“Inch Bosch”: Myanmar rebels are closed at the main military base in Chen Military news

The town of Valm, Chen State -In the West Myanmar Mountains, pictures of fighters falling on a wall of the rebel headquarters lined up with an honor of about 80 young men, starting with Salay Kong Now Bayang, who was killed in May 2021.

The real losses extend to the National Defense Force On the border with India As the ethnic chin fighters expelled the army from most of their lands.

“Even if they do not give up, we will go to the end, inch in an inch,” Peter Thang, Vice President of CNDF, told Al Jazerera in a recent interview.

The chin attack was launched in mid-November, which is the attack on the town of FAAM-called “Mission Jerusalem”-at a very cost. Thang said that about 50 fighters from CNDF and Allied were killed in the first six weeks, and some of them were buried alive after direct air strikes by the jurisprudence fighters in the Myanmar military regime on the dirt bunkers.

Thang estimated similar losses between the Myanmar army, and more than 100 government soldiers who were captured, in the ongoing operation.

It was formed by civilians to fight the army yet 2021 coup In Myanmar, CNDF has developed the last garrison of the system at the Hilltop base in Valam.

“We are facing a difficult time,”

He said about the final goal of Mission Jerusalem: “If God is ready to hand over the enemy, we will take it.”

It would retain FAALAM – the former capital of Chen State – will celebrate the first province center that the new rebel forces in the country were seized without the support of the well -known ethnic armies, according to Thugh, who was running a travel agency in the commercial capital in Myanmar Yangon before the coup.

“We have more challenges than others,” he said.

“The army has a lot of technology. We have limited weapons, and even some cannot work.”

The besieged hill base

With CNDF, with the support of the newly formed fighters from 15 armed groups, including the majority majority of Bamar in Myanmar, besieged about 600 rebels and about 120 government soldiers, who are limited to the base of the hills, depend on the supplies that the helicopters dropped for their survival.

Unlike the well -known ethnic armies fighting for more lands for themselves, rebel forces in Chen State said they aim to overthrow the Myanmar military regime completely.

While the CNDF alliance and allies at Chin Brothrhood (CB) scored previous victories against the army with the help of the powerful Arakan Army (AA) to the south in Rakhine StateThe seizure of Vallam independently will represent a new stage in the Myanmar revolution.

But the biggest challenge in the battle is still the air attacks by the army.

The operations against the hill base in Valm raises the bombing of Russian and Chinese combat aircraft in the army, as well as grenades that suffer from missiles, artillery, snipers and fire, machine guns from the forces that defend the settlement focus.

CNDF leaders told how soldiers trapped freely spoke with the locals and some of them married local chin women. But all of this changed when Myanmar security forces fired to call peaceful demonstrators against the army’s overthrow of the Aung San Suu Ki government in 2021.

The demonstrators fought, the birth of an uprising became soaked in the blood and the process of many martyrs.

Mia tells Khai, a 19 -year -old protester, was The first victim – It was shot at the police head on February 9, 2021 in the country’s capital, naypyidaw.

In April 2021, an armed with hunting rifles, fired the chin The first big battle From the Myanmar uprising in the city of Minat, which has been liberated since then.

The rebels are now equipped with offensive guns and grenade launchers. They control most of the countryside and many cities, but they remain homogeneous, as the army takes into account in urban centers. Unable to launch the land attacks from their exhausted ranks, the regime’s generals have turned into forced recruitment and random air strikes at the country level.

According to the Rights Group, the Association for Political Prisoners has killed at least the army 6353 civilians Since the coup. With at least 3.5 million people According to the United Nations, the displaced inside the country expect even the eastern fighting this year.

Some died, and others ran in all directions.

In FAAM, Defense Minister CNDF Olivia Tong Loui said that the couple lived with some soldiers at the top of the surrounding hill.

“Most of the soldiers want to leave their base, but they are under the control of the commander,” said Olivia Thong Louis, a former national karate champion. “They are not allowed to leave the base or use their phones,” she said.

Timmy Hhat, another elderly person, Timmy Hatout, said that the leader of the besieged base still has his own phone – and the rebels are connected to his number regularly.

“One day he will pick up,” he said. “When ready.”

The army’s attempts to send reinforcements failed to Valam. The helicopters, who face plates from the shooting, have dropped the air recruits on the outskirts of Valm, which ordered them to fight to the city. No one succeeded.

A soldier who was arrested said that his unit had been dropped without a plan, under a severe fire and followed up by the resistance fighters, which spread in chaos.

The soldier told Al -Jazeera: “Some died, and others ran in all directions.”

He said: “The headquarters said that they could not waste their flights to a few of us.” He added that the army has lost the soldiers “many skilled and value soldiers” since the coup.

He said: “They sacrificed their lives for nothing.”

“In the end, the military leaders will offer peace talks, and there will be a democracy.”

Among the people displaced to fight in Valm, who are forced to shelter under bridges and captains, a new generation prepares to fight.

Junior, 15, who helps in the chin hospital camp, spoke from an air strike in the ear of aircraft that drop the bombs.

Junior said, “I will do everything I can,” Junior said. “There is no way to study in Myanmar. She said:” I don’t want to face this generations. “

“None of you is alive”

But the chin resistance is also struggling with the internal division. It was divided into two factions: one of them led by the Chin National Front (CNF), which was established in 1988, along with its allies, and the other, the Muslim Brotherhood, which includes six resistance groups after the cup, including CNDF.

Their conflict focuses on those who constitute the future of Chin-CNF in favor of the dialect-based governance structure, and CB prefers to control the towns. This distinction between language and land determines the distribution of power, along with tribal competitions and traditional confidence, to violent clashes from time to time between chin groups.

Myanmar RR Like described the gap as “dangerous”, although mediation efforts by the Missrame authorities in northeastern India show progress.

On February 26, the two competing factions announced that they will fierce to form the National Council of Chen, with the aim of uniting various armed groups under one military leadership and administration.

While welcoming the development, Lakher stressed that the process must be “very systematic” and includes the main political leaders from either side, and not only the invitation groups.

“Civilians have suffered more than others,” he said. “Despite the liberation, some cannot return to their homes because of this internal conflict.”

He said that the seizure of Valm will be “important”, as the nearby city of Timin will provide an easier goal, which may liberate more lands for CB and enhance their negotiating position with the CNF alliance.

Lakher estimated that more than 70 percent of the mandate of the chin had been released.

“We have seen the military council defeated across Myanmar,” he said. “But the forces of democracy need unity.”

He said that the responsibility was on The government of national unity She was described as the shadow government in Myanmar – to “collect all democratic forces together.”

“With many armed groups, there is concern about fighting each other without strong leadership,” he said. “The ethnic areas are liberated while the lands of Bamar remain under military control. The revolution is now dependent on the people of Bamar.”

Along the road leading to the city of FAALAM TOWN, two trucks loaded with regime soldiers chopped churches that were exposed to the purchase of Chin, mustard leaves, and mothers who receive children under heavy shawls. When trucks crossed the paths with resistance fighters heading to the foreground, prisoners of the nervous war claimed that they were forced to military service.

“You have been recruited five months ago,” “a rebel fighter is repeated with the prisoners in the truck.” What were you doing before? He asked. Then he added: “We fought the revolution.”

Another rebel joined the reprimand.

He said: “Return yourselves lucky to be arrested here,” and not in the harsh dry lands in the country, where the rebel units roam without deterrence.

“None of you is alive there,” he added.