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MAGWAY DIVISION – It has been reported that Saw Township People’s Defence Organization (PDO) arrested a junta council troop who had defected from the artillery battalion, in Saw Township, Magway Division, on December 6.
The accountable person of Saw Township PDO mentioned that the comrades from Saw Township PDO arrested a junta council troop from battalion 213 under division 11 that had defected from Kyaukhtu artillery battalion, in Saw Township, on December 6.
He mentioned that “the junta council troop had defected since two or three days ago. Our comrades have detained him well in a safe place.”
It was known that Saw Township PDO also arrested two police under the junta council who had run away from Laungshey region police station, in Saw Township, on the morning of December 3.
The number of the defection of the junta council troops and police has increased countrywide. More than 14,000 soldiers and police have disobeyed against the junta council and took refuge in the people’s embrace, since the coup.