June 21, 2024
YANGON – Beijing brokered a truce between the junta and the “Three Brotherhood Alliance” in January after months of fighting that displaced more than half a million people near China’s southern border.
Thematic image. The ceasefire allowed the alliance – made up of the Ta’ang National Liberation Army, the Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army and the Arakan Army – to hold swathes of territory it had seized in northern Shan state. PHOTO: UNSPLASH