After fleeing Laukkai Town to save their lives, thousands of IDPs are now sleeping on roads outside Lashio as junta troops block them from entering the town where transport home awaits.
The isolated regime has quickly reversed course a week after junta-backed nationalists staged protests against China's perceived support for an ethnic military offensive.
Surrender of entire battalion in Konkyan Township in northern Shan State on Tuesday was the end of the line for the Myanmar military in the area bordering China, ethnic army says.
While recognized for helping to open US-China ties, the ex-secretary of state's legacy of realpolitik, which saw the US support ruthless regimes, is controversial.
Min Aung Hlaing claimed the experts had helped ethnic armed groups use "drones with advanced technology" to attack military outposts in northern Shan State.
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Brotherhood Alliance member says it now has complete control of Kokang's northernmost section after the junta's Light Infantry Battalion 125 surrendered to it on Tuesday.
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Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army troops are opening roads and pathways through forests for people to flee Kokang's capital as they prepare to fight for it.
The Spring Revolution and Operation 1027 have debunked once and for all the notion that the Myanmar military is the guarantor of the country's integrity and security.
The 'security exercises' come amid strained ties between Naypyitaw and Beijing over the regime's handling of conflict with ethnic forces and scam compounds on the border.
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