Mandalay Airport Closed for Two Days After Six Drones Attack
Myanmar's Mandalay airport was shut for two days after six suicide drone attacks on Sept 10, disrupting flights but causing no casualties, with reopening planned around Sept 13. The military-backed government blamed pro-democracy People's Defence Forces for the attack, while security forces intercepted the drones and neutralized explosives, underscoring the ongoing civil conflict surrounding the coup.
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About People's Defence Forces
The People's Defence Forces was the military wing of the group Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK). During the 7th Congress of the PKK in January 2000, the HPG replaced the former military wing of the PKK, the People's Liberation Army of Kurdistan. The replacement was intended to demonstrate the search for a peaceful solution of the Kurdish-Turkish conflict, after the capture of Abdullah Öcalan in 1999. The HPG played an active role in the peace negotiations between the Turkish Government and the PKK in 2013, as it hosted a delegation consisting of several politicians from the Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) and members of the Turkish Human Rights Association (IHD) and agreed to release soldiers of the Turkish army as well as a Turkish politician, who they held captive. In 2014, the HPG was involved in the fight against the Islamic State (ISIS) in Sinjar.
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- January 2000