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The ‘fall’ of Myawaddy: What it says of the state of Myanmar’s civil war
The country is splintering further. As the junta loses ground, some ethnic armed groups are staking their claim to key borderlands in pursuit of their own interests, including online scams.
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Soldiers from the Karen National Liberation Army on patrol in the strategic border town of Myawaddy, Myanmar, on April 15.
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MYAWADDY, Myanmar – Myawaddy has fallen, but not quite. Over the past few weeks, the see-saw tussle between Myanmar junta and resistance forces over the strategic Myanmar border town of Myawaddy
It is instructive about the nature of the country’s three-year-old political crisis: There are no neat narratives for this multi-fronted civil war involving not just the junta and a variety of armed groups, but also rivalry between ethnic armed groups fighting for no one’s interests but their own.
