Ethnic armed groups in Myanmar are claiming to have captured two strategically important towns in the northeast. Lashio houses the major regional military headquarters and Mogok is the center of the country’s lucrative gem-mining industry. Their fall would be the biggest in a series of setbacks suffered by Myanmar’s military government this year.
FILE - Army officers stand guard as police officers patrol in Lashio, northern Shan State, Myanmar , on May 29, 2013. Ethnic armed groups claimed on Thursday July 25, 2024 to have captured two strategically important towns in northeastern Myanmar : Lashio, which houses the major regional military headquarters, and Mogok, the center of the country’s lucrative gem-mining industry.
The MNDAA said in a statement published Thursday on its Facebook page that the group had completely captured the military’s Northeast Command headquarters in Lashio at 4 a.m. that morning, after 23 days of the fighting. However, Maj. Gen. Zaw Min Tun, the spokesperson of the ruling military council, said in a message sent to the journalists on Thursday that the claims of the capture of the military command headquarters were untrue.
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