Student Armed Force
{{Short description|Armed resistance organization in Myanmar}}
{{Infobox militant organization
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| native_name = ကျောင်းသားလက်ရုံးတပ်တော်
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| leader = Min Latt Okkar (commander-in-chief)
| foundation = {{Start date|2021|04|27|df=yes}}
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| allies = * National Unity Government
- {{flagicon image|Flag of PDF Myanmar.svg}} People's Defence Force
- Myanmar Defense Force
- {{flagicon image|Infobox ULA.png}} United League of Arakan
- {{flagicon image|ULA-AA Flag.svg}} Arakan Army
- {{flagicon image|Flag of the Bamar People's Liberation Army.svg}} Bamar People's Liberation Army
- {{flagicon image|Flag of Chin State.svg}} Chinland Defence Force
- {{flagicon image|Flag of the People's Liberation Army (Myanmar).png}} People's Liberation Army
- {{flagicon image|Flag of People's Revolution Alliance (Magway).svg|border|150px}} People's Revolution Alliance (Magway){{cite news|url=https://pvtvmyanmar.net/%E1%80%80%E1%80%AC%E1%80%80%E1%80%BD%E1%80%9A%E1%80%BA%E1%80%9B%E1%80%B1%E1%80%B8%E1%80%9D%E1%80%94%E1%80%BA%E1%80%80%E1%80%BC%E1%80%AE%E1%80%B8%E1%80%8C%E1%80%AC%E1%80%94-%E1%80%95%E1%80%BC%E1%80%8A/|title=Union Minister of the Ministry of Defense meets the People's Revolution Alliance (Magway)|date=1 November 2022|access-date=2 November 2022|language=Burmese|work=Public Voice Television|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20230405030326/https://pvtvmyanmar.net/%E1%80%80%E1%80%AC%E1%80%80%E1%80%BD%E1%80%9A%E1%80%BA%E1%80%9B%E1%80%B1%E1%80%B8%E1%80%9D%E1%80%94%E1%80%BA%E1%80%80%E1%80%BC%E1%80%AE%E1%80%B8%E1%80%8C%E1%80%AC%E1%80%94-%E1%80%95%E1%80%BC%E1%80%8A/|archive-date= April 5, 2023}}
| opponents = {{flag|Myanmar}} (SAC)
- {{flagdeco|Myanmar|military}} Tatmadaw
- {{army|MYA}}
- {{flagicon image|Mm-north-western-rmc.svg}} North Western Command
- {{flagicon image|Flag of the Myanmar Police Force.svg}} Myanmar Police Force
- {{flagicon image|Flag of Myanmar.svg}} Pyusawhti militias{{Cite web|url=https://www.myanmar-now.org/en/topics/5558|title=Pyusawhti militia|website=Myanmar NOW|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20230115045126/https://myanmar-now.org/en/topics/5558|archive-date=January 15, 2023}}
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- Internal conflict in Myanmar
- Myanmar civil war (2021–present)
- Rakhine offensive (2023-present)
- Battle of Ann{{Cite web |title=Student Armed Force captures 14 soldiers from the Junta, including Major Zaw Htet Naung, on Arakan Mountains road |url=https://www.narinjara.com/news/detail/6749501a6d17f531adcbcfbe |date=29 November 2024 |access-date=22 December 2024 |website=Narinjara News |language=en}}
- Battle of Budalin {{tree list/end}}
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The Student Armed Force ({{langx|my|ကျောင်းသားလက်ရုံးတပ်တော်}}, Kyāungthā Letyōn Tattaw; abbreviated SAF or ကလတ) is an armed resistance organization in Myanmar.{{Cite web |title=ကျောင်းသားလက်ရုံးတပ်တော် ထူထောင်ရေးကာလ ဦးဆောင်ကော်မတီမှ ဖြေကြားချက် |url=https://mizzimaburmese.com/article/87464 |access-date=2023-01-10 |website=Mizzima Myanmar News and Insight |language=my|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20211217084032/https://www.mizzimaburmese.com/article/87464|archive-date=December 17, 2021}}{{Cite web |date=2022-08-17 |title=လက်နက်ကိုင်တော်လှန်ရေးအတွက် ကျောင်းသားလက်ရုံးတပ်တော် တပ်သားသစ်စုဆောင်းနေ|work=DVB |url=https://burmese.dvb.no/archives/549377 |access-date=2023-01-10 |language=my|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20230110190640/https://burmese.dvb.no/archives/549377|archive-date= January 10, 2023}}
