KUTKAI: Winding through the lawless, rugged hills of northern Myanmar, National Highway 3 links a stunning series of victories by ethnic rebels and pr...
A general view shows Myanmar's second largest city Mandalay on October 24, 2024. Winding through the lawless, rugged hills of northern Myanmar"National Highway 3" links together a stunning series of victories by ethnic rebels and pro-democracy fighters in their war against the junta.
AFP images from National Highway 3 show the destruction wrought by the previous year’s fighting and rebel groups trying to administer their newly seized territory.Each morning, hundreds of locals queued for day passes to cross into China to buy medicine and consumer goods that can be re-sold back in Myanmar.
Around an hour from Muse was a checkpoint manned by soldiers from the Ta’ang National Liberation Army , one of the rebel groups behind last year’s offensive.Around 30 kilometres further on is the town of Kutkai, infamous for the production of methamphetamine and normally home to around 50,000 people.
“We can only hope our city will revive if the national highway opens again. Now our daily lives are full of fear about air strikes.”Two young police officers in ethnic rebel uniforms sat on plastic chairs by the roadside and watched the traffic go by.Roughly halfway along the highway, the city of Lashio embodies the biggest defeat the junta has suffered since it seized power in 2021.
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