(Translation of Steven Sanyu’s post from his FACEBOOK pages on 16 June 2026.)
Will the
Wa Army (UWSA) be going into a war with the Arakan Army (AA)?
So
far, for many years UWSA has managed not to participate in the ongoing civil
war between Myanmar Army and other ethnic armies such as AA (Yakhine Army),
TNLA (Palaung Army), KIA (Kachin Army) and MNDAA (Kokang Army) even though the
Wa were the ones making massive profits selling assault rifles and
heavy-machineguns and ammunitions to other ethnic armies except KIA Kachins who
have their own weapon manufacturing plants.
That
long stalemate is going to change very soon as both their Chinese Masters and
Myanmar Army generals now need them to annihilate the recalcitrant Yakhines
(Arakaneses) of victorious AA in the western Myanmar State of Arakan.
Even with massive Chinese assistance in the form of advance war-drones and many billions of Chinese Yuan, Myanmar Army war columns many thousands-soldiers-strong have not managed to break through the AA defensive lines on the high hills and mountains of long Arakan Ranges (Arakan-Yoma) between the Proper Burma and Arakan State.








