Operation Kanaung

Operation Kanaung
	Part of Myanmar civil war (2021–present)
Date	15 July 2023 – 27 October 2023
Location	Northern Mandalay Region & Northern Shan State
Result	Anti-SAC victory Weapons and ammunition captured;
Belligerents
SAC Tatmadaw Myanmar Army 99th Light Infantry Division; 101st Light Infantry Division; MOC-1; ; ;	NUG PDF Mandalay PDF; ; PSLF TNLA;
Strength
~400	unknown
Casualties and losses
76+	2

The Operation Kanaung (Burmese: ကနောင်စစ်ဆင်ရေး) was a joint operation against State Administration Council carried out by Palaung State Liberation Front/Ta'ang National Liberation Army and Mandalay People's Defense Force of the National Unity Government of Myanmar.^[1]^[2]^[3]

Background

The operation lasted from July to September 2023, and it has been reported that 76 junta soldiers were killed,^[1] 19 were wounded, and a large amount of weapons and ammunition were seized.^[4]

Myanmar Army's 99th Light Infantry Division, 101st Light Infantry Division and 1st Military Operations Command were targeted in the operation.^[5]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c Irrawaddy, The (12 September 2023). "Myanmar Junta Loses 76 Soldiers as PDF Kicks Off Special Operation in Mandalay, Shan". The Irrawaddy. Archived from the original on October 17, 2023. Retrieved 15 October 2023.
^ News Agency, Delta (12 September 2023). "ကနောင်စစ်ဆင်ရေးမှာ စစ်အရာရှိသုံးဦးအပါအဝင် ခုနှစ်ဆယ်ကျော် သေဆုံးတယ်လို့ MDY-PDF ဆို". Delta News Agency (in Burmese). Archived from the original on October 16, 2023. Retrieved 15 October 2023.
^ "DVB | ကနောင်စစ်ဆင်ရေးမှတ်တမ်းရုပ်သံ NUG ထုတ်ပြန်၊ စစ်ရေးတင်းမာနေဆဲဖြစ် (ရုပ်သံ)". Democratic Voice of Burma (in Burmese). Archived from the original on October 16, 2023. Retrieved 15 October 2023.
^ "Military Council Suffers Many Causalities During Operation Kanaung". Shan Herald Agency for News. 14 September 2023. Archived from the original on October 17, 2023. Retrieved 15 October 2023.
^ Lin, Sai Harn (12 September 2023). ""ကနောင်စစ်ဆင်ရေး" တိုက်ပွဲအတွင်း စစ်ကောင်စီဘက်မှ အများအပြားသေဆုံး". SHAN News (Burmese) (in Burmese). Archived from the original on October 16, 2023. Retrieved 15 October 2023.

[irrawaddy-1] Irrawaddy, The (12 September 2023). "Myanmar Junta Loses 76 Soldiers as PDF Kicks Off Special Operation in Mandalay, Shan". The Irrawaddy. Archived from the original on October 17, 2023. Retrieved 15 October 2023.

[2] News Agency, Delta (12 September 2023). "ကနောင်စစ်ဆင်ရေးမှာ စစ်အရာရှိသုံးဦးအပါအဝင် ခုနှစ်ဆယ်ကျော် သေဆုံးတယ်လို့ MDY-PDF ဆို". Delta News Agency (in Burmese). Archived from the original on October 16, 2023. Retrieved 15 October 2023.

[3] "DVB | ကနောင်စစ်ဆင်ရေးမှတ်တမ်းရုပ်သံ NUG ထုတ်ပြန်၊ စစ်ရေးတင်းမာနေဆဲဖြစ် (ရုပ်သံ)". Democratic Voice of Burma (in Burmese). Archived from the original on October 16, 2023. Retrieved 15 October 2023.

[4] "Military Council Suffers Many Causalities During Operation Kanaung". Shan Herald Agency for News. 14 September 2023. Archived from the original on October 17, 2023. Retrieved 15 October 2023.

[5] Lin, Sai Harn (12 September 2023). ""ကနောင်စစ်ဆင်ရေး" တိုက်ပွဲအတွင်း စစ်ကောင်စီဘက်မှ အများအပြားသေဆုံး". SHAN News (Burmese) (in Burmese). Archived from the original on October 16, 2023. Retrieved 15 October 2023.

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