Over 80 bases and a town have been captured by the Brotherhood Alliance in northern Shan and northern Mandalay Region since the resumption of Operation 1027.
Bangladeshi government sources say around 100 more junta border guards and soldiers have crossed the border from northern Rakhine State to escape the Arakan Army.
Vice Admiral Zwe Win Myint oversaw an increase in ship to shore shelling in Rakhine State, but this failed to turn the tables on the Arakan Army and led to a surge in civilian deaths.
Generals blame the crisis on bankers. Deputy governor of the junta-controlled central bank equates talking about the banking crisis to spreading rumors.
Beijing's hard-headed strategy to protect its interests has shaped Myanmar's conflict for decades, contrasting sharply with impotent Western diplomacy.
Private lenders have imposed daily withdrawal limits as depositors, rattled by the junta's action against banks, rush to pull out kyats and buy dollars and gold.
In Bagan, with tourism battered first by the pandemic and now by civil war, many hotels and restaurants are shuttered, and guides and vendors are out of work.
The regime military's response to its battlefield losses has been to attack civilians, Tom Andrews said during a briefing to the national security body of Thailand.
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