(This post is translation of news article from various Burmese
blogs.)
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| Feared Chief-of-Staff General Gam Shaung of KIA. |
According
to the KIA sources the feared General and his entourage in 6 SUV convoy was on
an inspection tour of KIA defensive positions around Laiza when a roving
helicopter gunship spotted them on a hill just outside of Laiza and sprayed
them with .50 calibre heavy machineguns.
His
bodyguard-major and seven Lawaw guards were killed and Gam Shaung was hit in the
mid belly and thighs. He was sent to Laiza Hospital and later transferred to
the Provincial Hospital at Htein-chone across the border in China. His
situation is deteriorating fast.
Laiza and its surrounds
are now constantly shelled by the Burma army’s 105 mm howitzers positioned at
nearby Dawphoneyan as the army mobile columns under the command of Colonel Lin
Lin Htun of TOC-1 of LID-88 are now preparing to assault Laiza.
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| Russian-made MI-35P Helicopter Gunship that got Gam Shaung. |
Gam Shaung Has A Very Violent
Reputation
Even among
ruthless KIA generals Gam Shaung has had a notorious reputation as being an
extremely violent man, for he is responsible for a few massacres while he was a
low-level commander. Following is the crudely-translated complaint letter to
the police from the villagers of Lone-khin village in Pharkant township where
Gam Shaung personally executed at least 100 people in a drug-related business
dispute in December 1990.
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“Hunble Request to take action against
Spot Hmaw-Kachin State Myanmar
Now, KIA Chief-of-Staff Major General
Gan Shoung and his intelligence chief Khaung Moon led terrorist group in 1990
December 23th (at that time Gan Shoung was the Commanding Officer KIA No.(6)
battalion ) gathered about forty-five (45) Villagers from Spot Ye Chaung Hmaw,
Lonekhin, Sinetown- Pharkant Region and mercilessly killed the innocent
victims. This atrocity was committed in front of all the people, each a person
from a family of villages around pharkant Hmaw, the majority of victims were
Shan nationals and minority were Kachin nationals.
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| KIA-controlled Pharkant Jade Mines in Kachin State. |
Early in the morning motorboat headman U Myint Shwe (Karmine), U Khin Mg(deceased), U Kyauk(Militia), U Thein Naing (deceased), had been carried to the place of appointment made by major Gan Shaung with two motorboats. 24 detainees and 24 other who carried the detainees altogether 48 persons were roped at the crosses and shot with machine gun at the rate of twelve persons at a time, mercesly killed and thrown into the Oo Ru Stream. The terrorist KIA also recorded with video tape. Detainees from Lonekhin village, U Mg Gyi, U Chit Ko, Kauk Yoe Win Naing, U Chit Mg, U Chit Swe, were escaped by means of giving large amount of money to Major Gan Shaung.
All the eyes witnesses from the
surrounding villages of Spot Chaung Hmaw region are still frightened the name
of major Gan Chaung and they are still living at Myitkyina, Pharkant. By giving
money to KIA and liberated villagers are still living. Those who witnessed the
scene of crime committed by KIA are still suffering from terror of KIA .The
relatives of the victims hated and bitter upon Major Gan Ghaung.
The above mentioned KIA No(2) brigade
of No(6) battalion Commanding officer Major Gan Shaung (Now KIA Chief of Staff
Major General Gan Shaung) is the person who committed the massacre. At the
present , these are battles between government forces and KIA very heavily. We
all the villagers are frightened and horrified. Major Gan Shaung is a person of
very strong narrow nationalism and he is always building upon Shan Ni and Other
national races. At the present he was commanding Chief of KIA fighting against
government forces and all the villagers are still frightening the terrorist act
of Major Gan Shaung. So, we humbly request the responsible person to take
actions against such a cruel terrorist.
LoneKhin Villagers”
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Gam Shaung is
from the leading Jinphaw tribe and he is widely accused of being cruel to the
subordinates, the discriminatory ways he treats other non-Jinphaw Kachin
tribes, and excessively violent treatments he lashes out to Burmese and Shan
people in Kachin State he despotically ruled.
He is a racist
hardliner among the KIA/KIO leaders and notorious as a ruthless killer after he
massacred more than 100 Burmese and Shan villagers in a drug-related dispute
with locals when he was the Commander of Sixth Battalion Second KIA Brigade in December
1990.
General Gun Maw the Habitual Sex-offender
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| KIA Vice Chief-of-Staff General Gun Maw and his women bodyguards. |
In early 2010 he
knocked up a pretty Kachin girl called Daung-naw a lowly computer-clerk from
Laiza KIA HQ. With two or three wives and tens of kids in China already our General
Gun Maw didn’t want another wife and one more kid to look after, so he forced a
late-term abortion on her and the poor girl died bleeding on the table during
the crude process.
She was
originally from the Sitarpu Ward in Myitkyinar and her family still live there.
Her colleagues and friends including her boyfriend a young Kachin officer in
the KIA didn’t like what happened to her, but they didn’t dare to say or do
anything as they were all dead scared of Gun Maw and his thugs.
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| So-called women-warriors of KIA. |
There’ll be no Peace till Gam Shaung and Gun Maw are
gone!
While the
civilian leaderships of KIA and other military leaders are willing to sit down
and talk for a long-lasting peace between the Burmese and Kachin brothers the
two top military leaders of KIA general Gam Shaung and Gun Maw do not agree
with their colleagues and they didn’t even show up at the peace negotiation
meetings in China to the dismay of senior Chinese cadres and military leaders
who are sponsoring the peace process.
Despite the
willingness of KIO Chairman Zaung Hara and other leaders to sign a peace
agreement with Burmese the hardline stances of General Gam Shaung and his
deputy General Gun Maw, both thuggish and despotic generals, have been
prolonging this nasty civil war causing the indescribable sufferings of their
own people.
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| Stalled Burmese-Kachin Peace Negotiations because of Gam Shaung and Gun Maw. |