19 dead in fighting between Myanmar army, rebels
The attack of the rebels in Northern Myanmar has killed 19 people.
Rights defenders say clashes in northern Myanmar near the China border have ramped up since January as the global community focuses on the Rohingya crisis in the west of the country.
Zaw Htay, the main Myanmar government spokesman, said around 100 insurgents attacked at about 5 a.m. using small arms and artillery, and were repelled by armed police and members of a government-backed militia he called "paramilitaries".
Some 32 people, including 27 civilians, three policemen, and two local paramilitary forces were injured in the attack led by the Ta'ang National Liberation Army, or TNLA, on Muse town, a major border crossing with China, he added.
The Myanmar government has described the attack as a terrorist attack. "They ran away after attacking the civilian targets", said Zaw Htay.
Mai Aik Kyaw, TNLA's spokesman, told AFP news agency that they attacked military posts, a casino just outside the town of Muse on a road to Lashio.
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Fifteen civilians, including two women, were killed, and 20 were injured, he said, citing information from police. It says that the insurgents are based in Shan and the neighboring state of Kachin, and are demanding greater autonomy.
Myanmar's patchwork of ethnic groups make up round a third of the population, but the Bamar, or Burmese, have filled the Buddhist-majority country's power structures since independence in 1948.
The country's de facto leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, made ending Myanmar's multiple civil wars, which have lasted for 70 years, a priority when her National League for Democracy won landslide elections in 2015, ending five decades of military rule.
Suu Kyi managed to bring two ethnic groups into a ceasefire accord in February, adding to eight others who had inked the deal before she took office.
"She ignored the ethnic issue".
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