The headquarters' deputy commander, Brig. Gen. Thaung Tun, and its chief operating officer, Brig. Gen. Kyaw Kyaw Than, were among those taken prisoner, Khaing Thukha said.
An ethnic armed group in Myanmar claims to have captured a major regional army headquarters
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Khaing Thukha, a spokesperson for the Arakan Army, told The Associated Press by text message from an undisclosed location that his group had seized Buthidaung after capturing all the military’s outposts there.
As ethnic armed group claims to have captured a town in western Myanmar, Muslim Rohingyas flee again
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