Burma in Limbo - Part 4

 (My post from Australian National University's NEW MANDALA on 14 Oct 2010.)

1947 Interim Government of Burma.

On third December 1946 the Communists were expelled from ruling AFPFL. The expulsion basically laid the foundation for never-ending civil war in Burma.

Just 30 days before on third November 1946 AFPFL (Anti-Fascist Peoples’ Freedom League) the loosely formed coalition of Than Htun’s Communists and Kyaw Nyein’s Socialists and Aung San’s PVO had achieved their aim of forming the Aung San led interim government by pressuring the colonial government by a widely disruptive general strike nationwide. Even the colonial police joined the strike.

When the Governor Sir Hubert Rance invited AFPFL to join the colonial government in a power-sharing deal the Communists appointed their former Secretary-General Thein Phe Myint a minister. Aung San was effectively the PM and Kyaw Nyein was the powerful Home minister with police and internal security portfolios. Other ministers were appointed by the Governor.

Will Myanmar Eventually Become A Province of China?

          (Kyaw Htet Aung’s OP_ED post from THE DIPLOMAT on 26 April 2025.)

China Decides How Far the Resistance Can Go in Myanmar: China has a growing ability to dictate outcomes on the ground in Myanmar. For resistance forces, the implications are profound.

Since the February 2021 military coup, Myanmar has descended into unprecedented chaos. The country has fractured under the weight of violent repression and grassroots resistance across the country. In just over four years, more than 500 new armed groups have emerged nationwide, adding to the already long standing ethnic armed organizations (EAOs).

What began as sporadic guerrilla warfare has escalated into a full-scale, multifront conflict. Over 16,000 armed clashes have erupted between the junta’s forces and various resistance groups, marking one of the most intense civil conflicts in Southeast Asia in recent history.

Myanmar Army Killed Hundreds in 20 Days of Ceasefire

        (Based on staff post from the KHIT THIT NEWS MEDIA on 22 April 2025.)

Myanmar Army declared a ceasefire after the devastating megaquake from 02-April to 22-April. Despite the so-called ceasefire, Myanmar Air Force fighter planes and helicopter gunships and armed Paramotors have never stopped attacking the civilian populace in the megaquake-stricken middle Burma.

More than 160 Burmese people including many young children were killed and many more were seriously wounded during those twenty days from the relentless aerial attacks by Myanmar Air Force’s fighter jest and Paramotors.

Followings are the detailed lists of the daily aerial attacks and the casualties and the photos from the arid Middle Burma towns and villages in the region locally known as ANYAR and some other regions of Myanmar.

China’s Takeover of Lashio: Is China annexing Myanmar?

Myanmar Governor Deng Xijun?

The Kokang Army (MNDAA) has finally returned the captured Lashio City back into the hand of Myanmar Army. But is it really an agreed-transfer or just a duigusie for the beginning of Chinese annexation of Myanmar as their newest province?

China’s Designated-Provincial-Governor of Myanmar, Deng Xijun, formerly known as the China’s Special Envoy for Myanmar Affairs, has been in Lashio since Mid-April establishing the Provincial Governor Office currently known as The Supervisory Office for Peaceful Transfer of Lahio City from MDNAA to Myanmar Army.

But the term is just a misleading China-Speak for the peaceful Chinese takeover of Lashio the capital city of Shan State North and the very beginning of the peaceful annexation of the Union of Myanmar formerly known as the Union of Burma. The stupid Myanmar Generals are now painfully and peacefully fucked in their arse without a lube by their Chinese Masters.

Children Burnt To Crisp By Myanmar Air Force Jets

              (Facebook post from the KHIT THIT NEWS MEDIA on 20-April 2025.)

Just a couple of days ago on April-19 Myanmar Air Force fighter jets bombed and machine-gunned the large Burmese village of Kan-Daw in the Myintmu Township of megaquake-stricken Sagaing Division.

The surprise attack killed several villagers including two young children. Like many other Burmese villages in the region the village was controlled by the rebelling PDF units but at the time of the aerial attack ther were no engagements between the rebel units and Myanmar Army troops.

The aerial attack started at about noon that day and lasted a few hours. Myanmar Air Foce planes dropped mainly HEI (High-Explosive-Incendiary) shells causing a large part of village to burn to the crisp.

Chinese Intervention in Myanmar: Proxy War with US?

         (Subir Bhaumik’ OpEd post from the EURASIA FORUM on 17 April 2025.)

Chinese Covert Intervention In Myanmar Amidst Possible Proxy War With US: China may have attracted global attention by taking Donald Trump’s USA head-on in the escalating trade-tariff war, but there’s no way one can miss out on Beijing’s equally assertive but less publicised recent moves in Myanmar.

This at a time when China has come out in open support of the Burmese military junta which has lost control over much territory to a loose coalition of ethnic rebel groups and pro-democracy armed Bamar resistance outfits called People’s Defense Forces (PDF).

China’s desperation stems from the poor performance of the Burmese army Tatmadaw amidst reports that the US is negotiating with Bangladesh to open a supply route to provide military, food and medical supplies to rebels in the Rakhine and Chin provinces.

Capitalism Didn’t Change China: China Changed It!

               (Script of Marco Rubio’s Senate Speech on 15January 2025.)

The central argument behind doing business with China was we think capitalism will change them, okay, they’re gonna eat Big-macs and drink Coca-Colas and they’re gonna literally ingest democracy and it will transform them, okay!

They argued that capitalism was gonna change China, now we stand here 23 years later and realise capitalism didn’t change China, China changed capitalism! China did get rich, they most certainly got rich, but they didn’t use that money to buy our products, they use that money to buy the products that are made in China, and they didn’t become a democracy either.

Now what you have is what was once a poor Chinese Communist Party now you have a rich Chinese Communist Party that has tightened its grip on the country ans it’s actually going around the world trying to export their authoritarian model.

Myanmar is HELL: Don’t Come Back My Boy!

            (Translation of San Kyaw Zwar Win’s poem “Pyan-ma-lar-nel-Ngarh-kaung”.)

Too many ruthless men want to be king in this fucking country but also too many lawless characters in this fucking country,

Too many overhead power cables in this fucking country but too many blackouts in this fucking country,

Just too little electricity in this fucking country but the power bills are too much in this fucking country,

I was nearly killed too many times in this dangerous country, and thus I want to tell you this, Don’t come back my boy,

You could be occasionally homesick remembering Shwedagon, Bagan, Innlay, Monywar, and Harlawar snacks back here, but don’t come back my boy,

Too many unclaimed corpses on the streets and too many unsolved crimes and too many orphaned children,

One Muslim Village had 1,000+ Killed by the Mega-Quake

              (Translated staff post from the KHIT THIT MEDIA on 31 March 2025.)

All three mosques in the Bone-Old Islamic Village, the population of about ten thousands, were flattened by the March-28 Mega-Quake, and only about 200 corpses had been recovered as more than one thousand expected to perish in the rubbles.

The devastated village is in the Amarapura Township of Mandalay Division in Middle Burma. Right next to the quake’s epicentre Sagaing City, the unfortunate Islamic village has nearly 1,000 still trapped inside the collapsed mosques.

Mega-Quake struck at 52 minutes after the noon on March-28 and Yetkandaw-North, Yetkandaw-Middle, and Thanbayarchan mosques all collapsed, and the piles pf rubbles trapped the bodies of more than 1,000 muslims praying inside those mosques.