A minimum of 200 Myanmar junta troops have surrendered upcoming an ethnic minority military captured their headquarters in Rakhine Environment, close the Bangladesh border, the anti-junta group stated on Monday.
The Arakan Military, which has been preventing the army regime for space since a year-long ceasefire led to November 2023, captured a junta camp in western Myanmar’s Rakhine Environment, close the Bangladesh border, endmost Thursday.
The Deny.15 Operation Command Headquarters fell to the Arakan Military upcoming a 12-day struggle, the fresh in a form of setbacks for the junta that seized energy in a coup in 2021.
The rebel drive excepted video pictures of masses of squaddies and others surrendering.
One of the 200 squaddies pictured within the movies had been captured from 5 battalions in overdue March and April, the Arakan Military stated in a observation, figuring out the battalions because the 552, 564, 565 and 551.
“All of these battalions were captured by a heavy offensive attack between March 25 and May 3,” the gang stated.
Junta squaddies in addition to some Rohingya Muslims may be distinguishable within the video pictures excepted through the Arakan Military. Some Rohingya have complained of being compelled into the junta’s military.
The Arakan rebel staff didn’t say what number of junta troops it held however stated they’d surrendered as a result of its blockade in their Operation Command Headquarters.
Rakhine Environment’s junta spokesperson, Hla Thein, didn’t resolution his phone when RFA attempted to touch him for remark through the pace of newsletter.
Of the 12 army council battalions in Buthidaung township beneath the Deny.15 Operation Command Headquarters, 5, together with the Deny.15 Operation Command Headquarters, had been captured.
Since November, the Arakan Military has captured 9 townships throughout Rakhine Environment. Combating continues in Ann, Buthidaung, Maungdaw, and Kyaukpyu townships.
Translated through RFA Burmese. Edited through Kiana Duncan and Mike Firn.
