(Based on the staff articles from the KHIT THIT MEDIA & AFP in November 2023)
The Northern Alliance is the military coalition of four
Ethnic Insurgent Armies namely KIA – Kachin Independence Army, MNDAA - Myanmar
National Democratic Alliance Army, TNLA - Talang National Liberation Army, and
AA - Arakan Army.
On October-27 more than ten thousands fighters of Northern Alliance started the massive operation called Operation-1027 and since then the Alliance has defeated three Myanmar Army divisions based in Northern Shan State and taken over the whole Shan-North region within nine days.
The Northern
Alliance announced on November-8 that more than 100 Myanmar Army bases had been
overrun and more than 5,000 Myanmar soldiers and police killed or wounded or
captured or surrendered during the ten days from October-27 to November-7.
The Operation 1027?
Northern Alliance Strikes SAC Camps Across Northern Shan State: Member groups from the Northern Alliance have launched coordinated attacks on multiple State Administration Council (SAC) camps during Operation 1027, which began on October-27 Thursday night across northern Shan State.
An attack
occurred at Infantry Battalion (IB) 241’s camp in Kutkai at 10 pm on Thursday,
and the regime retaliated by shelling the area for 30 minutes, resulting in the
death of a 40-year-old father of two in Nam Khong.
Other clashes
soon followed early Friday morning as the Ta’ang National Liberation Army,
Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army (MNDAA), and Arakan Army
simultaneously attacked strategically located camps in five townships.
“We can still
hear the sound of heavy weapon firing. As far as I know, clashes have continued
in Lashio, Namkham, Hsenwi, and Laukkai townships this morning,” a local source
told KNG. The BBC Burmese edition reported that the TNLA seized SAC’s 13-mile
camp (also called Tower Hill camp) on the Namphetka – Namkham road at 3 pm
after launching a 5 am attack.
At the entrance
to the town of Lashio, the Northern Alliance killed a SAC police sentry and
destroyed the tollgate he was in. The MNDAA seized the town of Chin Shwe Haw in
Laukkai Township, shutting down the Lashio – Chin Shwe Haw and Lashio – Muse
roads, thus ending border trade with China. The Kokang armed group first
attacked a nearby camp at 4 am before overrunning the camp and the town.
At the time of
this report, attacks had occurred at the IB 241 and 242 camps in Kutkai
Township, the IB 68 camp in Kong Hser and Mung in Lashio Township, Hsenwi
Township, the Mongsi area of Mongkoe sub-township, the Sakhan Thit camp in
Namkham Township, the Mang Yap mountain camp in Mongkoe Township, and the Chin
Shwe Haw camp in Laukkai Township. SAC shelling has continued throughout Kutkai
Township, according to a local source.
Ethnic armed groups launch attacks across northern Shan State
An alliance of
ethnic armed groups in Myanmar launched coordinated attacks on the military
across northern Shan State on Friday, posing a fresh challenge to the junta as
it struggles to quell resistance to its rule.
The military’s
2021 putsch sparked renewed fighting with some ethnic armed groups in northern
Shan, home to a planned billion-dollar rail link, part of China’s Belt and Road
global infrastructure project.
The Ta’ang
National Liberation Army, Arakan Army and Myanmar National Democratic Alliance
Army launched a “military operation”, they said in a statement. Pro-military
Telegram channels said the resistance groups were attacking 12 towns or
settlements across a swathe of Shan state around 100 kilometres across.
The three armed
groups – which analysts say can call on at least 15,000 fighters between them –
did not immediately provide details on casualties or whether they had taken
territory. The MNDAA said its fighters had closed the roads from the trade hub
of Lashio to Chin Shwe Haw and Muse on the China border ahead of a “major
offensive”.
Footage shared
on its media channel showed fighters in what appeared to be an abandoned camp,
with weapons and boxes of ammunition scattered across the ground. It did not
say where the footage was taken.
Fighting around
Lashio – home to the military’s northeast command – and near the towns of Muse,
Chin Shwe Haw and Laukkai was ongoing, local media and residents said. Laukkai
is about five kilometres from the border with China.
