(This post is translation of news articles from the Opposite Eyes
Blog.)
Last month just before the Burmese police’s napalming of the mob protesting against
Chinese copper mine near Monywa U Aung Min the Special Minister for the President
of Burma admitted openly to the people and media that Burmese Government was
really scared of China Bear right across the north-eastern border.
He even
recalled the un-declared Border War, more than 20 years long, between Burmese Army
and Chinese-sponsored CPB (Communist Party of Burma) from 1967 to 1989. Big Bad
China can and will do nasty things against our country just simply by starting
another war where they don’t even need to fight. Burma has so many ethnic
insurgents who are willing to fight as the proxy for China. And KIA (Kachin
Independence Army) is just one of them.
And that
exactly is what has been happening with the KIA Kachins since last year. They
are now fighting a nasty proxy war for China. The bastard KIA generals force
local Kachins and Shans into their insurgent army on the China border, equip
them with Chinese-supplied free weaponry, and then send the poor bastards back into Burma to
fight against the army. Chinese even provide them with free food ration straight
from PLA (People Liberation Army) prepacked and delivered.
(Minister U Aung Min admitting China is the scary Bear across the border.)
China
Keeping KIA alive to fight the Burma Army?
Marching Women Soldiers of KIA. |
Late KIA Chairman Branseng
once remarkably said that there were only one million Kachins and more than 40
millions Burmese in Burma and even if one Kachin could kill 10 Burmese before
he was finally killed there would still be 30 millions Burmese left standing
after every Kachin was killed.
Back then KIA knew very
well that once CPB was gone all the Burmese army divisions fighting CPB would
come after them. So they made peace with Burmese till the time the changing
geo-political situation has allowed them to fight the Burmese again with the
backing of China bear across the border.
China needs another lapdog
militia like CPB to play in Burma’s politics. And to influence and control the KIA they have
been allowing KIA to earn a great deal of money by letting Chinese companies do
business direct with KIA generals last 20 odd years.
Marching Women Soldiers of PLA. |
And the evidences of
full-fledged Chinese support to KIA are everywhere to be seen. Chinese mobile
phones and landlines are easily used widely in the KIA-controlled territory,
even in the jungles. Their advances in telecommunications and information
technologies have even surprised the Burmese army officers fighting KIA on the
front-lines.
“At
first we looked down on them as just ethnic insurgents in the jungle. They are
not! Chinese have given them a very advanced IT system among many other
supports. They've got WiFi internet in the jungle. They could instantly send the
casualty details from both ours and their side together with photos and even
videos back to their HQ in Laiza, and then onto the YouTube and Face book,”
commented one senior front-line officer from Burma army.
“Nobody
except the PLA can provide that sort of technological support to the KIA. They
are well equipped with latest Chinese small arms and also heavy weapons like
recoilless rifles and heavy mortars. The dried-food-rations we captured from
them are all Chinese-made with Chinese labels and packaging. We’re facing not
KIA guerrillas but a CPB-like well-armed army now!”
added the same army officer.
To strengthen their
manpower further KIA has been establishing a so-called Rohingya Battalion of
Bengalis from Bangladesh and North-Arakan with the tacit support of their Chinese
backers. Christian Kachins and Muslim Bengalis, willingly supported by the
godless-Communist Chinese, are now fighting the Buddhists Burmese.
China the Big Bad Neighbour?
The renewed Kachin war has been going on
for well over a year now. During that period China’s policy towards Burma has
been flip-flopping from friendly to hostile.
Previously China did block KIA personnel
from entering China but recently, as Burma is becoming more and more friendly
towards the US-led West because of democratic reforms and political changes,
China has been protecting KIA first and then outright supporting militarily.
On March 17 this year KIA forces coming
through China attacked Burmese Border Guard Forces at Border-post (La-6). The
Chinese border guard police there completely ignored the event and even removed
themselves temporarily from their post on the border to facilitate the KIA’s
attack.
Around May 5 this year a KIA brigade
attacked the Burmese Border Guard Force at Panwar by using Chinese territory as
a jumping point into Burma. KIA forces were repelled by the Burmese army and
the attackers retreated back into China.
Even though Burmese had protested against
KIA incursion the authorities on Chinese side allowed the KIA forces to stay on
and recuperate on Chinese territory. The local authorities at the China’s Sakyi
border Village in Htain-Chone Province even took care of KIA wounded and sicks
and later transported them to the Tonpan Hospital at Htain-Chone Town.
On every occasion Burmese army has
refrained from firing back into China or incurring into China to avoid untoward
diplomatic incidents as a good neighbour. But China so far is behaving like a big bad neighbour and creating
instability in the border region.
China should respect Burma’s sovereignty
and should not interfere in Burma’s domestic affairs. But China simply is
creating instability in Burma by supporting the KIA Kachins to wage a war
inside Burma so that Burma will not be easily influenced by the US-led West Bloc.
China basically is just a Big Bad
Neighbour for Burma!
KIA Raided Karmine Town
While US Ambassador was in Myitkyinar
On December 18 last Monday Dereck
Mitchell the US Ambassador to Burma arrived in Myitkyinar the capital of Kachin
State as a short visit to meet local authorities, political parties, and peace
activists to find out more about the ongoing Burmese-Kachin war and worsening
refugee situation.
And our friendly KIA welcomed him to
their Kachin Land by violently raiding the nearby town of Karmine and gladly killing
the policemen and happily murdering innocent civilians. At early morning that
Monday an 80-strong KIA unit fired more than 40 rounds of their heavy weapons
onto the Karmine Police Station manned by only 18 poorly-armed hapless
policemen.
KIA was just simply letting the US Ambassador know that if they wanted to they could raid any town in the Kachin State and the Burmese army and the United States couldn’t do a thing to stop them.
The big bad wolf China is now standing
behind them with a million-strong PLA’s South-western Division nuclear-armed
and ready on the Border to protect China’s strategic interest in Burma and
ultimately in the Indian Ocean.
Watch
out America and India, you can’t contain Chinese Dragon that easy!
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American Ambassador to Burma Derek Mitchell in Myitkyinar of Kachin State (18 December 2012). |
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