A powerful ethnic minority armed group battling Myanmar’s army in the country’s west claimed to have taken hundreds of government soldiers prisoner when it captured a major command post.
The Arakan Army, the well-trained and well-armed military wing of the Rakhine ethnic minority movement, has been on the offensive against army outposts in the western state of Rakhine – its home ground – for about six months.
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