lørdag 20. september 2025

Myanmar military surging to clear a path to elections

Beginning in July and escalating since, Myanmar’s military has unleashed a wave of country-wide offensives, marking its most aggressive advances since the civil war intensified after a 2021 coup and signaling a new phase in an increasingly brutal conflict.

Pushing already fragmentated resistance forces onto the back foot, the flurry of punch-backs from a military that just a year ago faced serial defeat and humiliation at the hands of resistance forces has made significant headway along key trade routes to China in northeastern Shan state and to Thailand in eastern Karen state.