The National Unity Government (NUG)

• In an exclusive interview with the BBC, Defence Minister U Yi Mon said that the military junta had to give up a lot of rural area and at the same time, the NUG had been building the interim local public’s administration power based in the areas under influence of PDFs and alliances.
• U Aung Kyi Nyunt, Chair of CRPH, said that Committee Representing Pyitaungsu Hluttaw had made a lot of progress in performance and they also had got better at networking with international parliaments.
• U Aung Kyi Nyunt, Chair of CRPH and a CEC member of NLD, said that despite a variety of intentional activities to divide the National League for Democracy, the military junta would not make it as NLD was the public’s party.

Revolution Activities

• Burmese Rohingya Organization UK (BROUK) stated on Friday that the military junta, led by Min Aung Hlaing, had been trying their best to cover up their war crimes against the Rohingya and Myanmar people, and not to have cooperation with international courts.
• Myanmar people in the US sent a letter to the Cambodian Embassy in Washington D.C, expressing their objection to the trip of Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen, which provided support to the junta leader Min Aung Hlaing.
• In Thaketa Township of Yangon Region, Hla Thwin, junta-appointed hundred-household leader in Ward (13), was shot dead in a tea-shop at about 10:45 pm Friday.
• In South Okkalapa Township, basic education students’ unions shared leaflets on Friday, calling on students and teachers attending the junta schools to take part in a boycott of the junta education.
• As a 310-day protest, a combined rally of Salingyi North and Yinmabin East marched against the military dictatorship on Friday.
• In Latbadaung Taung Area of Salingyi Township, local people marched for the downfall of the military dictatorship on Friday.
• In a village of Shwebo Township, there was a march for the NUG and against the military dictatorship on Friday morning.
• On Thursday evening, a rally in Pale Township, protected by local PDFs, marched against the military dictatorship to show ‘The more public participation, the closer the success of the revolution’.
• In Ye-U, the military junta sealed off the house of MP Dr. Min Thein and that of Ko Zaw Min Tun in Aungsan Ward.
• On Friday, a street opening ceremony, which would be led by the junta army officers in Monywa, was cancelled as there was an explosion on the street.
• In Loikaw of Karenni State, a motorbike rider was shot dead in his head on Thursday and his body was still there until the following morning with no one to collect it.
• In Phakant of Kachin State, there was an event for KIA, PDF and the NUG on Friday. The rally also expressed their disapproval of the military dictatorship.
• In Paletwa Township of Chin State, the junta armed forces arrested 25 villagers of Parwa as human shields on 5th January and sent them to the junta army Ka-Ma-Ya (289) in Paletwa.
• In Loikaw of Kayah State, families of Loikaw prison staff were relocated on Wednesday.
• At about 11:00 am Friday, there was an explosion in the area with the township police office and police station in Tachileik on the Thai-Myanmar border.

Ethnic Armed Organizations

• In Phalan Township of Chin State, Zin Lin Aung, a fully-armed soldier from the junta army Ka-La-Ya (268), joined the CNO/CNDF, saying that he had a lot of prejudice on the military junta.
• In Tunzan Township of Chin State, there was a fighting between a combined force of CDFs and the Insurgency in Manipur near Senan village on Thursday morning.
• KNDF announced that there was no one to collect the dead bodies of junta soldiers who had died in ongoing battles in Loikaw of Karenni State and thus, they conducted funeral services for them in accordance with human dignity.
• In Myawaddy Township of Kayin State, the junta army carried out air strikes near Halu village at about 11:55 am Friday.
• In Phakant Township of Kachin State, a fighter jet of the junta army shot at an area under the KIA Regiment (6) on Thursday morning.

The Military Council

• At Shwe San Daw Pagoda in Pyi, the junta chief minister of Bago Region conducted a religious ritual, according to local residents.
• According to the junta newspaper, the junta army got the news that PDFs had been stationing in Maratheim village school of Tigyaint Township in Sagaing Region and thus, they fought against them and took control of the camp.
• According to the junta Ministry of Health, a total of 42 people, 40 Myanmar people and 2 foreigners entering the country by Relief Flight, were found to be infected with SARS-CoV-2 Variant Omicron.
• According to the junta media, the junta army managed to clear away a projectile aiming at No. (2) Pinpat Iron Factory, 8 miles away from Taunggyi of Shan State, on Thursday morning.
• At the meeting with the junta Taninthayi Administration, the junta leader Min Aung Hlaing repeated that a state of emergency had to be declared in the country and a political change took place with the coup as electoral fraud had not been resolved.
• To cover up his coup, the junta leader Min Aung Hlaing said that there had been a No-Vote campaign due to lack of trust as the NLD government failed to implement electoral commitments.
• The junta leader Min Aung Hlaing said that there would not be a free and fair elections without peace and all armed organizations must take part in the peace process in accordance with the law to be able to hold such an election.
• The junta leader Min Aung Hlaing said that they had been making an effort for peace in 2022 and they had been conducting free discussions for peace talks and for the participation of EAOs, which had not signed the NCA.
• At the junta meeting, the junta leader Min Aung Hlaing said that business people must be invited to do mineral resource business for the economic development of three districts in Taninthayi Region.
• At the meeting with the junta navy officers, the junta leader Min Aung Hlaing said that individuals refraining from intoxicants could prevent unnecessary waste and they would be able to make both ends meet.
• The junta Ministry of Health announced that Russia had donated 400,000 doses of their one-shot COVID-19 vaccine (Sputnik Light), to Myanmar.
• The junta propaganda leader Zaw Min Tun said that Myanmar would not have gained even independence if the country had to follow international pressure and that the map of the country would not have been the same as today.
• At the junta press conference, propaganda leader Zaw Min Tun said, in a report to National Defence and Security Council that the state of emergency, which would be one year old at the end of January, would be extended.

Summary on 14 January

• Despite words of the military junta for no arrest of media people at the press conference, there are many difficulties in getting access to the news and there are still journalists who have been arrested for collecting the news. There are instructions for local media to feature only good points and performance of the army. On the other hand, arrests have been conducted concerning the reporting of news about other organizations like the NUG and protests.
• As the military junta officially expressed their don’t-care-attitude towards international pressure, they challenged the UN as well as pro-democracy countries and organizations.
• In various battlefields, the junta armed forces used plenty of fighter jets and helicopters, even without avoiding civilian targets. On the other hand, their forces on the ground were like licensed thieves, taking away belongings from unoccupied houses.