War has ruined people's lives, made people miserable, and made economic development stagnate and regress, and the people and government of any country do not want to see themselves involved in war. Especially in the first 50 years of the last century, mankind experienced two world wars, and the painful lessons sounded a wake-up call for the whole world. Peace and development, and the rejection of war, have also become common themes for all mankind.
However, abandoning war is easier said than done. After the end of World War II, many parts of the world were in a state of war, such as the Middle East, which is a typical example. Not to mention the local conflicts between countries after World War II, such as the Iran-Iraq War, the Anglo-Armagh War, the Sino-Indian Border War, and so on, there are countless. It can be seen that war is still quite common throughout the world.
And to have such a country is even more exaggerated. From the beginning of World War II, until today, the country's civil war has not stopped. Due to the perennial war, the country has almost no development, and the people are miserable, and they can only drink the northwest wind one by one.
The country is Myanmar, so why are its civil wars so frequent? Let's start with his history. More than 1,000 years ago, Burma, also known as Hongshawadi, was unified in 1044 AD and successively experienced four feudal dynasties of Bagan, Bago, Donggu and Gongpung.
Until 1824, the British launched the first one-year invasion of Burma under the pretext of strengthening the defense of Arakan and attempting to attack Chittagong. Burma was then defeated and became a British colony.
Like in India, the British also implemented a policy of partition in Burma, maliciously provoking contradictions among various ethnic groups in Burma, causing a huge rift in ethnic relations throughout Myanmar, and laying the foundation for the subsequent civil war in Burma.
After the end of World War II, with the rise of the anti-colonial movement, the colonies around the world began to establish independent states, and the colonists retreated to their own countries one by one. Although Burma also gained independence during this period, the ethnic contradictions left by the British were deeply rooted in the hearts of every Burmese.
As a result, not long after independence, the contradictions within the Burmese nation reached an irreconcilable state, and civil war broke out. In 1960, the military strongman Nywin seized power in Burma, engaged in dictatorship, and forcibly naturalized all ethnic groups in Burma into the native Burmese ethnic group. This move aroused strong dissatisfaction among other peoples, and civil war broke out completely.
Among the forces that resisted the Nee win government, the most powerful was the Kachin Independence Army of the Burmese ethnic minority, which had long been engaged in firefights with the government forces in Nywin, accumulated a lot of combat experience, and also had the land and personnel capital to confront the government army. It was this long-term tug-of-war that caused hundreds of thousands of people in Myanmar to have their homes shattered and fled Myanmar.
The Kachin Independence Army is not the only one that gives the government army a headache, due to the large number of ethnic minorities in Myanmar, the complexity of the warlords' power, and the large number of the government army is a mess. Such as the Kokang Army, the Shan State Army, the Wa Army, the Karen Army, and the Kayeh Army, each of these ethnic minority rebel forces has become a climate, and in the process of fighting the government army, it has become more and more powerful. The Burmese government simply can't put a bowl of water at all, and sometimes just signed an armistice with these ethnic rebels, and it doesn't take long to become a piece of waste paper.
According to the current situation in Myanmar, if there is no strong force and voice to calm the dispute, this great intra-ethnic strife will continue. To this day, the people of Myanmar have not been able to wait for peace. The war devastated the country and made it one of the poorest in Southeast Asia.
As a neighbor of our country, Myanmar has not given its people a warning. In times of war, peace is simply more precious than gold, and only peace can allow the people to live and work in peace and contentment, and the country can develop steadily. Compared with the war in Burma, each of us should be full of gratitude for the heroic martyrs who spilled their blood for the peace of the motherland. Without them, how can we live happily today?