The battle for the Burma Army’s K’Ter Tee camp rages in Dwe Loh Township of Mutraw District. Burma Army-aligned BGF forces fled from their positions, leaving the Burma Army isolated by resistance forces and relying on airstrikes and artillery strikes to delay loss of the camp.

Two Burma military Y-12 airplanes conducted an airstrike in Lay Poe Hta Village on Dec. 30, attempting to prevent approximately 200 BGF Battalion 1013 soldiers from leaving their camp at K’Ter Tee near Baw Jo Lae Village. The airstrike lightly wounded a 16-year-old civilian boy in the chest. The BGF soldiers reportedly repositioned to a new, more secure place to move away from the fighting. Additionally, Burma Army aircraft dropped bombs into Noh Paw Htee Village, killing one civilian man on Dec. 30 and injuring a local security guard on Dec. 31, whom Rangers treated medically. Resistance forces and Burma Army clashed in a small arms engagement at K’Ter Tee camp on Jan. 4., and a Burma military Y-12 plane and two jet fighters conducted two airstrikes in response, dropping several mortars and four bombs, injuring one resistance soldier.

Please pray for the situation at K’Ter Tee camp and that the Burma Army would end hostilities and withdraw from the area.

The situation at Annan Kwin camp in Dooplaya District has been escalating, as the Burma Army tries to reinforce the camp and attrite the encircling KNLA/PDF with airstrikes, artillery, and more reinforcements. 

Burma Army Light Infanty Battalion (LIB) 587 of Military Operations Command (MOC) 19, LIBs 1 and 2 of Light Infantry Division (LID) 44 arrived at Annan Kwin camp by Noh Chu Nen Village, on Dec. 30, to reinforce their encircled troops. Clashes broke out between the Burma Army and KNLA/PDF, resulting in some minor injuries for the resistance forces. A Burma Army platoon clashed with KNLA/PDF at the Burma Army Annan Kwin camp on Jan. 2, resulting in casualties on the Burma Army side. The KNLA captured two soldiers from LIB of LID 44 as well as ammunition during the fighting. Rangers and KNLA medics treated the injured KNLA and Burma Army casualties. Two days later, on Jan. 4, a Burma Army sniper killed a KNLA/PDF resistance soldier and, later in the day, a Burma military jet fighter bombed the area three times in the afternoon. The Burma Army Wekli artillery unit fired a 155mm howitzer round at KNLA/PDF forces in the evening of Jan. 5, inflicting casualties. Rangers responded and helped treat the injured soldiers.

Elsewhere in Dooplaya, the Burma Army fired 155mm artillery from Wekli Artillery Post into Thanpayar Village (Panaw Ka Le’ Khee) in late December, damaging a man’s farm. On Dec. 31, There was a clash between Cobra Column of the KNLA and the Burma Army in Kaw T’ree Township. The KNLA captured some small arms, explosives, and a mortar tube from the Burma Army.

Burma Army airstrike on an IDP camp caused casualties and death while Rangers were giving combat first aid training.

Pa-Oh Nationalities Liberation Army (PNLA) held training from Dec. 26 to 30, in Karenni. Karenni Rangers gave combat first aid, tie method and other tactical physical training to 32 trainees. On Dec. 31, Burma Army jets attacked the Elephant IDP camp with two 500lb bombs in East Loikaw, injuring three IDPs and killing two, IDPs including a 10-year-old child. In East Demosso Township, on Jan. 4, Karenni Rangers helped and gave transportation for the emergency patient from Daw Ta Dar Village to Ta Maw Htar Hospital, as the villagers requested.