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In 2021, new village-based, loosely organised militia groups collectively known as the Pyusawhti emerged. These militias, officially called People's militias , [ 7 ] were formed by supporters of the military of Myanmar and those suspected to be its supporters, who feared attacks by the resistance forces, most of which later turned into the ...
Taunggyi, Shan State, Myanmar: Active regions: Pa-O Self-Administered Zone (controlled territory) Ideology: Pa-O nationalism Buddhist nationalism [2] Ultranationalism [2] Size: 4,000 (2023) 41,000 (2024) [3] Allies: Tatmadaw [4] Pyusawhti militias [5] (2021-present) Opponents: State opponents. Union of Myanmar (until 1991) Socialist Republic of ...
Following the 2021 Myanmar coup d'état, U Wasawa established a Pyusawhti militia to launch offensives against the region's People's Defense Force. Several villages in Kantbalu have been turned into Pyusawhti bases, with U Warthawa reportedly forcing locals to join the militias.
As targeted personnel attacks increased, around 50 Myanmar junta personnel and Pyusawhti militia members were reportedly killed during raids and ambushes by PDF across three townships in Sagaing Region on 9 February 2022. [12] The PDF ambushed flotillas transporting supplies and soldiers, setting at least one flotilla on fire. [13]
The MRDA claimed that around 40 junta troops and Pyusawhti militia members had been killed. [8] [9] In late April 2022, the MRDA attacked a number of outposts in Pale held by the Tatmadaw and Pyusawhti, a pro-junta militia. The MRDA also ambushed junta forces which it claimed were raiding villages and burning civilian homes.
Myanmar's military-controlled government is accusing pro-democracy fighters of killing 15 civilians in a nighttime mortar attack in a restive central area of the country, charges denied by the ...
Saw Chit Thu's militia emerged out a faction of the Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA), the armed wing of the KNU, around 2010, and sided with Myanmar's military to take on junta opponents in ...
One of Myanmar’s biggest and most powerful ethnic minority militias has arrested and repatriated more than 1,200 Chinese nationals allegedly involved in criminal online scam operations, an ...