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The Burma Army (BA) has forced a couple in Pekon Township to guide them and walk in front of their battalion as human shields in an area of southern Shan State where they are fighting with civilian resistance groups.

According to a local source, the BA arrested Maung Gyi and his spouse Win Kyi on their farm in Shwe Pyi Aye on the morning of September 4.

“The soldiers used the farming couple as human shields. People try to flee their villages as soon as the soldiers arrive, because this kind of thing is common in our area,” the man who is from Kong Sone told SHAN.

He said a BA column stayed in his village for a fortnight. After fighting with civilian combatants on the Kong Sone mountain, they moved on towards Hkawng Ei, where they clashed with other fighters in the village.

On September 1, the BA launched an offensive against Pekon People’s Defence Force and Karenni Nationalities Defence Force in the township.

Human rights activists said the BA soldiers were committing war crimes by using civilians as human shields and looting their homes.

Over 119,000 civilians have been displaced by the BA offensives during the conflict with the PDFs in southern Shan and Karenni states, which began in May.


Myanmar's military agrees to ASEAN call for cease-fire​


Myanmar’s military regime has denied that it has accepted the call for a four-month ceasefire made by the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) special envoy to Myanmar.

ASEAN’s special envoy, Erywan Yusof, told Kyodo News on Saturday that the junta had accepted his proposal of a four-month ceasefire until the end of this year to enable the delivery of humanitarian aid to Myanmar. The special envoy made the proposal to the junta-appointed Foreign Minister, U Wunna Maung Lwin, on August 31.

Erywan Yusof, Brunei’s second minister for foreign affairs, said also that he hopes to visit Myanmar this month and that he had requested a meeting with detained State Counselor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi. However, the military regime has not yet said if he will be allowed to do so.

Junta spokesperson Major General Zaw Min Tun told The Irrawaddy on Monday that U Wunna Maung Lwin did not say that Myanmar had agreed to Erywan Yusof’s call for a ceasefire.

The Myanmar military has extended its current truce monthly until Sept. 30 since it was first declared on December 21, 2018, said the Maj. Gen, adding that it is ethnic armed organizations (EAO’s) who are violating the terms of the military-announced ceasefire on the ground.

“ASEAN also shared their assistance when the Cambodian health minister came to offer support. ASEAN’s general secretary is also planning to visit. We also invited the ASEAN special envoy to our press conference, which he declined to join,” said Maj. Gen. Zaw Min Tun.

The junta spokesperson said that the regime will not block humanitarian assistance or bar the visit of the ASEAN special envoy to Myanmar.

Erywan Yusof said also that he has passed his proposal for a ceasefire indirectly to parties opposed to the regime.

However, some EAOs have said that they do not believe that the junta would abide by any ceasefire.

Padoh Mahn Mahn, the spokesman for the Karen National Union’s Mutraw (Papun) District said that the military had previously taken advantage of the Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement to strengthen its power.

“It is nothing new because even if there is a ceasefire the military tend to use the tactics of divide and rule, leaving some areas out [of any ceasefire],” said Padoh Mahn Mahn.

A member of the Karenni Nationalities Defense Force also questioned whether any ceasefire would work.

“We can’t trust them; the military has deployed more troops in our [Kayah] state,” he said.

Myanmar has been in crisis since the military takeover and the ousting of the National League for Democracy government led by Daw Aung Suu Kyi. Armed resistance to the regime by civilian fighters and EAO’s has spread to every part of the country, apart from Rakhine State.

On Tuesday, the National Unity Government (NUG) called for the whole country to revolt and wage war against the military regime.

Last Sunday, the NUG called on the international community to help stop the junta’s crimes against innocent civilians.

 
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Weapons seized from regime troops in Sept. 1 clash. / The Kokang Weapons seized from regime troops in Sept. 1 clash. / The Kokang

The Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army (MNDAA) has retaken control of a strategic hill which junta troops captured from the ethnic armed group earlier this week. The MNDAA and the Myanmar military have been clashing in Mongkoe and Pansai in northern Shan State since early July.

MNDAA fighters took back the hill near Phaung Sai village on Wednesday morning after losing it to junta troops in a battle on Monday night. Eight regime soldiers were killed and three MNDAA fighters were injured in the clash, reported The Kokang, a local media outlet.

“We could take back the hill, but there are regime troops around the football pitch of Phaung Sai village. We attach great importance to that hill. Fierce fighting will continue if they continue to attack us,” a MNDAA commander was quoted by The Kokang as saying after Monday night’s fighting.

