Chinese border town next to Myamar, civil war fighting next door in Myamar make people unable to sleep at night

[beijingwalker]

Chinese border town next to Myamar, civil war fighting next door in Myamar make town's people on the Chinese side unable to sleep at night

 

[Realtalk108]

What's the name of the town?

 

[epebble]

What's the name of the town?

Ethnic Issues | Fighting Set to Intensify on Myanmar’s Border with China: Analysts

As Myanmar regime troops move to regain full control of border trade with China their battle with ethnic armies is bound to escalate.

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[flowerfan2020]

China should make a buffer zone near its border.

 

[Kuru]

Feel sad for these village people. They obviously deserve better.

CCP should simply claim the “troublesome” Myanmar territory by presenting an authentic 2000 year old map and then integrate it into CCP. Once the CCP peace is achieved, these village people will finally get some sleep.

It’s a win win situation for all.

 

[beijingwalker]

Dozens killed in Myanmar military attack on displaced people’s camp near China border​

October 10, 2023

Bangkok, Oct 10 (EFE).- Dozens of people, including children, were killed in an artillery attack by the Myanmar military in a camp of internally displaced people in the northern Kachin state on Monday night.

According to Kachin News Group, more than 30 displaced people from Monlaingkhat camp, in the northern state bordering China, were killed or injured after the attack by the Myanmar army around midnight.

In a Facebook post, the media outlet reported that the camp for the displaced people was destroyed by the attack.

More than 20 civilians, including children, were killed in the camp near Laiza, next to the Chinese border, the Kachin National Organization said.

“We express our utmost condemnation of the Burmese military’s recent terror attack on the Kachin IDP camp in Laiza on Monday,” the group said in a press statement posted on its Facebook page.

“This heinous act resulted in the tragic loss of more than 20 lives, including women and children, and damaged and destroyed civilian objects and created large debris. We are still recovering the number of losses and casualties at the time of this press release,” it added.

The National Unity Government (NUG), which claims itself as the legitimate authority of Myanmar, described the attack as a “war crime,” putting the death toll at least 28.
“Act of military junta is war crime and crime against humanity,” said an NUG President’s Office spokesperson in a message on social network X (formerly Twitter), in which he described the attack as “horrendous” and ” ruthless.”

The Kachin ethnic group has been engaged in a guerrilla war with the Myanmar army for decades.

The conflict escalated after a fresh military takeover of the country on February 1, 2021, which ended a decade of democratic transition and plunged the country into semi-anarchy.

In October last year, the state was subjected to one of the worst attacks when the Myanmar army bombed a music festival celebrating the 62nd founding anniversary of the Kachin Independence Organization (KIO), killing at least 50 people.

The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights warned in late September that the Myanmar army’s brutal attacks on civilians were increasing by the day.

The attacks, in which Myanmar army are allegedly using war tactics against unguarded civilians supposedly to stay in power, have left thousands dead.

According to the UN agency, at least 4,108 civilians were killed between Apr. 1, 2020, and July 31, 2020, in attacks, in which three military tactics – aerial bombing, massacres, and arson attacks -, were used.

Last week, the NUG reported that at least 21 children were injured, seven of them critically, after the Myanmar army opened fire at a school in a village in a rebel stronghold in the northern region of Sagaing, bordering Kachin.

Dozens killed in Myanmar military attack on displaced people’s camp near China border

Bangkok, Oct 10 (EFE).- Dozens of people, including children, were killed in an artillery attack by the Myanmar military in a camp of internally displaced people in the northern Kachin state on Monday night. According to Kachin News Group, more than 30 displaced people from Monlaingkhat camp, in...

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[beijingwalker]

Those ethnic minority groups could've chosen becoming Chinese citizens in 1950's, but most of them chose to become Myamar citizens. Now they have to endure wars and chaos on daily basis and many fled to China to avoid the fightings, but China regularly rounds them up and sends them back to Myamar.

Visit old village sitting on China-Myamar border, local guide tells the sad story why most villagers chose Myanmar citizenship over China's

Local guide tells the tourists that when China and Myanmare negotiated over the demarcation of the border in the 1950's, local villagers all had to make a painful choice to pick sides, even they are the same people, all locals in this region are ethnic Thais, many villagers are related or from the same families.

Government officials from both countries of China and Myamar went to every border village, every house and family and asked them to pick sides of their citizenship, local viillages mst pick a country to join and become that country's citizen.

The local guide laments that back then China was so poor and Myanmar was much richer and more developed, so most villagers chose citizenship of Myanmar.

When asked about why every house hangs Chinese national flag, the guide replies that various warlords in Myanmar always fight wars very close to the Chinese border, their bombs occasionally land inside China, locals hang Chinese flags to tell them their houses are in China, they do it to avoid being shelled by the bombs across from the border.

