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Southeast Asia

PDF resistance fighters repeatedly launched ambushes on a 28-boat junta convoy

2025-08-02

Myanmar 🇲🇲: PDF resistance fighters repeatedly launched ambushes on a 28-boat junta convoy as it was making its way up the Chindwin river.

By the time the convoy arrived in Homalin, it contained only 23 ships, meaning five had been sunk along the way. pic.twitter.com/GlNCegxMHJ
— Thomas van Linge (@ThomasVLinge) July 31, 2025

The People’s Defense Forces are apparently a grassroots outgrowth of the 2021 protests against the military coup in Myanmar. It’s supporting and supported by the National Unity Government (NUG), the shadow, democratically elected civilian government. There are also smaller Local Defense Forces (LDFs) and People’s Defense Teams (PaKhaPha/PDTs, but the PDF operates under joint commands between several long-standing ethnic rebel groups and the NUG.