The Myanmar military uncovered a stockpile of weapons and arrested two residents of eastern Bago Region’s Waw Township on Saturday on suspicion of connections to the armed resistance.
Junta troops entered the village of Aung Zay Ya on the west side of the Sittaung River that day before taking Win Myint, a man in his 50s, into custody and finding the hidden arms and ammunition during a search outside his farm hut.
Resistance fighters had been taking shelter in the farm hut in the days before the arrest, a member of a local resistance force said.
“They were en route to a ‘mission’ and buried their weapons in the field after running into a junta column. They uncovered the weapons when they questioned the farm hut owner,” he said. “They questioned him after their secret informant noticed strangers coming and going, became suspicious, and tipped them. . .
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