Insurgents burn another outpost

Rising tensions: A KNLA soldier holding a mortar shell next to a cache of mortar shells found at a Myanmar military outpost in Mutraw district, Karen State. — AP

Guerilla soldiers from the country’s Karen ethnic minority burnt down a government military outpost after capturing it without a fight when its garrison fled, a senior Karen officer said.

The position is approximately 15km from a larger camp that the Karen National Liberation Army stormed and burned 10 days earlier. The KNLA is the armed wing of the Karen National Union, the main political organisation representing the Karen minority, whose homeland is in eastern Myanmar.