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Bangkok Post – Navy on standby to evacuate Thais from Myanmar

A soldier from the Karen National Liberation Army carries an RPG launcher near a Myanmar army base on the outskirts of Myawaddy on April 15. The Myanmar border town is now under the control of a coalition of rebel forces led by the Karen National Union. (Photo: Reuters)

The Royal Thai Navy has four ships on standby in the Andaman Sea, ready to evacuate Thais from Myanmar if the civil conflict there escalates.

Navy chief Adm Adung Pan-Iam has ordered the Region 3 commander, responsible for the Andaman coast, to deploy two frigates, HTMS Saiburi and HTMS Prachuap Khiri Khan, and two landing ships, HTMS…

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