The Myanmar junta’s spokeswoman did not respond to requests for comment.
The KNU claimed last week that its soldiers had attacked a dictatorship camp close to Myawaddy, obstructing about 600 protection employees and their families to retreat.
According to Police Colonel Borwornphop Soontornlekha, Superintendent of Immigration in the Thai state of Tak, where Mae Sot is located, residents who have been entering Thailand from Myanmar in large numbers were allowed to enter the place.
According to Borwornphop, “each time there are roughly 2, 000 people who cross into Mae Sot from Myawaddy, but in the last three times that number has been almost 4, 000,” he told Reuters.
Thailand’s defense has increased surveillance along the border by using army vehicles with roof-mounted machine guns.
According to the civil society organization Karen Peace Support Network, at least 2, 000 people have been displaced in Myanmar as a result of the most recent round of conflict between the separatists and the defense.
Myanmar’s defense, which took power in a 2021 revolution after deposing an elected civilian government, has faced a series of failures against a soft empire of ethnic rebel teams and a human military action.