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Myanmar Regime Troops Killed in Guerilla Attacks by Civilian Fighters​

By THE IRRAWADDY 11 May 2021

Three junta soldiers were killed and several wounded during a shootout with civilian resistance fighters in Taze Township, Sagaing Region on Monday evening, according to the Sagaing Region People’s Defense Force and local residents.

At around 7pm on Monday, civilian resistance forces against the regime ambushed three military vehicles loaded with around 60 troops. The trucks were returning to Taze from Maharmyaing forest and traveling on the Taze-Kalaywa Highway, in the western part of Taze Township.

Three soldiers were killed and at least 14 injured during the hour-long clash, according to local residents. There were no reported casualties on the civilian defense force side. The Irrawaddy was unable to confirm the military casualties independently.

Following the shootout, the regime forces opened fire on villages that they passed through and continued firing as they entered Taze. Residents said that the junta troops also conducted searches for people who have been charged with incitement under Article 505 of the Penal Code on their return to Taze.

“After the guerilla-style attack by the civilian resistance fighters, the junta soldiers were angry and opening fire on everything they could see. They were firing when they came back to Taze. Then, they searched the houses of those who have been charged under Article 505,” a resident told The Irrawaddy.

Earlier on Monday, junta forces had raided Kaduma village in the morning. They destroyed some houses and threatened villagers with being sent as prisoners to a work camp in Maharmyaing forest, sources said.

On April 7, a shootout occurred near the entrance of Taze when hundreds of residents attempted to prevent seven truckloads of troops from entering the town to crackdown on anti-regime demonstrations.

During that clash, 12 civilians were killed and more than 20 were injured after troops opened fire on them with automatic weapons and sniper rifles. Since then, regime soldiers have been permanently deployed in Taze.

People’s Defense Forces have been formed in several townships in Sagaing and Magwe regions and Chin State, with local residents resisting the military regime by using traditional and homemade weapons.

Last Saturday, the National Unity Government, its parliamentary committee and their offshoot civilian defense forces were branded as “terrorist groups” by the military regime, which accused them of incitement against the junta.

The military regime said that it will not tolerate any armed resistance to their coup.

 

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Tamu Defense Force Kills at Least 15 Myanmar Junta Troops​

At least 15 junta soldiers died during two clashes with the Tamu People’s Defense Force (T-PDF) in Sagaing Region’s Tamu on the Indian border on Tuesday night and early Wednesday.

One civilian member of the T-PDF died and another was injured on Tuesday night.

A T-PDF member said five junta soldiers were killed in a clash near Pan Thar Village on Tuesday night, between 10:30 p.m. and midnight.

Another 10 soldiers were killed during an attack on a military post at 4:30 a.m. Wednesday in Kun Taung Village in Tamu district, he said.

Tamu residents formed the defense force, also known as the Tamu Security Group (TSG), and took up firearms and weapons to fight junta forces in late March, after junta troops killed an unarmed protester during a raid on a nighttime protest. They killed dozens of soldiers using grenades in downtown Tamu in April. Group members went into hiding following a brutal crackdown by junta forces in mid-April.

When the civilian National Unity Government’s People’s Defense Force (PDF) was formed last week, the TSG said it would cooperate with the PDF.

In the fighting this week, the defense force used guerilla-style warfare and ambushes to resume their attacks against junta forces.

“As we said, we will continue the fight against the military dictatorship to the end. We paused the fighting recently; now we are back,” the PDF member said.

 

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KIA Launches Attack to Seize Major Road from Myanmar Junta​

The Kachin Independence Army (KIA) and Myanmar’s military have been fighting fiercely in Mansi Township, Kachin State, and the junta is reportedly conducting air strikes.

The fighting is taking place in Madan Yang village, about 8km from Mansi on the road to Namkham in northern Shan State.

