Troops of the Burmese junta have completely withdrawn from Myawaddy, a key border town for trade with Thailand. Thailand shares a 2,400-kilometre-long border with Myanmar, where a 2021 military coup against the democratically elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi reignited conflict.
According to the junta's Commerce Ministry, a billion euros worth of goods passed through there during the last 12 months. On Wednesday, hundreds of frightened people lined up at the border to escape the fighting that lasted several days around myawaddy. The KNU has not yet entered the city, although we saw on Facebook that they had obtained local military command 275. We are still hiding in our homes,” a resident said, requesting the anonymity for security reasons. “The fighting stopped around 8 p.m. yesterday evening,’ a resident of Myawadier told AFP, adding that some 200 soldiers had taken refuge on a bridge linking the two towns.