Intense fighting between Myanmar’s military and rebel forces in Sagaing region near the country’s border with India has forced more than 3,000 civilians to flee their homes and led to heavy casualties on both sides, according to sources.
The fiercest fighting in Tamu township began on Monday, as rebel fighters launched an offensive targeting temporary military camps in the area, prompting the military to reinforce its troops with airstrikes and drone bombs, residents, aid workers and anti-junta groups said.
Tamu is in Sagaing, a heartland region populated largely by members of the majority Burman community that has been torn by violence since democracy activists set up paramilitary groups to battle the military after the 2021 coup.
Since early January, more than 3,000 residents of Tamu township have fled some 24 kilometers (15 miles) to the border separating Sagaing region and India’s Manipur state, said aid workers.
Fighting continued on Thursday at a military camp between Tamu’s Htan Ta Pin and Pan Thar villages, an official from the anti-junta Tamu Township People’s Defense Force, or PDF, told RFA Burmese.
The PDF official called the military camp “significant,” noting that around 400 pro-junta fighters are stationed there, including from the Pyu Saw Htee militia.
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