Myanmar News | Rebels vs Junta | Rebels Raise Flag At Seized Army Base Near Thailand | N18V

Myanmar resistance fighters burned the flag used by the military government and raised their own banner at a newly captured army base. The celebrations by fighters linked to the armed ethnic Karen National Union (KNU) came less than a week after the capture of Myawaddy, a key trading town on Thailand's western border. Myawaddy's fall marked another battlefield loss for the powerful military regime that seized control in 2021 from an elected government led by Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, who remains in detention. Simmering anger against the junta has turned into a nationwide armed resistance movement that is now increasingly operating in coordination with established ethnic rebel groups to challenge the military across large parts of Myanmar. Since last October, the army has lost control of key areas near its borders to a loose coalition of allied resistance forces.
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