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Fighting broke out on February 16 when two junta armored cars and over one thousand regime soldiers entered Heigh Kwee Dam and War Yi Phu Pha Lai Village near Moebye.
Resistance fighters from Moebye PDF, Loikaw PDF, Demoso PDF, Pekon PDF, Karenni Army, Karenni Nationalities Defense Force, Karenni Generation Z Army, Fight for Justice and other groups are battling the military regime forces.
One resistance fighter told The Irrawaddy that there have been daily junta air and artillery strikes in and around Moebye.
“While we are talking, the airstrikes are coming”, he said.
“The fighting is still going on. It has been six days now,” he added.
War Yi Phu Pha Lai and Wi Thae Ku Shar villages, which are close to the border of Kayah and Shan states, are seeing the most intense clashes.
On Monday, PDF fighters claimed to have killed a number of regime soldiers. One resistance fighter was killed.
Last Thursday, around 20 PDF fighters died in the fighting. However, the PDFs claim that junta casualties are far higher.
A local resident told The Irrawaddy that artillery based in Pekon Township has been firing at least five times a day.
“The blast from the artillery shakes the walls of our houses. Some walls are cracking now.”
Thousands of people from Moebye, Pekon and the town of Nan Mei Khon have fled the fighting.
Over 170,000 people have been displaced by the fighting in Kayah State, with clashes taking place almost daily in Loikaw and Demoso townships, according to the Karenni Human Rights Group, which is helping the refugees.
Some 120,000 of those displaced are still in Kayah State, taking shelter at monasteries and in the forest, after being forced from their homes by junta raids and air and artillery strikes. The largest number of refugees come from Demoso Township.
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The ASEAN countries that supply arms and investment to the Myanmar Junta
Despite its souring relationship with the Myanmar junta, some governments and businesses from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) have supplied arms, funds and investments to the Myanmar military.
According to the latest report by Justice for Myanmar (JFM), a group of activists campaigning for justice and accountability for the people of Myanmar, six countries—Indonesia, the Philippines, Vietnam, Cambodia, Singapore and Thailand—are involved in sectors including arms sales, telecoms and oil and gas.
JFM released the statement on Thursday as ASEAN held a summit in Cambodia and mainly discussed the Myanmar crisis. Myanmar’s top diplomat Wunna Maung Lwin was barred from the summit in Phnom Penh over a lack of progress in defusing the violence and implementing the five-point consensus.
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Indonesia and the Philippines supply arms to the Junta
JFM said in the report that Indonesia and the Philippines have supplied arms to the junta.
An Indonesian state owned enterprise, PT Pindad, exported bullets to Myanmar in 2020 while Philippine arms manufacturing company United Defense Manufacturing Corporation (UDMC) shipped guns to Myanmar in August 2017.
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Vietnam partners with Myanmar Junta in telecommunications
In the telecommunications sector, Viettel Global, owned by the Vietnamese Ministry of National Defense, is a joint investor with a Myanmar military conglomerate in Mytel.
Mytel is a major source of revenue and technology for the Myanmar military.
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Cambodian citizen's role in Myanmar integrated tourism development
She Zhi Jiang, a Cambodian citizen, is the main investor in the Yatai City project in Shwe Kokko, Myawaddy Township, a huge real estate, casino and entertainment development.
Yatai City is being developed as a joint venture with the Karen State Border Guard Force, a militia group under the command of the Myanmar military.
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Singapore is a key source of business activities with the Myanmar Junta
In the financial sector, Singapore is a key source of business activities between the Myanmar military and its partners.
JFM reported that the Singapore Stock Exchange (SGX)-listed Emerging Towns & Cities Singapore (ETC) made payments worth millions of dollars to the regime for property development by renting property from the Quartermaster General’s Office of the Myanmar army.
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Thailand invests in gas projects in Myanmar
In the oil and gas sector, PTT Public Co. Ltd, whose majority shareholder is the government of Thailand, is an operator and investor in multiple gas exploration projects in Myanmar.
PTT Exploration and Production (PTTEP), a subsidiary of PTT, will be alone at the Yadana gas production project in Myanmar as Total Energies from France and Chevron Corp of the U.S. plan to exit the country due to the humanitarian situation following last year's coup.
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Stop doing business with the Myanmar Junta
The Blood Money Campaign, which works to keep the military regime from earning foreign currency income and to prevent international businesses from working with the military, called on ASEAN members and other foreign countries to stop doing business with the military.
Ko Ye, a spokesperson for the campaign, said, “Rather than telling the junta to stop the violence and crimes, they need to get involved in practical efforts to cut out doing business with the junta.”
JFM pointed out that no ASEAN countries have placed sanctions on the junta or its businesses.
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JFM: Stop supplying arms and equipment to the Myanmar Junta
Yadanar Maung, a spokesperson for JFM, said, “ASEAN governments and companies must immediately end business with the military junta and its partners, and stop supplying arms and equipment to the terrorist military.”
Ref: https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/asean-a-source-of-arms-investment-for-myanmar-junta-report.html
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Burmese in Myanmar urged to join "222222" general strike against Junta regime
Anti-regime forces have called on the Myanmar people to join a mass protest planned for Tuesday that is being referred to as the “Regathering for the Six Twos Revolution”, a reference to the date, 22.2.2022. The protest is also being referred to as “Revolt by the Rural, Defiance by the Urban.”
