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 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.
