Hello — Starting now I will read and present m.CDM’s domestic news.
Today’s reports include:
1. In Natmauk, a junta column arrested, tortured, executed two father-and-son men and set their bodies on fire; in Shwebo and Maling townships junta air strikes killed five civilians.
2. Justice For Myanmar urges an outright rejection of the junta’s sham election.
3. Former NLD Health and Sports Minister U Myint Htwe died in Thailand.
4. At Daik Oo prison prisoners are being fed food that harms their health and medical supplies are being blocked; plus other items.
Now, first:
1. In Natmauk, a junta column arrested, tortured, executed two father-and-son men and set their bodies on fire; in Shwebo and Maling townships junta air strikes killed five civilians.
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m.CDM January 26
From Natmauk township, Magway Region — the PKF (local source) in Natmauk reports that a junta column arrested, tortured, and executed two father-and-son men and set the corpses on fire in San Kun village, Natmauk township.
On the morning of January 25 at around 11:00, about 40 troops from the junta camp in Ywar Mun village entered San Kun village and captured U San Maung (aged 53) and Maung Naing Lin Maung (aged 21), according to reports.
The two men had been going to a wedding inside the village when they encountered the advancing junta column and were arrested. Later that day at around 15:00 they were shot in a grove to the west of the village, and their bodies were set on fire in a bamboo thicket, sources say.
The column left the village later that afternoon. Locals held funerary rites for the two dead on the same day.
There were no battles in or around San Kun village — the junta unit entered and executed the two men. Displaced villagers returned to the village on January 26, according to reports.
Additionally, in Shwebo township, Ngepyi Oo village was hit by a bomb attack by the junta, killing three civilians and injuring eight, according to nearby villagers.
On the early morning of January 26, before 1:00 a.m., the junta used a jet fighter to drop a single 300-pound bomb near the school in Ngepyi Oo village, the reports say.
The explosion and blast killed U Han Nyein (over 50) and his wife and U Nyein Aung — three people in total — and wounded eight others including a young child; seven houses were destroyed.
This evening (January 26) the junta bombed Ngepyi Oo village again, killing one more civilian and injuring two, raising alarm among residents.
Similarly, in Mandalay Region’s Maling township, the junta dropped three bombs with an aircraft on Nwe village — there was no ground fighting — on January 25 at about 17:30. A 38-year-old man was killed and three civilians including a child were injured, sources say.
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2. Fortify Rights says the junta increasingly uses small aircraft like paramotors and gyrocopters to attack civilians
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m.CDM January 26
Fortify Rights said on January 26 that the junta has increasingly used small aircraft such as paramotors and gyrocopters to target and attack civilians.
They revealed the violent military has been using these commercially available paramotor and gyrocopter-type aircraft to strike civilian targets.
These kinds of attacks began in December 2024 in Mandalay Region and later occurred in Sagaing, Magway, Mandalay, Ayeyarwady and Bago regions — including places where civilians gather in relative safety such as schools, hospitals, monasteries and residential areas.
Fortify Rights pointed to the October 6, 2025 junta attack as particularly dangerous: on that day a paramotor hit a crowd of about 100 people gathered for a weekly candlelight vigil protesting an upcoming election, killing at least 24 civilians.
They analyze that this escalation is linked to the junta’s efforts to control central Myanmar, to terrorize civilians, and to push toward a power grab before the sham election scheduled in stages from December 28, 2025 to January 25, 2026.
Chit Seng of Fortify Rights said Myanmar’s military has found new ways to kill from the air, equipping paramotors and gyrocopters with un-guided explosive devices and using them to attack.
They call on the international community to urgently block arms, aircraft fuel, dual-use technologies and the components used to build paramotors and gyrocopters from reaching junta hands.
Because these attacks may constitute war crimes, Fortify Rights urges UN member states to impose tighter sanctions and measures.
