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By M.S. Anwar | Opinion & Analysis The Burmese (Myanmar) quasi-civilian government unleashed a large-scale violence against the minority Rohingya in the western Myanmar state of Arakan in 2012. The violence, which some wrongly frame as ‘Communal’, was carried out by the Burmese armed forces...

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Aman Ullah  RB History August 25, 2016 The ethnic Rohingya is one of the many nationalities of the union of Burma. And they are one of the two major communities of Arakan; the other is Rakhine and Buddhist. The Muslims (Rohingyas) and Buddhists (Rakhines) peacefully co-existed in the A...

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(Photo: Soe Zeya Tun, Reuters) RB News  October 5, 2013  Thandwe, Arakan – Rakhinese mob in Thandwe started attacking Kaman Muslims on September 28, 2013. As a result, 5 Kaman Muslims were mercilessly killed and 1 was died in heart attack while escaping the attack. 781 Kaman Mus...

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By Dhaka Tribune Editorial November 5, 2017 How can we answer to our conscience knowing full-well what the Myanmar military is doing to the innocent Rohingya minority -- not even sparing children or pregnant women? Despite the on-going humanitarian crisis involving Rohingya refugees ...

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War seems unlikely to cease in Burma’s Kachin State

By Zin Linn 

Ongoing civil war in Kachin State has been on the rise in various fronts. Burmese government armed forces expanded their offensive without listening the people’s voices for peace talks in Kachin State. 

There was a skirmish between Burmese government soldiers and Kachin Independence Army’s (KIA) last week. Burma Army’s Light Infantry Battalion No. 386 based in Namma was attacked by KIA troops in two separate locations according to local eyewitnesses’ report. Three government soldiers were killed in action in northern Kachin state, where in recent months the worst hostilities has been taken place and damage the country’s peace and stability within almost two decades. 

On 3 November, one government soldier was killed and three others injured after an assault on a convoy roaming near Lagawng Kahtawng village located between the Mogaung ferry station and Lawa. The attack was made by the Kachin Independence Army’s battalion No. 14 under the command of the Hugawng valley-based KIA’s 2nd Brigade and fighters from the People’s Army. The People’s Army is separate from the KIA and instead led by a civilian command under the Kachin Independence Organization’s Department of General Administration, as said by the Kachin News Group (KNG). 

On 4 November, two more government soldiers from the same military column were killed and many more injured after a mine planted by the KIA’s Battalion 14 exploded as a Burmese convoy travelled the well-known Stillwell Road (also known as Ledo Road). According to local witnesses, the explosion took place on the Lawa to Dumbung section of the road near the Sai Lin Hka stream. 

The bodies of two government soldiers were buried near the stream whereas other injured soldiers were transported to Mogaung for treatment. In accordance with eyewitnesses’ report, before wounded soldiers were moved their uniforms were changed with civilians clothes, the local witnesses said. 

A source close to the Burmese army said that the convoy under attack had been on its way to help 5 wounded government soldiers who had survived an attack on 2 December at Dai Kri. At some point in the Dai Kri attack, which occurred between Ma-U Pyin and Nam Ya in the Hpakant jade mining area, the Kachin resistance guerrillas killed five soldiers and seized a variety of guns and ammunition, KNG said. 

Moreover, a surprise attack by the Kachin Independence Army in Mongkoe in Shan state killed at least 18 Burmese army personnel early Monday morning, as said by eyewitnesses’ report. The attack was occurred in downtown Mongkoe where the Government’s Military Strategic Office stationed and a police station at its next-door. 

Among the dead was Major Maung Maung Myo, the commander of the Infantry Battalion No. 129 based in Chin-shwe-hawy (Nyan-kun), the KIA confirmed. Although most of the slain were soldiers, two of the dead were members of the local police force, the KIA officers said. 

Several housings and offices in the military compound of the Strategic Bureau were also destroyed during the raid, a local resident said. The battle of Mongkoe near the Sino-Burma border was the most recent clash between the KIA and the government forces in an increasingly violent conflict that began in June this year. 

In keeping with the Kachin News Group referring a KIA official, the raid was lasted just about 45-minute and done by KIA Battalions 36 and 38 under the 4th Brigade based in Northern Shan State. In addition, Corporal Sumlut Gam Seng of the KIA’s Battalion 36 died in action during the raid, the KIA official said. 

During a military offensive against the KIA, Burmese armed forces shattered electricity power supply cables using artillery fire in Ga Ra Yang village on Nov. 1, referring KIO officials the Kachin News Group reported. 

Since then on, residents of Myitkyina, the capital city of Kachin state, have been living without electricity at present. The Burmese Army knowingly destroyed the power supply lines to the Kachin Independence Organization (KIO) controlled area, said KIO officials. 

While fighting between the KIO and the Burmese army continues, preliminary talks between the two sides stay behind lacking any hopeful result. Late last month representatives from the KIO met with Burmese government representatives in both Thailand and China to thrash out ending the war which began in last June. 

Some analysts believe armed conflicts in Kachin State possibly will become wider since the Kachin resistance groups refuse to accept the junta’s new constitution which says Burma Army is the only military institution in the country. 

The Kachin rebels also consider the nominally civilian government which steadfast in the 2008 constitution will not let their basic rights or self-determination in accordance with the 1947 Panglong Agreement. 

The KIO leadership has constantly declared that it will not make an armistice without facts that a truce will be pursued by crucial political dialogue.

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