Knots of young men at Tahan in the western Myanmar town of Kale had not expected an attack in the pre-dawn darkness.
Armed with a few hunting guns made by village blacksmiths, catapults, some airguns and Molotov cocktails, they were no match for forces hardened by decades of conflict and equipped with combat weapons.
By evening, the one-sided battle was over, the sandbag barricades had been cleared and 13 people were dead, three people involved in the armed group said.“So many people on our side were wounded that we couldn’t do anything and had to retreat, ” Aung Myat Thu, one 20-year-old protester in Kale, said from there by messaging app.
“Some small defence units have been formed across the country, in the community, villages or wards, ” said Moe Saw Oo, a spokesman for the Committee Representing the Pyidaungsu Hluttaw , a body representing ousted lawmakers that has set up a rival national unity government. Over 700 people have been killed and more than 3,000 have been detained by security forces cracking down on the nationwide protests that have raged since the military deposed the civilian government led by Nobel Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi on Feb 1.Acts of sabotage, such as the burning of administrative buildings and attacks on businesses linked to the army have broken out the in the main city of Yangon and the second city of Mandalay.
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