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Myanmar Resistance Briefly Captures Junta Battalion HQ in Bago

Combined resistance forces briefly captured junta battalion HQ in Shwekyin Township, Bago Region last Thursday—only to lose it again when massive reinforcements arrived. The parallel National Unity Govt (NUG) on Sunday said its own armed wing, the People’s Defense Forces (PDF), & the Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA) jointly overran HQ of Light Infantry Battalion 598 at Nyaung Chay Htauk Village in Shwekyin. PDF’s Yangon Regional Command said resistance forces seized some 80 weapons together with ammunition & 3 anti-drone jammers during the attack & 30 regime soldiers were found dead at base, six were arrested with seven of their family members. The battalion commander & another 50 regime soldiers fled.

PDF video shows resistant raiding  base &seizing several weapons. The regime made a rare admission on Sunday its troops had to retreat due to the huge numbers of “enemy forces.” But 3,days of fighting later, junta reinforcements managed to retake base with support of airstrikes artillery attacks on Saturday.
Junta said its reinforcement were able to rally soldiers who had fled battalion HQ.
As “some” military personnel were killed or injured in fighting but added its own troops found bodies of six PDF/KNLA troops along w/weapons & ammunition.
On Friday, KNLA & allies seized regime’s Hteekhee base on Thai border in Tanintharyi Region’s Dawei Township. Noted: KNLA is an armed wing of Myanmar’s oldest ethnic political organization, Karen National Union, also has trained armed several thousands of anti-regime activists, since 2021 coup. It has also helped the civilian National Unity Government with the formation of People’s Defense Forces, now fighting in Karen & Mon States and Tanintharyi & Bago Regions have attacked regime targets in admin capital Naypyitaw.
https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/war-again...-bago.html