Burma's Arakan Army claims it has seized control of a major government command post, taking hundreds of soldiers prisoner in the process.
A powerful ethnic minority armed group battling Burma'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 Arakan Army, the well-trained and well-armed military wing of the Rakhine ethnic minority movement, has been on the offensive against army outposts in the western state of Rakhine — its home ground — for about six months.
Buthidaung is about 240 miles southwest of Mandalay, Burma's second-largest city. The reported capture of the base could not be independently confirmed. Burma's military government made no immediate comment, and the spokesperson of the Arakan Army did not respond to questions sent by The Associated Press.
On Sunday, the Kachin Independence Army, another major ethnic armed group, claimed to have captured Sumprabum, a township in the northern state of Kachin.
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