Resistance fighters say they are battling to overrun the main prison in Loikaw, Karenni State, weeks after anti-junta armed groups attacked regime labour camps in other parts of the country.
Clashes have been ongoing since Karenni forces initiated attacks on junta targets in Loikaw on November 11, resistance groups said, adding that they have maintained control over half the area of the Karenni State capital even after the junta carried out a series of airstrikes and indiscriminate artillery attacks on the city.
Personnel working for the junta’s prison department have been fighting alongside regime forces during the battle for the Loikaw prison, according to the anti-junta forces.
One prison staff member, assistant supervisor Lwin Paing Soe, was killed in the fighting in mid-November, according to an. . .
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