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Attacks on Military Myanmar rebels kill at least 15

Agencies
At least 15 people were killed yesterday in ongoing fighting between Myanmar's military and rebels who mounted a series of attacks, including an unprecedented strike on an army academy, apparently in retaliation for massive drug seizures.
Ethnic armed rebel groups have for decades fought against the military and often between themselves - for land and resources in Myanmar's east.
Experts say the area is now the world's largest meth-producing region, funding the complex web of conflicts.
Yesterday's brazen assault targeted Pyin Oo Lwin, a tourist town near Mandalay, which is also home to barracks teeming with soldiers receiving training.
An AFP reporter at a police post, the site of one of the attacks, counted the bodies of seven soldiers and four policemen.
Military spokesman Brigadier General Zaw Min Tun told AFP three more people, two soldiers and one civilian, had been killed and that fighting was "still ongoing".
This brings the death toll to at least 14. Reuters put the death toll at 15.
One of the five attacks targeted the town's Defence Service Technology Academy, where military engineers are trained, the first-ever time the training centre has been hit.
The military said rebels had fired 107mm rockets at the academy from a nearby hillside. Images from local media showing burned out cars and damaged buildings showered in debris.
The Taaung National Liberation Army (TNLA) claimed the attacks, saying
they had acted in retaliation.
"The military launched offensives in our area so we are fighting to defend ourselves," TNLA spokesman Major Mai Aik Kyaw said.
"The Aung San Suu Kyi-led ... government is trying to make peace, but nothing can happen if the military doesn't participate in it," he added.
He also confirmed the attacks were coordinated with the Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army (MNDAA) and Arakan Army (AA).
The AA is currently fighting the
military, or Tatmadaw, in conflict-scarred western Rakhine state, but is in a tight alliance with the other rebel groups.
"We assume they carried out the attacks because the Tatmadaw seized tonnes of drugs a few weeks ago," military spokesman Zaw Min Tun said.
In July, narcotics police were met with heavy artillery fire when they launched a major drugs crackdown in Kutkai township in neighbouring Shan state.
Huge stockpiles of chemicals as well as millions of dollars worth of ice, the highly addictive crystalised form of meth, were seized in a single raid.
The escalation in hostilities in Myanmar's fractured north is another setback for civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi's bid bring peace to the country amid a stuttering transition from full military rule.
The Nobel laureate came to power following a landslide election win in late 2016, vowing to prioritise peace talks between ethnic armed groups, the military and civilian government. But the conflict has escalated in northern Kachin and Shan states as well as the western Rakhine region on the border with Bangladesh.
The "Golden Triangle" — a lawless wedge of land intersecting China, Myanmar, Thailand, and Laos - has long served as a base for opium and heroin production.
A unilateral ceasefire in Shan state declared by the military in December is officially due to finish in two weeks, even though clashes with armed groups have continued.
China's plans to invest in major infrastructure projects have added another dimension to the conflict with groups vying for control of increasingly valuable territory.