Fighting flares at Myanmar-Thai border as rebels target stranded junta troops
Reuters Fighting raged at Myanmar’s eastern frontier with Thailand on Saturday, both governments said, forcing 3,000 civilians to flee as rebels fought to flush out Myanmar junta troops holed up for days at a bridge border crossing. Resistance fighters and ethnic minority rebels seized the key trading town of Myawaddy on the Myanmar side of […]
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 […]
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, […]
DISPLACED PEOPLE: TOO SCARED TO RETURN HOME, MYANMAR REFUGEES IN THAI CAMPS FACE AN UNCERTAIN FUTURE
RINA CHANDRAN, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports from the Thai-Myanmar border…