Myanmar Military Detains North Western Commander for Planning to Defect: Ethnic Insurgent Sources

Brig-Gen Phyo Thant is the highest-ranking official to break ranks with the regime; he reportedly contacted civilian resistance forces and the CDM before his arrest.

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