Negotiations between the Myanmar military and Ta’ang National Liberation Army (TNLA), mediated by the Chinese government, hit a deadlock this week as the military’s airstrikes on Nawnghkio Township, northern Shan State continued.
With the talks in China’s Yunnan Province at an impasse, the parties agreed to reconvene in April, the TNLA’s spokespersons said.
Near the same time, the military regime’s air force targeted a hospital and residential areas in bombing raids on the TNLA-controlled town of Nawnghkio on Wednesday around 8pm, killing at least three people and injuring four, according to the TNLA.
“My father said bombs landed on Nawnghkio Hospital and in two other places, near a school and a bank,” a displaced woman from Nawnghkio said.
The lives of residents remaining in Nawnghkio have been devastated by junta airstrikes.The TNLA, also commonly called the Ta’ang army, has. . .
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