Current location:International Insights news portal > opinions
Ethnic army seizes city on Myanmar
International Insights news portal2024-05-21 08:27:18【opinions】8People have gathered around
IntroductionAn ethnic army captured a town near the Chinese border, less than a week after officials met in Myan
An ethnic army captured a town near the Chinese border, less than a week after officials met in Myanmar’s capital to discuss cooperation between the two countries, residents told Radio Free Asia on Friday.
Myanmar’s military junta, which seized all major governmental seats in a 2021 coup d’etat, invited a Chinese envoy to Naypyidaw on Monday to discuss the Kachin Independence Army’s mass seizure of military camps and subsequent fighting on the border. Some border gates in Kachin state have still not been reopened, political analysts and residents told RFA.
The rebel group has captured 60 junta camps since fighting began on March 7 and now controls portions of two major trade routes in Myanmar’s northern Kachin state, one of which runs along China’s border.
The Kachin Independence Army, headquartered in border town Lai Zar, captured another major city nearly 160 kilometers (100 miles) south on Thursday. Rebel troops have occupied the city since March 29, but were not able to negotiate the junta’s surrender until Thursday, Lwegel residents said.
All administration departments under the junta have been sealed off and their staff have left the city, a resident told RFA on Friday, adding that Kachin troops are now deployed throughout the city.
"The city has been seized. Kachin Independence Army troops have arrived in the city,” he said. “All administrative departments have been closed, and Kachin national flags were seen in some places. Soldiers and the police are still trapped.”
In addition to Kachin national flags hanging on the General Administration Department, market and hospitals in the city, they have also issued notices that only authorized personnel will be allowed at border gates and administrative departments, he added. Soldiers and other military personnel in Lwegel have been relegated to a junta base nearby.
RFA contacted Kachin state’s junta spokesperson Moe Min Thein for comment on the military’s surrender, but he did not respond by the time of publication.
Kachin Independence Army information officer Col. Naw Bu told RFA that although the former administration staff had left, the anti-junta group’s administrative processes had not yet started in the city’s 21 government offices.
Translated by RFA Burmese. Edited by Kiana Duncan and Mike Firn.
Address of this article:http://nepal.highlanderdistrict.org/news-76f399847.html
Very good!(478)
Related articles
- Dodgers acquire pitcher Yohan Ramírez from Mets for cash
- China's demand to hit the peak for petroleum products before 2025
- More than 85,000 freight train trips connect China to Europe
- Xi Focus: Xi Calls on Jiangxi to Write Its Chapter in Chinese Modernization
- California congressman urges closer consultation with tribes on offshore wind
- The ABCs of new quality productive forces
- More than 85,000 freight train trips connect China to Europe
- FM rebuts U.S. official's remarks on Chinese cars as false narrative
- Investigators return to Long Island home of Gilgo Beach serial killing suspect
- China Eastern Airlines to operate more C919 planes
Popular articles
Recommended
Here comes the char
Hainan takes lead in green auto sector
China to send astronauts to space station later this month
Children learned scientific knowledge with National Science Popularization Day approaching
The fightback begins: Boss of London's Queen Mary University tells pro
Profile: Xi Revives Culture, Spearheads Innovation for Modern Civilization
China's space telescopes precisely measure brightest gamma
Economy on stable footing, experts say
Links
- Man City star Jack Grealish reveals new night
- Solomon Islands election to test pro
- Reggie Yates' fans send heartfelt congratulations after he delightedly shares baby news
- Upgraded farmhouses winning Jizhou more visits
- Rihanna showcases her impeccable style in a quirky fur coat as she secures front
- Man falls to death at oceanfront hotel trying to escape sixth
- Man falls to death at oceanfront hotel trying to escape sixth
- Solomon Islands election to test pro
- Missing Kansas women confirmed dead, kids safe, 4 charged with kidnapping and murder
- Marcos says Duterte struck ‘secret’ deal with Beijing on South China Sea — Radio Free Asia