ASEAN HEADLINE: MYANMAR: Anti-junta forces control profitable gemstone mines after taking Mogok from Myanmar military
Photo from a regime-operated newspaper accompanying an announcement of coup leader Sen-Gen Min Aung Hlaing’s donation of a ruby in honour of his administrative officials in 2022 (Photo: SAC)
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Having manoeuvred to take over Myanmar’s gemstone production in the 1990s, the military stands to incur enormous losses from the capture of the ruby-mining town of Mogok by anti-junta fighters
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The military and connected businessmen are at risk of devastating losses after anti-junta fighters captured Mogok, Mandalay Region this week, putting most of Myanmar’s gem-producing land under anti-junta forces’ control.
The Ta’ang National Liberation Army and its allies now control the gem mines in and near the town, having captured the territory just under a month after reinitiating a large-scale offensive against the military dubbed Operation 1027 and seizing swathes of territory from junta forces in northern Shan State and Mandalay Region.
Although Mogok Township is in Mandalay Region, it has strong historical ties to northern Shan State and protrudes into it on the map of Myanmar, sharing borders with northern Shan State to the north, south, and east.
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