Pyu Saw Htee
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Five POWs tracked down after internal dispute in resistance allows 11 to escape
Detainees had seized an opportunity to break out of a prison camp while National Unity Government (NUG) security forces were responding to a gunfight among resistance fighters last week in Sagaing Region’s Homalin Township
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Monk who led junta-trained militias condemns Myanmar junta’s abductions for forced recruitment
The nationalist monk, commonly referred to by the epithet ‘Pauk Ko Taw’ and known for supporting the formation of junta-armed Pyu Saw Htee groups, reported that authorities took two young civilian men captive and pressed them into military training
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Myanmar military detains 40 civilians, torches houses in Sagaing Region
According to locals, the arson attack on the village of Min Kun, Sagaing Township was likely in retaliation for resistance forces’ killing of three junta personnel recently found patrolling the area
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Resistance forces attack pro-junta militia bases in central Myanmar
The groups have targeted Pyu Saw Htee-controlled villages in Mandalay and Magway regions for several weeks, partly to coordinate with the second phase of Operation 1027 and partly to respond to the militias’ local abuses
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Myanmar army troops and pro-regime militias abruptly withdraw from Sagaing Region bases
Resistance forces said they had not forced the armed militia members and soldiers out of the bases by attacking them, and speculated they had relocated due to the regime’s failure to deliver supplies