 

[beijingwalker]

China indeed should create a buffer zone and let border town people get some sleep at night.

 

[beijingwalker]

Alliance of ethnic rebels in Myanmar launches attacks on ruling military in Shan state​

 

[beijingwalker]

Myanmar rebels hit targets near China​

by GRANT PECK THE ASSOCIATED PRESS | Today at 5:25 a.m.

Myanmar rebels hit targets near China

An alliance of ethnic rebel groups on Friday launched a coordinated offensive in northeastern Myanmar to seize military targets in areas near the Chinese border, the groups and residents of the area said.

www.nwaonline.com

 

[beijingwalker]

Myanmar rebels seize vital border town as China calls for ceasefire​

The loss of Chinshwehaw is a blow to generals who seized power from Myanmar’s elected government in 2021.

A missile is launched from a military base in Lashio township in northern Myanmar's Shan state on October 28, 2023 [AFP]
Published On 2 Nov 20232 Nov 2023

Myanmar’s military government says it has lost control of an important town on the border with China after days of fierce fighting with armed groups.
The loss is a major blow to the generals who seized power from Myanmar’s elected government in February 2021 and have since struggled to contain opposition to their rule.

“Government, administrative organisations and security organisations are no longer present” in Chinshwehaw, government spokesman Zaw Min Tun said on Wednesday.

The town, bordering China’s Yunnan province, is central to the flow of trade from Myanmar to China. More than a quarter of Myanmar’s $1.8bn border trade with China passed through Chinshwehaw from April to September, state media reported in September, citing the Ministry of Commerce.

Fierce fighting​

The development follows days of fighting throughout Myanmar’s northern Shan state between the army and a coalition of three ethnic rebel groups known as the Brotherhood Alliance – the Ta’ang National Liberation Army, the Arakan Army and the Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army (MNDAA).

The groups, which are believed to have 15,000 fighters, have regularly battled with Myanmar’s military over demands for autonomy and resources.

In recent days, they said they have taken over several military posts and key roads linking Myanmar with China. The MNDAA on Monday also released videos that it said showed its members in Chinshwehaw.

The Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army’s Peng Deqi, centre right, commands operations against Myanmar’s military near Lashio in Shan state (Kokang Information Network/Handout via AFP)

Zaw Min Tun confirmed fighting broke out at 10 locations across Shan state in the past week and accused the three armed groups of “blowing up power stations, blowing up bridges, destroying transportation routes”.

The rebels said they have killed and wounded dozens of soldiers, but the military government did not provide any casualty figures.

Thousands displaced​

A resident of Hsenwi, about 90km (55 miles) west of Chinshwehaw, told the Agence France-Presse news agency on Thursday that they could hear fighting going on outside the town, where thousands of people have sought refuge.

The United Nations said it fears thousands of people have been displaced by the fighting with some fleeing across the border into China, which on Thursday called for an immediate ceasefire.

Beijing “urges all parties to immediately cease fire and stop fighting”, Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson Wang Wenbin said at a regular news briefing, urging the warring parties to resolve their “differences through peaceful means using dialogue and consultation”.

China is a key ally and major weapons supplier to Myanmar’s military government, whose power grab nearly three years ago it has not called a coup.

On February 1, 2021, Myanmar’s army removed the de facto head of the government, Aung San Suu Kyi, and other democratically elected leaders and took power.

The coup plunged Myanmar into crisis after the generals responded to mass protests against their power grab with brutal force, and opponents joined forces with fighters from long-established armed ethnic groups in a bid to restore civilian rule.

Myanmar rebels seize vital border town as China calls for ceasefire

The loss of Chinshwehaw is a blow to generals who seized power from Myanmar’s elected government in 2021.

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[S10]

Feel sad for these village people. They obviously deserve better.

CCP should simply claim the “troublesome” Myanmar territory by presenting an authentic 2000 year old map and then integrate it into CCP. Once the CCP peace is achieved, these village people will finally get some sleep.

It’s a win win situation for all.

Why would we want some shithole poverty land? If we did we'd simply claim India.

 

[beijingwalker]

5,000 Myanmar nationals flee into China, face shortages​

Displaced by fighting in Shan state, they are in dire need of food and water.
By RFA Burmese
2023.11.03

Displaced persons shelter at a monastery in Lashio, in Myanmar’s northern Shan state, Oct. 28, 2023.

Some 5,000 Myanmar nationals, including hundreds of children, who fled into China amid an ethnic army offensive in northern Shan state are in dire need of food and water in Yunnan province, the displaced and their family members said Friday.

