(Based on Burmese posts from the Facebook on June 22 & 23, 2021.)
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| First high-ranking army officer killed by the Gen-Z. |
G-1 Leiutenant-Colonel Aung Myo Kyaw of
Mandalay-based Middle Regional Command (La-Pa-Kha) was killed when he and his small
escort stupidly visited and knocked the door of a boarding house or a student
dormitory in Mandalay’s Chan-mya-thar-zan Ward in the early morning of June-22.
Apparently tipped off by an informer the colonel and his small group of soldiers were just checking out the hostel for some Gen-Z returnees from the border jungles without expecting a heavily-armed unit of Gen-Z rebels there. The Gen-Z rebels saw them and immediately fired at them, killing the colonel and all his men.
Other army units
nearby responded after hearing the gunshots and after a heavy firefight the
soldiers killed many Gen-Z rebels there and captured some alive. Once they
found out that their G-1 colonel was dead the Regional Command responded with a
heavy-handed retaliation against the young men of Gen-Z ages by shooting and
killing them right on the streets of Mandalay.
The so-called
Mandalay PDF also sent armed-reinforcements into the city and started engaging
the army units. Army has also blocked all roads in and out of Mandalay and
sending in massive reinforcement from Nyapyidaw and Pyinoowin army bases. At least
three Chinese-made tanks were seen patrolling the deserted streets of Mandalay.
For nearly three
days Mandalay was bloody mess and the indiscriminate killings even drew a public
statement from the US Embassy calling to stop the killings in Mandalay. France,
Canada, and Netherland embassies also issued public statements against army’s discriminate
killings in Mandalay.
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| 4 young men killed by the soldiers for not stopping. |