On August 28, the MNDAA claimed that it found several bodies of junta soldiers, including two commanding officers, following fighting in Mongkoe that day. Regime spokesman Major General Zaw Min Tun confirmed that regime soldiers were killed and injured in the clash last Saturday, but denied that commanding officers were among the casualties.

Junta troops were also ambushed in Pansai on Monday, with the MNDAA claiming that it killed 15 soldiers and seized weapons in the firefight. There was a further clash in Mongkoe on Monday in which an MNDAA fighter died.

The military regime has been attacking the MNDAA’s Brigade 511 which operates in Mongkoe sub-township. Over 1,900 locals have been forced to flee their homes in Mongkoe and Pansai due to the fighting.


The Karen National Liberation Army’s (KNLA) Brigade 5 killed 118 junta soldiers during clashes in August, almost double the number it killed in July, according to a statement released on Tuesday by the rebel group.

There were a total of 133 clashes between the brigade and the Myanmar military in Karen State’s Hpapun last month, the group said, during which another 68 junta soldiers were injured, including a battalion commander.

Just five KNLA soldiers were injured in the clashes, the group said, though it did not give details of fatalities on its side. In July, Brigade 5 killed 65 junta soldiers in Hpapun and injured 101, including a battalion commander.

The number of clashes in July – 130 – was almost the same as in August despite the large difference in the number of fatalities.

Territory controlled by Brigade 5 has seen the most intense fighting out of all the places where the Karen National Union (KNU), the KNLA’s political wing, is active. The junta has launched attacks in every KNU territory except for land controlled by Brigade 4.

The KNU has suffered very few casualties compared to the junta because of its familiarity with the local terrain and its use of guerilla style tactics.

Brigade 5 said in Tuesday’s statement that junta forces in its territory have shelled rice paddy fields 120 times, burned down six houses and beat three civilians, killing one. The junta has also sent aircraft to survey the region five times, it said.

Villages within Hpapun, which is also known as Mutraw and was bombed by the junta in March, were told last week to expect more airstrikes.


At least 24 junta soldiers have died in fighting with the Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army (MNDAA) in northern Shan State since last week, the group has said, though locals citing witnesses who saw bodies say the actual number is higher.

Junta forces have launched attacks against the ethnically Kokang group in the Monekoe and Pang Hseng regions of Muse, near the Chinese border. The MNDAA has said it wanted to resolve problems with dialogue but was forced to retaliate.

“The military is facing a much bigger loss right now,” a resident living near the area of the conflict told Myanmar Now. “The MNDAA keeps getting the upper hand, leading to the military losing a lot of their troops.”

At least four junta troops died in a clash on August 26, while at least five died on August 28 and another 20 were injured, the MNDAA has said. Then on Monday the group killed at least 15 soldiers and injured six during a battle in Pang Hseng, an unnamed MNDAA spokesperson told local media.

“The MNDAA still has zero casualties,” he told the Kachin News Group on Monday. “The military regime is now sending reinforcements to prepare for an attack on the MNDAA units stationed in Monekoe.”

The rebel group has released pictures of some of the soldiers it has killed and their confiscated weapons and ammunition.

The MNDAA said it ambushed soldiers who were heading towards Monekoe on a road between Pang Hseng and the region of Nant Hu. Many junta soldiers retreated and left their weapons and dead comrades behind, the group added.

The resident said the MNDAA’s count of how many troops had died is an underestimate: “Many locals said that they found more bodies in the area. There are some people who found 17 more bodies near Nant Hu, so we are pretty sure the military lost many more people.”

Hundreds of people have been displaced by the fighting. The military council has also been fighting with the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) in Monekoe recently.

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They seems like a Lebanon style total cluster 'F. The Chinese will be happy just to get their railway built and operation, let online the oil line and port. Hahahaha. 4th generation warfare cometh.
 

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Attacks on junta personnel have increased in Yangon and Mandalay after the parallel National Unity Government (NUG) declared war against the military regime, said the military’s spokesman.

Before the NUG declared war on Tuesday, there were only around three attacks per day in each city, but on Tuesday Yangon and Mandalay reported at least five, said regime spokesman Major General Zaw Min Tun.

“In Yangon, there was not a single incident the whole day sometimes. But yesterday, there were five incidents. There were more than five incidents in Mandalay. Attacks have increased,” he said.

At least 15 attacks targeting junta soldiers and police were recorded per day nationwide in March and April following the military’s February coup. And attacks started to decline in August, he said.

