AA captures two more BGF battalions in Maungdaw Twsp

By Admin 04 May 2024

DMG Newsroom
4 May 2024, Maungdaw

The Arakkha Army (AA) has seized two more border guard police battalions in Arakan State’s Maungdaw, where military tensions between the military and AA are running high, according to a local source on the ground.

The AA took control of the border guard force battalion No. 2 outpost in 4th-Mile Ward and BGF battalion No. 10 near Hla Phoe Khaung Village after hundreds of junta soldiers and their family members abandoned the two BGF positions on May 3.

“Family members of the BGF police and junta soldiers and Muslims, who were forcibly recruited as militiamen under the Military Service Law, are among hundreds of regime soldiers who abandoned the BGF regiments. They, along with their arms, fled to the Kanyinchaung Economic Zone,” the source said.

A total of 700 junta soldiers and their family members — about 400 from the BGF battalion No. 2 and around 300 from the BGF battalion No. 10 — managed to flee to the Kanyinchaung Economic Zone near the Naf River, where junta naval ships are docked.

Regime soldiers from the two BGF regiments seem to have decided to flee after the AA seized the junta’s No. 1 border guard police headquarters in Kyee Kan Pyin Village on May 2, another source said.

“The remaining junta soldiers dare not stay in their camps after the AA seized the junta’s No. 1 border guard police headquarters in Kyee Kan Pyin Village on Thursday. Hundreds of junta soldiers and their families fled to the Kanyinchaung Economic Zone,” the source added.

The AA seized several dead bodies of members of the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA), Arakan Rohingya Army (ARA) and Rohingya Solidarity Organisation (RSO) following the seizure of the Kyee Kan Pyin BGF headquarters.

The AA is using artillery and drones to attack junta battalions there, and the regime is using artillery and warplanes to defend against the AA onslaught.

There are some border guard police battalions in Maungdaw Township and the AA is stepping up attacks on the junta’s BGF battalions to control the entire Maungdaw region.

The regime and the AA have also been fighting fiercely in Buthidaung and Ann townships and AA-military hostilities are reported in Thandwe Township as well.