KNLA Brigade 4 and Allies Capture Htee Khee Junta Operation Base on Thai-Myanmar Border — SAC Troops Flee Into Thailand After Week of Fighting

Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA) Brigade 4 and allied resistance forces captured the junta's Htee Khee operational command base near the Thai-Myanmar border in Dawei Township, Tanintharyi Region, after approximately one week of fighting, with junta soldiers reportedly fleeing into Thailand. The Htee Khee capture follows KNLA's seizure of the Htee Hta strategic camp (approximately 5 miles from Htee Khee) on April 19, 2026 — suggesting a deliberate phased KNLA campaign to clear the entire Tanintharyi-Thailand border area of junta positions. The capture of Htee Khee is strategically significant: it represents another KNLA gain along the critical Thai-Myanmar border corridor, where the resistance has been progressively dismantling SAC outposts since 2024. It follows the KNLA's November 2025 capture of the Mawdaung/Singkhon Pass trade hub and the April 27 assault on Waw Lay military base near Myawaddy. The pattern of SAC troops fleeing into Thai territory mirrors the diplomatic tensions from the April 20 KNU hospital strike, where a bomb landed in Mae Hong Son Province, and heightens Thai-Myanmar border security concerns. Myanmar Now and the Myanmar Peace Monitor documented the Htee Khee capture as one of three junta outposts seized by KNLA and allied forces in this period.