Spring Revolution Daily News for 12 July 2023

12 July 2023
Spring Revolution Daily News for 12 July 2023
Demonstrators holding posters, flaming torches and flares, march during an anti-military coup protest at downtown area in Yangon, Myanmar, 26 June 2021.  Photo: EPA

The National Unity Government (NUG)

  • In the government meeting on Tuesday, the Acting President of the NUG claimed that it was not possible at all to be weak in the project to uproot the military dictatorship in the Spring Revolution.
  • The Ministry of Foreign Affairs- NUG announced on Monday that their Union Minister had successfully completed an official trip to Timor-Leste and had discussed bilateral cooperation along with political affairs.
  • In Thailand, the authorities arrested 126 Myanmar migrant students from a district school in the middle of the country and arranged to send them back to their country. Regarding that, the NUG, in cooperation with social groups, had been making an effort to sort it out.
  • At 10:00 am Monday, there was a meeting between the Ministry of Home Affairs and Immigration- NUG and the Township People’s Administration Team from Bago Region, Ayeyarwady Region, Yangon Region and Taninthayi Region.
  • At 3:00 pm Monday, there was a meeting between the Central Committee on the Interim Public Administration- NUG and Township People’s Administration from Sagaing Region.
  • Bago Region PDF announced on Tuesday that they had conducted a sniper attack via on the junta inspection gate on Sittaung River Bridge in Yetashay Township of Bago Region on Monday morning.

Revolutionary Activities

  • In Indonesia, the 56th Meeting of the ASEAN Foreign Ministers and related ones got started on Tuesday. Reportedly, the military junta was excluded from the meeting.
  • The Myanmar Youth Association called on the ASEAN Special Ambassador to Myanmar to regard the military junta as a terrorist group and exclude them from all ASEAN meetings.
  • Even in the midst of local instability, a rally of Salingyi and Yinmabin conducted their 841-day protest against the military dictatorship on Tuesday.
  • On Monday, a rally of Yinmabin and Salingyi carried out an anti-junta movement along with the performance.
  • In Monywa Township of Sagaing Region, the junta army set fire to betel plantations and farm-houses behind Ma-U Village for no apparent reason at about 7:00 am Tuesday.
  • At about 5:00 pm on 8 July, local PDFs carried out an attack via mortars on No. (28) Police Force on Monywa-Pathein Road in Yinmabin Township.
  • Although the fighter jet was flying over the area, a combined rally of villages from Yinmabin marched against the military dictatorship on Tuesday.
  • In Dibeyin Township, the S&C donated fertilizers for the third time to the victims of Cyclone Mocha and the victims of the junta’s fire so that they could grow paddy in the rainy season in a timely manner.
  • In Thabaitgyin Township of Mandalay Region, a local PDF called for contribution to rations in the rainy season.
  • In Madayar Township, there was a mine attack on the junta army on the morning of 9 july. Reportedly, 5 junta soldiers died.
  • In Yetashay Township of Bago Region, Zin Myo Tun (alias) Kywegyi, who had ruthlessly killed his own daughter and another by slitting their throats, was shot dead on 2 July.
  • In Phyuu Township, a local PDF blew up Thayetgone Bridge, used by the junta army, at about 4:00 am on Monday.
  • Among the 37 political prisoners from Kyaikzakaw Prison of Dike-U Township in Bago Region, 17 of them were sent to Yangon’s Insein Prison. Reportedly, they were beaten and kept in solitary confinement.
  • In Beelin Township of Mon State, the revolution forces attacked the house of a military officer, who had been back to Zoatthoat Village for medical treatment, at 8:15 pm Sunday.
  • In Loikaw Township of Karenni State, the junta army shot dead a teenager aged 17 and another villager on Tuesday morning.
  • On Monday, Myanmar’s Labor Force expressed their support for Singapore-based UOB Bank closing the foreign currency accounts of MAI Airline, a partner of the military junta.

Ethnic Armed Organisations

  • In Phyuu Township of Bago Region, a combined force of the KNLA attacked Oatphyat Police Station and the junta gate on Oatphyat Bridge on Monday afternoon. Reportedly, 10 junta soldiers died.
  • Starting from Tuesday morning, there was an attack on the junta army camp in Yardo Village on the Shan-Karenni border.
  • On Loikaw-Mobye Road, there was an attack on a junta convoy at about 7:00 am Tuesday. Reportedly, there were a large number of casualties among junta soldiers.
  • At the entrance to Loikaw, there was an attack on a junta convoy on Tuesday morning. Afterwards, the junta army fired mortars, killing 2 people.
  • We Are Karenni called for contribution to the rations for those fighting in frontline battles of Karenni State and for an IDP camp in western Demoso Township.
  • In Maesal Township of Karenni State, Demoso PDF confiscated weapons scattered from a junta support plane at about 1:00 pm on 6 July.
  • In Titain Township of Chin State, a combined force of CDFs attacked the junta army camp in Theinngin Village starting from Monday night. As the junta army had suffered great losses, they conducted aerial attacks via fighter jets.
  • In the Kawthoolei Administration Area, there have been battles between the KNLA + KNDO and the junta armed forces. According to the Karen National Union, the number of IDPs has reached up to 599,400.
  • In Kachin State, there was heavy fighting between Kachin Independence Army and the junta armed forces near Laiza on Tuesday morning. Reportedly, the junta army had a great loss.
  • In Kyaukme Township of Shan North, there was a battle between the junta armed forces and the Ta’ang National Liberation Army in Namtway Area on Monday.
  • In Shan North, there was a battle between the junta army and TNLA near Muse on Tuesday morning.

The Military Council

  • In his inspection tour on Monday, the junta leader Min Aung Hlaing claimed that there would be action against those selling construction materials at high prices in Rakhine State which had been hit by Cyclone Mocha.
  • The junta leader said that he had been doing the right thing no matter what.
  • According to the the junta Trade Department, the exports from the CMP garment sector earned over 865 million USD in the first three months of the current fiscal year.
  • On Monday, the junta’s Insein Medicine Factory announced that they would like to purchase 1600 snakes to produce antivenom.
  • In Taungoo of Bago Region, the junta armed forces invited the monks from Naypyi Taw to recite Parittas and conduct religious rituals.
  • In Maungtaw Township of Rakhine State, the junta Border Guard Forces tightened security measures after ALP members were arrested and police officers ran away.
  • On entrance to Maubin, a junta soldier shot dead a junta captain and committed suicide. Reportedly, his son- a captain was dismissed from the army and his family was driven away from the army housing.

Summary on 12 July

  • The NUG managed to take official trips to the countries in ASEAN Region and discuss until they reached agreements. In other words, their international relations are leveling up.
  • The junta leader Min Aung Hlaing has been breaking international laws by not allowing international organizations and civil society organizations to help in Rakhine State, the storm-hit area. He then went there and pretended to love the public with fake words.