“All shops are
closed and no one is going out,” a resident of Hopang township, around 10 kilometres
from Chinshwehaw, told Agence France-Presse. “We can hear the sounds of
aircraft and gunfire constantly,” they said, requesting anonymity for security
reasons.
A Muse resident
told AFP that locals were staying indoors as soldiers patrolled the streets and
that the road from the town to the city of Mandalay – a major trade route – had
been closed. A rescue worker in Lashio who requested anonymity for safety
reasons told AFP that resistance fighters had begun shelling the military base
near the town from 4:00 am and that the military had responded with artillery
fire.
All flights to
and from Lashio airport had been cancelled on Friday “because of the
situation”, an airline ticketing agency told AFP. China’s foreign affairs
ministry said it was “closely following” the fighting and called on all sides
to prevent the situation from escalating.
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| One of many mass graves of dead Burmese soldiers from now-demolished LID-99 |
Northern clashes: In Year 2017, months of fighting between Myanmar’s army and ethnic insurgents in the Kokang border region claimed dozens of lives and sent thousands fleeing from their homes – many to China.
Myanmar’s
borderlands are home to more than a dozen ethnic armed groups, some of which
have fought the military for decades over autonomy and control of lucrative
resources. Some have trained and equipped newer People’s Defence Forces that
have sprung up since the 2021 coup and the military’s bloody crackdown on
dissent.
Earlier this
month nearly 30 people were killed and dozens wounded in a strike on a camp for
displaced people in neighbouring Kachin State. The Kachin Independence Army, an
ethnic armed group that controls the area, blamed the junta for the attack.
Last week the
junta ordered air strikes and troop reinforcements as it tried to recover
outposts it had lost in subsequent fighting with the KIA, the military and the
armed group said. A KIA spokesman told AFP he was not sure if its fighters had
joined Friday’s attacks.
(Blogger’s
Notes: In the past since Burma’s Independece in 1948 Myanmar Army with the
support of majority ethnic Burmese from the Proper Burma had managed to ruthlessly
suppress all those ethnic insurgent armies and forced them just hanging on the
fringe borderlands of Burma.
But the ever-growing
Burmese rebellion led by the ruling ASSK’s NLD party after the MAH’s hated 2021
Coup has drastically weakened Myanmar Army and now the ethnic armies are taking
advantage of that and pushing Myanmar Army’s demoralised Burmese troops out of their
homelands. Hopefully this is the beginning of the end of universally-hated
Myanmar Army and that Motherfucker Min Aung Hlaing and his evil family. )
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| LID-99's LIB-423 was overrun. |
Myanmar military says lost control of strategic border town
Myanmar’s
military has lost control of a strategic northern town on the Chinese border
following days of clashes with three ethnic armed groups, a junta spokesman
said. Since October-27 fighting has raged across a swathe of Myanmar’s northern
Shan State – where a billion-dollar rail link is planned as part of Beijing’s Belt
and Road global infrastructure project.
The Myanmar
National Democratic Alliance Army, Ta’ang National Liberation Army and Arakan
Army say they have seized several military posts and key roads linking Myanmar
with China, its biggest trade partner.
“Government, administrative organisations and
security organisations are no longer present” in Chin Shwe Haw town, which
borders China’s Yunnan province, Major-General Zaw Min Tun said in a statement
late Wednesday.
Clashes have taken place at 10 locations across Shan
over the past six days, he said, without giving details on casualties. He (Zaw
Mel Lone) accused the three armed groups of “blowing up power stations, blowing
up bridges, destroying transportation routes”, without giving details.
More than a quarter
of Myanmar’s US$1.8 billion worth of border trade with China from April to
September this year passed through Chin Shwe Haw, junta-controlled media
reported in September, citing the commerce ministry.
