KAREN STATE – Broadcasting in charge Kay Kay from Force For Federal Democracy (FFD) stated that Revolutionary Forces led by Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA) have blockaded the junta’s Hpapun Strategic Outpost, located in Brigade 5 of Karen National Union (KNU), Karen State and have paid heed to manage serious attack and seized outpost since the junta council use their military families, women and children as human shields.
In late October, revolutionary forces led by KNLA could seized junta’s Khaw Poke camp which had been stationed around 120 junta thugs. The revolutionary forces could obstruct and arrest alive when the junta military column was trying to ran into the junta’s Hpapun Strategic Outpost during the capture. Currently, all the revolutionary forces have besieged the junta’s Hpapun outpost.
“We have been besieging the junta’s Hpapun Strategic Outpost. The junta council dropped military weapons, ammunition and rations with helicopter. The enemies’ (junta troop) strategic structure has destroyed due to the FFD battalion’s drone attacks. We have bothered to take control completely upon Hpapun outpost since the junta troop have been stationing in the outpost by covering with women and children. So, KNLA Generals have been considering, preparing and taking time to confront the outpost. They have been concerning with unrelated persons to accelerate the serious assault. Though we had communicated many times to release military families from the military as we will clear the way out for women and children, and attack men to men and soldiers to soldiers only, the junta thugs have kept using them as cover. So, we have arranged plans by considering those,” Broadcasting in charge Kay Kay from FFD elaborated how the junta troop have continued using women and children as human shields.
Furthermore, junta’s Hpapun Strategic Outpost is the biggest junta outpost to be seized in Brigade 5 of KNU, Karen State and if after that junta’s strategic outpost can be captured, KNLA will said to control the whole Hpapun Town.
