Southern Chin State Liberated from Myanmar Junta

The Chin Brotherhood says anti-regime forces control more than 80 percent of Chin State since the fall of Mindat and Kanpetlet townships over the weekend.

Yaw Mang, the armed group’s spokesman, told The Irrawaddy that southern Chin State had been liberated and its troops were attacking Falam’s only remaining junta position, Infantry Battalion 268, in the north of the state.

He said the remaining junta troops – in the capital Hakha, Falam, Tedim and Thantlang townships – were restricted to the towns. Paletwa, Matupi, Kanpetlet, Mindat and Tonzang townships have already fallen.