Recently, the whole world can really be described as "eventful", the Russian-Ukrainian war is in full swing, the outbreak of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict has attracted all the attention of the world, and within a few days, there was another dispute between India and Pakistan, but the event that is most closely related to us is the recent surprise attack by the Kokang Alliance in Myanmar.
On October 27, the Kokang Alliance led by Peng Deren sounded the clarion call to recover the Kokang area with an official document, and the battle also started as promised, with rockets and heavy machine guns resounding throughout northern Myanmar.
The Kokang problem has a long history, and the region was part of China's Yunnan until 1897, when the Qing government signed the Supplementary Articles of the Treaty of Renewal of the Yunnan-Burma Boundary with the British, and since then Burma was a British colony, so the Kokang region was assigned to British Burma.
In 1948, Myanmar became independent, and Kokang remained under its jurisdiction as Burmese territory, but maintained a high degree of autonomy, and after the founding of the People's Republic of China, China and Myanmar redrew the border, and Kokang was officially assigned to Myanmar.
In 1983, the Han Chinese living here were officially named "Kokang" by the Burmese government, becoming one of the 135 ethnic groups in Myanmar.
The Kokang Allied Army, which launched the attack, was founded in 1989 by the "Kokang King" Peng Jiasheng, who established the first special region of Myanmar's Shan State and personally served as the chairman of the SAR government.
In 1992, Peng Jiasheng lost the competition with another powerful Kokang faction, Yang Maoliang, and was forced to withdraw from Kokang, and the following year, Peng Jiasheng returned to Kokang with the support of Wa State, Yang Maoliang had no choice but to invite the Burmese government army to come forward to reconcile, so in 1995, the interim government of Burma, Guo, and Peng was formed, and the Burmese government forces also entered Kokang.
On August 8, 2009, the Burmese army launched an attack on the allied forces led by the Peng Jiasheng family under the pretext that the Peng Jiasheng family was involved in drug trafficking, resulting in Peng Jiasheng having to withdraw from Kokang again, an incident known as the "88 Incident".
Peng Jiasheng's defeat this time has a huge relationship with the betrayal of his subordinates, that is, Bai Suocheng, Wei Chaoren, Liu Guoxi, Liu Zhengxiang, the so-called "four families", they fell to the side of the government army at a critical moment, and then the courage was completely controlled by the "four families" forces.
The Kokang under the control of the "four major families" is full of violence, they resell arms, expropriate and expropriate, especially the Bai Suocheng family, and even engage in telecommunications fraud, which makes people outrageous, they have extended their claws to the domestic compatriots, countless people who do not know the truth have been deceived to northern Myanmar, and countless families where their fathers and villagers have been killed have been ruined.
The root cause of the blackmail syndicate in northern Myanmar is the protection of the "Four Families", which are backed by the Burmese army, which has made it difficult to combat telecom fraud for many years.
In 2022, Peng Jiasheng passed away, and his son Peng Deren took over his father's mantle and began to take charge of the Kokang Alliance.
Of course, this is just an excuse, and its fundamental purpose is to regain the right to rule the Kokang region, get back everything that once owned, and by the way, wipe out the wire fraud groups entrenched in northern Myanmar, which can be regarded as eliminating harm to the people.
Judging from the current military progress, the Kokang Allied Army has advanced rapidly, so far it has conquered more than 30 outposts, several armored vehicles have been destroyed, and has begun to besiege Lao Cai, the base camp of the telefraud group, and the "four major families" have a tendency to be wiped out.
The Burmese side of the Qingshui River estuary on the border with China and Burma has also been controlled by the Kokang Alliance, and it is reported that Liu Zhengxiang has also surrendered to the Alliance.
In any case, the telecommunications fraud syndicate that has been harming the people will finally be uprooted, and we also look forward to the day when the situation in northern Myanmar will be clear, and we look forward to the day when peace will come sooner.