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- October 21, 2024
Naung Min Thu, Narinjara News, 13 June 2024
The Arakan Army (AA) has captured Ah Lel Than Kyaw camp in south Maungdaw
on the night of Wednesday, said local sources.
After capturing six military bases including Inn Din
6th border guard police battalion, Myin Hlut 9th border guard police battalion
and Mawyawadi 4th border guard police battalion, the AA fighters launched an
offensive against the Ah Lel Than Kyaw camp in the afternoon and finally
conquered it the same night.
"The AA fighters are continuing offensives against Na Khaung To and Pa Din
camps on Thursday morning too,” said a resident of Ma Gyee
Chaung Muslim village.
The latest capture is a well-known military camp in
south Maungdaw of Rakhine State and it gave shelter to over 200 soldiers and
border guard personnel.
The AA fighters attacked the camp at the entry point
to Maungdaw firing artillery shells. The junta soldiers conducted
airstrikes with jet fighters and Y-12 aircraft from the military vessels.
Many soldiers retreated to Na Khaung To and Pa Din
camps. Fierce fighting continued as the junta forces, combined with the
retreating personnel, tried to defend both the military bases.
“Airstrikes by Y-12 aircraft, blasts of artillery shells, gunfire from small
arms, drones, APG launchers and machine guns were used in the battles. The 5th
border guard police battalion and the navy personnel fired many artillery
shells,” said a Maungdaw resident.
The local military analysts stated that despite the junta’s reinforced soldiers
along with weapons via landing crafts at Ah Lel Than Kyaw, Na Khaung To, Pa
Din, Ma Gyee Chaung, and Maung Ni camps, they failed to defend those bases
fully and hence many soldiers retreated.
The AA fighters fully captured the junta's border
guard camps along Ah Ngu Maw road in the southern part of Maungdaw. These camps
include Tower Hill (captured on 2 June), Kyauk Pan Du camp (on 3 June), Gwa
Sone Pyin (4 June), Myin Hlut camp (4 June), Inn Din/ 6th border guard
police battalion (6 June) and 9th border guard police battalion (7 June), said
an AA statement.
On 7 June, the fighting intensified around Thar Yar Kone village as the
AA fighters launched offensives from around 200 meters northeast of
Ma Gyee Kone village in the morning hours.
Two outposts of the 2nd border guard police battalion were
surrounded by the AA fighters and facing the heat, the junta soldiers retreated
towards cashew farms and the police battalion in Maungdaw town.
The AA has already declared that it would continue
attacking the military camps based in the Maungdaw locality. A warning
was also issued to the junta soldiers to surrender or face the consequence. The
AA statement, issued on 7 June, also assured necessary care to the surrendered
soldiers along with their families.