On October 27, the Kokang Alliance, known as the "Three Brothers of Northern Myanmar", the De'ang National Liberation Army and the Arakan Army jointly launched a special military operation against wire fraud, and many other ethnic armed forces actively responded to the operation. This is likely to be the largest fighting in Myanmar since independence in 1948.
The ethnic armed forces of northern Myanmar persisted in fighting in the cracks
People generally think that this is a Burmese civil war, but some ethnic militants in northern Burma may not think that this is a civil war, but a war against Burmese aggression.
Since 1960, after the demarcation of the border between China and Myanmar, it was known that Kokang County, which originally belonged to the Lincang region of Yunnan Province, was assigned to Myanmar, and the Han and other ethnic compatriots living in Kokang have since become "foreigners", but from 1960 to today, the Burmese government and military have never treated the people equally, and the Han people, as an ethnic minority in Myanmar, have been bullied, exploited and brutalized by all kinds of people, which has led to the continuous struggle of the Kokang Alliance.
And in the whole of northern Burma, it is not only the Kokang allies who are fighting. There are many ethnic armed groups in northern Myanmar who are fighting persistently. The Kachin Independence Army (KIA) is active in Kachin State. Here we will focus on the strange situation that the Kachin Independence Army and the Kachin people have encountered.
More than 10 years ago, the Kachin ethnic armed forces asked people to help the Chinese side open the Laga port, because the Laga port was closed by the Chinese side at that time, and the closure of the Laga port was a request made by the Burmese government army to the Chinese side, and the Burmese government army believed that China's opening of the Laga port would help the Kachin Independence Army to obtain economic resources and make it grow stronger, which was not conducive to the conquest of the Burmese government army.
The closure of the Laza port was a decision made by the Chinese side at that time, and this decision was first made by the relevant departments in Yunnan to draw up a proposal for the closure of the port and then report to the above, which agreed to close it.
The trade volume of the Laza port is not large, but for the people in the Kachin area, it is a lifeline, because the local people have no economic resources, and the main thing is to sell some mountain goods to China through the Laza port to barely fill their stomachs. Before the border was drawn, those ethnic compatriots were also in the country, just like the situation in Kokang.
More than 10 years ago, the round of closure of the Laha port directly cut off the source of livelihood of the Kachin compatriots, who were miserable, and the Burmese army took the opportunity to attack Kachin on a large scale, burning, killing, looting and doing all kinds of evil, and at that time, China firmly adhered to the principle of "non-interference in the internal affairs of other countries" and sat back and watched the Kachin compatriots being bullied and oppressed by the Burmese army.
I remember that there was a touching scene in Dehong at that time, when many domestic compatriots drove their own cars, carrying daily necessities, and spontaneously went to help the Kachin compatriots. You must know that at that time, the Burmese army and the Kachin Independence Army were fighting there, and it was very dangerous to go to the border, but the love of compatriots was thicker than water, and the Kachin compatriots were already miserable, and the armed conflict was even worse, and the compatriots on one side of China really couldn't stand it.
In those years, at some forums held in Kunming, several old gentlemen kept calling for and begging the Chinese side to open the Laza port so that the Kachin people could have some economic resources. Able to live on.
More than 10 years ago, in the Kachin region, the Chinese side invested heavily in building a hydropower plant, but the project was later terminated with heavy losses. Outside sources say that the Burmese authorities accepted the advice of environmental groups and halted the project, but the reality is that the hydropower plant is planned to be within the control of the Kachin Independence Army, and the Chinese side only talks to the Burmese military junta, never the Kachin organization, and dismisses the Kachin organization.
In other words, in the eyes of some people in China, cooperation with the Burmese military junta is justified, and the two sides have diplomatic relations. Talking to the national armed forces is nothing, and some Chinese personnel despise the national armed forces in their hearts, and it cannot be ruled out that they and the Burmese military junta wear the same pants.
One of the ethnic forces is the Arakan Army, whose fighting background is much less known in China but is internationally known because the Burmese army has carried out a genocidal sweep of the Rohinga people in Rakhine State a few years ago, forcing many Rohinga to flee their homes and seek refuge in China.
Ethnic armed forces in northern Myanmar
Since the demarcation of the border between China and Myanmar in 1960, the Burmese military has committed countless crimes against the armed forces of various ethnic groups in northern Myanmar and our compatriots of all ethnic groups.
Since the demarcation of the border between China and Myanmar in 1960, China has always adhered to the principle of "non-interference in the internal affairs of other countries", insisted on exchanges and cooperation with the Myanmar government, and provided substantial assistance to the Myanmar government and military.
However, the Myanmar military has proven countless times that it is not able to hold up the wall, it does not have enough wisdom and strength to rule northern Myanmar, the whole Myanmar has been in a state of warlord secession for a long time, and the Myanmar government army is only one of the warlords.
It can be expected that after the end of this anti-wire fraud campaign, chaos in northern Myanmar will continue to emerge one after another, and it will still affect China's border security for a long time.
Ethnic armed forces in northern Myanmar