Hard-fought victory: Myanmar soldiers posing in front of the captured police station in Kyaukme, a town that the resistance forces had controlled for more than a year. — AP
THE military has taken back control of a major district capital in Shan State more than a year after losing it to an armed ethnic minority rebel group, according to state media.
The recapture of Kyaukme, about 115km northeast of Mandalay, the country’s second-largest city, is the latest setback suffered by the ethnic militias fighting the army. Its fall could not be independently confirmed because the military does not allow journalists free access to the area, but the claim has not been challenged.
