Myanmar rebel group withdraws troops from key town on Thai border
Reuters A Myanmar rebel group has withdrawn its troops from a town along the Thai border following a counter-offensive by soldiers of the ruling junta from whom the resistance fighters had wrested the key trading post this month, an official said on Wednesday. The Karen National Union (KNU) made a “temporary retreat” from the town […]
Rebels raise flag at seized Myanmar base, commander confident of retaining control
Myawaddy, Myanmar Reuters Myanmar resistance fighters on Monday burned the flag used by the military government and raised their own banner at a newly captured army base, as a senior rebel commander vowed they would hold the strategic area near the Thai border. The celebrations by fighters linked to the armed ethnic Karen National Union […]
Thailand sends refugees back to Myanmar as clashes continue
Mae Sot, Thailand Reuters Thailand has sent over 600 Myanmar refugees who fled fighting between the military and ethnic rebels back across the border, according to a senior Thai official who said on Sunday clashes were continuing. Some of the refugees who reached north-west Thailand’s Tak province told Reuters before they went back over the […]
Myanmar’s war displaces new generation on remote river frontier
Mae Sam Laep, ThailandReuters Myanmar’s coup has brought war back to a remote South-East Asian frontier after 25 years, sending a new generation of villagers in both Myanmar and Thailand running for their lives from bullets and bombs. Ethnic Karen insurgents and the Myanmar army have engaged in heavy clashes near the Thai border in […]