KIO reiterated political talk
The Kachin Post / Dec 01, 2011

The Chairman of Kachin Independence Organization (KIO), an ethnic armed organization currently engaged in fighting with Burma Army, reiterated that the essential to hold the political dialogue in order to solve the Burma’s political problems.

KIO Chairman Lanyaw Zawng Hkra said, he earnestly requested Burmese authorities to initiate political dialogue to solve the political problems, according the organization statement. The KIO statement was handed over to Burmese officials during the meeting in Ruili, a Chinese border town in Yunnan province, on November 29, 2011.

“The political system is the origin of the problems in Kachin State and northern Shan State, where Kachin people lives; the civil war and all the problems caused by the politics need to be solved by political means,” the KIO statement said. KIO believes it is impossible to establish peace in Burma, if the Burmese authorities keep solving the problems by military means. However, Burmese delegates said they will report to Burmese president Thein Sein regarding the KIO’s request.  

High ranking KIO and Burmese officials attended the Tuesday meeting in Ruili. KIO delegation was led by Chairman Lanyaw Zawng Hkra, along with Col. Lahpai Zau Raw, Lt-Col. Lazing Ji Nawng, Lt-Col. Maran Zau Tawng, Sumlut Gam and Lama Gum Hpan. Burmese delegation was led by Aung Thaung (Chairman of Banking and Financial Development Sub-Committee), and follow by Thein Zaw (Chairman of National Races Affairs and Internal Peace Committee), Aung Min (Railway Transport Minister) and Hkyet Thing Nan (a member of Kachin State Peace Committee).

Meanwhile, Burma Army has reinforced thousands of its troops into Kachin State, especially the areas closed to KIO headquarter Laiza, situated on Kachin-China border, deploying up to one hundred battalions in Kachin State. More than seven hundred clashes between Burma Army and Kachin Independence Army, an armed wing of KIO, since June 2011. Burma Army faced major casualties within months-long military operation against KIO; resulting more than fourteen hundreds of Burmese soldiers were killed.  

Previously, KIO met Burmese officials four times including the meeting in Thailand where KIO’s Vice Chairman N’ban La met with Burma’s Railway Transport Minister Aung Min on Nov 19, 2011.

KIO reached ceasefire agreement with previous Burmese military regime in 1994. However, Burma Army unilaterally breached the ceasefire on June 9, 2011.

KIO is fighting for independent Kachinland in northern Burma since 1961.

Evidences reveal Burma Army uses WMD
The Kachin Post / Nov 28, 2011

More than thirty villages in south eastern Kachin State of Northern Burma were affected unusual yellow-color rain mixed with unknown chemical agent, which killed green plants and insects, according to residents.

Most residents and witnesses widely believed that the yellow-color chemical rain dropped during the end of November is part of the Burma Army operation against civilian Kachin population in Kachin Independence Organization’s controlled area along the Kachin-China border. Currently, Burma army intensified its military campaign against Kachin Independence Army, an armed wing of KIO, deploying thousands of troops to KIA control areas along the Kachin-China border.

The first yellow-rain dropped more than a week ago over the KIA controlled town of Mai Ja Yang on Kachin-China border, after villagers heard low-flying plane engine sounds. All the green leaves which affected by the unusual rain were burnt up and most of the insects were killed a couple days after the rain. A woman who owns a vegetables garden said that she has never seen these yellow-rain drops eaten up the green leaves. Villagers also saw the bee-hives were seen no bees at all after the rain.

Villagers in yellow-rain affected areas are nervous of how to deal with the yellow-rain, refraining from eating green vegetables. However, most residents believed that yellow-rain is the war against Kachin civilian by Burma Army.
Burma Army also used poison-gas embedded mortar shells during the military operation against Kachin Independence Army in the months of October and November 2011. Up to a dozens of KIA soldiers were affected.

