Clashes Continue After Myanmar Junta Flotilla Arrives in Bhamo

Clashes continue between the Kachin Independent Army (KIA) and the military regime after a junta flotilla carrying reinforcements arrived in the strategic town of Bhamo in Kachin State.

Only eleven of the 17 boats in the flotilla that sailed from Mandalay on 17 July through resistance-controlled areas up the Irrawaddy River made it to Bhamo. The rest were destroyed by resistance forces.

They arrived on Aug. 1, and five days later are still unloading ammunition and supplies, KIA spokesman Colonel Naw Bu told The Irrawaddy.