Are the anti-junta resistance forces in Myanmar using drones to drop bombs?
First Published: 24th November, 2023 19:45 IST
The military junta said ethnic rebels dropped bombs Thursday morning near the Muse township damaging more than 100 of around 250 trucks parked near a trading hub
Are the anti-junta resistance forces in Myanmar using drones to drop bombs now? Well, if the military is to be believed, rebels fighting the junta have destroyed more than 100 trucks parked near Myanmar’s northeastern border with China, a charge the rebels have denied.
The military junta said ethnic rebels dropped bombs Thursday morning near the Muse township, along the border with China, and damaged more than 100 of around 250 trucks parked near a trading hub. The rebels responded saying they do not target anything that has a link to the common people and their targets are only the military. The trucks were used to transport goods to and from China.
The attack on the trucks has been the biggest damage the rebels have caused since the stepped-up offensive against the junta began on October 27.
The Three Brotherhood Alliance comprising the Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army, the Ta’ang National Liberation Army and the Arakan Army triggered the offensive with a coordinated strike in northern Shan state on October 27. Several towns fell to the rebels, military posts overrun and close to a hundred Myanmar military personnel crossed over to Mizoram after the rebels took control of their posts and gave them a safe passage to leave. All the junta soldiers have since been airlifted by Indian authorities to the Indian border in Manipur and sent back to Myanmar.
According to a situation report by an UN agency, the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, “The escalation is now the largest in scale and most extensive geographically since the early 2021 military takeover, impacting multiple areas, particularly northern and southern Shan, Sagaing, Kayah, Rakhine, and southern Chin,” areas in northern, central, eastern and western Myanmar.
The report added that “key transport routes in townships with active fighting” had been blocked by both the army and the ethnic rebels, “restricting people’s movements to safer locations, as well as hampering humanitarian access.”
The U.N. agency said that 187 civilians have been reported killed and 246 others have been injured while more than 286,000 people have been displaced by the fighting that began October 27. The report said more than 1.8 million people have been displaced since the junta’s coup and takeover in 2021.
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