(Based
on staff articles from the KHIT THIT MEDIA’s Facebook in June 2023.)
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| Brand new KAs for PDFs. |
On June-24 this
year the Khit-Thit-Media reported a recent release of information bulletin from
the NUG (National Unity Government of Burma) describing the latest arming of
five newly-formed infantry battalions from their PDF (People Defence Forces) in
the Magwe Division the epicenter of Burmese rebellion against the Myanmar Army.
The five newly-formed PDF battalions were armed with
nearly 500 Kachin-assembled KA-09 automatic rifles which basically are the
near-exact copies of Chinese Type-81 assualt rifles, itself a modified variant
of that ubiquitous AK-47 assault rifles.
On an interview
with Myanmar-Now Media in last January Yi Mon the NUG Defense Minister declared
they were needing 300 million US$ in next four months to purchase 20,000
assault rifles to arm their PDF units in Burma. So many young Burmese men were
joining the PDF and they needed guns, good guns right now, he said.
Then on a recent
interview Minister Yi Mon proudly declared that 75% of that funding target was
achieved last six month partly from public donations and mostly from the
collection of taxes from newly-liberated territories inside Burma the NUG
administration now fully controlls and administers.