The Chin Resistance - Part 2 - War Footage - Myanmar Civil War Documentary) - full documentary

Papa. So the night before the Battle of Tai Nien, we all left and we went to a village much closer to Tai Nien that was controlled by the civic defense militia. They slaughtered a pig that we all ate, and we drank a lot of whiskey that night. We're trying to celebrate because, I mean, there is a battle tomorrow. We needed to enjoy the night. So the next morning, we got up at about 6, and we made our way as close to Tai Nien as we could, and we parked. I'm busy. Now the attack was in two waves. The first wave, the PDF troops were led by one of Gi Don's lieutenants named Chin Pi. The second wave of the attack was Gi Don, several other soldiers, and I was with Gi Don. Now Pa Chun, meanwhile, was back at camp, and Pa Chun's job was to work a radio and coordinate with other people observing Tatmadaw jet movements. So Pa Chun and Gi Don were radioing back and forth about where the regime jets were. There was a drainage ditch under the road, and Gi Don got a machete, and he hacked out a bunch of bushes from in front of it. That way, if the fighter jets showed up, we could easily run and hide in the drainage ditch and probably survive a strafing. If it were not for the Tatmadaw's air power, the rebel coalition would have won the war by now. A lot of the coalition, they try to arrange their attacks to be at about the same time. That way, the Tatmadaw Air Force can't respond everywhere all at once. A lot of zips. Gi Don told me that if I wanted to get closer, he couldn't guarantee my safety, but I was welcome to go if I'd like to. And I said yes. We go. So I went with a squad of soldiers that had a grenade launcher, and our plan was to double back and go up the ridge and get above Tainian, where that squad of PDF soldiers were going to shoot at the Tatmadaw positions from above with the grenade launcher. As we're getting closer to Tainian village, the PDF soldiers start pouring out of the woods. It was very clear that the PDF had retreated. And I spoke to Chin Pi after the battle, and Chin Pi told me that they may have been able to take the regime positions, but because of the machine gun fire in those Tatmadaw pillboxes, too many PDF soldiers would have been lost for it to have been worth it. So they decided to make the strategic decision to retreat rather than needlessly lose a lot of men. No PDF soldiers were killed. However, there were about five or six PDF soldiers who were wounded from bullets and shrapnel from grenades. There was one soldier who had a piece of grenade shrapnel go through his thigh, but he recovered quite quickly, and he was walking around a few weeks later, and he was able to take part in the next couple of missions. It's okay, it's okay, it's okay. You do your job. It's more important. After the Battle of Tainian, we heard of another engagement in Sagai region. Soldiers in PDF Zoland captured a regime base, and during that battle, one soldier named Mung Chin Wan was killed. After the battle, we heard of another engagement in Sagai region. Soldiers in PDF Zoland captured a regime base, and during that battle, one soldier named Mung Chin Wan was killed.