KIA information officer Colonel Naw Bu confirmed the fighting. “The KIA attacked military council troops on Tuesday. The military has carried out air strikes,” he said. The fighting also continued on Thursday.

The KIA has carried out attacks because junta troop deployments in Mada Yang have restricted KIA movements, said Col. Naw Bu.

When clashes took place between Myanmar’s military and the KIA in Mansi Township from 2013 to 2017, villagers fled their homes along the roads from Mansi to Namkham and Mabein in Shan State.

At least 15 villages, including Mada Yang, emptied following the fighting. Around 2,000 villagers are still at displacement camps elsewhere in Mansi. Myanmar’s military is deployed at the abandoned Mada Yang village.

“Mada Yang was previously under our control. Our troops withdrew from the Mansi road in 2013 and the military occupied it. This has created serious logistical problems for us. So it has become necessary for us to retake control so we attacked,” said Col. Naw Bu.

KIA Brigade 3 and Light Infantry Battalion 319 of Myanmar’s military are deployed in Mansi.

“Myanmar’s military has deployed along the road. Civilians have long fled [their roadside homes],” said Mansi resident La Ja.

Two jet fighters bombed near Madan Yang on Tuesday and aircraft were visible on Wednesday, he said.

Tensions are also running high in Momauk as the military attempts to retake the Alaw Bum base near the Chinese border in the town which the KIA seized in late March.

Fierce clashes continued in Momauk on Thursday morning and a major bridge on the Bhamo-Lweljel road in the township was damaged in a mine attack.

 

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Armed Revolution Spreads in Myanmar's Central Regions and on Chin Hills​

Unable to tolerate the violence of Myanmar’s military regime which has killed some 800 people since the Feb. 1 coup, ordinary citizens have taken up any weapons available—from air guns to traditional firearms and homemade bombs—and are fighting back the regime.

Since late March, people from Chin State and Sagaing, Magwe and Mandalay regions have repulsed the military regime’s troops.

Civilian resistance fighters rarely have access to modern weapons, and most of them only have traditional firearms used in hunting. Despite the fact that they only have 19th Century weapons, they have killed and injured dozens of junta troops.

“As the number of casualties has significantly increased while we were staging protests, we thought we have to put up armed resistance if we are to win our fight for democracy. So, we took up arms,” said a resident of Sagaing’s Kale, one of the very first townships to present an armed resistance to the junta’s troops.

Besides their commitment to democracy, another factor that gives them an advantage is their knowledge of the terrain of those regions. Except for Mandalay and Magwe, Chin and western Sagaing are hilly areas with forests, posing logistical challenges to the regime.

In April, six junta troops were killed by local residents using percussion lock firearms in Tamu, a border town on the Myanmar-India border.

Having seen the power of percussion lock firearms, junta troops are now seizing them and are arresting and prosecuting those who keep them.

Armed Revolution begins in Kale

Though Kale is seeing only guerilla-style home-made bomb attacks recently, the town in Sagaing Region was the first in Myanmar to put up armed resistance against the military regime with traditional firearms during Spring Revolution.

The town took up arms when an anti-regime protester was shot by junta forces on March 2, and died the following days. Locals then set up barricades and protest camps, resisting the regime troops with air guns and traditional firearms.

Junta forces attacked the protest camp in Kale’s Tar Han ward on March 28, shooting anyone on sight. At least five civilian resistance fighters died in the attack and dozens were arrested. Since then, Kale residents have carried out guerilla-style attacks on junta troops, also intercepting reinforcements sent to the town.

Clashes were the fiercest in late March and early April. Young local people formed the Kale Civil Army to repulse the junta troops. However, the resistance was largely crushed after dozens of youths were arrested after April 7.

Thus far, some 30 young resistance fighters have died and more than 30 others are being detained. The military junta has also deployed large numbers of troops in Kale and the adjacent towns of Tamu and Gangaw.

