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China
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army standoff forces 10,000 into China
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缅甸北部缘何战事再起
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Clouds of War Move Over Shan State
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Kokang capital
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Kokang of Shan
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Clouds
of War Move Over Shan State
By WAI MOE
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Wednesday,
September 2, 2009
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More than 300
civilians from areas controlled by the United Wa State Army (UWSA) have fled
their homes in fear of hostilities breaking out between the Wa army and the
Burmese government forces, according to several sources.
「I heard that 300
to 400 people from Wa towns had left their homes recently and headed to other
towns in Shan State or to the Chinese side of the border,」 said Sein Kyi of
the Thailand-based Shan Herald Agency for News.
Burma analyst Aung
Kyaw Zaw, who is based in Ruili on the Sino-Burmese border, told The Irrawaddy on Wednesday that Wa sources
had confirmed that hundreds of villagers from the townships of Hopang, Konlong
and Panlong had fled to other towns in Shan State or to China to avoid being
caught in the crossfire of a potentially bloody armed conflict.
The precautions
come less than one week after an estimated 30,000 Kokang civilians fled to the
Chinese side of the border due to a series of clashes between government
soldiers and Kokang troops from the Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army
(MNDAA).
The northeastern
highlands of Burma are home to three major armed ethnic groups—the MNDAA, the
UWSA and the National Democratic Alliance Army (NDAA)—all of which signed
ceasefire agreements with the Burmese junta but have reportedly rejected its
request to disarm and join its border guard force ahead of the 2010 election.
Last week,
government troops captured Laogai, the Kokang capital, and at least 700 Kokang
soldiers were forced to surrender their arms to the Chinese army after fleeing
to Chinese soil.
Burma』s state-run
daily, The New Light of Myanmar,
reported on Wednesday that 5,811 refugees who fled to China had returned to
the Kokang region.
「The region is now
in stable condition and administrative machinery has become normal,」 the state
media said.
On Monday, the
pro-junta newspaper reported that government troops had seized an illegal arms
factory in the Kokang region.
However, many
observers are skeptical about the restoration of stability in northeastern
Burma as government forces build up their troop numbers in what would appear
to be preparations for a continued offensive in the region.
Several analysts
say the UWSA will be next on the military government』s hit list.
UWSA and NDAA
If, as predicted,
the Burmese junta intensifies its military operations in northeastern Shan
State, the greatest resistance will undoubtedly come from the UWSA, which Jane』s Intelligence journal estimates at
25,000 strong.
However, the Wa
army is generally based on two fronts, one half in northern and the other half
in southern Shan State with five divisions deployed along the Thai-Burmese
border.
Last week, about
2,000 UWSA troops traveled to Kokang territory to join their allies, the
MNDAA, against the regime』s army.
The northern three
Wa divisions are currently on standby and say they expect an attack from the
government army in the coming days.
Observers have said
that a possible attack on the UWSA would be at Nandeng, a checkpoint town of
10,000 on the Sino-Burmese border.
Meanwhile, some
analysts say the smaller force of the NDAA, also known as the Mongla group,
based in eastern Shan state, would be the junta』s next target. The former
Communist Party of Burma force now has an estimated 1,200 soldiers.
In recent days, the
NDAA ordered some 400 Burmese workers in Mongla Township to leave the area in
fear that there may be government spies among them. Several suspected Burmese
army spies were reportedly arrested.
Sein Kyi said that
Burmese military officials had in the past two days traveled to Mongla and
advised the NDAA leaders that the clashes in the Kokang region were the result
of an internal power struggle between Kokang leaders.
In recent days, the
military government has claimed repeatedly that stability has returned to the
Kokang region. However, observers note that the junta』s mission in the
northeast would be incomplete if the ethnic ceasefire groups are not brought
round into joining the border guard plan and thereby legitimizing the
military-backed constitution and next year』s general election.
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Kokang struggle
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Top Chinese and
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Kokang,
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