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Senior officers told Frontier the humiliating defeats across northern Shan have shocked the military establishment.

“He is the worst leader in the history of the military and the country. His leadership destroys the dignity of our military,” said a major-general in the air force, who spoke on the condition of anonymity.

“We have to give the commander-in-chief time to deal with the current crisis. But if he fails, everyone will hear some breaking news within two months. I’m saying the end of February. I think that’s enough time,” he said, speaking to Frontier late last year.

“I’ve never seen a situation like this before. The army is fighting across the entire country. Tanks and heavy weapons are being lost. The military is losing a shocking number of soldiers,” he said.

Since the military coup in February 2021, a state-owned Indian company with a history of selling to Myanmar military suppliers has sold more than US$3.7 million in fuel – including over $1.5 million in navy grade diesel – to a mysterious Myanmar consignee listed in contracts only as “The Master”.

The two towns were seized by the Brotherhood Alliance on Jan. 5 following the surrender of over 700 junta troops. The alliance – comprising the Arakan Army, the Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army and the Ta’ang National Liberation Army – subsequently gave the two towns to the United Wa State Army.

One week after the Brotherhood Alliance launched Operation 1027 in northern Shan State on Oct. 27, the USWA said it would remain neutral despite its ties to alliance members.

Still, it expanded its territory and gained two towns without firing a single bullet.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/10439192

BANGKOK (AP) — Airstrikes by Myanmar’s military on a village under the control of the pro-democracy resistance in the country’s northwest have killed at least 17 civilians, including nine children, local residents and a human rights group said Sunday.