Magwe Resistance Hails Attack on Myanmar Junta Police Station

By The Irrawaddy 5 April 2023

Round 25 Myanmar junta personnel had been killed in a raid on a police station in northern Yesagyo Township, Magwe Area, on Tuesday morning, in keeping with resistance forces.

4 resistance teams from Magwe and Sagaing areas attacked the Ma Ou village base close to the Chindwin River, a Yesagyo Individuals’s Protection Power (PDF) spokesman advised The Irrawaddy on Wednesday.

Round 30 junta troopers and police had been purportedly stationed within the village.

The teams used rocket-propelled grenades and eight drones dropped round 30 bombs, the PDF spokesman mentioned.

After three hours of preventing resistance forces occupied the compound from the primary constructing.

The resistance forces claimed to have killed seven troopers and cops, together with Police Captain Myint Kyaw, the station’s commander.

PDF movies present bombs touchdown from drones in the course of the assault.

A drone video exhibits resistance fighters who’ve run out of ammunition throwing stones.

Landmines had been additionally used towards troops at pro-junta Zee Taw village who had been making an attempt to bolster the Ma Ou police station.

An estimated 17 troopers had been killed, the resistance teams claimed.

The Irrawaddy couldn’t independently confirm the reviews.

“We ready round 30 landmines earlier than the raid. We knew junta reinforcements would come to assist the Ma Ou police station,” mentioned the PDF spokesman.

Resistance forces at Ma Ou retreated when Russian-made MI-35 helicopters attacked for an hour and different junta reinforcements arrived.

Weapons and an anti-drone gun had been seized from the police station. Two resistance fighters suffered minor accidents and a drone was misplaced.

Yesagyo PDF mentioned the resistance forces primarily depend on public funding to provide weapons and ammunition.

“The persons are bored with supplying us. We want the Nationwide Unity Authorities to provide us with correct weapons like machine weapons and grenade launchers,” mentioned the PDF spokesman. “Heavier weapons are wanted to occupy junta bases.”

On November 2021, Yesagyo PDF and different resistance teams occupied the Ma Ou police station, killing two cops.

Matters: civil disobedience motion, civilian deaths, Coup, crackdown, Democracy, Human Rights, junta, Magwe Area, navy in politics, navy regime, Min Aung Hlaing, Nationwide League for Democracy, Nationwide Unity Authorities, November 8 common election, PDF, Individuals’s Protection Power, folks’s conflict, Political Prisoners, regime, Rule of Regulation, State Administrative Council, State Counselor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, Tatmadaw, Yesagyo Individuals’s Protection Power