit a “guest list” of anyone staying in their homes, and having any unlisted guests is treated as a crime. Similarly, the junta claims the right to invade people’s mobile phones, forcing them to type in the password and letting police view photos, social media accounts, and anything else the police want to inspect. (Tanintharyi Times) This is life under a totalitarian regime, and is modeled on China.
In a related matter, the cash-starved regime has been accusing wealthy business people of political crimes, then seizing their assets. Examples include gold shop owners, gems traders, and oil company executives. In this way the junta is alienating people who are otherwise often supporters, and turning the upper class against the regime. (Khit Thit Media)