3 Myanmar Brigadier Generals Who Surrendered Town to Rebels Given Death Sentence

Myanmar's junta has sentenced to death three high-ranking officers who oversaw the surrender of a strategic town on the Chinese border to ethnic minority fighters last month, military sources told AFP. Hundreds of troops put down their weapons and handed over the town of Laukkai in Shan state to the so-called Three Brotherhood Alliance after months of fighting that saw the military lose swathes of territory. The surrender was one of the biggest single losses for the military in decades, and sparked further criticism of the junta leadership by its supporters. After the surrender, the officers and their troops were…