On 22 February 2021 (22.2.2021), three weeks after the military seized power, protesters across Myanmar took to the streets in a general strike known as the “Five Twos Revolution,” in one of the largest nationwide shows of opposition to the military.
People have been urged to take to the streets in the “Six Twos Revolution” wearing bamboo or other hats as well as Thanakha, a traditional face powder, and holding flowers and bouquets. People, if possible, are also urged to scatter papers bearing anti-coup slogans along with flowers, raise a three-finger salute and bang pots and pans at 8 pm.
Strike committees have urged the people to join the protest by any other means if they are not able to participate in said activities.
“Millions of people took to the streets in last year’s ‘Five Twos’ revolution. And we want to organize a campaign on Feb. 22 this year in which millions of people can participate. We want to show that people still oppose military rule and that the anti-coup movements remain strong,” said Ko Khant Wai Phyo, a member of the Monywa General Strike Committee.
“We always have trust in the people. People have time and again shown that they are totally against the coup and military dictatorship. I believe we will be able to show it again tomorrow. So, we have suggested those methods which we think can allow people to subtly show their opposition with minimum risk to themselves,” he said.
Over 30 general strike committees from different parts of Myanmar led by the General Strike Coordination Body (GSCB) have called for the strike. Myanmar expats in foreign countries, celebrities and activists have also called on the people to join the mass demonstrations on Tuesday.
Activists and Buddhist monks in Mandalay took to the streets on Monday, urging the people to join the “Six Twos Revolution.”
The leader of a women’s alliance in Mandalay, Ma Aye Myint Aung Aung, said: “At this time last year, many people across the country took to the streets. But, mass demonstrations can’t be held this year. So, we have suggested the ways people can participate in the protest. And I would like to urge the people to join the protest.”
Meanwhile, pro-junta Telegram accounts issued threats against activists who show support for the “Six Twos Revolution”, urging the regime to arrest those who back the general strike on social media.
GCSB spokesman Ko Nan Lin told The Irrawaddy, “The military regime and its pillars are really frightened by public campaigns. So, they have used threats to deter the people from participating in those campaigns. They are trying to instill fear in people because they are frightened by public campaigns. In no country are people arrested for holding flowers and wearing Thanakha. I want to urge the people not to worry about threats from the other side.”
He added, “Every public activity is a serious blow to the military regime. Fighting is not the only answer in the Spring Revolution. There will be progress in this revolution only when we make collaborative efforts through military, political and diplomatic means and public campaigns.”
What happened during the Myanmar "222222" strike?
Myanmar junta forces arrested at least four people including a young protester and forced a pregnant woman to miscarry in Sagaing Region’s Monywa during a violent crackdown against a demonstration held as part of the nationwide “Six Twos Revolution” (222222) strike on Tuesday.
A two-months pregnant woman who took part in the strike suffered a miscarriage after junta forces rammed the motorbike she was on.
On Tuesday morning, plainclothes regime forces tried to ram the protesters with a car on a road in Monywa City, the capital of Sagaing. The pregnant woman and another young woman, both in their 20s, were on the motorbike and scattering anti-regime leaflets and roses.
The pregnant woman lost her child in the afternoon after discharging blood clots, according to the Monywa Strike Committee.
Before the ramming, a young man was arrested after being shot and wounded in the thigh.
“When the two women were scattering the anti-regime leaflets, the plainclothes regime forces tried to hit them with a car. But the car’s tire was punctured. The motorbike fell over and the rider picked up the bike and drove away, leaving the two women behind,” said the leader of the Monywa protest committee.
The pregnant woman asked for help from other motorbike riders but they refused to assist her.
“When she asked for help from another rider and tried to get on, the rider saw the roses in her hand and pushed her from the bike. Due to that pressure, she lost her pregnancy,” said the committee leader.
However, both women escaped arrest.
People across Yangon, Mandalay, Sagaing, Magwe and Tanintharyi regions and Shan and Karen states joined the “Six Twos Revolution”, a reference to Tuesday’s date, 22.2.2022.
Earlier, people were urged to join a nationwide strike on the one year anniversary of the “Five Twos” strike on the same day last year, when millions of Myanmar people took to the streets.
People participated in Tuesday’s strike wearing bamboo and other hats, as well as Thanakha, a traditional face powder, and holding flowers and bouquets to show their continued defiance of the military regime.
Some people posted photos of themselves wearing bamboo hats and holding flowers and shared them on social media.
Young people and activists across all townships continue to defy the junta, said Maung Seint, a member of the General Strike Committee in Yangon.
He said, “Our people continue to support the anti-regime movement in whatever ways possible, by clapping and shouting slogans, amid the junta’s oppression. The junta forces arrest and kill civilians, but we vow to continue our fight to achieve our goals [of restoring democracy and building a federal union].”
A strike leader in Magwe, the capital of Magwe Region, said, “Today, we people are proving that we totally reject the military dictatorship. People take part in any strikes they can; today many have taken part by bravely wearing hats and Thanakha and holding flowers on the street.”
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