Myanmar War Report – September 2024

Myanmar junta issues rare appeal for foreign aid as scale of Typhoon Yagi devastation emerges – Independent UK
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Myanmar’s military-run government has issued a rare appeal for foreign aid after it was hit by Typhoon Yagi, the strongest storm to hit Asia this year, causing severe flooding and displacing thousands of people amid a crippling economic crisis.

The floods have killed at least 33 people in the country and displaced more than 235,000 people, the junta said.

But there are fears the actual death toll could be far higher, as the true scale of the devastation is only just emerging. Communication with much of the affected region has been cut off by landslides and heavy flooding.

Myanmar was one of the last countries to be hit by Yagi after it passed over the Philippines, China, Vietnam and Thailand, leaving a trail of destruction and killing at least 300 people.

Heavy flooding has hit the capital Naypyidaw, part of a roughly 162 sq km area worst-hit by a deluge on Thursday, according to satellite imagery analysis by the UN-backed Myanmar Information Management Unit (MIMU). Myanmar‘s second-largest city, Mandalay, has also been badly affected.

Myanmar junta announces census for promised 2025 election – The News International

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Myanmar’s military government will conduct a nationwide population and household census in October, state media said on Monday, paving the way for a promised election next year amid raging conflict across swathes of the country.

The census data collected between Oct 1-15 will be used to hold a general election next year, junta chief Min Aung Hlaing told a meeting on Sunday, state media reported. “The census can be used in compilation of correct and accurate voter lists which is a basic need for successfully holding a free and fair multi-party democratic general election,” Min Aung Hlaing said separately in a televised speech on Sunday.

Myanmar junta says fifth batch of conscripts begins training– Frontier Myanmar
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A fifth batch of conscripts Myanmar’s junta hopes will help reverse its battlefield losses has begun training, state media reported on Tuesday.

A military source also told Agence France-Presse the new batch followed around 15,000 other conscripts who had already completed their training.

The junta enforced a conscription law in February, three years after its coup that sparked armed uprisings across Myanmar and as it reeled from a string of defeats.

The law allows the military to summon any man aged 18-35 and woman aged 18-27 to serve in the armed forces for at least two years.

“Eligible citizens” from the fifth batch arrived at the “respective military training depots” on Monday, according to state-run outlet The Global New Light of Myanmar, without saying how many were involved.

Myanmar junta chief warns of ‘counterattacks’ in opponent-held areas – VOA Asia

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Myanmar’s embattled junta chief has warned civilians in territory recently captured by ethnic minority armed groups to prepare for military counterattacks, state media reported on Wednesday.

The military has lost swaths of territory near the border with China in northern Shan state to an alliance of armed ethnic minority groups and “People’s Defence Forces” battling to overturn the junta’s 2021 coup.

The groups have seized a regional military command and taken control of lucrative border trade crossings, prompting rare public criticism by military supporters of the junta’s top leadership.

Junta troops “will… launch counterattacks,” junta chief Min Aung Hlaing said on Tuesday in the Shan state capital Taunggyi, according to the Global New Light of Myanmar.

Junta’s airstrikes on No-2 border police battalion in Maungdaw, over 50 killed, many injured – narinjara.com
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Naung Min Thu, Narinjara News, 10 September 2024

The junta forces carried out airstrikes on 2nd border guard police
battalion (NaKhaKha-2) in 4-mile of  Maungdaw town, which was occupied by
the Arakan Army (AA) fighters. The attack, conducted by two jet fighters,
resulted in the death of more than 50 people, including prisoners of war and
civilian inmates, with many others injured.

According to a statement issued by the AA, two airstrikes were
conducted by jet fighters on 9 September at around 9:30 pm. The casualties
included prisoners of war and civilian inmates temporarily detained at
NaKhaKha-2 base in Arakan State.

Flooding death toll climbs after delayed warning from Myanmar junta – myanmar-now
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More than 60 have died this week in floods caused by Typhoon Yagi in various parts of Myanmar, with most of the confirmed deaths occurring between Mandalay and the junta’s administrative capital of Naypyitaw, according to rescue workers.

Heavy rains started in and near Tachileik, eastern Shan State on Monday, causing floods by the next day. Flooding also occurred in Myawaddy, Karen State and in southern Shan State over the next few days.

Since Thursday, flooding has impacted Mandalay Region’s Kyaukse, Myittha, Pyawbwe, Thazi and Yamethin townships along the road from Mandalay to Naypyitaw, as well as Pyinmana, Tatkon, and Zayathiri townships in the Naypyitaw Union Territory, rescue workers said.

10 people have died in the floods in Yamethin Township, according to the rescue workers, with as many as 200 missing and feared dead after dozens were carried off in floodwaters in rural villages. In Pyawbwe Township, 15 people are reported missing and three bodies have been recovered, they said.