Myanmar/Burma civil conflict

A total of 127 Myanmar Army Soldiers of Battalion #129 surrendered to the MNDAA along with 134 of their family members on November 12th, 2023.

In exchange for their surrender, each Junta Soldier was provided 1 million Kyat (476 USD) while one family member was given an additional 100,000 Kyat (47 USD)

Very informing article that talks about establishment of a multi-ethnic Battalion that has completed training under the MNDAA. It also discusses the MNDAA's role in supporting various Spring Revolution movements.



Peng Jiasheng the founder of the MNDAA has always advocated for an armed multi-ethnic alliance and during his funeral, leaders of almost every major ethnic militia attended his funeral along with Chinese officials from Yunnan. Interestingly enough, despite Peng Jiasheng's bitter battle with the Tatmadaw, his funeral was attended by Tatmadaw general Myint Tun. I imagine out of some mutual respect.

"After Chairman Peng Jiasheng gave us 100 guns, we took those 100 guns and two RPGs to fight back to our homeland, Arakan, and it was a crucial moment in our revolution,” Arakan Army leader Twan Mrat Naing said at a memorial service for the late MNDAA founder on March 29, 2022.

so would this conflict end up a new country between China and Myanmar?

Not likely, most of these warlords have small army and with small population and greatly fragmented. More importantly, there are many different ethnic groups that have different interests and sponsor by different foreign entities. Most likely, they would gain more autonomy and form a stronger alliance to push government forces further south.

A useful primer for anyone new to this story:

Maikeru said:

A useful primer for anyone new to this story:

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Does he also work for SFA? If the Myanmar Junta collapses, Jai Hinds will learn the definition of bad news.

Temstar said:

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1723679140358873285

MNDAA overran another army base and captured a large amount of war materials
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They also got some Big arty, MTLB-Sh, and even BTR-3U



All in all, this is pretty much a very Huge base.

LIB549 has been captured by MNDAA today. This is the 181st tatmadaw outposts/ camp/ bases captured since the beginning of .




While KNLA/ BPLA (Karen National Liberation Army) forces have captured tatmadaw LIB351 outpost in Shwe Kyin, Bago region. After 20 mins of fightings, troops fled. Weapons seized. Shwe Kyin is located in the western bank of Sittaung river.

I drew over a simple Google map the river and the main crossings. You can see the difficult situation the military is in, having lost the main crossing at Kunlong.