Ethnic armed group says it has captured a town in western Myanmar
By Grant Peck, AP – published by Yahoo!News A POWERFUL ethnic armed group fighting Myanmar’s military government in the country’s western state of Rakhine claimed on Saturday (May 18) to have seized a town near the border with Bangladesh, marking the latest in a series of victories for foes of the country’s military government. […]
Read MoreMyanmar ethnic armed group says it captured hundreds of junta personnel
By AFP and published by CNA A MYANMAR ethnic armed group said today (May 6) it had captured a military command and taken hundreds of junta personnel prisoner in western Rakhine state, the latest blow to the military. Clashes have rocked Rakhine since the Arakan Army (AA) attacked security forces in November, ending a […]
Read MoreMyawaddy fighting won’t spill over to Thailand: Anutin
DEPUTY Prime Minister-cum-Interior Minister Anutin Charnvirakul said upon getting ready to go to Mae Sot district, which is directly opposite Myawaddy where Karen National Union (KNU) and their allies and Myanmar junta have been fighting, that it is unlikely the clashes will spill over to the Thai side, TV Channel 7 said today (Apr. […]
Read MoreOver a hundred injured in Myawaddy fighting treated in Tak province so far: Chonlanan
PUBLIC Health Minister Chonlanan Srikaew said in Mae Sot town today (Aug. 22) that after fierce fighting broke out across the border in Myawaddy last Saturday Apr. 20 altogether 113 Myanmar citizens have been treated at various hospitals in Tak province with many of them now discharged because they had suffered minor injuries, Amarin […]
Read MoreFighting escalates in Myawaddy with many wounded people crossing over to Thai side
THE FIGHTING between Karen National Union (KNU) and its ally People’s Defence Force (PDF) and Myanmar junta has now spread to several locations in Myawaddy district, just across the border from Thailand’s Mae Sot district, with many wounded Myanmar nationals brought over for medical treatment at Mae Sot Hospital, Amarin TV said today (Apr. […]
Read MoreBullets from fighting in Myawaddy fly across the border to the Thai side
THE FIERCE fighting in Myawaddy district, across the border from Thailand’s Mae Sot district, between ethnic minority fighters and Myanmar junta soldiers holding out near the 2nd Thai-Myanmar Friendship after their base fell earlier this month has begun to affect Thais with bullets flying across the border and one hitting a resident’s window, Naewna […]
Read MoreAnti-junta fighters mount attack on Myanmar junta soldiers holding out in Myawaddy
OVER 200 Myawaddy residents fled across the border to adjoining Thai Mae Sot town after ethnic minority fighters launched an attack on Myanmar junta soldiers holding out in this border district at 6 a.m. this morning (Apr. 20), Amarin TV said. Around 200 Tatmadaw Infantry Battalion 275 and front section of Light Infantry Battalion […]
Read MoreMyawaddy checkpoint temporarily opened to let Thai trucks return
ALTHOUGH the situation along the Thai-Myanmar border is still tense after anti-junta forces took control of Myawaddy town which just across the river from Thai Mae Sot town those in charge out there did today (Apr. 12) temporarily open the second permanent border checkpoint to allow Thai trucks to return home, Thai Rath newspaper […]
Read MoreMyanmar junta troops flee as Karens, allies seize last base in Myawaddy
MYANMAR junta’s last stronghold in Myawaddy, Infantry Battalion 275 Pha Song base, fell to the fighters of Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA) and their allies after heavy attack with around 200 soldiers having fled to take shelter opposite Thailand’s Mae Sot district, Naewna newspaper said this morning (Apr. 11). At 5 a.m.fighters from 28th, […]
Read MoreKarens, allies mount attack on junta’s base in Myawaddy
AFTER talks between Karens and their allies and Myanmar junta’s Infantry Battalion 275 holding out at their last base in Myawaddy town, opposite Thailand’s Mae Sot town, failed to make headway for three days the former launched an attack on the latter’s stronghold last night, Naewna and Matichon newspapers said today (April 10). Thai […]
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