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Once on the back foot, Myanmar’s military now looks set to resume offensive in bloody civil war
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Once on the back foot, Myanmar’s military now looks set to resume offensive in bloody civil war

The Seattle Times·DAVID RISING The Associated Press·about 1 month ago
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BANGKOK (AP) — A little more than a year ago, the government’s military was on the back foot in Myanmar ‘s bloody civil war, pushed out of great swaths of the country’s north by an alliance of seasoned militias, and forced into defensive action around the rest of the country by other established groups and new pro-democracy guerrillas. Today the picture has changed. With its ranks swollen by tens of thousands of new conscripts, the military, known as the Tatmadaw, has reversed some of its losses and appears poised to resume the offensive, while some opposition groups have left the fight and infighting and supply issues have weakened others. “I think we’re nearing a crescendo here where the Tatmadaw is going to reassert itself and the resistance movement is going to peter out,” said Morgan Michaels, a Singapore-based analyst with the International Institute of Strategic Studies who runs its Myanmar Conflict Map project.…

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