SAGAING DIVISION – It was known that People’s Defence Force (PDF) attacked the military council column that brought the machinery to steal and harvest the grain of local people by blasting them with mines between Tabayin and Ye U Township, in Sagaing Division and the junta forces retreated and ran away.
PDF attacked about 80 junta council soldiers and Pyu Saw Htee that brought the machinery and came to harvest the grain from Mokesi Village in Ye U Township.
A local defence force member said that “the junta council came to harvest the grain in Mokesi (Village). They were hit with mines so they left the machine in the village and went around causing trouble.”
The local people said that the stated column launched an offensive starting December 16 into the villages between Tabayin and Ye U Township.
The revolutionary forces said that the junta column entered, set fire and destroyed the local people’s homes in Mokesi, Nyaunghla, Muusone, Pyawbwe, Masoerain, Aungchanthar and Latti Villages.
Although local defence forces were injured, casualties have not yet been confirmed.
A PDF member said that the column “included one junta officer good at strategy and the rest are Pyu Saw Htee.”