According to Special Operation Force – S.O.F, coalition forces and PDF joint forces raided the SAC troops who were stationed in the general administrative office, immigration office, communication office, tax office and judges’ office, the 284th Infantry Battalion and Kyainseikgyi police station in Kyainseikgyi township, Karen State.
It is said that on June 2, 2023, at around 5:00 a.m., these places were raided simultaneously by the KNLA, Special Operation Forces- S.O.F, and Cloud Wings Drone Unit.
“That’s right. The main places we targeted and worked on were three places. One was the headquarters of the 284th Infantry Battalion, the second was the target where the police station and the court were in the same place, and the last was a place where the immigration office, the communication office, the land registry office, the tax office, and the general administrative office were located. We worked on the three places at the same time. We can’t say the number of manpower. All of us joined together and attacked these three targets at the same time, it was not a guerrilla system. We launched a timely offensive,” said the officer in charge of the Special Operations Force – S.O.F.
During the attack, the police station and offices under SAC were destroyed and about 10 soldiers and policemen were killed and 15 were seriously injured.
According to Special Operations Force – S.O.F, two S.O.F comrades suffered leg injuries, and one in his chest was injured by a bit of mine, they are not seriously injured.
During the battle, the SAC troops fired heavy weapons (120mm Mortar) and helicopter gunships all over the town and targeted religious buildings where the revolutionary forces were not present. A monk was killed by a heavy weapon. In addition, two local residents were also killed by heavy weapons, and many religious buildings and houses were damaged.
It was known that the SAC and its subordinate departments frequently kill and arrest the local people in the town and outside ambush patrol of Kyainseikgyi town without any reason, confiscate their belongings, and also shoot the villages near the town quarters with heavy weapons every day, and there were always people who were killed and wounded by their heavy weapon shooting.