Did the rebels use new weapons to attack Myanmar's generals?

Nikkei Asia, citing several sources, reported that four-star General Soe Win of the Myanmar military was the target of drone attacks carried out in Mon State in southern Myanmar on April 8th and 9th. General Soe Win was attending a meeting at a military facility when the building and a parked helicopter were damaged. It is reported that General Soe Win was injured.

A source from the UAV unit of the rebel armed group "People's Defense Forces" fighting against Myanmar's military government told Nikkei Asia that two UAVs crashed into several buildings at the facility on April 8, and four UAVs crashed into buildings and a helicopter at the same facility on April 9.

A UAV inspection in Myanmar's Karen State in 2023.

Screenshot from Nikkei Asia

The drone attacks followed an attack in the same state on April 6, when a convoy carrying General Mya Tun Oo, one of Myanmar's top five military officers, was hit by a drone-dropped bomb. Nikkei Asia , citing a military source, confirmed that a luxury car was damaged, but Mya Tun Oo was unharmed.

The Karen National Defence Organization (KNDO), a minority armed group in Karen State in eastern Myanmar, has indicated its involvement in the drone attack, and a KNDO source admitted to Nikkei Asia that they were responsible for the attack. The source added that the KNDO had been informed in advance of General Mya Tun Oo's and others' plans to inspect the new airport in Mon.

There is currently no information on the Myanmar military's reaction to this information.

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The drone attacks came days after more than a dozen drones attacked a military headquarters and a base in Naypyitaw on April 4. Myanmar state media reported that those drones were either shot down or intercepted by government military forces and no facilities were damaged.

A series of recent UAV attacks demonstrates a strategic shift by Myanmar's anti-military armed forces, from expanding control in remote areas to targeting the military government's administrative centers, according to Nikkei Asia .

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