Anti-junta fighters claim to have taken five regime soldiers prisoner on Tuesday when they seized their base near Monywa, the Sagaing Region capital and site of the army’s Northwestern Regional Military Command (RMC) office.
According to spokespersons for the Sagaing Region People's Defence Organization, resistance forces attacked an outpost manned by some 40 junta troops at around 5pm in the village of Htee Taw Tin, about a mile from the Northwestern RMC headquarters. The anti-junta fighters were able to take the base within 30 minutes, they claimed.
Min Min, the commander of the resistance’s Union Liberation Front (ULF) column, said junta reinforcements arrived soon after the battle began.
"The Northwestern Regional Command sent two columns of reinforcements. We had to engage quickly and the fight was quite rushed. We had the enemy coming from both sides and aircraft flying overhead when five. . .
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