Nov 16 (Reuters) – At least 29 extra Myanmar troopers entered India on Thursday fleeing an assault by insurgents on their navy base near the Indian border, an Indian police official mentioned, as rebels step up their assaults towards the ruling junta .

Earlier this week, 43 Myanmar troopers entered India’s Mizoram state after their navy bases had been overrun by the rebels. Nearly 40 had been sent back by Indian authorities by way of a unique border crossing level a couple of hundred kms east.

Myanmar’s navy has battled ethnic minority and different insurgencies for many years however a 2021 coup has introduced unprecedented coordination between anti-military forces which might be mounting the largest problem to the military in years.

The nation’s navy rulers have ordered all authorities employees and people with navy expertise to organize to serve in case of emergency, Tin Maung Swe, secretary of an administrative council within the capital, Naypyitaw mentioned on Thursday, after the junta reported “heavy assaults” in a number of locations.

“If necessary, such a unit might be required to go out and serve for natural disasters, and security,” the junta’s council mentioned in an order.

Tin Maung Swe confirmed the order whereas stressing that the scenario within the capital, in central Myanmar, was calm.

“This is the plan to help in the event of an emergency,” he advised Reuters.

A parallel authorities fashioned by pro-democracy politicians to oppose the navy, and allied with some rebel factions, has launched a “Road to Naypyitaw” marketing campaign which it says is aimed toward taking management of the capital.

Junta spokesperson Zaw Min Tun mentioned late on Wednesday the navy was going through “heavy assaults from a significant number of armed rebel soldiers” in Shan State within the northeast, Kayah State within the east and Rakhine State within the west.

Zaw Min Tun mentioned some navy positions had been evacuated and the insurgents had been utilizing drones to drop lots of of bombs on navy posts.

“We are urgently taking measures to protect against drone bomb attacks effectively,” the junta spokesperson mentioned.

UN CONCERN

Myanmar has been in turmoil for the reason that 2021 coup, when the navy ousted a authorities led by Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, ending a decade of tentative democratic reform.

The navy dominated Myanmar with an iron fist for 50 years after seizing energy in 1962, insisting it was the one establishment able to holding the varied nation collectively.

The 2021 coup dashed hopes for reform and triggered a groundswell of opposition that has united pro-democracy activists in cities and cities with ethnic minority forces preventing for self-determination in hinterlands.

Clashes have despatched refugees into all of Myanmar’s neighbours, together with thousands who fled into India in latest days from preventing in Chin State within the northwest.

Lalmalsawma Hnamte, a state police official in Mizoram’s Vamphai district, the place the most recent 29 Myanmar troopers entered India from the Tuibal navy base in Chin state, mentioned the troopers had been handed over to the federal paramilitary border guarding pressure.

Arindam Bagchi, spokesperson for India’s international ministry mentioned on Thursday that New Delhi was “deeply concerned” concerning the scenario alongside the border.

He reiterated New Delhi’s place, asking for a cessation of violence and determination of the scenario by way of dialogue.

Western governments have re-imposed sanctions on the Myanmar junta in response to the coup and crackdowns on protests and demanded the discharge of Suu Kyi and different pro-democracy politicians and activists.

Myanmar’s Southeast Asian neighbours have tried to encourage a peace course of however the generals have largely ignored their efforts.

U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres was deeply involved by the “expansion of conflict in Myanmar” and referred to as for all events to guard civilians, a spokesperson mentioned.

“The number of displaced people in Myanmar now exceeds two million,” the spokesperson mentioned.

The Arakan Army (AA) insurgent group preventing for autonomy in Rakhine State mentioned on Wednesday that dozens of police and navy males had surrendered or been captured as its forces superior.

The junta spokesperson denounced the group saying it was “destroying” Rakhine State.

Separately, a video posted on social media by anti-military forces in Kayah State, and verified by Reuters, confirmed wounded junta troops surrendering to insurgents, who had been seen providing medical assist.

(This story has been refiled to repair the phrase order in paragraph 1

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