
The Kachin Independence Army (KIA) claimed in a statement on Monday to have captured two of the military’s artillery battalion bases and an airfield in Bhamo Township, Kachin State after days of fighting.
Members of the KIA, the Kachin People’s Defence Force (KPDF), and other allied groups initially launched attacks on Bhamo Township and neighbouring Mansi Township in December. The offensive intensified in the last week of January after several weeks of slower progress earlier in the month.
The junta’s Artillery Battalion (AB) 366 and AB 6007 bases fell to the KIA-led forces on January 26 following two days of clashes.
The anti-junta fighters’ attacks on the army’s Military Operations Command (MOC) 21 headquarters near Bhamo’s airfield are ongoing, according to KIA spokesperson Colonel Naw Bu.
“We haven’t gotten any report about the capture of. . .