Thailand asks Myanmars junta to reduce violence amid border clash [Video]

Thailand’s foreign ministry has asked Myanmar’s junta to bring down violence in the country where an armed resistance from ethnic minority and pro-democracy forces has picked pace.

Fighting appears to have picked up after guerrillas from the Karen ethnic minority on Thursday said they have captured the last of the army’s outposts in Myawaddy township in eastern Myanmar.

Minority groups have been fighting back in the army’s war against resistance forces in Myanmar since last October. The offensive is being led by an alliance of ethnic rebel groups in the country’s northeast. Capturing of Myawaddy township allows the group to take over the town of Myawaddy, a major crossing point for trade with Thailand.

In a statement shared on Facebook, the Karen National Union, the ethnic group’s leading political body, said its armed wing, acting …