Attacks were reported in Dala, Mayangone, Thingangyun and North Okkalapa townships in Yangon on Tuesday and explosives were used in most attacks.

“In Thingangyun, [attackers] threw a bomb at the township electricity office, injuring a member of staff. [Attackers] threw a bomb on Garuna Street in North Okkalapa and attempted to run away. [Soldiers] chased them and two suspects were detained,” said Maj-Gen Zaw Min Tun.

Two motorcycle riders threw a bomb at the administration office in Shwe Kyar Pin ward, Zabuthiri Township in Naypyitaw on Tuesday evening. The bomb did not explode and was deactivated. The attack was the first after the NUG declared war on the junta. The capital, the military’s main stronghold, has seen almost no attacks since the coup.

Seven clashes took place on Tuesday in Tanintharyi, Sagaing and Magwe regions and Shan, Kayah and Chin states, according to the NUG’s defense ministry. Nine explosions were reported in Yangon, Bago, Mandalay, Magwe and Sagaing regions, it said.


 

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An eyewitness told Myanmar Now that a military battalion at the base of Mandalay Hill was attacked with a grenade by members of the People’s Defence Force (PDF) on Tuesday, reportedly killing two junta troops and injuring one PDF fighter.

The PDF members allegedly threw the grenade from a motorcycle at around 6pm.

“Two soldiers died and one of the bombers was hit when the soldiers started shooting back. We heard that he’s in critical condition but we don’t know where he was hit,” the eyewitness said.

A soldier stationed at a Mandalay military base said that the attack happened at a central armory battalion.

He told Myanmar Now that he did not have information about the number of injuries or casualties resulting from the attack.

The grenade attack followed another bombing at a police checkpoint in Mandalay in Thin Pan Kone ward in Pyigyidagun Township after the NUG’s announcement on Tuesday morning that the people’s resistance war had begun.

There were troops from several military units present including the central armory battalion, LIB 95, LID 101 and a machinery unit stationed near the base of Mandalay Hill.


 
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Resistance fighters in Sagaing Region’s Myaung Township have said they killed 12 junta soldiers and captured three police officers on Wednesday, while 10 more troops were killed the next day as they travelled to Myaung as reinforcements.

The fighting started in Myit Son village at around 10am, when members of the local chapter of the People’s Defence Force (PDF), which calls itself the Civilian Defence and Security Organisation of Myaung, came under heavy artillery fire.

The PDF fighters fled the village along with its residents and junta soldiers took over. The fighters then launched attacks on the occupying soldiers throughout the afternoon, killing nine, according to a statement by the Myaung PDF.

Later that day, PDF fighters raided a police station in the nearby village of Kyauk Yit. Several officers fled with their weapons but three, including the station chief, surrendered and are now being detained in a safe place, a PDF member told Myanmar Now.

After the raid, three military trucks full of soldiers arrived at the police station and there was a shootout. PDF fighters killed three soldiers before retreating, the statement said, adding that junta soldiers then occupied the police station.

The resistance fighters went on to attack another police station in the village of Na Bet, around 11km north of Kyauk Yit, the statement said.

On Thursday morning, the military sent reinforcements from Yesagyo in neighbouring Magway Region but PDF members from Myingyan Township attacked their trucks before they could reach Myaung, said the Myaung PDF member. He estimated that at least 10 junta soldiers were killed in the ambush.

Myaung, Yesagyo and Myingyan townships all sit at the confluence of the Ayeyarwaddy and Chindwin rivers. The military has been carrying out “clearance operations” to quell armed resistance in the area since last month, forcing many residents to flee their homes.


The Kachin Independence Army (KIA) used landmines to attack a military column travelling through Tanai Township in Kachin State on Wednesday morning and subsequently besieged the troops, according to the organisation’s spokesperson.

KIA information officer Col Naw Bu said that the troops were cut off on the Tanai - Shing Bwi Yang road near Lajarbum village—some 20 miles northwest of Tanai—at 8am.

A clash is believed to have ensued.

“We still can’t disclose detailed information as the news from the ground and the details of the battle haven’t reached us yet,” he told Myanmar Now.

Local media reported that the military column was headed to Ta Ron village, halfway to Shing Bwi Yang, and was blocked by the KIA’s 45th Battalion under Brigade 2. Civilian vehicles were also allegedly barred temporarily from using the route.

A local told Myanmar Now that the situation was tense as the military column was unable to leave the area due to the KIA attack, and that residents of villages near the area were making preparations to flee if the fighting intensified.

