Myanmar Junta Abandons Another Police Outpost in Magwe Region

By The Irrawaddy 22 November 2022

Repeated assaults by native resistance teams drove regime forces to desert one other police outpost in Myaing Township, Magwe Area on Tuesday.

Junta troops and policemen retreated from the Bahin outpost after burning greater than 130 of the 400 homes within the village on Monday. A lot of the villagers had fled their houses months in the past following clashes between native resistance forces and junta personnel on the outpost.

A detachment of 100 troops from Myaing city had travelled the 13 miles to Bahin Village on Sunday, in accordance with native information websites and the Myaing-Individuals’s Protection Drive.

On Tuesday morning, the army detachment departed from the village together with 50 regime police, their members of the family and a few civilian detainees, Ko Latyar, a Myaing-PDF commander, informed the Irrawaddy.

“The police station was being attacked continuously by native PDF teams. And the regime couldn’t present it with reinforcements and different help as it’s in a distant space. So, they lastly deserted the outpost,” the Myaing-PDF commander stated.

Native resistance forces seized the outpost on Tuesday and arrested an incapacitated policeman who had been left behind by departing regime forces.

On Nov. 11, a number of policemen have been killed or injured when the sentry field of the police outpost was bombed by the resistance group.

The retreat from Bahin comes simply weeks after junta forces destroyed and deserted a police outpost in Thayatkan Village in close by Pauk Township, Magwe Area, on Sept 28.

The destroyed outpost was solely 3 miles west of the Bahin police station, stated Myaing-PDF.

Junta forces dealing with every day assaults by PDFs and ethnic armed organizations are struggling escalating losses at army bases and safety outposts throughout the nation.