Maungdaw: The Burmese army has secretly constructed many temporary outposts with bunkers in the deep forest and mountain ranges along the border with Bangladesh, report local sources.
Burmese army officials have also been renovating all the previous major outposts that were located along the border with Bangladesh. Two strategic outposts - Latpanwa outpost in Paletwa Township of Chin State and Kha Maung Wa outpost in Buthidaung Township in Arakan - have also been included in the renovation.
Latpanwa outpost is located opposite Boro Moduck, a Bangladesh village on the upper Sungu River in the southern Chittagong Hill Tract.
The major outposts along the border are being re-constructed for defensive action, the source said.
According to a source close to the army, the construction of the outposts in the border area is being carried out under instruction from Ka Ka Kyi, the defensive service, in the new Burmese capital Naypyidaw.
Local villagers in the border area confirmed the renovation of the army outposts as well as the construction of new temporary outposts along the border, and villagers say army officials have used local people as forced labor on the projects.
Colonel Tin Win Myint, a newly appointed army commander from Military Operation Planning Bureau No. 1 based in Paletwa, recently visited the construction sites for the outposts, said an army source.
The construction of the defensive outposts has come about after many army battalions were deployed to the border to aid in construction of a barbed wire border fence.
According to a local military source, at least nine Burmese battalions have been deployed by the junta to the western Burmese border and most of the soldiers are staying within five kilometers of the border demarcation line.
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