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| Myanmar Army admitted the total loss of Shan-North Region. |
The MNDAA released footage on Monday that it said showed its fighters occupying Chin Shwe Haw. A resident of Hseni, around 90 kilometres from Chin Shwe Haw, told Agence France-Presse on Thursday that they could hear the sound of fighting outside their town. Internet access was patchy and thousands of people had arrived in the town seeking safety, the resident said, asking for anonymity for security reasons.
The AA, MNDAA
and TNLA – which form the Brotherhood Alliance and analysts say can call on at
least 15,000 fighters between them – have fought regularly with the military
over autonomy and control of resources.
The Brotherhood
Alliance said the military has suffered with dozens wounded, killed and
captured since Friday. Analysts say both sides likely inflate or deflate
casualty figures. The United Nations says it fears thousands of people have
been displaced, with some fleeing across the border into China.
On Tuesday
China’s minister for public security met junta chief Min Aung Hlaing in Nay Pyi
Taw, Myanmar state media said, for a second day of talks with top junta
officials about the clashes. They discussed attacks by the MNDAA “on security
camps… with attempts to deteriorate peace and stability in the region”, the
state-owned Global New Light of Myanmar said.
China is a top
ally and major arms supplier of the junta, and has refused to label its 2021
power grab a coup. Beijing maintains ties with some ethnic armed groups along
its border with Myanmar, home to ethnic Chinese communities who use Chinese SIM
cards and currency. It has previously denied reports it has supplied the armed
groups with weapons.
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| Dead body of LID-99's CO Brigadier-General Aung Kyaw Lwin? |
China security minister in Myanmar following border clashes
China’s public
security minister has held talks with Myanmar’s junta on establishing peace
along their shared border, state media said Tuesday, following clashes between
ethnic armed groups and the military in northern Shan State.
Thousands of
people have been reportedly displaced, with some crossing into China, after
three armed groups fighting for autonomy launched coordinated attacks on the
junta seeking to take control of towns.
Wang Xiaohong,
who is also a member of China’s cabinet, the State Council, met the junta’s
home minister Lieutenant-General Yar Pyae in the capital Nay Pyi Taw, the
Global New Light of Myanmar reported. The two “discussed peace and tranquillity
in border areas of the two countries” and cooperation on law enforcement and
security, it said, without giving details.
Since Friday
fighting has raged across a swathe of Myanmar’s northern Shan – where a
billion-dollar rail link is planned as part of Beijing’s Belt and Road global
infrastructure project. The Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army, Ta’ang
National Liberation Army and Arakan Army said they had seized several military
posts and key roads.
The three groups
– which analysts say can call on at least 15,000 fighters between them – have
fought regularly with the military over autonomy and control of resources. On
Monday the MNDAA released footage it said showed its fighters occupying the
border town of Chin Shwe Haw.
The junta has
said military outposts in at least 10 locations in Shan have come under attack
since Friday. The United Nations has said it fears over 6,200 people have been
displaced by the fighting, including 600 who have fled across the Chinese
border.
China is a top
ally and major arms supplier of the junta, and has refused to label its 2021
power grab a coup. China’s envoy for the country has met regularly with their
leadership in recent months and during the COVID-19 pandemic provided vaccines
and aid to territory that the groups control.
But, analysts
say, China also backs and arms several groups along its border with Myanmar,
home to ethnic Chinese communities who use Chinese SIM cards and currency. Beijing
is also angered by a mushrooming of online scam centres in Myanmar’s northern
reaches that it says target Chinese citizens.
Myriad ethnic armed groups operate in Myanmar’s frontier areas and have for decades clashed with the government. Since the military seized power, several of the groups have allied with People’s Defence Forces that have sprung up to battle the junta.
(Blogger’s Notes: Just yesterday on November 10 Dr. Zaw Wai Soe the highly-respected health minister of rebelling NUG declared that Myanmar Army has only 50,000 to 60,000 fighting soldiers left while his side has 400,000 to 600,000 and he is asking Burmese Soldiers to surrender and join the rebellion or they will all be killed eventually like the soldiers of now demolished LID-99.)
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| MAH's order to his army to pray to Buddha for their survival. |
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