Anti-junta group takes full control of Namkham Township in Shan State
Channel: Myanmar Now News
Date: 2023-12-20

Myanmar’s Three Brotherhood Alliance, a coalition of ethnic armed groups that’s been carrying out a coordinated offensive against the junta since late October, has seized full control of the towns of Namhsan and Namkham in northern Shan State. 

One of the Alliance’s three member organisations, the Ta’ang National Liberation Army, or TNLA, claimed this week that they had finally seized the towns after weeks of intense fighting with junta troops. 

On Monday night, TNLA also stormed the last remaining junta outpost in Namkham Township, which is located on the main trade route to the China-Myanmar border and has a population of more than 100,000, 

The Three Brotherhood Alliance has captured scores of junta bases and several towns along the Myanmar-China border in the nearly two months since it launched its anti-junta offensive campaign, known as Operation 1027.