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Bracing street fighting soon as Myanmar Junta Retreats back.

The AA is attacking Rathedaung town told the Regional Operations Command in state capital, Sittwe, to surrender. 

Sittwe is the junta’s administrative seat in Rakhine. The regime blew up a bridge on  Yangon-Sittwe road to disrupt AA to advances on city and senior administrative officials have allegedly left Sittwe. Many Sittwe’s residents have left but The Irrawaddy recently talked to someone who remains in the city. What is the situation. Sittwe is junta’s seat in Rakhine. The AA has taken most of northern Rakhine State but Buthidaung has not fallen. The AA controls Paletwa, Kyauktaw, Minbya and Mrauk-U along the Kaladan River..

Only Sittwe is left. Many residents have fled and people fear the city could be flattened, like Pauktaw and Minbya.

Fighting continues in northern Rakhine State since the Arakan Army (AA) launched an offensive against Myanmar’s junta in mid-November last year.

The AA has seized Mrauk-U, Minbya, Kyauktaw and Pauktaw towns and Paletwa in southern Chin State along with numerous junta bases and border outposts.
https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/sit...reats.html