Strategically important Myanmar military HQ appears to fall to the resistance, in a blow to regime

Associated Press

BANGKOK (AP) — Myanmar’s military regime says it has lost communications with the commanders of a strategically important army headquarters in the northeast. That adds credence to a militia group’s claims it has captured the base. The fall of the army’s Northeast Command in Lashio city would be the biggest in a series of setbacks for Myanmar’s military government this year. An offensive by an alliance of powerful militias of ethnic minority groups continues to make broad gains in the civil war. One analyst calls the loss of the headquarters the “most humiliating defeat of the war” for the regime.