The Myanmar Junta has lost 1,300 soldiers in the last month

[ASEAN NOW Content Team]

 

According to the country's shadow National Unity Government's (NUG) Defense Ministry, Myanmar's military has sustained its greatest losses yet in the last month, with 1,300 soldiers killed and 463 injured in combat with civilian resistance organisations.

The junta has suffered nearly twice as many casualties as the dictatorship did in September.

During 690 incidents in September, 768 junta personnel were killed and 220 were injured, with 132 attacks by the People's Defense Forces (PDF) and 65 attacks by ethnic armed groups.

 

Myanmar reported 668 attacks involving military government forces and their associates between October 7 and November 6.
According to the NUG's Defense Ministry, there were 83 attacks by ethnic armed groups and 207 attacks by civilian resistance forces, based on media reports and its own sources.

Simultaneously, the number of people murdered in the last month has nearly doubled.
In 197 acts of junta violence, 313 civilians were killed and 63 injured, compared to 164 killed and 109 injured in 174 occurrences in September.

 

Members of the PDFs were among the civilians killed.

Since Vice Senior General Soe Win, the deputy coup leader, ordered regime forces to kill the PDFs, violence has increased across the country.

 

According to the NUG, roughly 580 junta soldiers were killed and 190 were wounded in August during 443 firefights, ambushes, and assassinations carried out by PDFs and ethnic armed organisations.

The administration has mainly remained silent in response to the NUG's monthly figures on Myanmar military casualties.

 

The junta did, however, issue a rare denial regarding the mid-June burning of Kinma Village in Pauk Township Magwe Region, as well as the October 29 shelling of the Chin State town Thantlang.

However, according to eyewitnesses and local PDFs, both Kinma Village and Thantlang were set ablaze by government forces after arson attacks and artillery strikes.

 

Since the NUG declared a nationwide people's defensive war against the military regime on September 7, junta forces have committed more atrocities, including arbitrary killings of civilians, using detained civilians as human shields, bombarding residential areas, and looting and burning houses, particularly in the Magwe and Sagaing regions, as well as in Chin, Shan, and Kayah states.

In operations, regime forces have killed multiple civilians, including women and children, as well as captives.

 

In the country's most restive areas – Magwe and Sagaing regions, as well as Chin State – where civilian fighters mostly armed with traditional and homemade weapons are facing soldiers with heavy weapons and armoured cars, and the junta has deployed 3,000 reinforcements this month, the number of firefights between junta troops and PDFs is said to have almost doubled.