Myanmar troops retreat as rebels declare control over key border town
Reuters About 200 Myanmar military personnel withdrew to a bridge to Thailand on Thursday after a days-long assault by the anti-junta resistance, which declared it had won control of the critical border town of Myawaddy, the latest in a string of rebel wins. Myanmar’s military-run government is battling insurgencies on several fronts and has suffered […]
Fleeing violence in Myanmar, thousands camp along Thai border river
Thai-Myanmar border Reuters Thousands of Myanmar villagers are living under makeshift tents alongside a river that borders Thailand, fearful of returning to homes which they said had been bombarded by military air strikes but reluctant to seek refuge across the frontier. Heavy fighting between the Myanmar military, which seized power in a coup last year, […]
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 […]