MYAWADDY, Myanmar ¨C Myawaddy, a critical trading post in Myanmar that rebel forces seized from the ruling junta last week, offers a glimpse of dynamics playing out across the Southeast Asian country as its vaunted military reels from battlefield losses.
At the border town¡¯s outskirts, the site of the most intense fighting, abandoned homes sat next to buildings pockmarked with bullet holes, gas stations damaged by blasts and structures flattened by airstrikes, reporters saw on a visit this week.
Rebels who fought against junta troops in Myawaddy described a demoralized military that was unwilling to hold its ground.
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