Guerrilla fighters from the main ethnic Karen fighting force battling Myanmar’s military government have withdrawn from the eastern border town of Myawaddy two weeks after forcing the army to give up its defense.
Saw Win Myint, a commander of a military unit under the Karen National Union, the leading political body for the Karen ethnic minority that is part of the resistance against military rule in Myanmar , inspects the damaged armory in the captured army base of Infantry Battalion 275 in Myawaddy township in Kayin state, Myanmar , Friday April 12, 2024. Soldiers who abandoned the base two weeks ago were allowed by another armed group on Tuesday to raise the military government’s flag there.
The soldiers now encamped next to the 2nd Thai-Myanmar Friendship Bridge were given at least tacit protection there by Kayin state’s Border Guard Force, another armed Karen group that had been nominally affiliated with the military but announced last month they were cutting their ties and establishing themselves independently under the name of the Karen National Army.
Photos and video clips of a handful of soldiers raising Myanmar’s flag on Tuesday were circulated by supporters of the military government on the Telegram social network. It wasn’t clear if any of the soldiers remained at the base after the photo opportunity, or if they returned to their campsite by the bridge.
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