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A fact from Taukkyan Roadblock appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 31 July 2009 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that during the Japanese conquest of Burma in 1942, the heavily defended Taukkyan Roadblock was unexpectedly abandoned overnight, allowing the Allied forces to escape safely from Rangoon?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2009/July.

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link to Taukkyan (village) is bad

The link to Taukkyan (village, Htauk Kyant) is wrong, as it is to a webpage (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taukkyan) for a village in northwestern Manmar (Burma) of the "same" name, probably 1000km from Rangoon/Yangon. I presume that the webpage for the village in northwestern Manmar (Burma)is generally correct in its geographical discussion, but this is not where the roadblock occurred. With only limited knowledge of the history (from reading Wikipedia), I believe the roadblock was in a different village of Htauk Kyant, at approximately 17°02'30.4"N 96°07'58.9"E, no more than 20 or 30km from downtown Rangoon/Yangon.

Suggested changes: 1) On this page for the Roadblock, eliminate the link to the village of Taukkyan. (Alternately, create a new webpage pointing to the correct village.) 2) On the village of Taukkyan webpage, delete the paragraph that references the roadblock, or replace it with a disambiguation with respect to the actual village where the roadblock occurred. 24.188.23.164 (talk) 15:57, 13 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]