Despite heavy fighting in Kawkareik, resistance groups insist they haven’t launched an all-out offensive to seize the Kayin State town, but the battle has led to a rapprochement with an officer under investigation for human rights abuses.
A regime attack on a resistance-held village tract in Myanmar’s Bago Region in March took the lives of dozens, while anti-junta fighters had to make tough decisions to protect civilians.
BY Frontier
