The stays of a home after junta jets bombed a village in Papun Township, Karen State on December 19, 2022. Photograph/ Karen Peace Help Community
By The Irrawaddy 21 December 2022
Myanmar junta forces have suffered heavy losses over the previous two weeks in Papun Township, Karen State, in line with the Karen Nationwide Union (KNU).
A complete of 78 clashes between navy regime troops and fighters from the Karen Nationwide Liberation Army (KNLA), the KNU’s armed wing, happened in Papun between December 1 and December 15, KNU-Mutraw News mentioned on Tuesday. KNU-Mutraw News is the media wing of the KNLA’s Brigade 5, which operates in Papun.
Some 21 Myanmar navy forces, together with members of its allied border guard models, had been killed within the clashes, whereas 15 others together with a significant had been captured, the KNU mentioned. Three Karen resistance fighters died and 13 others had been injured.
The KNU mentioned it managed to destroy seven junta-occupied buildings. The regime retaliated with 9 airstrikes on each resistance forces and civilian targets utilizing 64 bombs. Furthermore, the junta launched 75 artillery shells within the space, together with on civilian targets, killing a civilian and injuring one other.
The KNU is Myanmar’s oldest insurgent group. Its armed wings have been combating the junta since March final yr, after a whole lot of peaceable anti-regime demonstrators had been killed throughout the nation.
Many Individuals’s Protection Forces have been skilled and armed by the KNU and are collaborating with the Karen resistance in combating the regime.
By, November, an estimated 7,227 clashes had been reported by the KNU in its territory in Karen and Mon States and Bago and Tanintharyi areas.
A minimum of 6,187 regime troopers had been killed in these clashes and 4,985 injured, whereas 30 resistance fighters had been killed and 60 injured, the KNU mentioned lately.