Burma has consistently opposed the use of weapons of mass destructions, denying that it has never been engaged in manufacturing, storage or use. However, there is concrete evident that Burma Army’s clandestinely producing and the use of weapons of mass destructions for the battle against its ethnic armed groups since 1980s.  

Burma is one of a signatory nation of non-proliferation of Nuclear, Chemical and Biological weapons accordance with 1925 Geneva Protocol for the Prohibition of the Use in War of Asphyxiating, Poisonous or Other Gases, and of Bacteriological Methods of Warfare. The country also singed 1972 Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxic Weapons Convention, and Chemical Weapons Convention.

Military analysts believed that poison-gas filled motor shells are reportedly producing at Burma Army’s ammunition factory No. 12 (Ka-Pa-Sa 12). The factory located at a few miles south of Thayet Township in Magwe Division of central Burma.

KIO decried Myitkyina bombing
The Kachin Post / Nov 19, 2011

The Kachin Independence Organization (KIO), an ethnic armed group which has engaged fighting against Burma Army in northern Burma, stalwartly denounced the action of bomb explosion in Myitkyina on last Sunday. The explosion killed at least ten persons, mostly children, and wounded couple dozen.

The organization released a statement yesterday that it has totally opposed to the act of terrorism which occurred in the capital of Myitkyina, giving sympathy to the families of the bomb victims. “KIO extremely condemned this incident, which afflicted against the innocent civilians,” the statement said.

On the evening of November 13, a powerful bomb went off at the resident of Dingyau Tang Gun in N’jang Kawng ward of Thida quarter in Myitkyina. The owner was later arrested while he was travelling back home.

Burmese authorities accused Dingyau Tang Gun of plotting the serial bombing in Kachin State capital. However, Myitkyina residents believed that Burmese authorities are responsible for plotting the serial bombing in the city. Currently, Dingyau Tang Gun was severely tortured in the hands of Burmese authorities, forcing him to fallaciously admit that he is responsible for bombing in his own house, said a resident who closed to Tang Gun.

Several bombs were blown up last week in Burma’s northern city. On last Tuesday night, six Burmese soldiers were killed by a bomb exploded nearby the Bala-Min-Htin Bridge which connects Mytitkyina and Waimaw town over the Irrawaddy River.

Burma Army faced heavy casualties in recent days
The Kachin Post / Nov 17, 2011

Hundreds of Burma Army soldiers were gunned down by Kachin Independence Army (KIA) during the last few days of battle in two different locations in Kachin State of northern Burma, frontline source said.

No less than two hundred Burmese troops encountered a deadly tragedy and other couple hundreds were wounded at N’tap Bum location, closed to KIA headquartered Laiza, and the other location at KIA’s stronghold Lahpai post on Waimaw-Kampaiti road. About twenty KIA soldiers were wounded and no casualty at N’tap Bum battle ground, the source said.

At least a thousand Burmese troops involved in fighting with KIA in two different offensive locations. Since early of November, Burma Army intensified its military operation against KIA, sending most of its combat force from nation-wide and tons of ammunitions & rations, as well as using poison-gas embedded mortar shells against KIA.

Recently, KIA drove out Burma Army from N’tap Bum, where Burmese troops faced at least a couple of failed attempts with heavy lost.  Meanwhile, the wounded Burmese troops from troops from light infantry division 88, which intruding along the Waimaw-Kampaiti road, were sent back to public hospitals. However, private hospital and clinic forced to allow giving medical treatment as public hospitals in Myitkyina and Waimaw have no more rooms and shortage of medical practitioners.

Burmese authorities behind serial bombing in Myitkyina
The Kachin Post / Nov 16, 2011

The serial bombing in Burma’s Kachin State capital Myitkyina is believed to be plotted by Burmese authorities in order tarnish the image of Kachin Independence Army (KIA), which is warring against Burma army, residents said.