Armed resistance spreads to Yinmarbin and Kani in Sagaing

Junta forces raided Thabyay Aye village in Sagaing’s Yinmarbin Township on April 2. Their target was the abbot of the village monastery, who had been at the frontline of anti-regime protests in the town.

Locals repulsed the raid with their traditional firearms. Junta forces retreated after suffering heavy casualties. On April 15, junta forces returned to Yinmarbin, with larger numbers of troops and more lethal weapons this time.

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Villagers from several villages were forced to flee. Junta forces searched for percussion lock firearms house by house and villagers holding firearms were arrested. There were shootouts between local resistance fighters and junta forces until April 20 in Yinmarbin, with both sides suffering casualties. Locals from nearby villages in Kani and Mingin townships rendered help as residents in Yinmarbin were attacked.

On April 15, local resistance fighters were patrolling on Monywa-Kalewa road when a vehicle refused to stop and drove away. As they chased the vehicle, a Myanmar military major who was behind the wheel shot them before running into the forest. Locals then set the vehicle on fire.

Then, junta troops based in Monywa came down to Kani, leading to clashes with local resistance fighters.

Local resistance fighters in Kani have carried out guerilla-style attacks on junta forces. There were eight attacks on May 6 and 7 in which 16 junta troops and seven civilian resistance fighters died, according to local residents.

Junta forces also carried out attacks, using drones to search for civilian resistance fighters hiding in forests and attacking them with explosives. They also forced villagers to guide them to hideouts of resistance fighters in the forests.

Those raids have forced over 13,000 people from more than 20 villages in Kani to flee into the forests. Between May 8 and May 12, junta forces arrested more than 40 villagers including 12 civilian resistance fighters.

“All of this was triggered by the military regime. They arrested and used live rounds on peaceful protesters. They attempted to arrest the abbot. And they attacked the locals who are providing security for their regions. And finally, they bullied us with weapons,” said a Monywa resident.

Both sides suffered casualties in armed clashes, and dozens of local residents were arrested. Junta troops, as they have before in Myanmar’s ethnic states, looted livestock and food from villagers. They also tortured some of the residents.

Not only Kale, Kani and Yinmarbin, but also Tamu, Taze, Pale, Salingyi, Mingin and Pinlebu townships in Sagaing Region are mounting armed resistance against the military regime.

In the attacks in Tamu on April 2, six junta troops and a striking police officer died. Some houses and a bridge were burned.

In Taze, hundreds of thousands of people had gathered daily against the regime. On April 7, locals intercepted some 300 junta forces who had come to disperse the protest. Twelve locals died in the shootout and more than 20 were wounded.

On May 10, civilian resistance fighters in Taze ambushed some 60 junta troops on their return from transporting prisoners to a labor camp in Maha Myaing Forest. Two junta troops died and some were wounded.

People in Sagaing resisted the regime on their own volition and were not initially linked with Committee Representing Pyidaungsu Hluttaw (CRPH), a body representing elected lawmakers of 2020 general elections, and the National Unity Government (NUG), a shadow government formed by the CRPH to rival the military regime.

On May 11, more than 100 junta troops attempted to enter Talokmyo village-tract in Myingyan Township, Mandalay Region, and found themselves fighting with local residents.

In the evening, about 400 more soldiers from Myingyan, Taungtha and Natoegyi arrived and opened fire on the villages until 1 a.m. on May 12. Junta troops took control of the villages early on the morning of May 12. Three junta troops died and several others were wounded in the shootouts. Nearly 100 villagers including six university students from Myingyan who were at Talokmyo helping the villagers were arrested.

Armed resistance on Chin Hills

In Chin State, armed resistance has mainly taken place in Mindat and Hakha. Seven anti-regime protesters were arrested in Mindat on April 24, and a shootout occurred when police refused to release them later that evening. Three policemen died in the incident.

Civilian resistance fighters attacked a military convoy on April 26 in Mindat. Junta forces arrived for retaliation the following day but suffered heavier casualties than the civilian side. The military council then suspended attacks and released the detained protesters.

