The Naypyitaw People’s Defence Force (PDF) says it carried out coordinated attacks on junta bases and a polling station in Bago Region’s Yedashe Township earlier this week.
The attacks took place on Tuesday and targeted a base and regime-controlled administrative office in Swar Ma Gyi, a village about five miles east of the town of Yedashe, as well as camps in other villages, a Naypyitaw PDF officer told Myanmar Now.
“The purpose of these attacks was not to seize the camps, but to disrupt the junta-led elections,” the officer said.
The administrative office in Swar Ma Gyi had been set up as a polling station for residents of villages in the eastern part of Yedashe Township, located about 50 miles south of Naypyitaw.
“We destroyed everything associated with the polling station in Swar Ma Gyi,” the officer added.
According to the officer, there were no electronic. . .
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