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Mizzima
The Battalion Commander of the junta’s Infantry Battalion (IB) 103 and 47 other soldiers surrendered to the Karen National Union’s (KNU’s) Brigade 4 in Myeik Township, Tanintharyi Region, on 15 April.
When the troops surrendered, they had been on the way from their base on the border with Thailand in Myeik Township, Tanintharyi Region to the Hteehta Tactical Hill Camp, also in Myeik Township.
KNU Brigade 4 attacked the junta troops in the area of Hteetha and Mawhta villages in Myeik Township. After suffering casualties in the attack, the remaining junta soldiers surrendered, according to the KNU.
The KNU said that it is holding the captured junta soldiers in accordance with the Myanmar Prisons Act.
A KNU spokesperson, Padoh Saw Taw Nee said that none of the captured soldiers would be returned to the junta without their consent.
Previously, at the beginning of April, a junta commander along with 600 soldiers and their family members surrendered to the KNU.
