Karen National Liberation Army battalions have blockaded and launched attacks on an army base near Hlaingbwe Township’s Kha Lel Day village in Karen State, provoking a retaliatory airstrike on Monday. The junta camp is on a hill northeast of the village and just over two miles west of the Thaungyin (Moei) River, which forms part of the border between Thailand and Myanmar. The area, part of Hpa-An District, falls within territory claimed by Brigade 7 of the KNLA, the armed wing of the Karen National Union (KNU), Myanmar’s oldest ethnic political organisation. KNLA fighters had been carrying out assaults in the area for a day when a junta fighter jet reportedly dropped four bombs around noon on Monday, according to the KNU’s Karen Information Centre and other sources within the group. “The junta aircraft dropped four bombs,” a senior KNU official confirmed. “It’s a large. . .
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