On Oct. 27, the Northern or “Three Brotherhood” Alliance of the Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army, the Arakan Army and the Ta’ang National Liberation Army launched “Operation 1027” – named for the date of the offensive.

The groups simultaneously struck junta positions in the strategic Shan cities of Kunlong, Hseni, Chin Shwe Haw, Laukkaing, Namhkan, Kutkai, and Lashio, the state’s largest municipality.

Fierce fighting in the vicinity of Chin Shwe Haw at the start of the offensive forced some 5,000 residents to cross the border and take up temporary shelter in Yunnan province, Thet Naing, a family member of one of the displaced, told RFA Burmese.

On Thursday, Chinese authorities transferred the displaced to Yunnan’s Mengding township, where they are now sheltering at a former COVID-19 testing center, he said.

“They said they moved to the vicinity of Mengding and are living in a room there – I heard that it’s a building formerly used as a COVID-19 center,” Thet Naing said. “They said that the entire camp was moved by vehicles last night because there might be another fierce fight in Chinshwehaw.”

Water shortage

But supplies are short at the center, located around 30 kilometers (20 miles) east of Chin Shwe Haw, and those sheltering there – including around 700 children – need food, water, and supplies, said one of the displaced, named Ko Sai.

“Because of the water shortage, we have to boil water we received for bathing, and some of us are suffering from diarrhea,” he said. “Many are experiencing health problems and some have fainted.”

Ko Sai said the center is being “guarded by the Chinese police and army,” and that the reason for the water shortage “is because they aren’t allowing donations.”

In addition to residents of Chinshwehaw, other displaced people at the center include migrant workers from northern Shan, Kachin and Rakhine states, he said, as well as Yangon, Mandalay and Sagaing regions.

Chinese authorities have provided the displaced with tents, which can accommodate anywhere from five to 10 people each, he added.

Scant and poor food

Htoo Htoo, another displaced Myanmar national at the center, told RFA that while Chinese authorities are providing two meals a day, “the food isn’t good.”

“They provided us with eggs and tomatoes the past two days … but I can’t eat the eggs and tomatoes served today,” he said. “The tomatoes are spoiled, so I can only eat rice … [and while they have offered pork], many people felt nauseated after eating it.”

Htoo Htoo said that the displaced “are not allowed to cook” and that police had even “confiscated” bread and drinking water he ordered with his own money from outside the center.


Displaced persons shelter at a monastery in Lashio, in Myanmar’s northern Shan state, Oct. 28, 2023. Credit: RFA

Additionally, goods like sanitary napkins “are difficult to get” because of the restrictions on donations, he added.

Sources at the center said that when they asked authorities to get them food and water on Thursday, they were “forced to disperse.”

In addition to the shortages, the displaced said they have mostly been unable to contact their families because authorities “confiscated our phones,” but noted that Myanmar phone and internet services – normally accessible across the border – had been cut since the fighting began.

People at the center told RFA that they want to be allowed to move back across the border to a refugee camp in Shan state’s Nam Thit town, which is under the control of the ethnic United Wa State Army. Barring such a move, they want authorities at the camp to provide them with enough food and water, they said.

Attempts by RFA to contact the Chinese Embassy in Yangon for comment on the issue of Myanmar nationals fleeing into China went unanswered, as did calls to junta Deputy Information Minister Major Gen. Zaw Min Tun and the Myanmar Embassy in Beijing.

Yan Naing, the information officer of the Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army, or MNDAA, said that the displaced “may have difficulty” returning to their homes, given the severity of the fighting.

“Our organization helps to take care of those displaced by fighting to the best of our ability,” he said. “Right now, during the operation, it is quite difficult to … return to their homes.”

Fighting rages on

The fighting in northern Shan state has displaced some 25,000 people since the start of the offensive – around 10,000 in Nam Tit, another 10,000 in cities in northern Shan – including Hseni, Lashio, Kunlong and Mone Koe – and 5,000 in China’s Mengding.

With roads and transportation cut off as clashes raged, residents of Shan told RFA that there is “no aid for the displaced.”

In a statement on Thursday, the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said there have been clashes in at least nine out of 22 townships in northern Shan state, and that the number of displaced persons had reached “more than 23,000.”

The Northern Alliance said that during the eight days of Operation 1027, it had captured more than 90 junta outposts, as well as six armored vehicles. The alliance said it “effectively controls the cities of Chinshwehaw, Hpawng Hsen and Kyu Koke.”

Myanmar junta chief Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing said at a meeting of his Cabinet held in Naypyitaw on Thursday that his regime would “strike back” against those who attack it.

