Spring Revolution Daily News for 17 June 2022

17 June 2022
Spring Revolution Daily News for 17 June 2022

The National Unity Government (NUG)

  • With Order No. 2/2022, the NUG announced on Thursday that the Interim Board for Heritage Administration has been established.
  • On Wednesday, the NUG Ministry of Health announced that they would take back justice without fail for healthcare staff and members of the public who had lost their lives, and that in accordance with the people’s law, they would also take serious action against those
  • involved in violent activities together with the military junta.
  • On 5 June, there was a gunfire at Akarik Beauty Saloon in Ward (37) of North Dagon in Yangon Region. In the incident, Zin Gyi, a vocalist off Myanmar Idol, was shot and so was a woman named Ma Pa Pa Win. According to her son, she was not an informer to the junta army. Regarding the case, the NUG Ministry of Defence will make necessary investigations.

Revolutionary Activities

  • In Thaketa Township in Yangon Region, there was a bomb explosion near the Eastern District Court at about 7:20 am Thursday.
  • In Dagon Township, there was a bomb explosion near the regional military office on Boyarnyunt Street on Thursday morning. In the incident, a bomber was allegedly seriously injured. According to local residents, the junta armed forces blocked off the streets for
  • inspections.
  • In Shwebo Township in Sagaing Region, the junta armed forces set fire to 103 houses in Paukchai Village on 12 June.
  • On the 462 nd day of their protest, a combined rally of villagers from Salingyi and Yinmabin marched against the military dictatorship on Thursday.
  • In Taze Township, a combined force of local PDFs attacked the junta army and Pyu Saw Htee in Inkokka Village at about 8:00 pm on Tuesday. Reportedly, no less than 17 members of the junta armed forces died and many others were injured.
  • In Salingyi Township, a combined rally of local market people marched for the downfall of the military dictatorship.
  • In Chaung-U Township, CHUPDF attacked the junta army and Pyu Saw Htee on Tuesday. Reportedly, six Pyu Saw Htee members died and military uniforms and some weapons were confiscated.
  • In North Okkalapa Township in Yangon Region, there was a grenade attack at the house of Soe Shein, a retired PSO of the former military dictator Than Shwe, in Ga Ward on Thursday at noon. Reportedly, the explosion happened on the plastic covers in front of the house.
  • In Longlone Township in Tanintharyi Region, youths expressed their objection to the military dictatorship somewhere in the mountain on Thursday, raising an anti-junta banner.
  • In Thabaitgyin Township in Mandalay Region, a military convoy was attacked with mines by Dagaung PDF near Hsinnyut Village at 3:48 pm on Wednesday. Reportedly, a military truck was burnt out, three junta soldiers died and two others were injured.
  • In Tandabin Township in Bago Region, the junta army invading the area shot dead Ko Min near Gwa-I Village. Reportedly, the man had a pregnant wife and a son.
  • In Kyaiklat Township in Ayeyarwaddy Region, U Aung San Tun, the junta administrator of Teteku Village, was shot dead at about 3:00 pm on Wednesday.
  • According to Assistance Association for Political Prisoners on Wednesday, up to 114 people, including two young people under the age of 18, have been sentenced to death less than 500 days after the military coup.
  • According to the Students’ Army Force- SAF, 10 members of the junta army, including a captain, joined them.

Ethnic Armed Organisations

  • According to spokesperson of the Karen National Union (KNU), there has been effective cooperation between them and the NUG.
  • On Wednesday, the Chinland Defence Force–Hakha announced that the land of non-CDM staff and supporters of the military junta would be confiscated and used as necessary.
  • At about 9:30 am on Thursday, the junta army based in Mindat in Chin State shot mortars into Mwitwi Village. Reportedly, three local people were hit by mortar fire and lost their lives.
  • In Karenni State, 22 junta soldiers died in the battles between the junta armed forces and local ethnic defence forces in the second week of June. As for the Karenni forces, some members got injured. According to the Karenni National Defence Force (KNDF), the junta army was stationed in a church in Dawnyayku Battle and set fire to the church during their retreat.

The Military Council

  • The military junta announced that it had taken legal action against three people, including the junta Chief Minister of Yangon Region, and had charged them with corruption for the loss of over 38,000 million MMK of state funding.
  • The junta leader Min Aung Hlaing said that if more soya beans were grown in the country, local oil production would increase and the import of crushed soya beans for animal food would decrease.
  • According to the junta media, there was a meeting for a second day between the junta peace team and a delegation of the Arakan Liberation Party (ALP) led by Vice-Chair Daw Saw Mya Yarzar Linn in Nay Pyi Taw. Reportedly, they signed an agreement.
  • In a junta propaganda conference on Thursday, U Khin Mg Oo, a member of the junta election commission, said that the upcoming election was sure to be free and fair.
  • Zaw Min Tun, the junta propaganda spokesperson, said that there would be no better time than the present for peace.

Summary on 17 June

  • According to the junta media, the military junta and the ALP signed a peace agreement. No matter what, it would not be a true peace as both lack public support and the public is key. 
  • Without the ability to rule the country properly, the military junta has been making arrangements for the election without public support. It is just a copy of the election that validated the 2008 Constitution by force.
  • As for the revolutionary battles, they are getting heavier and heavier. Reportedly, the junta armed forces have had great losses everywhere they have fought. Consequently, they keep committing war crimes such as killing civilians, setting fire to villages and destroying religious buildings.
  • In Sagaing, Magwe, and Mandalay regions, and Chin, Kayin and Karenni states, there were heavy battles. In Yangon, Mandalay, Ayeyarwaddy and Bago regions, they had urban guerrilla revolutionary activities.