“We have been undergoing intensive military training. Because they can attack us anytime, we have prepared ourselves to fight back. We are resisting not because we have weapons. We are resisting because we have faith,” said a Mindat resident.

Members of the Mindat defense force said they have started to work together with the CRPH and the NUG, and will be able to have greater bargaining power over the military regime if they receive weapons from People’s Defense Force formed by the NUG.

“They might not have thought people would take up arms against them. We people have shown many times that we deserve democracy. As they don’t restore what we deserve, we will take it back using any means. People have chosen to take up arms,” said a civilian resistance fighter from Mindat.

At least ten junta troops died in the fighting with local resistance fighters from May2 to May 4 in Chin State’s Hakha.

Since Wednesday evening, the shootouts between the military troops and Midat Defense Forces have resumed, after their ceasefire agreement broke down.

The ceasefire collapsed because the military regime failed to release all five detainees in exchange for 17 vehicles carrying around 270 junta troops being allowed to pass through from Matupi Township.

During the clashes, an ethnic Chin teenager was killed and six other members of Chin State’s civilian resistance forces were injured when the junta bombarded the resistance town from nearby Kyaukhtu Town in Magwe Region on Thursday. On the same day, the regime declared Mindat under marital law, heralding possible future crackdowns.

The CRPH said on March 14 that people have the rights to defend themselves when they are attacked by the military regime. Any response made by individuals or wards or villages or townships to defend their lives will not constitute crimes, said the CRPH.

In retaliation, the regime on Saturday declared the CRPH, NUG, PDF and their affiliated local defense teams to be terrorist organizations.

 

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Myanmar Regime Air Base Hit by Rockets: Military​

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A rocket is seen near the Taungoo military air base on Saturday. / Office of the Commander-in-Chief of Defense Services

A Myanmar military regime air base and unit in Bago Region were attacked with rockets on Saturday, but there were no casualties in the latest offensive against the junta’s troops, who have killed at least 790 civilians since the coup on Feb. 1.

Regime-controlled newspapers said the unidentified attackers used 107-mm rockets to attack the Taungoo air base and its military unit in Bago. The Taungoo facility is one of the major air bases in country. It is located more than 100 km northeast of Yangon, the commercial capital.

One rocket fell without exploding about 100 m from where the military unit is stationed, the newspapers said.

Another three struck about 100 m, 200 m and 350 m from the air station and exploded. However, there were no reports of injuries or damage to the buildings, the military said.

Later, junta troops found six 107-mm rockets near Aike Sauk Village that were aimed at the airbase, the military said.

The military said it was still identifying those responsible for the attacks.

Local residents said the military has tightened security in the town since the attacks, conducting checks on most of the main streets and outside the base.

“We heard at least four rounds of rocket fire. We don’t know about causalities. We do not dare to go outside and look. And the air base is a bit far from us,” a resident said.

Since the military staged the coup on Feb. 1, the regime’s troops had killed at least 790 civilians and arrested 5,073 people as of Sunday. Since last month, a series of small explosions have been reported almost every day in major towns from the north to the south of the country, including the two largest cities, Yangon and Mandalay. The military blames anti-coup protesters for the blasts, claiming that democracy supporters are creating instability in the country.

Military air bases in Magwe and Meiktila were attacked with rockets in late April, but no casualties were reported.

 

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Six Myanmar Junta Troops Killed in Chin State Shootout​

Six junta soldiers were killed and several wounded during a shootout with civilian resistance forces in the Chin State capital Hakha on Sunday evening.

Chinland Defense Force-Hakha fighters ambushed around 60 regime troops travelling on the Hakha-Falam highway, in the northern part of Hakha, at around 5.30pm on Sunday. The soldiers were in four vehicles and heading as reinforcements to Hakha.

