The number two of the junta, General Soe Win, ordered the troops “to annihilate the popular inurgular defense forces”.
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Faced with increasing armed resistance in several parts of the country, the Tatmadaw, the Burmese army, is preparing to launch the offensive, with the arrival of the dry season in the coming weeks, consider observers from the country.
Just over eight months after the military coup of the $ 1, which overthrew the government of Aung San Suu Kyi, the People’s Defense Forces (PDF), a Nebula of nearly 300 resistant groups, inflicts increasing losses to the army: according to the NUG, the “government of national unity” at the head of the Resistance, 1,562 soldiers would have been killed between September 7, when The NUG declared the “total war against the junta”, and the 6th of October.
The explosions are daily in Rangoun and Mandalay – there were 178 in one month in the economic capital of the country, according to the NUG, a dozen during the visit, on October 8, General Putschist Min Aung Hlaing. The “resistance” targets convoys by resorting to explosive devils of fortune, and it sabotaged more than a hundred telephone relay of the Mytel company, linked to the Burmese army, as well as rail infrastructures.
According to Analyst Anthony Davis, a specialist in military matters, in Bangkok, the British journal Jane’s Defence Weekly, this great offensive, baptized the operation “Anawrahta”, name of the founder of the Kingdom of Pagan, in the Xi e century, must allow the Tatmadaw to “reaffirm a strategic domination long considered as acquired but which, week after week for six months, crumbles,” he writes on the site of Asia Times .
Accustomed to guarding against “ethnic armed organizations”, the Tatmadaw now faces fighters in Country Bamar (the main ethnicity), particularly in the central regions of Sagiag and Magway, but also in pacified ethnic regions for a long time, like the Chin state, on the Indian border, all to the west.
The army lost “his eyes and his ears”
The Irrawaddy , opposition site at the junta, reports that the number two, General Soe Win, ordered, on October 13, to the commanders and All forces “to annihilate the popular ingenic defense forces”. Another sign, the appointment, at the beginning of the month, of Lieutenant General Than Hlaing, the dreaded chief of the police who was the executing of the bloody repression against the peaceful manifestations of February and March, at the head of the northern military zone -On, in Monywa, in the region of Sagaing.
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