(Articles and photos direct
from Burma Army’s Myawaddy on February 28, 2014.)
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War-game Anawyahtar in Meikhtilar's Mone-dine. |
Anawyahtar (1044-1077) was the name of most
famous Burmese king who was the 42
nd king of the Bagan Dynasty and also
the one who established the First Burmese Empire nearly a thousand years ago in
eleventh century by wiping out all ethnic oppositions to Burmese dominance in
the fertile Irrawaddy Valley area and the surrounding vast hilly lands soon to
be known as Myanmar or Burma.
Anawyahtar also was the name of the 2014-wargame
staged by Burma Army this February in
Middle Burma. The wargame Anawyahtar (2014) is also the very first wargame
involving light infantry troops, heavy duty tanks, missile squadrons, and
massive air supports all using live rounds, bombs, explosives, and missiles.
Most significant of the widely
publicized and televised wargame was that the terrain used was very similar or
even landscaped to the terrain near Panseng the Headquarters town of the UWSA
(United Wa State Army) the notorious narco-insurgent army on the region
straddling the long Burma-border with China.