More than 50 Myanmar junta soldiers deserted army bases in Sittwe, Rakhine State, within the past 15 days, fleeing en masse by sea with weapons and ammunition, according to a BNI Online report published over the past hour. The Arakan Army stated that junta airstrikes struck a village in Rakhine State's Kyauktaw Township on Tuesday night, killing and injuring several captured regime soldiers and their family members, The Irrawaddy reported during this period. Myanmar Now reported over the past hour that the junta is advancing aggressively along the old Yangon-Mandalay road in eastern Bago region, one week after suffering a series of devastating attacks. Separately, hardline religious nationalists held demonstrations in Yangon responding to the genocide case against Myanmar at the United Nations' International Court of Justice, as ICJ hearings proceed, according to another Myanmar Now report published in this window.
