A powerful ethnic armed group battling Myanmar's army in the country's west claims it took hundreds of government soldiers prisoner when it captured a major command post.
BANGKOK — A powerful ethnic minority armed group battling Myanmar ’s army in the country’s west claimed Monday to have taken hundreds of government soldiers prisoner when it captured a major command post.The group said in a video statement posted on the Telegram messaging app that soldiers belonging to the military government’s Operational Command No. 15 headquarters in Rakhine’s Buthidaung township surrendered after a siege.The reported capture of the base could not be independently confirmed.
The video does not specify the total number of captured soldiers and their family members, but in one part about 300 men can be seen sitting in rows in an open field. Some parts of the video released Monday show young men who appear to be members of the Muslim Rohingya minority.
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