About two weeks before the two-year anniversary of the Military coup in Myanmar, the Myanmar’s Military leader who seized the State power held a meeting with Thailand’s Military leaders, who are habituating in Military coup traditions.
When the Military dictators are facing intensely a domestic revolution against the Military junta and multiple international pressures, the said meeting were held.
The meeting was held in the area of the Rakhine State where the Arakan Army (AA) that is the most powerful and most successful in the history of the Myanmar’s armed revolution during a short period of time.
The 8th High Level Committee Meeting between Myanmar and Thailand, hosted by Myanmar, was held on January 20 at the Jasmine Ngapali Resort in Thandwe town in Rakhine State.
It is published that before the start of the meeting, General Min Aung Hlainghe leader of the Military coup d’état in Myanmar and the Chief of Defense of the Royal Thai Army, General Chalermphon Srisawasdi, met separately and discussed the issues to be taken forward between the two armies.
While the fighting between the Rakhine Army (AA) and the SAC Military were taking place intensely, they were suddenly made a ceasefire before the meeting.
During the resurgence of the Rakhine battle, the Arakhine Army (AA) was able to attack and capture the SAC Military’s base, camps and outposts, but they could not control the entire Sittwe-Yangon highway road and in the southern part of Rakhine, it was not possible to implement significant fighting.
It is said that in Rakhine, the Arakan Army (AA) has three major Military regions: Afar, Vita, Nova. Three brigades under of each were divided. The AA are trying to control the Raknine State by thousands of AA soldiers, but Thandwe is still the area where the AA is not able to control at least influence.
In addition, Thandwe is an area that the AA is not able to control and conduct the battles since the AA are based in Rakhine and conducing the battles in Rakhine State.
Thandwe Township is a township where the wife of the Military dictator lived in and also where the head of Mabatha lived in when the Mabatha was influenced and controlled. And it also is the township where the National League for Democracy (NLD) was broken due to the weakness of the organization.
Moreover, it is a town that the SAC Military can arrest and take action the people who are connected and joined to AA and NUG until the NUG is trying to control this area since the AA was trying to control this area where there is the Navy Force of the SAC Military.
This Thandwe Township is contained in the Novasi region controlled by Colonel Lin Thet, who is one of the largest members of the Rakhine Army (AA) in Rakhine State, but in this township, the AA could still not dominate and control the SAC Military yet.
Right now, there are resistance wars and battles in various parts of the country, but the leader of the Military coup can hold the meeting with the Chief of Military from a foreign country when they are worried about their security. This township is currently the most secure place for the SAC Military in Myanmar.
Some senior officers of the SAC Military said that before the meeting started, the large ships of the navy and the thousand of soldiers of the navy in Rakhine, as well as in Yangon were ordered to take security as well as the air force and fighter jets in the nearest areas were prepared to be ready for security of this meeting.
The 8th high-ranking meeting between the two Myanmar-Thai armed forces was attended by General Min Aung Hlaing, the head of the SAC and General Chalermphon Srisawasdi, the Chief of the Royal Thai Army and they signed an agreement and lead the discussion.
In addition, General Maung Maung Aye, Commander of the Coordinating Command (Army, Navy, Air Force) of the Military that seized the power, General Mo Aung, Commander in Chief (Navy), General Tun Aung, Commander in Chief (Air) senior Military officers from the Office of Commander in Chief, senior officers of the Royal Thai Army, Military attachés and officials from the two countries also attended.
It is published that at that meeting, ”we were able to discuss issues of friendship between the two armed forces of the two countries, the peace and stability of the people in the border areas of the two countries, issues related to natural disaster prevention, and issues related to the fight against drugs and prevention.” But the details of the signed agreement have not been published.
On the 19 January before that meeting, General Min Aung Hlaing, the leader of the Military visited the training of the Ground Navy’s main diving and rescue unit near Thandwe, Rakhine State.