History
In response to the 2021 Myanmar coup d'état, members of Yangon-based {{ill|University Student Unions|my|တက္ကသိုလ် ကျောင်းသားများ သမဂ္ဂ}} learned basic military training in the liberated area of the Arakan Army, and with the support of the Arakan Army formed the Student Armed Force on April 27, 2021, with 22 leaders.{{cite web |title=ရက္ခိုင့်တပ်တော်၏ကူညီထောက်ပံ့မှုဖြင့် ကျောင်းသားလက်ရုံးတပ်တော်ကို ဖွဲ့စည်းတည်ထောင်ခဲ့ |url=https://burmese.narinjara.com/news/detail/625510df0e719f232cb31808 |website=Narinjara |access-date= |language=my|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20230310024528/https://burmese.narinjara.com/news/detail/625510df0e719f232cb31808|archive-date= March 10, 2023}}{{cite web |title=ကျောင်းသားလက်ရုံးတပ်တော် အခြေခံ စစ်သင်တန်းဆင်းပွဲတွင် ဆု ၆ မျိုး ချီးမြှင့် |url=https://www.mizzimaburmese.com/gallery/95852 |website=Mizzima Myanmar News and Insight |publisher=Mizzima |access-date= |language=my|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20220107134318/https://www.mizzimaburmese.com/gallery/95852|archive-date=January 7, 2022}}{{Cite web |title=ရက္ခိုင်တပ်တော်(AA)၏ တပ်တော်နေ့ကို ဂုဏ်ပြုခြင်းအနေဖြင့် ပြည်သူ့ကာကွယ်ရေးတပ်ဖွဲ့များက ကျေးဇူးစကားဆို |url=https://www.tachileik.net/mm/news/29932 |access-date=2023-01-10 |website=Tachileik News Agency |language=my|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20230311113133/https://www.tachileik.net/mm/news/29932|archive-date= March 11, 2023}}
On 24 January 2022, the Student Armed Force carried out an assault on a 60-soldier Tamadaw column in the jungles of Magway Region, resulting in nine fatalities among the Tamadaw troops.{{Cite web |title=ကျောင်းသားလက်ရုံးတပ်တော်က တိုက်ခိုက်လို့ အကြမ်းဖက်စစ်သား ၉ ယောက်သေ – PVTV Myanmar |url=https://pvtvmyanmar.net/%E1%80%80%E1%80%BB%E1%80%B1%E1%80%AC%E1%80%84%E1%80%BA%E1%80%B8%E1%80%9E%E1%80%AC%E1%80%B8%E1%80%9C%E1%80%80%E1%80%BA%E1%80%9B%E1%80%AF%E1%80%B6%E1%80%B8%E1%80%90%E1%80%95%E1%80%BA%E1%80%90%E1%80%B1/ |access-date=2023-01-10 |language=my|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20230110190653/https://pvtvmyanmar.net/%e1%80%80%e1%80%bb%e1%80%b1%e1%80%ac%e1%80%84%e1%80%ba%e1%80%b8%e1%80%9e%e1%80%ac%e1%80%b8%e1%80%9c%e1%80%80%e1%80%ba%e1%80%9b%e1%80%af%e1%80%b6%e1%80%b8%e1%80%90%e1%80%95%e1%80%ba%e1%80%90%e1%80%b1/|archive-date=January 10, 2023}} Former actress Honey Nway Oo is currently serving as a senior officer in the force.{{Cite web |date=2022-10-20 |title=နွေဦးမှာပွင့်တဲ့ပန်း – ဟန်နီနွေဦး - Progressive Voice Myanmar |url=https://progressivevoicemyanmar.org/2022/10/20/%e1%80%94%e1%80%bd%e1%80%b1%e1%80%a6%e1%80%b8%e1%80%99%e1%80%be%e1%80%ac%e1%80%95%e1%80%bd%e1%80%84%e1%80%b7%e1%80%ba%e1%80%90%e1%80%b2%e1%80%b7%e1%80%95%e1%80%94%e1%80%ba%e1%80%b8-%e1%80%9f/ |access-date=2023-01-10 |website=Progressive Voice Myanmar - Amplifying voices from the ground |language=my|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20230404043832/https://progressivevoicemyanmar.org/2022/10/20/%E1%80%94%E1%80%BD%E1%80%B1%E1%80%A6%E1%80%B8%E1%80%99%E1%80%BE%E1%80%AC%E1%80%95%E1%80%BD%E1%80%84%E1%80%B7%E1%80%BA%E1%80%90%E1%80%B2%E1%80%B7%E1%80%95%E1%80%94%E1%80%BA%E1%80%B8-%E1%80%9F/|archive-date= April 4, 2023}}
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