Mandalay PDF Captured Sint-gu Township?

               (Based on staff articles from The MYANMAR NOW MEDIA on 03 July 2024.)

Operation-1027(Part-2) or the new Shan-Man Operation has now claimed second crucial township right next to the Mattayar Town. The heavily-populated Burmese township of Sint-gu.

After the NUG has declared the Shan-Man Operation on June-27 the following PDF battalions [Battalions 1221, 1222, 1223, 1224, & 513 under Mogoke Tactical Command (Byu-har) of Mandalay PDF] immediately went into action and within a week first Mattayar and now Sintgu townships have been captured by the resistance forces.

Despite the heavy bombing and straffing contantly from the Myanmar Air Force planes the MDY-PDF forces have captured all Myanmar Army bases in the region and terminated the government administration there. Most of the Sintgu-Thabeikkyin region is a well-known and productive gold-mining area populated mostly by the Burmese gold prospectors moving up from the lowlands.

What has the Nobel Prize in Physics ever done for me?

           (Karen Livesey’s article from The ABC NEWS AUS on 04 October 2023.)

Sometimes, however, physics research does have a practical goal all along. One such example is the quest for energy-efficient lighting.

Old-fashioned incandescent light bulbs are highly inefficient. Because they work by heating a wire until it glows, they waste a lot of energy as heat. In fact, less than 10 per cent of the energy they consume goes to producing light.

In the 1980s, scientists realised light emitting diodes, or LEDs — small electronic components that emit light of a specific colour — would make more efficient light sources. But there was a problem. Although red and green LEDs had been developed in the middle of the twentieth century, nobody knew how to make a blue LED.

Mattayar Has Fallen: Will Mandalay Be Next?

             (Based on staff articles from The KHIT THIT MEDIA in 01-03 July 2024.)

Burma’s opposition NUG (National Unity Government) is able to claim the capture of Mattaya (Madaya) just 20-miles-north of famous old royal capital city Mandalay on July-2. NUG’s Mandalay PDF has basically wiped-out all Myanmar Army bases in Mattayar Township.

Most significant of all captured bases is the Air Defense Battalion-1014 situated at the Ingyinmyaing Village near the Town of Mattayar. Two massive air-defense guns from the captured Army Base will add to the impressive stockpile of heavy weaponery now in the hands of Mandalay PDF.

One of the strongest and largest Burmese PDFs, the heavily-armed and well-trained MDY-PDF has been participating in the Operation-1027(Part-2) led by TNLA the Palaung Army since June-25. While TNLA with some MDY-PDF units have been attacking the Naungcho and Kyaukme Towns in Shan-North and the Moegoke Town in Mandaly Division, most of the MDY-PDF is smashing Myamar Army bases in Mattayar Township right next to the Mandalay City.

Operation-1027 (Part-2) Begins!

              (Based on staff articles from The KHIT THIT MEDIA in 29-30 June 2024.)

Much anticipated Part-2 of hugely successful Operation-1027 by the Northern-Alliance armies (AA the Arakan Army, TNLA the Palaung Army, and MNDAA the Kokang Army) has begun on June-25 with simultaneous and relentless assaults on the major towns of Naungcho and Kyaukme in Northern Shan State of Burma.

Altogether five Shan-North towwnships namely, Naungcho-Kyaukme-Thibaw-Moegoke-Moemate Towwnships, are now under orchestrated attacks from principally the TNLA forces together with Mandalay and Mattayar PDF forces under NUG, since June-25.

The significant difference of this 1027(Part-2) from the 1027(Part-1) is, this time the Palaung Army TNLA is the leading army intead of MNDAA the Kokang Army last time. Also the public acknowledgment of the participation of NUG-controlled PDF armies from the Middle Burma.

Burmese Gen-Z Warriors Fighting Alongside AA!

        (Based on Moe Oo’s article from The MYANMAR NOW MEDIA on 16 June 2024.)

A captured Myanmar Navy ship.

