Dozens of prisoners from a National Unity Government (NUG) detention centre in Sagaing Region have reached the junta-controlled town of Tamu after escaping on December 12, according to resistance sources.
Most of the 34 escapees were junta police officers who had surrendered when resistance forces captured Myo Thit, a town about 29 miles north of Tamu, in May.
The men initially took shelter in Min Thar, a village about 11 miles south of Myo Thit on the road to Tamu, after making their escape, according to a Tamu District People's Defense Force (PDF) fighter who spoke to Myanmar Now.
He added that a regime police officer who claimed to have joined the Civil Disobedience Movement (CDM) helped the prisoners break free.
"Since the police officer who pretended to join the CDM knew the area well, they were able to escape easily," he said.
The detention facility that the. . .
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