Junta battles guerillas for control of jade hub


The country’s junta and anti-coup guerillas battled over the country’s jade mining hub, a comba­tant and a local said, displacing desperate civilians as they vied for supplies of the precious stone.

Myanmar has been consumed by a many-sided civil war since a 2021 coup toppled the democratic government, with the myriad of fighting factions plundering the nation’s vast natural resources to fill their coffers.

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