Myanmar rebel group says it withdraws from key town on Thai border

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A Myanmar rebel group has withdrawn its troops from a town along the Thai border following a counteroffensive by soldiers of the ruling junta from whom the rebels had this month wrested the key trading post, an official said on Wednesday (Apr 24).

Thai soldiers and members of the media take cover near the 2nd Thailand - Myanmar Friendship Bridge during fighting on the Myanmar side between the Karen National Liberation Army and Myanmar 's troops, which continues near the Thailand - Myanmar border, in Mae Sot, Tak Province, Thailand on Apr 20, 2024.

"KNLA troops will ... destroy the junta troops and their backup troops who marched to Myawaddy," Saw Taw Nee said, referring to the group's armed wing, the Karen National Liberation Army, one of Myanmar's oldest ethnic fighting forces.in a single day as rebels fought to flush out stranded Myanmar government troops holed up at a border bridge crossing.

"The situation has improved significantly," spokesperson Nikorndej Balankura told a briefing."Nevertheless, we are closely monitoring the situation, which is highly uncertain and can change." The country is locked in a civil war between the military on one side and, on the other, a loose alliance of established ethnic minority armies and a resistance movement born out of the junta's bloody crackdown on anti-coup dissent.Photographs posted on some pro-junta social media groups showed a handful of soldiers raising the Myanmar flag at a military base the KNU had controlled just days before, and where the rebel group had raised its own banner.

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