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MAE SOT, Thailand (AP) — Thailand’s foreign minister on Friday said he urged Myanmar’s military authorities not to violently respond to its army’s loss of an important border trading town to its opponents, and that so far they seemed to be exercising restraint.
Resistance forces seeking to oust Myanmar’s military regime captured a key trade town on the Thai border this week, one of their most significant gains since the junta seized power in a coup more than three years ago. But thousands of residents were fleeing on Friday as the regime’s troops prepared to mount a counteroffensive.
MAE SOT, Thailand — A stream of people, some fearing air strikes, queued at a border crossing to flee Myanmar early on Friday (April 12), a day after the strategically vital town of Myawaddy near Thailand fell to anti-junta resistance that is gaining strength.
BANGKOK (AP) — Guerrillas from the Karen ethnic minority on Thursday claimed to have captured the last of the army’s outposts in Myawaddy district in eastern Myanmar, virtually clearing the way for them to take over Myawaddy town, the major crossing point for trade with Thailand.
Families, trade and life in this pocket of northeast India knew no national borders. Until now, with a pre-election decision threatening to rupture everything they’ve known.
BANGKOK/YANGON -- Senior generals of the Myanmar military have become the targets of drone attacks in recent days, reinforcing the impression that, together with the frontline retreat in a Thai border region, the military regime is on the defensive in clashes with anti-regime forces.
Some 200 Myanmar military personnel withdrew to a bridge connecting the border town of Myawaddy to Thailand on Thursday (April 11) following a days-long assault in the area by anti-junta rebels, according to an ethnic armed group spokesman and local media.