Nearly 1,200 junta soldiers killed, over 500 captured in November: report

By Admin 28 Dec 2024

DMG Newsroom
28 December 2024, Sittwe

Resistance forces captured 554 junta soldiers in battles across Myanmar in November, according to a report by Nyan Lynn Thit Analytica.

The report also stated that at least 506 junta soldiers were injured and at least 1,189 were killed in clashes last month. On the resistance side, at least 69 were injured and 45 were killed.

Resistance forces’ military operations increased by 38.2 percent in November compared with the previous month of October, with the majority of military actions taking place in Arakan State, and Sagaing and Magwe regions, according to the report.

“The battle zones are likely to expand further, and the resistance forces will try to gain control over the routes linking territories controlled by ethnic armed organisations or routes linking central Myanmar,” political and research advisor Ko Moe Htet Nay of Nyan Lynn Thit Analytica told DMG in November.

Exchange of fire, drone strikes, and mine attacks were common during the clashes in November, and the primary targets of resistance forces were junta bases, battalion headquarters, outposts, and police stations, according to Nyan Lynn Thit Analytica.

At least 127 civilians were injured and 71 others were killed by airstrikes, artillery shellings, stray bullets, and drone attacks in the November hostilities, the report said.

Anti-regime groups have captured 89 towns across Arakan, Chin, Shan and Kachin states and Mandalay and Sagaing regions. Fierce clashes continue daily with resistance forces seeking to capture more junta bases.

One 88 Generation Arakan student leader said: “Resistance forces are relentlessly fighting to root out the military regime. So, it is likely the battles will only intensify.”