Battle for strategic junta camp on Thai-Myanmar border intensifies

By Admin 08 Jul 2025

DMG Newsroom

8 July 2025, Myawaddy, Kayin State

Fighting is intensifying as joint forces led by the Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA) have been attacking Waw Lay camp, one of the regime's three military outposts along the Thai-Myanmar border, since July 3, according to military sources.

Resistance groups headed by the KNLA, the armed wing of the Karen National Union (KNU), began attacking Waw Law camp, a strategic junta base along the Thai-Myanmar border, on July 3 and the military regime responded to the attacks with aerial support.

"The military regime responded to the attacks by the KNLA-led revolutionary forces with aerial support as it could not send reinforcements. I hope we can seize Waw Lay camp soon," said a military source.

Two junta camps along the Thai-Myanmar border, Ukarihta and T Thellae, have also been blockaded by KNLA and allied forces.

Military sources say that if these junta camps are captured, the KNLA and allied forces will essentially be able to control the entire Thai border.

Fighting between the Myanmar military and resistance groups near the border has forced many locals to flee to Thailand.

Military and political analysts believe that the KNU could seize junta camps on the Thai border and then join forces with rebel forces from Bago Region to launch an offensive on the capital Naypyidaw.

"The KNU will move from the western side of the Sittaung River basin to the eastern side and operate on the eastern side of the Bago Yoma [mountain range], where an important military route, the Yangon-Mandalay railway, is located," said U Than Soe Naing, a military and political analyst. "If the KNU joins forces with the revolutionary groups on the western side of the Bago Yoma, it will have a good position to encircle Naypyidaw."

Military and political analysts note that anti-regime forces are increasingly seizing territory in border areas across the country and may be seeking to harness the benefits of border trade in their efforts to overthrow the military dictatorship.

The KNU and its allies have seized at least a dozen military camps along the Thai-Myanmar border since March.