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Myanmar s Karen insurgents burn another government military outpost
A Karen National Liberation Army soldier stands next to a cache of mortar shells found at a Myanmar military outpost on May 7, 2021, in Mutraw district, Karen State, Myanmar. (Photo: Karen National Liberation Army via AP)
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BANGKOK: Guerrilla soldiers from Myanmar’s Karen ethnic minority burned down a government military outpost on Friday (May 7) after capturing it without a fight when its garrison fled, a senior Karen officer said.
The position is about 15km from a larger camp that the Karen National Liberation Army stormed and burned 10 days earlier. The KNLA is the armed wing of the Karen National Union, the main political organisation representing the Karen minority, whose homeland is in eastern Myanmar.
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Nearly 200 Myanmar Troops Killed in Clashes With Karen Forces
Nearly 200 Myanmar Troops Killed in Clashes With Karen Forces
Karen National Liberation Army says its attacks are to show support for the National Unity Government.
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By The Irrawaddy 6 May 2021
Nearly 200 Myanmar military troops, including a colonel and a lieutenant colonel, were killed in clashes between the regime’s troops and the military wing of the Karen National Union (KNU) in Karen State.
Military tension has risen in Hpapun area, Shwe Kyin and Thaton Districts, in Karen and Bago regions after the military wing of the KNU, Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA) Brigade 5 seized an outpost near the Salween River in Thi Mu Hta held by the military’s Light Infantry Division 349 on March 27.
The counterattack came after days of Myanmar military air strikes against Kachin Independence Army positions.
May 04, 2021
A Kachin Independence Army soldier stands guard near Laiza, Kachin State, with a Myanmar military camp in the background.
Credit: Flickr/Allyson Neville-Morgan
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Ethnic Kachin rebels in northern Myanmar said yesterday that they had shot down a military helicopter, the latest sign of the fighting that has intensified around the country’s periphery since the coup of February 1.
According to the Kachin Independence Army (KIA), the helicopter was shot down around 10:20 a.m. and fell near a village in Momauk township in Kachin State, following days of air raids by the Myanmar armed forces, or Tatmadaw.
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A human tragedy The Bangkok Post © The Bangkok Post Groups of displaced people cross the Salween River back to Karen state late last month. Saw Kha Pay Mu Nu
Just over a month ago on the night of March 27, the Armed Forces Day of Myanmar celebrated with a reception organised in the presence of the military attache and diplomats from various countries in Myanmar’s capital city Nay Pyi Taw. Yet on the same day, jet fighters of the despotic Myanmar Army were dispatched for an airstrike on the town of Day Bu Noh Mutraw, where the headquarters of the Karen National Union’s (KNU) Brigade 5 is located. The mission caused a number of casualties and sent thousands of villagers running for their lives into the forest and towards the Thai border by the Salween River in Mae Hong Son.
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