Thai foreign minister urges Myanmar's military to avoid violent attack on border town after its army suffer spectacular lost


People enjoy a warm weather on Myanmars's side of the Moei river, which borders Thailand and Myanmar, near Mae Sot in Thailand's Tak province on Saturday, April 13, 2024. Thailand’s foreign minister on Friday said he urged Myanmar’s military authorities not to violently respond to its army’s loss of an important border trading town to its opponents, and that so far they seemed to be exercising restraint. - AP

MAE SOT, Thailand (AP): Thailand’s foreign minister has said that he has urged Myanmar’s military authorities not to violently respond to its army’s loss of an important border trading town to its opponents, and that so far they seemed to be exercising restraint.

Parnpree Bahiddha-Nukara spoke during a visit to Mae Sot, which lies directly across a river from Myanmar’s Myawaddy, where army troops abandoned their last defensive position early Thursday.

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