The Natogyi PDF announced on 27 October that five Junta soldiers were killed as a result of a drone bombing of Military Council forces stationed in the village of Suuphyukone, in the township of Natogyi Township in Mandalay Division.
From the outset it was quite clear that Myanmar junta leader Min Aung Hlaing's peace call on 22 April was a piecemeal intervention to lift the tremendous military and political pressures on him and his coup-maker regime to drive a wedge between the ethnic-democratic forces, rather than to strive for genuine peace, reconciliation and political settlement.