Burma
Demoso PDF resistance fighters. / Demoso-PDF
By The Irrawaddy 28 July 2022
Nearly 20 Myanmar junta personnel have reportedly been killed by Individuals’s Protection Forces (PDF) nationwide in retaliation for the army regime’s execution of 4 anti-coup activists.
The junta executed former Nationwide League for Democracy lawmaker Ko Phyo Zeya Thaw, veteran democracy activist Ko Jimmy, Ko Hla Myo Aung and Ko Aung Thura Zaw at Yangon’s Insein Jail over the weekend, after accusing them of masterminding armed resistance towards the regime and being concerned in anti-junta actions.
Within the final three days, a number of PDF teams carried out a sequence of revenge assaults focusing on regime forces and their informants in Yangon, Mandalay and Magwe areas and Chin, Kayah and Mon States.
On Wednesday evening, resistance group Daung Sit The claimed to have bombed two police stations in Yangon’s Thaketa Township in an operation named ‘Zeya Thaw’ after one of many executed activists.
An area resident advised The Irrawaddy that there was a loud blast adopted by quite a lot of gunfire.
Daung Sit The mentioned that their fighters managed to flee. Nonetheless, regime casualties are nonetheless unknown.
Chin Protection Power-Kanpetlet claimed to have killed 4 junta troopers and police in a raid on regime forces stationed on the authorities workplaces in Kanpetlet City, Chin State on Wednesday. There have been no resistance casualties, in response to the group.
Mon State Revolutionary Group mentioned it killed a regime soldier in an assault on a checkpoint in Ye Township, Mon State on early Wednesday morning in retaliation for the executions,
Additionally early on Wednesday, three regime troopers have been killed and lots of others injured when Yesagyo Revolution Group used a bike to bomb a army checkpoint close to the Technological College in Yesagyo Township, Magwe Area.
The PDF mentioned that they set a bomb within the bike’s toolbox, earlier than putting it close to the junta checkpoint in entrance of the college. The bomb went off after a regime soldier seized the bike and opened the toolbox.
Yesagyo Revolution Group claimed the assault was in response to the junta’s execution of the 4 democracy activists.
Elsewhere in Magwe Area, a mixed pressure of eight PDFs launched an operation named ‘Zeya Thaw’ early on Tuesday, raiding Tatkone Village in Pauk Township, the place Myanmar army models and pro-junta Pyu Noticed Htee militia are based mostly.
Through the raid, seven regime troopers have been killed and lots of others injured, mentioned Younger Revolution Entrance, who coordinated the assault and submitted pictures of a weapon, grenade and ammunition seized within the raid.
Taungoo District PDF claimed to have killed former soldier U Aung Zaw Oo, a army informant, on Tuesday in Taungoo in Bago Area. The PDF claimed that the sufferer was additionally a frontrunner of a neighborhood Pyu Noticed Htee group.
It mentioned the assassination was in retaliation for the execution of the 4 democracy activists.
Demoso PDF claimed to have killed three regime troops on Monday, when a mixed pressure of resistance teams attacked troopers deployed at Daw Ngan Khar Village in Demoso Township, Kayah State. Two PDF fighters have been injured within the raid, mentioned Demoso PDF.
On Monday evening, PDF fighters attacked one of many entry gates of Insein Jail in retaliation for the hanging of the 4 political prisoners, mentioned Yangon Ghost Ranger Power, the resistance group that carried out the assault.
In Mandalay Area, a mixed PDF group ambushed regime forces on Monday evening with a mine in Amarapura Township. Army casualties are unknown.
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