The Burmese Generation-Z resistance forces, first emerged from the Burma’s anti-coup revolution after 2021-Coup, are now learning the valuable warfare-experiences and tactics from the better-organized, more-eperienced, and the battle-hardened AA (Arakan Army) by fighting alongside their AA allies on the Arakan battlefields.

According to one of Gen-Z Burmese warriors from the Middle Burma, Aung Kyaw Myo Htet, they would never forget their devastating shootings from the riverbanks at Myanmar Naval ships coming up on the Kalartan River in Kyauk-Taw Township in the Arakan.

The attack happened at the Ah-pauk-wa Vilage by the River-Narrow at ten-mile-south of Kyauk-Taw Town. Tenty-five-year-old Burmese man got the chance to take part in that battle destroying three Burmese naval ships,

What happened to the BURMA Act?

                 (Mike Haack’s article from The FRONTIER MYANMAR on 26 October 2023.)

The United States’ biggest piece of Myanmar legislation in decades may soon begin bearing fruit, but the quirks of the US political system are key to understanding what comes next – and how to influence it.

After Kyaw Kyaw Tun watched the military slaughter his fellow students during the pro-democracy uprising in 1988, he understood nonviolence couldn’t work against the regime. Instead, he thought he could follow the path of independence hero General Aung San – but with a different benefactor.

“He went to Japan for military training. A lot of the Burmese got the same idea,” Kyaw Kyaw Tun told me. “We thought that we would be getting some assistance and training from the US. We heard that there was a US warship in the Indian Ocean. We could go there.”

107 mm Shock Rockets to Kill the Hated-Dictator

                    (David Mathieson’s article from The ASIA TIMES on 12June 2024.)

A revolutionary bridge too far in Myanmar: Resistance plot to assassinate coup leader Min Aung Hlaing at a bridge-opening ceremony raises hard questions about insurgent tactics.

Myanmar’s dictator Senior General Min Aung Hlaing showcased a major infrastructure project on June 8, opening the Thanlyin Bridge 3 across the Bago River, linking the commercial capital Yangon with the Thilawa Special Economic Zone.

Started in 2019 with a 31 billion yen (US$197 million) loan from the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), the bridge symbolizes economic progress under the State Administration Council (SAC) junta that is largely at odds with widespread armed conflict and economic decline its coup has caused.

China Playing Both Sides of Myanmar Civil War!

           (Staff article from The JAMES TOWN FOUNDATION on 30 May 2024.)

China has been arming both sides heavily.

Half a Year On, Myanmar’s Junta Appears to Have Survived Threat Posed by ‘Operation 1027’: Executive Summary: Six months after three of Myanmar’s largest anti-junta militias launched a joint operation against the Tatmadaw, they have succeeded in seizing large swathes of territory—albeit at a high price.

These successes have not brought down the ruling regime, however, and Myanmar’s ethnic militias will likely not be ready to launch another large-scale offensive anytime soon, prolonging the conflict further.

China is playing both sides of the civil war, supporting anti-junta ethnic militias in order to extract ever-greater economic and political concessions from the very regime that it supports militarily.

The ethnic militias and the forces of the Western-supported National Unity Government share a common enemy, but disagree over what a final political settlement should look like, particularly over how confederal the country should be if they succeed.

Is China stuck with Bloodied Myanmar Army?

                  (Yun Sun’s article from The NIKEI ASIA REVIEW on 10 June 2024.)

Myanmar Army on the roof, thier last refuge.

China will not give up on Myanmar's military: Fresh elections seen as best way out of stalemated conflict.

After more than three years of post-coup turmoil, Myanmar is gridlocked in a political and military stalemate. Despite the remarkable progress ethnic armed groups and resistance forces have made against the military regime, particularly since October, they still face a difficult, if not impossible, challenge in seeking to push the military out of its urban strongholds.

China looms as the most consequential external party that could affect developments in Myanmar. Many who seek a solution to Myanmar's crisis have urged Beijing to use its influence to curb the military, to support the resistance or, at least, to help the Burmese people.