Junta troops have raided 14 camps belonging to anti-regime Individuals’s Protection Pressure militia in Myanmar’s Sagaing and Magway areas over the previous two weeks, killing 15 individuals, together with girls, militia officers stated.
The army doubtless carried out a number of the assaults after intercepting telephone calls between rebels or gleaning data from the interrogation of captured PDF members, in response to a former army officer who joined the nation’s anti-junta Civil Disobedience Motion following the February 2021 army coup d’etat.
A junta power of about 80 troopers raided a PDF camp in Sagaing on June 7, killing and burning 4 anti-regime fighters and two civilians in Monywa township’s Yae Kan Su village, an appearing battalion commander of Monywa district PDF’s Battalion 27 advised Radio Free Asia on situation of anonymity.
“Once we gathered about 200 individuals and went again into the village, we discovered the items of the burned our bodies that the junta troopers had left,” he stated. “We discovered the blood and flesh of the victims.”
The 4 fighters killed by the junta troops had been between the ages of 17 and 20, together with two ladies.
The Sagaing area has been an anti-junta stronghold and cradle of resistance to the nation’s brutal army rule for the reason that coup.
PDF fighters escaped a raid on their camp close to the city of Ayadaw in Sagaing on Could 28, however their prepare dinner – a 40-year-old lady – was captured, killed and burned, in response to a Ayadaw township PDF soldier who refused to be named for safety causes.
“The army council troops of about 40 or 50 troopers raided the camp,” he stated. “They burned down a hut, a automotive and 4 bikes.”
RFA referred to as junta spokesman Maj. Gen. Zaw Min Tun relating to the claims that army troops killed and burned the fighters and civilians, however his telephone rang unanswered.
Telephone calls tracked
The camps are sometimes unexpectedly raided after the army intercepts phone conversations, stated Kaung Thu Win, a former army captain now with the Civil Disobedience Motion.
“We should always solely discuss briefly if we have to use the telephone. We must be cautious of safety data in our dialog,” he stated.
“The identical goes with walkie-talkies,” he stated. “The junta has appointed individuals who perceive ethnic languages after they intercept the telecommunications of the revolutionary forces.”
The raids received’t severely harm the anti-regime struggle, political analyst Than Soe Naing stated.
“Simply because the anti-junta forces assault the army, gather their data and seize their supporters and informers, there are some pro-junta informers and supporters,” he stated.
The Nationwide Unity Authorities’s Ministry of Protection stated in an announcement Monday that there have been 500 armed clashes in 4 areas and states, together with Sagaing and Magway, final month, with 41 resistance troopers killed and 113 injured.
Translated by Myo Min Aung. Edited by Matt Reed and Malcolm Foster.
