Resistance Mines Kill Senior Officer and Decimate Junta Column in Falam, Chin State
TZP News 
The Zoland Post | March 31,2026
A Myanmar military column was devastated by 16 coordinated minefields in Falam Township, Chin State, resulting in nearly 60 casualties, including a high-ranking colonel.
The ambush severely hampered the military’s five-month offensive to retake the strategic town, highlighting the junta’s diminishing control in the region.
This major tactical setback occurs as the military council struggles to regain territory in Chin State, where it has already lost control of the majority of townships. The effective use of guerrilla mine warfare along critical supply routes has significantly stalled the junta’s operational momentum. [1][2]
Between March 4 and 19, the CDF CDM SIYIN resistance force launched a series of ambushes against a junta column advancing from Thang-ngin toward Zawngkong village.
A cluster of over 30 landmines at the entrance of Zawngkong village caused mass casualties, reportedly killing the column commander, Colonel Win Maung Maung. Resistance sources confirmed that the military was forced to conduct multiple body recovery missions by motorcycle and airlift an emergency replacement commander from the regional hub of Kalay.
Currently, the depleted column—numbering over 100 troops—remains stationed between Parthe and Lumbang villages. The military’s inability to advance underlines the broader reality in Chin State, where resistance forces now fully control six out of nine townships, leaving the junta isolated in a handful of urban centers.
As the civil war intensifies, the junta’s continued losses in the mountainous terrain of Chin State suggest a deepening crisis for the regime’s ground forces, who face a highly organized and resilient resistance movement.
