Fighting between the Kanpetlet Chinland Defence Force (CDF) and the Burma Army (BA) intensified in Kanpetlet Township this week, where a number of BA soldiers were killed.
On 10 June, regime forces captured CDF’s Vakok camp and remained there until CDF attacked them and forced them to retreat. The BA set fire to the camp before withdrawing.
A couple of days later, CDF fighters fought against the BA between Kyawt Taw and Ann Pon, killing at least 11 soldiers and wounding many others, according to their own accounts.
CDF also reported that they attacked the BA deployed at a government office in Kanpetlet town, killing at least 5 soldiers. The attack was intended to distract the soldiers so that they couldn’t fire artillery at CDF fighters at the front line.
Villagers from Kyawt Taw and Ann Pon fled into the jungle to escape BA soldiers who arrived on Sunday and destroyed their motorbikes and ate their livestock.
On 6 June, CDF’s Battalion 7 killed three BA soldiers in Apaw in Magwe Region.
In southern Chin State, CDF attacked BA in Mindat on 14 June, killing at least five soldiers, by their own count.
The resistance group attacked regime forces early in the morning at a checkpoint at the entrance to the town. In response, CDF ambushed BA reinforcements sent to defend the checkpoint, killing three of them and injuring five. A couple of hours, two more BA soldiers were killed and three others wounded.
BA Infantry Battalion 274 in Mindat and the regime’s artillery battalion in Kyauk Htu in Magwe Region shelled Mindat town and two shells also hit Bawngthe village in Mindat Township.