Deputy Regional Commander of Central Command and Commander of Myanmar’s LID 99 arrested

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According to an internal Myanmar military source, the Deputy Commander of the Central Regional Military Command (CRMC) and the Commander of the 99th Light Infantry Division (LID 99) have been arrested.

The report states that Brigadier General Lin Naing Soe, Deputy Commander of the Mandalay-based Central Command, and Brigadier General Soe Win Tun, Commander of the Meiktila-based 99th Light Infantry Division, were recently taken into custody by resistance forces.

These reports have not been independently verified.

Brigadier General Lin Naing Soe was last seen in public on January 27th during a ceremony to welcome back “frontline returnee” soldiers at a local battalion in Minbu Township, Magway Region.

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