December 20th, 2021
The Information Department of the Karen National Union (KNU) Dupalayar District issued a statement on December 20th, requesting the public not to share the real-time information about fighting between the Brigade-6 of the Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA) and the junta troops and the KNLA’s capture of military outposts of the military council, online in a hasty manner.
The sharing of real-time information about the KNLA’s military operations would amount to giving the information to the enemy and have an impact on the military operations in the battlefield.
The junta troops may target the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) due to the description of the locations of the IDPs along with the maps. It also makes the IDPs unsafe.
The military usually carries out targeted airstrikes on the places where fighting takes place and the villages where the people are living when the military suffers heavy casualties.
So, the public are requested to share the information only after the completion of ground operations in order that the military cannot send reinforcements in time, the statement says.
Since December 15th, fighting has been taking place between a combined force of the military council and the Border Guard Force (BGF) and a combined force of the KNLA and the People’s Defense Force (PDF), in Lay Kay Kaw new town which is under the control of the KNU’s Brigade-6 and nearby villages.
The military council suffered heavy casualties. Due to the intense fighting, thousands of locals have fled to Thailand.
Sent by the KIC.