Myanmar Board on Tuesday, April 22, extended a high fire declared after the devastating earthquake last month to April 30, after international groups and mediators requested an extension to relieve help efforts.
The high fire extended until April 30 “with the aim of continuing the reconstruction and rehabilitation process with impulse,” said the Board Information Team in a statement. But the army said he would not hesitate to retaliate if other armed groups launched attacks, as he said when he announced the fire.
The Board, which took advantage of power in a 2021 coup d’etat that caused a civil war on many sides, said it would stop attacking its innumerable armed opponents after the earthquake of magnitude 7.7 which has killed more than 3,700. The conflict monitors and the residents in combat areas say that the fighting continued on both sides the truce of the 20 days, stated the delivery of help in the central belt of Myanmar and that it had to expire at midnight.
The March 28 earthquake has left more than 60,000 people living in campaign camps and took two million people to “critical need for assistance and protection,” according to the UN. Despite the continuous struggle, humanitarian groups and regional powers have requested that the pause on hostilities continue as continuous help efforts in their fourth week.
On Thursday, the Chief of the Board MIN Aung Hlaing flew to Bangkok to meet the Prime Minister of Malaysia, Anwar Ibrahim, for rare talks of the back room with the chair of the block of 10 countries. Anwar, whose country currently has the rotary presidency of the Southeast Asian Nations Association (ASEAN), said he had also spoken with the opposition of Myanmar “Government of National Unity” that promised a similar truce after the tremor. Both parties agreed that “they would do whatever necessary to avoid any extension of the fight,” Anwar told journalists after the meeting.
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