RCSS Clashes With Tatmadaw in Southern Shan State, Displaced Shan in Kachin State Struggling

Restoration Council of Shan State (RCSS) clashed with Burma Army during a surprise encounter with troops on a road in Loilam District, southern Shan State.

A driver told SHAN the next day Tatmadaw sent reinforcements to Hopon 7-Mile located in Taunggyi Township. “I saw many military vehicles this morning. Soldiers are stopping everyone on the street to question them,” the driver said.

RCSS spokesperson Maj Kham San said he wasn’t briefed about the fighting near Yin Kwe mountain on the Mongpun-Loilam roadway on April 25.

On April 22, there was violence in Namsang Township, Mongnai Township (Langkho District) and Mong Nawng sub-township (Keshi Township).

Burma Army launched an artillery strike on RCSS’s Loi Lam Lon base, opposite Wiang Haeng Township in Thailand’s Chiang Mai District, on April 21.

In Kachin State, over 5,000 Shan villagers displaced by the conflict…