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3. In Myingyan township, rebel forces used drones and explosives to strike a violent military column that was torching villages
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m.CDM January 26
m.CDM reports that in Myingyan township, the Rē-sgwe (?) allied forces attacked a violent military column that had been torching villagers’ homes in Da Kyun and Patta villages using drones and explosive ordnance.
According to the Rē-sgwe town-region allied forces, the violent military column that was burning houses in Da Kyun and Patta villages was engaged by resistance groups on January 22 with drones and ten explosive rounds.
They warned that casualties among the attacked soldiers are possible.
The operation involved a drone unit from the Rē-sgwe town-region allied force, Myingyan District No. 2 battalion, Moe She Da Yan civilian defense group, Ame’ Lak Yon (?) unit, and Pakokku Special Test Force drone unit.
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4. USBA issues regulations for travel within Thayet district
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m.CDM January 26
In Magway Region’s Thayet district the Burma Defense Force (USBA) has published regulations civilians should follow for safe travel on the Thayet-Mintone, Thayet-Minhla, Pathein-Mon-rua, and Kantoup-Sit Sanaw roadways.
Because junta units impersonate civilians and travel at night in groups of cars, motorcycles, use covered vehicle windows and pretend to be charity cars, pagoda vehicles, etc., the guidance aims to reduce unnecessary civilian harm as fighting intensifies.
Key points:
(1) Do not drive motor vehicles on the listed highways from nightfall until before dawn.
(2) Do not drive with covered windows, do not travel in convoys of covered cargo trucks or goods vehicles during the day.
(3) If you must travel at night for an emergency, notify and send a report to the Burma Defense Force beforehand.
(4) For other smaller rural roads off the highways, people may travel freely day and night without prior notice.
(5) Motorcycles may travel freely during the day; at night if three or more motorcycles gather, notify the USBA before traveling.
(6) Avoid unnecessary entry onto highway shoulders and verges.
(7) If you observe People’s Defense police activity, do not report it to the junta, do not take photos, do not engage in public discussion within the village — report to USBA instead.
USBA warns they will not take responsibility for any harm caused by failure to follow these notices.
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5. NUCC and NUG discuss strengthening revolutionary leadership and political matters
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m.CDM January 26
The National Unity Consultative Council (NUCC) released a statement that NUCC and the National Unity Government (NUG) held an open, frank meeting on January 25 from 19:00–23:00 to discuss strengthening revolutionary leadership and political issues.
The meeting focused on building a robust revolutionary leadership, reconciling differences among forces, and produced positive agreements.
Attendees included council leaders from state and federal units on the NUCC side and NUG participants from the Political Coordination Commission (PCC) including union ministers, deputy ministers and officials.
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6. Former NLD Health and Sports Union Minister Dr. U Myint Htwe died in Thailand
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m.CDM January 26
Dr. U Myint Htwe (aged 78), who served as Union Minister for Health and Sports under the NLD government, died in Bangkok, Thailand on January 26 at 17:43, m.CDM reports.
His brother Min Han Htwe announced on social media: “Our eldest brother Dr. U Myint Htwe passed away today at 17:43 at Bamgrath Hospital in Bangkok; please inform relatives and friends.”
Dr. U Myint Htwe was born in Sagaing and earned his medical degree from the University of Medicine (1), Yangon. He also completed advanced public health degrees at the University of the Philippines and the world-renowned Johns Hopkins University.
He served as a regional advisor at WHO Southeast Asia for 16 years and was a noted expert in international health policy.
He served as Union Minister for Health and Sports from 2016 to 2021 under the NLD government, leading reforms in the country’s health system and heading state pandemic-response efforts during the start of COVID-19, gaining broad respect.
After the February 1, 2021 coup he was briefly detained in Naypyidaw, then released. He later lived at home receiving treatment for heart disease and has now passed away.
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7. Justice For Myanmar urges international rejection of the junta’s sham election
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m.CDM January 26
Justice For Myanmar urges international governments to clearly reject the junta’s sham election and any organizations that emerge from it.
They say the violent military staged a fake election, and that states who have acted as major supporters — Russia, China, Belarus, and Vietnam — have basically aided the junta economically and politically while enabling ongoing atrocities.
