(Translated Burmese post from Htet Htet’s FACEBOOK on April 3, 2021.)
Pistols, M40, & K09 captured. |
Min Zin Thant’s house is right on the bank of Moe-Gaung
Creek and the heavily-armed KIA men parked their utility truck across the shallow
creek and six of them silently approached the target house. At that time Min Zin Thant was inside one of the ground floor rooms while his young wife was
cooking dinner in their kitchen at the back.
Four KIA men
then climbed over the high wrought-iron fence into the front yard and approached
the house in-line while two men stayed outside the fence. First man had a 40mm
M-40 grenade launcher and he immediately shot a grenade through the front door
from just ten feet away. The battle for life or death in Sha-Du-Zut village had
started with a loud exlposion.
Explosion blew apart the solid teak door, but Min Zin Thant immediately picked up his 9mm browning semi-automatic pistol and bravely ran out of his room towards the front entrance as the M-40 man cautiously entered the house.
Min Zin Thant
shot him dead right there and he shot at the second Kachin man right behind the
M-40 man and killed him. The two Kachin men then tried to drag their wounded
away but Min Zin Thant shot the third man dead. By then he was face-to-face
with the fourth Kachin man pointing a pistol at him.
The fourth man
then shot almost point-blank at Min Zin Thant but his shots went wide and he
was immediately killed by Min Zin Thant’s perfect shots. After shooting the
four Kachins dead Min Zin Thant walked around the house and saw two more
Kachins by the fence. He managed to shoot the fifth man down. By that time he
spent all 15 bullets in his pistol and he had to run back inside to grab a
spare clip.
The sixth Kachin
man then grabbed the wounded fifth man and withdrew back across the creek to
their waiting pick-up truck. When Min Zin Thant came back out with his re-loaded
pistol their truck was already leaving and he had to satisfy with emptying all
the bullets at the speeding-away truck without harming the three fleeing KIA
men inside.
Later the local KIA Brigade made a public statement that
a 50-strong Burmese Army unit was waiting for them at the house and managed to
kill their four comrades in an hour-long gun battle. All lies and cover-up, of course.