The clash lasted a number of hours. Six junta soldiers died on the spot and more than 10 were injured, according to a member of the Chinland Defense Force-Hakha. A civilian resistance fighter was also killed in the shootout.

Junta troops used heavy explosives and rocket-propelled grenades during the shootout, while the civilian resistance forces were armed only with traditional firearms and single and double-barreled shotguns, said a member of the Chinland Defense Force-Hakha.

“We ambushed the troops as retribution for the junta’s war crimes and terrorism against the civilians of Mindat. Their acts are unacceptable,” he said.

During four days of prolonged fighting in Mindat, in southern Chin State, the military regime used heavy explosives, artillery, rocket-propelled grenades and automatic weapons, while reinforcements were flown into the town on helicopters. In contrast, the Mindat civilian defense fighters were armed with old-fashioned, homemade hunting rifles.

Junta artillery bombarded the town and regime soldiers used 18 arrested civilians as human shields when they raided Mindat on Saturday. Around eight civilian resistance fighters were killed in the fighting and twenty more, including peaceful residents, were wounded, according to a member of the Mindat People’s Administration Team.

As of Monday, troops deployed across Mindat are opening fire on anyone who appears on the streets and no one dares to go outside, residents reported.

A 10-year-old girl was seriously injured in Mindat on Monday after being shot in the neck while she was hiding in her house as junta troops fired randomly, according to Chin State-based news agencies. She has been unable to receive proper medical treatment because of the presence of regime soldiers in the town.

On Sunday night, two civilians were shot dead and another injured after junta forces opened fire in Tedim Township in northern Chin State.

Myanmar’s civilian National Unity Government issued a statement on Saturday urging the international community to take immediate action to end all violence by the military regime and to protect Mindat’s residents.

 

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Myanmar Regime’s Army Captain Killed Among Others: Resistance​

By THE IRRAWADDY 21 May 2021

Six junta soldiers, including a captain, were killed during a shootout with civilian resistance fighters from the Chinland Defense Force in Chin State on Friday morning, the Chin National Organization said.

The resistance fighters from the mountain town of Falam attacked eight soldiers near Lumbang village on the Kalay-Falam highway, the Chin Defense Force told The Irrawaddy.

It said two soldiers fled the shootout and a civilian fighter was killed.

An overturned military vehicle was left abandoned.

Another shootout occurred at a village near Mindat on Friday in response to an attempted military raid, according to the Mindat resistance.

During the firefight, the military reportedly used explosives and deployed helicopters.

The Mindat resistance said all villagers fled into the forest during the shootout.

Last Saturday, after imposing martial law on the mountaintop town and bombarding it with artillery, the junta seized the town by using around 18 detained civilians as human shields.

Nine civilian fighters were killed and at least 20 were injured during the operation. Several military casualties were reported and at least six military vehicles were set on fire by civilian fighters.

Most of Mindat’s 25,000 population has now fled the town and around 10,000 civilians are sheltering in seven new internal displacement camps, according to a camp volunteer.

The camps urgently need food, medicine and tents amid heavy rain, the volunteer said.

Residents said junta troops have cut off routes in the forest used to supply the camps.

On Friday, Mindat residents said many civilians remain trapped in the town because junta troops have blocked Mindat’s gates.

Residents said junta troops also cut off water, telecoms access and electricity for the town. The lack of electricity and water is limiting people’s ability to make meals.

“People who went into the town center to take rice from their homes were detained yesterday. The soldiers have closed the town’s gates. Some detainees were released after interrogation and people have been beaten by troops,” a resident said.

The United Nations in Myanmar issued a statement on Friday calling on the junta to spare civilians and civilian infrastructure and to act proportionally.

It urged the military regime to allow civilians to leave areas of conflict without obstruction or delay, securing their safety and to ensure those injured receive medical treatment in a safe area.

It called for all relief efforts by the UN and its humanitarian partners to be unhindered by the security forces.

 

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