These foreign backers are therefore facilitating the junta’s profit-seeking from seized public resources, and must be obstructed.
Justice For Myanmar calls on international governments to take a firm stance, assist the Myanmar people’s revolution, and impose sanctions on the junta’s funds, weapons, technology, and aviation fuel supplies.
Daw Zin Mar Aung, Union Minister of Foreign Affairs in the NUG, also warned in a special forum by the Myanmar Independent News Agency that “a sham election will never produce legitimate governance; it will not lead to genuine reform.”
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8. At Daik Oo prison, prisoners are being fed harmful food and medical supplies are being blocked
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m.CDM January 26
From Bago Region — WOPP (the political prisoners’ group) reports that at Daik Oo prison prisoners are being given food that harms their health and that medical supplies are being withheld, and that these acts are being used as deliberate threats to political detainees’ lives.
About two weeks ago a supervisor inspected and thereafter the food provided in the prison deteriorated to the point that it is inedible, causing stomach aches and worsening pre-existing illnesses among prisoners, WOPP says.
Requests for medical care have been met only with paracetamol; families who attempted to deliver medicine via prison visits had consignments intercepted; visitation rights have been denied and supplies have been substituted with poor-quality items.
WOPP warns that after their October 27 report documenting forced labor and abuses by prison authorities, reprisals — threats, blocking parcel/supply deliveries, isolation and intensified imprisonment — have continued.
They call on human rights activists, partner organizations and families to monitor and investigate continued human rights violations inside Daik Oo prison.
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9. Families of the shooters visit the hospital to apologize for the injured Thai policeman in Mae Sot
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m.CDM January 26
In Mae Sot, Thailand — according to Alice Honey and BBC reports, the families of two Myanmar youths who shot and injured a Thai police non-commissioned officer went to the hospital to express remorse and apologize.
After the shooting, the detained youths’ wives and children visited the hospital to plead and apologize to the injured officer, who accepted the apology and the families donated blood.
The Thai officer reportedly said the Thai police do not hate all Myanmar nationals but only take action against those who commit crimes. He urged the community to help rehabilitate and support the youths and their remaining families and children.
The two Myanmar youths remain in custody in Mae Sot. Their families explained that economic hardship and deception pushed the youths into work carrying weapons, which led to the shooting. Thai police stated they treat Myanmar nationals without discrimination and act only against those who commit offenses.
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10. “Road To Tenasserim” fundraising campaign launches to supply protective gear for PDF units in Tanintharyi
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m.CDM January 26
The NUG Ministry of Defense launched a fundraising campaign titled “Road To Tenasserim” to raise funds to procure helmets, ballistic plates and protective clothing for PDF units in Tanintharyi Region.
Tenasserim is a coastal region with important cross-border trade routes and strategic border areas, so defensive equipment is urgently needed to reduce risks and injuries for revolutionary fighters there.
The campaign aims to raise USD 150,000 and will run from January 28 to February 28 (33 days).
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11. Public Pandaw group seeking trainees for basic tailoring course to be opened in Aizawl
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m.CDM January 26
The Public Pandaw group is recruiting students for a basic tailoring course to be opened in Aizawl, Mizoram, India.
The Public Pandaw Vocational Training Department will run Tailoring Course No. 2 in Aizawl for CDM soldiers, police and their families, civilian CDM staff and displaced persons.
Each class will accept about 10 trainees; it will run five days a week, five hours per day, for approximately eight weeks (about two months).
The course covers basic mechanical sewing skills plus embroidery and printing techniques — a mix of theory and hands-on practice — to build practical tailoring ability.
Applicants must have basic literacy and the commitment to attend until completion and to respect class rules. Interested applicants may apply by January 31 at https://forms.gle/UngQzRP8EsPSm8UcA.
The public Pandaw group asks only those who can devote time and intend to make a living from the craft to apply.
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These items were submitted today by Ko Thit Lu and Kha Shale.