5,000 Myanmar nationals flee into China, face shortages

Displaced by fighting in Shan state, they are in dire need of food and water.

www.rfa.org

 

[Nan Yang]

Members of the Ta’ang National Liberation Army train at their base camp in the forest in Myanmar’s northern Shan State. Photo: AFP

Why China is taking great pains – but not sides – in Myanmar’s latest armed conflict

• Two senior Chinese officials have met the Myanmese junta since resistance groups launched a campaign in the Southeast Asian country’s north
• Amid the fighting, Beijing needs to make sure that cybercrime syndicates won’t just move on and resume operations elsewhere

Josephine Ma
Published: 7:40pm, 7 Nov, 2023

Within two weeks of armed resistance forces in northern Myanmar launching an offensive against the junta government, Beijing sent two senior officials to visit the country.

First, Public Security Minister Wang Xiaohong held talks with senior junta officials on October 31. Assistant foreign minister Nong Rong followed a few days later.

The trips came in the aftermath of a loose grouping called the “Three Brotherhood Alliance” launching “Operation 1027” targeting Myanmese police and military forces in a number of states.

The alliance comprises the Arakan Army, the Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army (MNDAA) and the Ta’ang National Liberation Army, and their offensive is the most severe military challenge to the government since the junta’s coup in 2021.

Nong called for a ceasefire and dialogue, and said Beijing hoped Myanmar could work with China to ensure the safety of the border and Chinese projects and nationals across the border.

Unsurprisingly, Beijing did not take sides.

This is partly because of what China calls its policy of non-interference when it comes to the affairs of other countries. But it is also because it has had a cosy relationship with both sides in the conflict.

Myanmar is a key part of China’s massive infrastructure push, the Belt and Road Initiative, and Beijing has been actively investing in the country despite international sanctions on the junta.

Chinese investment accounts for 23.5 per cent of total foreign investment in Myanmar, most of which is in the power sector. Beijing is also hoping to build the China-Myanmar Economic Corridor which would give it strategic access to the Indian Ocean.

At the same time, China has a long relationship with myriad ethnic resistance groups, including the MNDAA, a mainly ethnic Chinese group that was part of the now defunct Communist Party of Burma.

The MNDAA said Operation 1027 was not only aimed at overthrowing the dictatorship of the junta government but also eradicating online scam syndicates in the region.

Adding the battle against cyber crime syndicates to its cause appears to be an attempt to win the sympathy of Chinese and the international community.

It is not clear just how much the effort will appeal to Beijing but during their visits Wang and Nong both mentioned China’s hope to continue to work with the Myanmar junta government to fight such crime.

The scam syndicates are mostly operated by Chinese and mostly target Chinese, although nationals of other countries are involved.

Observers say Beijing appears to be serious about cracking down on the crimes, stepping up cooperation with other Southeast Asian countries and the United Nations in recent months.

State media have also hailed the repatriation of group after group of scammers, some of whom are likely victims of trafficking themselves.

But the most important sign of Beijing’s seriousness in tackling the powers behind the scams was the arrest warrants it issued for two leading members of the United Wa State Party and Army (UWSA): Chen Yanban, aka Bao Yanban, and Xiao Yanquan, aka He Chuntian. China has also reportedly detained Bao Junfeng, a deputy commander of the UWSA.

The UWSA operates near China’s border and has long had a good relationship with Beijing. It fired Chen and Xiao after the warrants were issued.

It is still not clear how the fighting in northern Myanmar, where these syndicates are based, will affect the massive criminal industry.

Many syndicates moved to Myanmar after Beijing pressured Cambodia to crack down on the activities in 2019.

However, Beijing should keep a close watch on the operators and capital flows to make sure they do not thrive elsewhere.

The human stakes are too high to not take action. A UN report in August said at least 120,000 people in Myanmar and 100,000 in Cambodia “may be held in situations where they are forced to carry out online scams”.

 

[MH.Yang]

There's no way the Tatmadaw can defeat the Kokang Allied Army.

In the name of Han Chinese nationalism and the fight against telecommunication fraud, the Kokang Allied Army's Pang Deyen collected $120 million in donations from the Chinese private sector in one night through a live streaming platform. It took less than a month for Pang Deren to recruit over 10,000 troops after establishing his army. And these armies are fully equipped with bulletproof vests, heavy weapons, drones and other equipment.

Pendragon is even supported by many Han Chinese civil satellite companies. The special forces of the Burmese government army were all wiped out after being targeted by Pang Deren's satellites.

The Burmese government in the north of Burma, and all the armed forces linked to the telecoms scam, it is only a matter of time before they are all wiped out.

These bastards who run telecom scams in the Chinese language circle, it's your time to die. Prepare coffins for yourselves. All the warlords who harbour criminals, China's courts have reserved a judgement seat for you.