The opposition in Myanmar has claimed a rare mass drone attack on the country’s embattled junta government in the heavily guarded capital, Nay Pyi Taw. The National Unity Government (NUG) – which calls itself the government in exile – said it deployed 29 drones armed with explosives to the airport, air force base and army headquarters. The junta said it had intercepted the drones, shooting down seven, including one which exploded on a runway. There were no casualties, they said,
The NUG represents the elected civilian government previously led by Aung San Suu Kyi, which was toppled in a coup in 2021.
Since then it and other opposition groups have been fighting the junta regime, which has begun losing control of large areas of the country. The country’s three-year civil war has killed thousands and displaced about 2.6 million people according to the UN.
Thursday morning’s attack on the capital marks another bold, and rare incursion by the resistance groups who are mounting an increasingly effective opposition to the junta.
Nay Pyi Taw is the centre of power for the military regime which named it the capital, replacing Yangon, after it came to rule. Heavily guarded, it has been shielded from much of the fighting that has raged elsewhere across the country.
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