Is China Arming Burmese Rebellion in Myanmar?

               (Based on staff articles from the KHIT THIT MEDIA’s Facebook in June 2023.)

Brand new KAs for PDFs.

On June-24 this year the Khit-Thit-Media reported a recent release of information bulletin from the NUG (National Unity Government of Burma) describing the latest arming of five newly-formed infantry battalions from their PDF (People Defence Forces) in the Magwe Division the epicenter of Burmese rebellion against the Myanmar Army.

The five newly-formed PDF battalions were armed with nearly 500 Kachin-assembled KA-09 automatic rifles which basically are the near-exact copies of Chinese Type-81 assualt rifles, itself a modified variant of that ubiquitous AK-47 assault rifles.

On an interview with Myanmar-Now Media in last January Yi Mon the NUG Defense Minister declared they were needing 300 million US$ in next four months to purchase 20,000 assault rifles to arm their PDF units in Burma. So many young Burmese men were joining the PDF and they needed guns, good guns right now, he said.

Then on a recent interview Minister Yi Mon proudly declared that 75% of that funding target was achieved last six month partly from public donations and mostly from the collection of taxes from newly-liberated territories inside Burma the NUG administration now fully controlls and administers.

Obvious conclusion from those intreviews and the news-pieces of recent armings of newly-formed PDF battalions is that tens of thousands of KA-09 assaut rifles hastily assembled in KIA- controlled weapon-manufacturing facilities on the Burma-China borderline have been purchased by NUG from the KIA.

The most interesting fact from those events is that Communist-China, supposedly the fervent supporter of Myanmar Army, has been supplying the parts and technology needed to assemble the KA-09 rifles to the Kachin Independence Army (KIA). And the KIA is happily selling the KA-09 assualt rifles to the NUG with Chinese permission.

Obvioulsy the two-faced Chinese communists are openly arming the Burmese PDF rebel forces with thousands and thousnands of cheap assault rifles while still selling happily the high-end expensive items like jet fighters and frigates and submarines to the Myanmar Army.

This year alone, China has pocketed 300 million US$ from the Burmese rebels for 20,000 KA-09 assault rifles to kill the Myanmar soldiers, and another 300 milion US$ from the Myanmar Army for two or three second-hand submarines and a coupe of jet trainer planes to kill the Burmese rebels.

It’s a greaty-profitable business and nobody cares of the sad fact that the poor Burmese people are paying for those Chinese weapons-of-war with their bloods and guts and tears and limbs!

KA-09 Kachin Assault Rifle.

Type-81 Chinese Assault Rifle.