(Staff article from the KHIT THIT MEDIA Facebook on August 14, 2021.)
Later the Myanmar Army released the information that
Police-lance-corporal Win Zaw Latt, and Police-privates Ye Min Htun, Phyo Maung
Maung, and Htein Lin Aung were killed, and Police-corporals Myint Htay and Kyaw
Zin wer wounded and now receiving treatments at 500-beds Military Hospital in
Mingaladon. Four assault rifles were declared lost in the ambush.
The eyewitness
from the train told the Khit Thit Media that the dead and wounded policemen
were taken away by the Myanmar Army soldiers at the Kyi-myin-daing Station. The
train driver and conductor were overpowered by the youthful-looking gunmen and
forced to stop the train but they didn’t hurt them.
The assassins’ target purely was the hated member of Myanmar Poice Battalions and so they executed almost all 6 policemen and took away four of their rifles. The truly urban war has started in Burma’s largest city and it is spreading all over the country like a wild fire. It will only end when Myanmar Army and Myanmar Police are totally destroyed.
Hated Men of Police Combat Battalions (Lone-Htain)
Myanmar Police
Force has special para-military units called Police Combat Battalions.
Previously known as Lone-Htain Battalions formed in mid 1980s by the notorious
Colonel “Butcher of Rangoon” Sein Lwin to quell riots associated with mass
protests during the last years of Socialist rule by Genera Ne Win’s
Burma-Socialist-Programme-Party (BSPP).
There are sixteen Myanmar Police Combat Battalions
to carry out general security duties under the command of Battalion Control
Command. Seven of these Police Battalions are situated in the Yangon Divisional
areas and two in Mandalay and three in Arakan, one in Sagaing, one in Mon
State, one in Pegu, one in Prome.
These
specially-trained and combat capable battalions are formed with personnel from
former Riot Security Police, better known as "Lon Htein" Units. Each
battalion consists of 500+ personnel and these battalions are supported by two
support battalions, which include signal and medical units. These battalions
structure are similar to that of Army's Light Infantry Battalions and they are
subordinate to their respective Regional Military Commands.
Its officers are
mainly the aged NCOs transferred and promoted from Myanmar Army and the result
is these police units do not behave or act like normal police enforcing laws.
These lightly-armed police battalions behave like a combination of death squads
and riot squads with license to kill, arrest, and torture the general public at
will. Like the Paras in narcowar—torn Columbia or Mexico.
August-16 Update
The PDF fighters apparently were armed with small handguns only and they left at least 17 9-mm spent cartridges on the floor of last car where the police security squad was. According to the eyewitnesses at least eight young men and women had participated in the attack.
One surviving police corporal was lying down on a train-seat and taking nap and got shot once in the chest. Another surviving police corporal sitting on a seat shot back with his assault rifle at the attackers and his quick response basically has saved his life as the PDF fighter fled jumping out of the train.
Myanmar Army apparently has retaliated by killing eight innocent Burmese youths and accusing the youths as the PDF fighters responsible for the killing of train security cops on the Rangoon City-Circle Train.
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| He only was alert and he shot back with his Uzi and he survived. |
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| Myanmar Army is supporting the dead-cops' families with cash and goods. |
