Myanmar Military News Updates – Aug 10, 2025 Evening
๐ฉ๐ฉ 1. KIO Chairman Urges Continued Unity to Fulfill the Unfinished Duties of the Revolution
August 10
Kachin Independence Organization (KIO) Chairman, General N’Ban La, has urged all to continue working in unity to complete the unfinished duties of the revolution aimed at dismantling the dictatorship.
Speaking today, August 10, at the ceremony marking Kachin Martyrs’ Day, General N’Ban La delivered this call for continued unity.
He encouraged those on the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) frontlines to follow the example of the veteran soldiers who fought in the past—maintaining unwavering determination, striving with a clear goal, and ensuring victory in the still-unfinished revolutionary struggle.
According to Kachin sources, General N’Ban La also reminded people to remain vigilant, as the terrorist military junta is attacking non-conflict areas across Myanmar—bombing schools, churches, monasteries, and IDP camps from the air, and shelling them with heavy artillery.
He urged current revolution fighters and the younger generation to protect and safeguard the nation and their ethnicity.
Furthermore, according to Kachin news sources, the Chairman called on everyone to support the families of martyrs who gave their lives for the nation and people, to assist as much as possible, to help the families of those from other revolutionary forces who sacrificed their lives, and to honor and encourage those who lost limbs or suffered injuries in the revolution.
The Kachin Independence Organization/Army (KIO/KIA) is one of the ethnic revolutionary forces inflicting significant damage on the junta’s military. It is also a group that supports and collaborates with armed revolutionary organizations that emerged during the Spring Revolution, including those under the Ministry of Defense of the National Unity Government (NUG).
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๐ฉ๐ฉ 2. KIO Deputy Commander-in-Chief Meets with Yaw Tat Taw Leaders
August 10
The Kachin Independence Organization/Army (KIO/KIA) Central Committee member and Kachin Independence Council (KIC) Vice Chairman, Deputy Commander-in-Chief General Gun Maw, met with leaders from the Yaw Tat Taw (YA), according to a YA statement issued on the evening of August 9.
The KIO/KIA released only some record photographs of General Gun Maw meeting YA leaders, without disclosing detailed discussion topics.
From the photos released by YA, the meeting appears to have taken place in General Gun Maw’s office at the KIO headquarters in Laiza, with four YA leaders meeting him in a single room.
Photos also show that Chin brotherhood leaders, with whom YA collaborates on military matters, met with General Gun Maw in the same office location.
Leaders from six Chin Defense Forces—members of the Chin Brotherhood—had already met with General Gun Maw and other KIO/KIA officers in Laiza during the third week of July. The YA’s announcement follows that earlier meeting.
It is understood that KIO/KIA and YA maintain good relations and have previously held similar meetings.
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๐ฉ๐ฉ 3. Four Civilians, Including a Monk, Killed in Airstrike on Mong Ko Despite No Fighting
August 10
The Ta’ang National Liberation Army (TNLA) announced that the junta’s air force bombed Mong Ko, a town under TNLA control in northern Shan State, killing four civilians—including a monk—and injuring two others, despite there being no clashes in the area.
According to the TNLA, at 6:51 p.m. on August 9, the military junta’s jet fighters dropped two 500-pound bombs on the Kyauk Naga Monastery in the eastern part of Mong Ko.
The airstrike killed a monk, two children, a woman, and a man. Another monk and a man sustained injuries from bomb shrapnel. Five houses were also destroyed.
Earlier the same afternoon, the junta also carried out an airstrike on Pantin Taung Ward in Hsipaw town, using three 250-pound bombs. That attack injured one man and destroyed seven houses, according to the PSLF/TNLA News and Information Department.
Records from the PSLF/TNLA show that between July and August 8, the junta had already conducted six airstrikes on Mong Ko. These previous attacks killed three children, a monk, a woman, and sixteen men; injured four children, fourteen women, and thirty-nine men; and destroyed forty-eight houses, three cars, and three motorcycles.
The TNLA urged the public to remain on high alert, to take all possible measures to avoid the junta’s indiscriminate bombings, and to follow airstrike protection guidelines to safeguard themselves from aerial attacks.
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๐ฉ๐ฉ 4. Junta Soldier Captured in Taungtha Township
August 10
The Taungtha Township People’s Defense Force (TTA-PDF) announced that a junta soldier was captured in Taungtha Township, Myingyan District, Mandalay Region.
The detainee was identified as Ye Naing Htun, a soldier from the Wun Na Thee military column under Infantry Battalion 14.
According to the TTA-PDF, the soldier had taken a two-day leave to return home when he was captured on August 8 by the Taungtha Township People’s Defense Team at a location along the Taungtha–Kyaukpadaung road.
A TTA-PDF official told local media that the captured soldier is currently being interrogated and is being held in prison along with other detainees.
The Wun Na Thee column, led by a junta major, is notorious in Taungtha Township for committing multiple war crimes during its operations.
PDF forces have encircled the Taungtha Township area, cutting off the junta’s communication and supply routes. As a result, the TTA-PDF has invited junta soldiers in the area to defect and join the resistance.
It was also reported that on August 6, another junta soldier stationed in Taungtha town defected to the Myingyan Twenty-One Guerrilla Force (MTGF), bringing with him one MA2 rifle and ammunition. The MTGF rewarded him with cash.
This report was sent by Radio NUG correspondent Ko Khant.
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