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Time for Myanmar’s neighbours to recalibrate approach as regime loses ground
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A member of the Karenni Army on a truck with seized weapons during a battle in Loikaw in Myanmar's Kayah State in November.
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BANGKOK – Urban centres in war-torn parts of Myanmar used to be largely controlled by the military, even after the February 2021 coup
However, rapid victories made over the past month by a powerful alliance of three ethnic armed groups in Myanmar’s north, as well as the parallel offensives by other rebel forces they spurred, have shattered this veneer of invincibility.