General Maung Maung Aye, the Military Council’s Coordinating Commander (Army, Navy, Air),and his wife, General Mo Aung, Commander in Chief (Navy) and his wife, General Tun Aung, Commander in Chief (Air) and his wife, senior Military officers and their wives from the Office of Commander in Chief; Major General Htin Lat Oo, the commander of the Western Regional Military Command, and other officials attended this training.
It has been reported that 8 members of the Navy’s special operations forces secretly infiltrated and detonated an enemy vessel at the Navy’s main diving and salvage training beach, demonstrating and practicing Cast & Recovery.
It is published that in addition to that, they watched underwater fitness training, the two-person breathing exercise, underwater swimming with the Closed Circuit Compass, the 10 Men Hyperbaric Medical Treatment Chamber and the Diving Tower, and the escape training demonstration of the Military (Navy) troops.
The Rakhine Military observers and the local residents who have seen some of the Russian navy said that the SAC Military’s navy is being trained by the Russian navy, and the base of the Russian navy has been firmly established there, and it is leading the military’s maritime activities.
In addition, on the 20th of January, in the afternoon, General Min Aung Hlaing, the leader of the Military coup met and discussed with hotel and travel operators in the lobby of Pristine Mermaid Resort in Rakhine.
The meeting was attended by senior military officers, U Aung Kyaw Tun, Deputy Minister of Transport and Communications, Rakhine State, State Chief U Tin Tun Aung, Department of Hotels and Tourism, District and township level officials and hotel and tourism operators in Thandwe Township.
The next morning, at the Ngapali hall in the Thandu area, the Military leader and his wife, Daw Kru Kru Hla, General Moe Aung, in Commander in Chief (Navy) and his wife General Tun Aung Commander in Chief (Air) and his wife, senior military officers and their wives from the Office of the Commander in Chief, General Htin Lat Oo, Commander-in-Chief of the Western Regional Military Department, and officials met the members of the Thandwe Military and their family members.
At that meeting, General Min Aung Hlaing, the Military coup leader said, “In Myanmar’s 2020 multi-party democratic general election, the situation in which vote fraud occurred, no action was taken to resolve such vote fraud, and due to the situation that occurred in the country, the state was declared a political emergency, and the military had to carry out the duties of the State.”He even talked about false propaganda.
A large number of security forces had been deployed and prepared to hold a meeting with businessmen at U Uttama Hall in Sittwe in Rakhine where is the Military council’s provincial headquarters, but the meeting was canceled because of a leak.
The leader of the Military d’état was summoned to the Military commander-in-chief from another country for a meeting to Thandwe City and they were able to do it, but he didn’t dare to come to Sittwe, where the Rakhine Army (AA) had controlled and influenced and some of SAC Military were arrested.
The commander of the Western Regional Military Headquarters do not live in Ann where the Headquarter Western Regional Military based. In Sittwe City, as the provincial headquarters of the SAC Military is located, he live and administer his troops of the SAC Military in Sittwe City.
In addition, the leader of the Military coup had planned to visit the new Navy Base of the SAC Military at Shwe Mingang in Sittwe Township, but due to the details of his trip and the places he would visit have leaked, he did not dare to come this place for worry of concerned the security.
During the comeback battle in Rakhine, the Arakan Army (AA) controlled and dominated the main road, which is only about 10 miles away from the State capital, where the SAC Military office is located.
Locals said that up to now, about 500 AA troops are still camping and moving near that place. Pohna Kyun Township as well as Sittwe, Rakhine State’s capital, are the controlled area of three Arfar Military regions under Colonel Tun Wai of the Arakan Army (AA). And it is a brigade area of AA Brigades.
The leader of the Military coup choosed to held the meeting Ngapali in Thandwe. Sittwe and Thandwe are the cities on the coast of the sea and where the Military’s Army, Navy, and Air Force are deployed, but for him, Thandwe city is the most safe and secure city that cannot be attacked. So the meeting was held in Thandwe town.
Photo-DSINFO (Picture: A SAC Military’s Naval Base in Ngapali beach, Thadwe town, Rakhine state)