1. Acting President of NUG warned that the terrorist military council should not be given a break
The National Unity Government’s (NUG) Acting President Duwa Lashi La has warned that the terrorist military council cannot be given a break and that they must treat the war as a war and work to produce results.
Acting President Duwa Lashi La said this at the National Unity Government 10/2024 cabinet meeting held on March 12.
“I would like to say that we absolutely cannot allow the terrorist military council to rest. Now we can see the cases where the military council is trying to ask for a break. I want to say that we must hit hard while the iron is hot,” the acting president warned.
The Acting President said this at a time when the military council lost some of the northern Shan regions and was suffering in the Rakhine region, and the joint forces led by the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) and the joint forces led by the Karen National Union (KNU) were attacking the military council’s camps and battalion headquarters in the region.
He also urged them not to drift along the political trump cards used by the terrorist military council, but to take specific countermeasures wisely and decisively.
In the case of the Military Service Law, the terrorist military council is taking steps mixing military issue and political issue. Therefore, the president said that when counter-revolutionizing this issue, we will have to do it politically, and we may have to do it militarily as well.
The president also warned that, as for the National Unity Government, the military must be carefully thought out like a military one and that the side effects that may affect the public must be calculated in advance when making strategic plans.
“We need to anticipate the side effects that our strategic plans may have on the public. Effective medicine is often too bitter, and short-term medicines often have side effects. Therefore, I want to say that we need to have a good understanding of our strategy,” said the Acting President.
He went on to say that since the spring revolution is synonymous with the liberation of ethnic groups, we must strive for a good outcome of the war and the revolution.
If you look at the resistance battles and ethnic liberation battles during the Spring Revolution in general, you can see that there are similar battles with military results and revolutionary results.
“The wave of resistance of the Spring Revolution and the wave of the ethnic liberation revolution have reached a state where there is a direct connection. The Spring Revolution and the ethnic liberation revolution have become one. In such a situation, we need to be careful and avoid reckless political talk and actions. In addition, we need to firmly build the important foundations for the construction of a new federal democratic union in the future, and we also need to build it in advance without delaying the construction to the post-revolutionary period,” the National Unity Government’s Acting President Duwa Lashi La strongly urged.
2. Union Minister Dr. Zaw Wai Soe delivered an opening speech at the meeting between the Interim Local Administration Central Committee (ILACC) and the township people’s administrative bodies of Yangon Region
On March 12, at 1:00 p.m., the meeting between the NUG’s Interim Local Administration Central Committee (ILACC) and the township people’s administrative bodies of Yangon Region (5/2024) was held. At the meeting, Union Minister Dr. Zaw Wai Soe, Ministry of Health (MOH) and Ministry of Education (MOE), a member of the ILACC, gave an opening speech.
Following, members of the township people’s administrative bodies exchanged views with relevant officials regarding policies, directions, activities, and challenges encountered on the ground.
Led by Union Minister Dr. Zaw Wai Soe, the meeting was attended by Permanent Secretaries, Deputy Secretaries, Associate Permanent Secretaries, officials from ministries, and members of the township people’s administrative bodies of Yangon Region. The meeting successfully ended at 3:00 p.m.
3. The military council who fled from the camp capture battles near Laiza are trapped in Bum Re Bum Camp
According to Kachin military sources, only 3 military council camps are left to be occupied near Laiza, the headquarters of the Kachin Independence Army (KIA), and the military council soldiers who fled from the camps occupied by the KIA are trapped in Bum Re Bum Camp.
Starting on March 7, the KIA and joint forces launched offensives against the military council camps near Laiza. In a few days, they were able to capture more than 20 military camps, including the highest mountain in the area, Hkaya Bum Military Council Camp.
It is reported that nearly a thousand soldiers of the military council who fled from camp capture battles have gathered and are trapped in the Bum Re Bum Camp, one of the few remaining camps near Laiza.
Since the fighting started on March 7, all the junta columns from the captured camps, including the strategic commander of the column who fled from Hkaya Bum Camp, are gathering at that camp, and there could be hundreds to thousands of junta soldiers, a military source said.
He continued to say that because the KIA and joint forces have surrounded the Bum Re Bum Camp, the soldiers of the military council have no way out, and many forces are concentrated in one place, so they may face food shortage problems.
Bum Re Bum Camp is a very large strategic camp among the camps around Laiza, and there are still two small military council camps near Bum Re Bum Camp.
KIA spokesperson Colonel Naw Bu, who is in charge of the KIA’s Information and Communication Department, told the media in the past few days that the military council’s camps near the Laiza area have not been completely captured and the fighting is still going on intensely.
4. A car carrying 6 soldiers, including a lieutenant, was attacked and killed in Myingyan
According to local revolutionary forces, a car carrying the military council soldiers was attacked at a place on the outskirts of Myingyan, Mandalay Division, killing all 6 soldiers in the car and seizing weapons and ammunition.
On March 11, around 11:00 a.m., the local revolutionary forces opened fire on a Toyota Kluger car carrying military council soldiers out of Myingyan. As a result of the attack, 6 military council soldiers, including a lieutenant, were killed on the vehicle, and 6 guns, ammunition, and other equipment were seized. In the attack, one MA1 rifle, one MA2 machine gun, one MA3 rifle, one G3 rifle, one Type 81 automatic rifle, one MA5 rifle, ammunition and magazines, 4 phones, a walkie-talkie, and 5 thousand kyats were seized.
Residents said that after the attack, the Military Council patrolled the vicinity of the shooting.
The attack was cooperatively carried out by the People’s Liberation Army No. 815 (Northwestern Military Region), Ye Khaung Guerrilla Force (PLA), Myingyan 35 Force, and the BGF Force.
5. 5 policemen from Bawlakhe and Hpasawng police stations defected along with weapons and ammunition
On March 12, the Bawlakhe People’s Defense Force -BPDF announced that 5 policemen from the Bawlakhe Police Station and Hpasawng Police Station in Karenni State, under the military council, defected to it along with weapons and ammunition.
It is said that a policeman from Bawlakhe Myoma Police Station defected on December 19, 2023, with a G-3 rifle, 6 G-3 magazines, and 330 rounds of G-3 ammunition.
A police sergeant and 3 policemen from Hpasawng Myoma Police Station defected on March 3 along with 3 AK-M22 rifles, 1 G-3 rifle, 10 AK-M22 magazines, 550 rounds of AK ammunition, 10 hand grenades, 3 G3 magazines, and about 100 rounds of G3 ammunition.
The BPDF said that 5 defected policemen under the military council have now been sent to a safe and secure area.
Bawlakhe People’s Defense Force has announced that soldiers and policemen who want to defect can contact the BPDF- Bawlakhe People’s Defense Force, and they will be warmly welcomed.
- Acting President of NUG warned that the terrorist military council should not be given a break
- Union Minister Dr. Zaw Wai Soe delivered an opening speech at the meeting between the Interim Local Administration Central Committee (ILACC) and the township people’s administrative bodies of Yangon Region
- The military council who fled from the camp capture battles near Laiza are trapped in Bum Re Bum Camp
- A car carrying 6 soldiers, including a lieutenant, was attacked and killed in Myingyan
- 5 policemen from Bawlakhe and Hpasawng police stations defected along with weapons and ammunition
