Resistance forces have captured eight junta bases in Mandalay Region’s Madaya Township over the past week, the Mandalay People’s Defence Force (MDY-PDF) said in a statement on Tuesday.
The group, together with the Ta’ang National Liberation Army (TNLA), has been fighting in the area since June 25, when Operation 1027, an anti-regime offensive launched late last year, resumed following the collapse of a ceasefire reached in January.
While the TNLA has been leading the offensive in Mandalay’s Mogok Township and Nawngkhio and Kyaukme townships in northern Shan State, the MDY-PDF is spearheading the fighting in eastern Madaya Township.
Local resistance forces. . .
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