Over 600 junta officers and their families surrendered after base was overrun by KNU and allies.
The losses in Myanmar’s Kayin state are the latest among a string of defeats that have forced the military regime to cede control.
The Thai government confirmed on April 8 that it had received a request from the Myanmar junta-run foreign ministry to approve three special flights from April 7 to 9 between Yangon and Mae Sot – the Thai town next to Myawaddy – to “transport passengers and cargo”. It did not specify the type of passengers and cargo to be conveyed.
In response to online allegations that Bangkok was siding with the junta in Myanmar’s three-year-old crisis, Thailand’s foreign ministry said: “In the past, the Thai side has provided assistance to all parties in Myanmar based on humanitarian principles without discrimination. Bangkok on March 25 sent aid to Myanmar via the Myawaddy-Mae Sot border as part of wider efforts to establish a humanitarian corridor. The delivery of this aid involved the Thai and Myanmar Red Cross societies, the latter being controlled by the junta. It is not clear what will happen to this initiative should Myawaddy come under full control of the KNU.
Long-established ethnic armed groups and “people’s defence forces” under the control of the shadow National Unity Government are stretching the military junta through multi-fronted battles. The junta is trying to replenish its ranks with conscription, fuelling the informal migration of young people seeking to flee military service.
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