SITUATION WORSENS FOR MYANMAR JUNTA

 Myanmar state officials have charted airplanes to fly to Thailand with official documents and cash from Myanmar banks. 

When officials, documents and cash leaves the country by the planeloads the government is no more. Recall in 2008 Thai PM Thaksin escaping Bangkok with planeloads of cash and gold, President Marcos doing the same in 1986 and in 1979 the Shah of Iran also left town accompanied by his cash and gold. They are not coming back.

 

Rebel troops from the People's Defense Forces' sixth brigade, responsible for the Myawaddy frontline, in Myanmar's Karen state in 2023. The forces' recent successes have sent civil servants fleeing to Thailand.

Myanmar military faces humiliating rout on Thai border

Evacuation from trade hub Myawaddy highlights military regime's growing losses
Nikkei Asia April 8, 2024 

BANGKOK -- Myanmar civil servants and officials of the military regime began evacuating the eastern town of Myawaddy on the Thai-Myanmar border on Sunday night (7th April) in one of the most significant setbacks for the regime since its takeover on Feb. 1, 2021.

The Karen National Union, a prominent anti-regime force in Myanmar's eastern state of Kayin, and Thai sources confirmed that the first of several Burmese charter planes had left the Thai town of Mae Sot, just across the border from Myawaddy, with a small group of regime officials as well as documents and what one official described as "sensitive cargo" on board, understood to include cash assets from state bank branches in Myawaddy.

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