According to the local news spreading
like wildfire in KIA Headquarters Laiza many KIO leaders including that famous
Zaung Hara the KIO Chairman and Inbanla the KIO General Secretary had been
arrested and may have already been killed by the order of either Genral Gam Shaung the KIA
Chie-of-Staff or General Gun Maw the KIA Vice-Chief-of-Staff.
Since the recent abrupt-end of China-sponsored Peace
Negotiations in Ruili the KIO senior leaders have not been seen or heard in
Laiza. The compound of their family houses have also been declared restricted
area and constantly guarded by KIA armed-men.
According to the long-time observers of
so-called Kachin war of Independence very high casualties and mass desertion
among the KIA ranks and files have been causing a deep crack of disagreements between
the KIA (Kachin Independence Army) controlled by General Gam Shaung and its
supposedly political masters KIO (Kachin Independence Organization) headed by Chairman
Zaung Hara.
The progressive KIO civilian leaders willing
to grab the peace offer from the Burmese so that they would concentrate solely on
the development and progress of their Kachin people were constantly badmouthed by
the KIA generals as the collaborators who are cowardly betraying the Kachin
people.
Since the KIO leaders haven’t been seen
for a long time now the rumours of them being arrested were first surfaced and
later many KIA lower ranks have confirmed the fact that the KIO leaders were
arrested just few days after the Peace Negotiations and then being detained at
the notorious KIA prison in the restricted military area of Laiza.
Now the rumours of their killings have
been whispered all over Laiza like wildfire and no single KIA general has so-far denied it yet.
Since two KIA leaders Zaung Hara and
Inbanla were moderate Kachin leaders well respected and loved by the Kachin
people their demise will definitely create serious troubles and further unrests
among the various interest groups in Kachin politics.
Burmese-KIA Peace Negotiations 2013 (Ruili, China). |
Burmese-KIA Peace Negotiations 1994 (Myitkyinar, Burma). (That peace accord lasted 17 years till KIA unilaterally broke it in June 2011.) |