Rebels use new weapons to attack Myanmar generals?

Nikkei Asia, citing sources, said that four-star general Soe Win of the Myanmar military was the target of drone attacks in Mon State in southern Myanmar on April 8 and 9. At that time, Mr. Soe Win was attending a meeting at a military facility when the building and a parked helicopter were damaged. There were reports that Mr. Soe Win was injured.

A source from the UAV unit of the People's Self-Defense Forces, a rebel group 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 test in Myanmar's Karen state in 2023

Nikkei Asia screenshot

The drone strikes followed an attack in the same state on April 6, when a drone bomb hit the convoy of General Mya Tun Oo, one of the Myanmar military’s top five officers. A military source told Nikkei Asia that a luxury car was damaged, but Mya Tun Oo was unharmed.

The Karen National Defense Organization (KNDO), an ethnic armed group in Myanmar's eastern Karen state, has signaled its involvement in the drone attack, and a KNDO source admitted to Nikkei Asia that it was responsible. The source added that the KNDO had been informed in advance of plans by General Mya Tun Oo and others to inspect the new airport in Mon.

There is currently no information on the Myanmar military's response to the above information.

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The drone attacks came days after more than a dozen drones attacked army headquarters and a base in Naypyitaw on April 4. Myanmar state media reported that the drones were blown up or intercepted by government forces and that no facilities were damaged.

A series of recent UAV attacks shows a strategic shift by armed forces fighting against Myanmar's military government, from expanding their control in remote areas to attacking the military government's administrative center, according to Nikkei Asia .

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