A soldier uses a mobile phone as he sit inside a military vehicle outside Myanmar’s Central Bank during a protest against the military coup, in Yangon, Myanmar, February 15, 2021. ― Reuters picYANGON, May 15 ― Myanmar’s army battled local militia fighters in the north-western town of Mindat today, residents said, to try to quell a rebellion that has sprung up to oppose the junta which seized power in the Southeast Asian country in February.
The junta imposed martial law in Mindat on Thursday and then stepped up attacks on what it called “armed terrorists”. A junta spokesman did not answer calls requesting comment on the fighting today. Myanmar already had some two dozen ethnic armed groups, who have waged war for decades against an army dominated by the Bamar majority.
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