(Based on staff articles from The MYANMAR NOW MEDIA on 07 July 2024.)
The Pakhokeku-based Light-Infantry-Division LID-101
had IB-251, 252, 253, 254, 255, 256, 257, 258, 259, and 235 all there in
Thandwe, but all those infantry battalions have been demolished and more than
4,000 Myanmar soldiers were killed in the intense battle to capture Thandwe,
the Gateway to the famous Ngapali Beach.
Thandwe International Airport has also been taken by AA, despite the coastal-bombardment of five warrships from Myanmar Navy; and despite the Myanmar Army sending in more than twenty infantry battalions to defend Thandwe Town and the Airport.
More than 400 corpses of Myanmar soldiers at the Airport alone were collected
and buried in at least five mass graves at the Airport after the deadly battle was
over. There ae other mass graves of Myanmar soldiers killed all over the Town.
Na-Pa-Kha Is Surrounded
Myanmar Army’s
Western-Divisional-Command (Na-Pa-Kha) at Ann is now underseige as AA has
captured the Taw-hein-taung Byuhar (Tactical Command) Base situtated at just 26-miles-West
of Na-Pa-Kha after two-months-long intense frontal assaults.
It took AA more
than two months of relentless assaults to finally overrun that Tactical-Command-Base
which was basically the last obstacle on assaulting the Na-Pa-Kha. AA declared
that they had heavy casualities too, but didn’t disclose the exact numbers of
dead and wounded.
Once AA had the
whole township they will have a complete control of Ngapali-Special-Economic-Zone
(EPZ) where the Multi-billion-US$ worth of luxury resorts and hotels are
owned and operated by many foreign investers.
The way things are rapidly happening in Arakan, AA will eventually take the Na-Pa-Kha Command and drive out the Myanmar Army from the Arakan State, and they can establish their own State Administration and then happily declare Arakan’s Independnce from the Union of Myanmar (Burma). That will be the beginning of Burmese Balkanization as many foreign observers have been predicting for a while now.
