After the initial stabilization of the fighting in Kokang, the civil war in Myanmar continues.
The latest news is that the Karen National Union, a local armed group in Myanmar, recently captured Myawaddy, which is controlled by government forces, and the notorious KK park, which is a wire fraud park, has also fallen.
The fighting resulted in the surrender of more than 600 Burmese government troops and thousands of them fleeing to Thailand. Next, will the Burmese junta fall? Da Liu will explain it for you.
Myawaddy, which does not care about the three, has become the last bastion of electric fraud
Myawaddy is the main land border crossing between Myanmar and Thailand. Due to its location at the junction of Myanmar, Laos and Thailand, as well as the unstable internal situation and constant wars in Myanmar, the region has always been a three-way zone on the surface.
Location map of Myawaddy
In recent years, with the crackdown on the wire fraud and gambling industries in various countries, some related illegal industries in the Golden Triangle and northern Myanmar have been transferred to Myawaddy, resulting in a rampant wire fraud industry in the region, and its scale is actually much larger than that in northern Myanmar.
Before last year, there were frequent reports of Chinese being kidnapped in Thailand and taken to Myawaddy and imprisoned in the KK park.
Heart-wrenching reports abound
What is less well known is that Myawaddy is ostensibly run by local forces, but in fact the interests here have always been taken by the Burmese government army, which is arguably the biggest umbrella here.
The civil war in Myanmar is getting worse, and the actual area controlled by the Burmese army is less than 40%
As the civil war in Myanmar has become more severe, the land controlled by the Burmese army has become less and less, and it is now less than 40%.
Under such pressure, some Myanmar media reported that at the request of China, the Burmese government had detained and interrogated Deputy Defense Minister Maj. Gen. Aung Lim-Don, who was behind the telecom fraud park in northern Myanmar. Another latest piece of news is that the Burmese government has removed Soe Win, the deputy commander-in-chief of the Burmese army, who is the biggest backstage of the wire fraud in Myanmar's Myawaddy region.
Karen National Union troops search government military barracks in Myawaddy
With the loss of power of these two backstage "bosses" of wire fraud, and the fact that northern Myanmar and Myawaddy are controlled by local armed forces, it is believed that in the near future, the leaders of the wire fraud in Myawaddy will also be sent back to China for trial, just like the White Institute of Northern Myanmar.
The actions and attitudes of the Burmese government basically indicate that they hope to be able to negotiate peace with local armed forces under the mediation of China, so as to avoid the possibility of their own downfall.
Since the government came to power in a coup d'état in early 2021, Myanmar's economy has deteriorated, from US$GDP1616 per capita in 2020 to US$1,347 in 2022.
Kachin State wants to join China and become a province
Analysts in Myanmar say that because the Myanmar government came to power in a coup d'état by the military, it was not properly appointed. Coupled with the fact that the economy is not going to work, and government officials are corrupt, its domestic approval rating has almost bottomed out. At present, various local armed forces in Myanmar have raised flags to rebel, and the Myanmar government believes that China's mediation is needed to make a temporary ceasefire between the parties.
Location of Kachin State
At the same time, Myanmar media also reported that its local armed force, the Kachin Independence Army, recently stated: "We are willing to treat the Kachin occupation area as a provincial-level administrative region within China's borders." ”
It is understood that the Kachin occupation zone is located in northern Myanmar, where 90% of Myanmar's jadeite is produced, and is close to the Dehong Dai Jingpo Autonomous Prefecture in Yunnan Province.
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