Burmese authorities detained yesterday the owner of exploded orphanage house owner Dingyau Tang Gun on his way back to home and all the injured victims were not allowed meet visitors. On the same day, all the Burma’s state run newspaper reported that Dingyau Tang Gun is being accused of plotting bombs in Myitkyina and having link to KIA. The papers also published the Burmese authorities’ version destruction activities in Kachin State by KIA.

However, the news article in those state run newspapers mentioned that the dead victims were men and women. Actually, most of the bomb victims were children ages ranging from five months to eighteen years old. The article deliberately stated that the explosion was caused by a powerful land mine, not just a bomb, accusing one of the dead victims Dingyau Seng Hkum, the son of Dingyau Tang Gun, of accidentally detonating the explosive material while he was demonstrating others.

The article also accused that explosion at Dingyau Tan Gun house is linked to other bomb explosions in Myitkyina on Saturday night. Nevertheless, two bombs were blasted on Tuesday night, after Dingyau Tang Gun was arrested.  
Myitkyina residents believe that Burmese authorities tried to make violence situation in Myitkyina in order to promulgate martial law.

Terrorist attacked Myitkyina
The Kachin Post / Nov 15, 2011

Ten persons, mostly orphanage children, died and two dozens were injured by a powerful bomb explosion in Kachin State capital Myitkyina in northern Burma on last Sunday evening. Two unidentified men threw a parcel bomb into a compound of a house in Njang Kawng quarter, a few minutes before the explosion, a witness said.

Most of the victims were women and children, in cluding five months old baby girl and her mother. All the injured victims were hospitalized at Myitkyina hospital.  

A two-storey house, owned by Dingyau Tang Gun, was demolished by the bomb and two other houses nearby were burnt down.  More than forty children and teenage students were attending music training during the explosion occurred. The house owner is the leader of the Kachin traditional music band. All the bomb victims were ethnic Kachin and the incident location is in densely Kachin quarter of Myitkyina.

Myitkyina residents believe that Burmese authorities were behind the scene of the bomb explosion as the Burmese military backed government’s newspapers didn’t mention about the explosion on Sunday evening in Myitkyina. However, it did mention about two other bomb explosions with no casualties in the same town on Saturday night.

Burmese authorities are trying to panic the public and sever the momentum of public support on Kachin Independence Organization (KIO) which engaged intense fighting against Burma Army in Kachin State and northern Shan State since June 2011, a Myitkyina resident expressed. Also, Burma Army has intentionally targeted on Kachin civilians and Christian Churches since Burma Army faced major casualties in the battle with Kachin Independence Army (KIA), an armed wing of KIO, he added.

A few weeks ago, Kachin State Chief Minister Lajawn Ngan Seng reportedly walked out from a meeting after Burma Army northern command’s commander reportedly intimidated that all the Kachins would be killed. An ethnic Kachin Lajawn Ngan Seng is the member of Burmese military backed Union Solidarity & Development Party and was appointed as the Chief Minister of Kachin State early of this year.

Currently, President Thein Sein led Burmese government dispatched most of its combat forces to Kachin State in search of capturing Laiza, the headquarters of Kachin Independence Organization. On the other hand, Thein Sein government is trying to make ceasefire deal with most of the ethnic armed organizations.

Electricity back to Myitkyina
The Kachin Post / Nov 14, 2011

Myikyina, the capital of Kachin State in northern Burma, was light up again after almost two weeks of power blackout due to the civil war in that area.

The city was supplied with electricity again on last Saturday after the power line was fixed by Buga Company, said a Myitkyina resident. The city was cut off power on November 1st after Burma army reportedly blew up the power supply line in Waimaw Township.

The city of Myitkyina is one of the Burma’s a few cities which have privilege of having twenty-four hours electricity. Buga Company manages and supplies electricity to Myitkyina from the company own hydropower plant.

Buga Company was founded by Kachin Independence Organization (KIO), which is currently waging war against Burma Army, under the organization’s business bureau in fourteen years ago.