Karenni joint forces attacked and captured junta military camp BP-13 manned by junta Light Infantry Battalion (LIB), in Karenni State’s Mese Township, on 23 June.

The joint forces first attacked the camp, the last strategic military hill camp in Mese Township still in junta hands, at 4:00 a.m. on 23 June and finally captured the camp on the afternoon of 23 June.

"Our forces attacked the tactical military hill camp in the early morning and captured it in the afternoon. Our members and forces are stationed at the camp. The camp is currently under our control. Right now, we are gathering information about the damage and fatalities suffered by the Military Council soldiers”, said Khu Nye Reh, a spokesperson for the Karenni Military Information Center.

He said that two Karenni Nationalities Defense Forces (KNDF) soldiers and one Karenni Nationalities People’s Liberation Front (KNPLF) soldier were killed in the fighting for the base and that another soldier from the Karenni Army (KA) was killed in a junta airstrike launched after the fighting had stopped.

The number of junta casualties is still unknown.

The next morning, 24 June, 18 junta soldiers who had been stationed at camp BP-13 surrendered to the Karenni joint forces along with their weapons, according to Khu Nye Reh, who said that three junta officers were still missing and unaccounted for.

He said: “There were 21 [junta] soldiers stationed at camp BP-13 and 18 soldiers surrendered. The three officers are still missing. I believe the three officers are the commander and the second-in-command. They could be hiding somewhere or they might have fled to Thailand.”

He also said that currently, the junta has no camps in Mese Township because all of its camps have been captured and occupied by Karenni joint forces and they now fully control all of Mese Township.