Myanmar's military has been accused of launching deadly bombardments on a camp for displaced persons in the northern state of Kachin.
Myanmar’s junta has lost communications with senior officers at a major military base near the Chinese border, in a rare admission of battlefield failure after rebels announced they had taken control of the key regional army headquarters. The Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army rebel group, which said on July 25 it had taken over the base but kept fighting to gain full control, posted photographs of its troops at the military stronghold in the town of Lashio on Saturday.
“MNDAA has gained complete victory after destroying remaining enemy troops and fully conquered the northeastern military headquarters,” the group said in a statement on social media, accompanied by photographs of its troops. The loss of Lashio — the first of 14 regional military commands to fall to rebels — marks a major defeat for the junta, which last year suffered a succession of stinging losses in northern Shan state near the Chinese border.
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