(Based on Burmese Facebook Posts in July-August 2026.)
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| Madam Chen Baoliu |
It
was November 1988, just after the failed-and-horribly-bloodied 8-8-88 Uprising
in military-ruled Socialist Burma, and there were huge border battles like Maing
Yang in Shan-North, Mae-tha-waw and Wan-kha in Karen State raging.
Maing
Yang was under siege by overwhelming BCP (Burma Communist Party) forces on the China-Burma
border line, while Myanmar Army was massively attacking KNU (Karen National
Union) forces digging in at fortified fortresses on the Thai-Burma border line.
But Myanmar Army was having a serious shortage of ammunitions especially the high-explosive shells for their 81mm and 120mm heavy mortars. Because of their brutal suppression of people uprising on 8-8-1988 the western nations had imposed strict arms embargo on them. And since the mortar rounds were all imported from the West before, Myanmar Army’s heavy mortars were suddenly silent.








