FBR Report: "Fighting in Northern Burma Shows Renewed Military Campaign by the Burma Army"

The Free Burma Rangers (FBR) is a multi-ethnic humanitarian service movement. They bring help, hope and love to people in the war zones of Burma (Myanmar) and the Middle East. Groups send teams to be trained, supplied and sent into the areas under attack to provide emergency assistance and human rights documentation. Together with other groups, the teams work to serve people in need.

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"Fighting in Northern Burma Shows Renewed Military Campaign by the Burma Army"

Dear friends,

During April and the first part of May, Burma Army soldiers from two Light Infantry Divisions (LID), several Light Infantry Battalions (LIB), and three Infantry Battalions (IB) traversed northern Shan State and Kachin State, engaging in clashes nearly every day with different ethnic armed organizations (EAOs) ...

... The geographic spread of the clashes as well as their frequency and the number of units and troops involved indicate renewed military campaigning by the Burma Army. In several townships, the incidents were chance encounters between Burma Army troops and ethnic troops, but in a few, particularly Kutkai and Muse, the fighting was a coordinated effort ...

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