Kachin Forces Attack Regime In Mogok
By Network Media Group
Thursday, May 11, 2023
Kachin resistance forces clashed several times with the sit-tat (Burma Army) in ruby-rich Mogok at the end of April, where the junta fighters are deployed in villages in the township of the same name in Mandalay Division.
According to the Mongmit People’s Defence Force (PDF), which is fighting alongside the Kachin Independence Army (KIA), at least 12 sit-tat soldiers and police officers were killed in clashes in the town and the surrounding area from 25 to 29 April.
The PDF reported that it attacked the Myoma Police Station in Mogok with the KIA at around 4am on 25 April, and soldiers staying at a Buddhist monastery in Bamon village the next day in the evening.
“Burma army soldiers have been staying in Bamon and already installed heavy weapons” where villagers have been ordered to leave, an anonymous source from Mogok town said.
On 29 April, the Kachin resistance attacked sit-tat troops staying at an electricity station near Nang Nwet Pawtaw Mu Pagoda, an electricity distribution office in Min Tantar Ward and other junta soldiers staying in Mogok.
According to a second source, who also requested anonymity, a shell blew up the electricity distribution office and smashed the windows of a nearby house.
A woman who spoke with NMG, also asking her name not be published, said, “I heard that the Myoma Police Station was attacked with an RPG. It sounded like thunder, and then I heard more explosions followed by gunfire but I can not tell from which part of the town.”
Connectivity in the town has been cut off for almost two years, limiting information about the fighting for people outside Mogok and even for the local population. The regime has also arrested many local journalists.