A junta unit of some 200 soldiers stationed in Dawthponeyan (Dawpumyang) was seen heading toward the KIA headquarters in Laiza on the Kachin-China border on Wednesday as well, local news outlets reported.

Col Naw Bu said he was unable to confirm this information, and said the soldiers could have “reached somewhere else” at the time of reporting.

“I think, if that was true [that they were going to Laiza], we’d have received some information from the ground by now, but we haven’t heard anything about them arriving in our territory or anyone spotting them,” he explained.

He added that Tanai Township was the primary location where tension between the military and the KIA was high at the time of reporting.

The KIA attacked a Myanmar military base in Homalin Township in Sagaing Region, after the shadow administration, the National Unity Government, declared war on the junta on Tuesday.

Col Naw Bu confirmed that the Homalin battle took place but that he had not yet received a ground report on the incident.

Battles between the KIA and the military started in northern Shan State after Myanmar’s February 1 coup, and then later spread to Kachin State. The battles have largely been concentrated in Hpakant, Momauk, Dawthponeyan and Waingmaw townships.


VIDEO - About 5,000 people from 15 villages, including Kinma village, which was destroyed by members of Myanmar's military junta, in Pauk Township, Magway, have been fled their homes, fearing attacks by the coup regime.


 

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Myanmar’s junta has suffered an increasing number of attack by the People’s Defense Forces (PDF) across the country since the civilian National Unity Government (NUG) declared war on the regime.

In a speech on Tuesday, the NUG’s acting president, Duwa Lashi La, called on all citizens to “revolt against the rule of the military terrorists led by [coup leader] Ming Aung Hlaing in every corner of the country by declaring the state of emergency”.

Myanmar has since seen a growing number of PDF explosions and attacks on junta forces and military-owned telecom masts.

Many PDFs urged people to be alert, avoid non-essential travel and help the civilian resistance as more violence is expected.

The military regime’s spokesman Major General Zaw Min Tun admitted that attacks on junta personnel had increased in Yangon and Mandalay after the NUG’s announcement.

On Thursday a junta soldier was reportedly killed and three others wounded after a PDF bomb attack in Monywa Township, Sagaing Region.

A Monywa PDF video shows around five junta troops inspecting vehicles on a road being hit by a remote-controlled bomb.

On Wednesday, the PDF in Kale, Sagaing Region, said it ambushed a military convoy on the Gangaw highway using landmines and explosives.

The group said it believed many junta troops were killed in the ambush and PDF volunteers escaped without injury.

Junta soldiers burned down nine Kanthar village homes and killed three villagers, including one who suffers from mental illness, at Doe Nwe village in southern Kale Township, according to the PDF.

Three intense firefights occurred in Myaung Township, Sagaing Region, on Wednesday when troops used explosives while attempting to raid PDF strongholds in the township, according to Myaung’s Civilian Defense and Security Organization.

During the firefights, members of four Mandalay Region PDFs joined the Myaung group to resist the junta forces.

At least nine junta soldiers were killed during two firefights at Myitsone village in Myaung Township on Wednesday, the group said.

The combined force also ambushed approximately 60 military reinforcements in three vehicles arriving at Kyauk Yit village in the township to retake a police outpost seized by the PDF. Another three junta troops were killed, according to the Myaung group.

The PDF set Nabet village’s police outpost on fire on Wednesday in the township, the group said.

“The fighting is in response to attacks by the junta troops on us,” a PDF member in Myaung told The Irrawaddy.

On Tuesday, junta forces blew up a PDF camp in the township.

Five junta soldiers were killed in an ambush in Pekon Township, Kayah State, on Wednesday by the township’s PDF and the Karenni Nationalities Defense Force (KNDF).

In response, junta soldiers killed two civilians on a motorbike, the KNDF said.

Junta troops deployed near Daw Poese village and a police station in Demoso Township, Kayah State, were also attacked on Tuesday.

The Yaw Defense Force said it ambushed two military vehicles patrolling in Gangaw Township, Magwe Region, on Tuesday, reportedly killing nine junta soldiers and wounding 10 others.

Myanmar’s junta is also being attacked by ethnic armed groups in Kachin, Shan, Kayah, Mon and Karen states and Sagaing and Tanintharyi regions.

Since the NUG’s war announcement, the regime is escalating inspections and arrests across the country.

By Wednesday, 1,054 people have been killed by junta forces during their raids, arrests, crackdowns, interrogations and shooting, said the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners.

An estimated 7,973 people, including elected government leaders, have also been detained by the junta or face arrest warrants.


 
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