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Four government soldiers were killed and several injured during fighting yesterday with the Kachin Independence Army on the Loije-Bhamo Road, in Kachin State, said witnesses.
The heavy fighting lasted for three hours at Du Ra Kawng, between Sinlum Bum and Lungja Bum, near N’Mawk (Momauk), in Manmaw (Bhamo) District, witnesses said.
Today, at about 3 a.m., a government military truck from Manmaw picked up several wounded soldiers from the area, said eyewitnesses from N’mawk.
Government forces have cornered about a hundred suspected Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) rebels who are allegedly engaged in criminal activities in Payao town in Zamboanga Sibugay.
“They are cornered and they are in various fighting positions,” said acting Army spokesman Maj. Harold Cabunoc on Tuesday, a day after the military launched an air strike followed by a ground assault on the rebels’ lair.
Armed attackers have attempted to blast their way into an American base in eastern Afghanistan, striking before dawn with rocket-propelled grenades and a vehicle packed with explosives.
The attackers failed to breach the gate of the base in Panjshir province’s Rakoha district, though they did hit a security tower with a rocket-propelled grenade, a local police chief said on Saturday.
Three of the men attacked on foot, shooting, while a fourth detonated the explosives-laden vehicle outside the gate, General Mohammad Qasim Jangalbagh said. All four attackers were killed and two Afghan security guards were wounded, he said.
In a significant victory in the four month-long civil war, the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) captured an important frontline post of the Burma Army in Kachin State on Tuesday, after more than 20 hours of fighting, according to local people.
KIA officers and local residents confirmed the Jan Mai post, located on a high mountain top in west of Loije in Manmaw (Bhamo) District, was captured by the combined forces of KIA Battalions 16 and 21, under 3rd Brigade and the People’s Army.
The combined KIA forces attacked the Jan Mai Post, which was manned by about 20 government troops from Shwe Nyaung Pyin (Waingmaw)-based Light Infantry Battalion No. 321, at about 4 a.m. local time.
Sri Lanka’s government on Friday released nearly 1,800 former Tamil Tiger rebels who had been held since the island nation’s civil war ended more than two years ago.
The former combatants — among about 11,000 Tamil Tigers who surrendered at the end of the war in May 2009 — were held in military-run rehabilitation centers, where they underwent vocational training. The military says about 1,000 remain in centers.
Sri Lanka has come under pressure from rights groups and other countries to either charge the detainees or release them.