Entire Myanmar army battalion surrenders to MNDAA in Shan State

mizzima
11/29/2023,

ကုန်းခြံမြို့နယ် / Photo: Google

The spokesperson for the Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army (MNDAA) confirmed that the complete Light Infantry Battalion No. (125), stationed in the Kokang Self-Administered Zone in Northern Shan State, surrendered on 28 November.

Myanmar Military Caught Off Guard by Ethnic Alliance’s Northern Offensive

The Irrawaddy
by Aung Zaw
October 30, 2023

MNDAA Major General Peng Deqi (centre right) commands operations against Myanmar's military near Lashio Township in Myanmar’s northern Shan State on Oct. 27, 2023. / AFP

 

Its title—“Operation 1027”, a reference to its Oct. 27 launch date—is reminiscent of the code names the communist insurgents once gave to their military operations against the Myanmar military.

Armed Forces Round Up Civilians in Shan State

Shan Herald Agency for News 

Friday, May 28, 2021

Armed forces arrested many civilians in Shan State as part of the military regime’s campaign against the southeastern nation’s protest movement that has resisted its authority after the Army overthrew the democratically elected government before it could be sworn into power during a bloodless coup about four months ago.

youths collecting donations for displaced civilians in a market in the border town of Muse on Wednesday morning, May 26.

Armed forces, which included soldiers, police and members of a People’s Militia Force, arrested five youths collecting donations for displaced civilians in a market in the border town of Muse on Wednesday morning, May 26.

Ma Pyae Pyae, 32; Ma Nyein Thida, 28; Ma Soe Su Hlaing, 24; Ma Htet Yamin Nwe, 20 and Maung Swam Win, 17, were detained at about 10am, according to a woman.

No peace byprayer, say defiant Rakhine rebels.

THE Star ONLINE 
Saturday, 20 Apr 2019

Panghsang (Myanmar): Rakh­ine rebels locked in a vicious fight with Myanmar’s army will not “get peace by praying”, its commander said as he vowed his forces will fight on despite being outnumbered and under aerial assault.

‘Do more to stop trafficking’.

THE Star ONLINE

Friday, 22 Mar 2019

BANGKOK: Authorities in China and Myanmar are failing to stop the brutal trafficking of young women, often teenagers, from the conflict-ridden Kachin region for sexual slavery, according to a report by Human Rights Watch.

Ruthless meth networks get ill-prepared Myanmar hooked.

Digital Journal

20th Feb 2019,

By Richard SARGENT and Hla Hla HTAY (AFP)

Myanmar is now believed to be the largest source of methamphetamine in the world

Ye Aung THU, AFP

Mobs of stick-wielding church-goers in Myanmar's northeast used to descend on dealers and addicts in a desperate effort to save their communities from a meth-induced health crisis sweeping the country.

But anonymous death threats brought the vigilante operations to a halt.

"It simply became too dangerous for us," says Zau Man, leader of the local Baptist church in Kutkai, a town in Shan State scarred by addiction.

State Counsellor: Election pledges being kept step by step.

The Myanmar Times 
CHAN THAR | 08 FEB 2019

State Caunsellor Daw San Suu Kyi speaks at an event in Nay Pyi Taw last month. Photo - AP

The government is implementing step by step the pledges that the National League for Democracy made in the 2015 general election, said State Counsellor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi.

Speaking at the 72nd Shan State Day ceremony at the Awayyar fire balloon field in Taunggyi, Shan State, on Thursday, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi said, “There must be development and peace first. Then it is very important to draft a constitution that is accepted by all and is supportive of the federal union. We are trying to implement the promises to the people step-by-step,” she said.