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Heavy fighting in war-torn Myanmar has forced nearly 4,000 people to flee into India in the last four days, Indian officials in the northeastern state of Mizoram said Monday.

The refugees, crossing thick forested routes to neighbouring India, ran from clashes between rival Chin armed groups, Mizoram state home secretary Vanlalmawia, who uses only one name, told AFP.

A long documentary for the weekend. This is a good snapshot of the country back in 2014 when it was opening up to the world after half a century of isolation under military rule. You can see the old ways and transition to changes opening up was introducing. Most of all you can feel the bubble of optimism building in the country. This was 1 year before NLD's overwhelming victory in the elections that surprised everyone and the military.

The Kokang armed group Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army (MNDAA) has been enforcing a mandatory military service requirement for one member of each household in Lashio Township outside urban wards, residents of the city said.

Photo – Revolutionary forces led by the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) have completely captured the Kantdaunt Police Station on the Pale-Ganggou Road in Pale Township, Sagaing Region, at 6:40 a.m. today (June 19), a PLA official confirmed to Mizzima.

Armed groups in the Rohingya camps of southern Bangladesh have joined forces to battle the Arakan Army, the ethnic Rakhine group that has taken over much of the refugees’ home state in Myanmar. But fighting is more likely to hurt than help the Rohingya cause.

Banmauk People's Defence Force (PDF) has instructed six villages in southern Banmauk Township, northern Sagaing Region, to supply 10 recruits each, according to sources from the villages.