Three armed rebel groups in Myanmar are threatening to “fight back” if the military does not stop killing anti-coup protesters, as neighbouring Thailand allowed more than a dozen Myanmar people fleeing violence to cross into a border village for medical care.
In a joint statement on Tuesday, the Ta’ang National Liberation Army, the Myanmar Nationalities Democratic Alliance Army and the Arakan Army (AA) said if the military continued to “kill the people, we will cooperate with the protesters and fight back”.
The warning came as the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (AAPP), a monitoring group, said security forces have killed at least 510 people since the February 1 power grab. The total killed on Saturday, the bloodiest day of the protests, had risen to 141, its figures showed.
Amid the rising death toll, one of the main groups behind the protests, the General…
