Civil War in Myanmar

DPLA, armed wing of Danu People’s Liberation Front State Fighting Myanmar’s junta & has suffered heavy casualties in Nawnghkio and Lawksawk townships, Shan State, according to armed groups. Regime troops have been fighting the Danu People’s Liberation Army (DPLA) around Kyaukku village tract in Lawksawk, southern Shan State, since November 30.

 DPLA, the armed wing of the Danu People’s Liberation Front which was founded in 2022, attacked junta reinforcements from Infantry Battalion 292 and Artillery Battalion 349 in Lawksawk Township.

At least 34 junta troops have been killed in 10 days of fighting in Kyaukku, said DPLA spokesman Ko Ah Mong.“Fighting has stopped but tensions remain high while there are battles in Tawnghkam,” he added.The Ta’ang National Liberation Army (TNLA) and its allies have been fighting the regime around Bantbwe and Om Thee villages in Nawnghkio Township, northern Shan State, since December 2.Tawnghkam is strategically important as the junction between northern & southern Shan State, leaving junta hubs like Pyin Oo Lwin and Mandalay city vulnerable to attack. 

TNLA sources said the regime is strongly defending the area with repeated shelling around Bantbwe and Om Thee villages.
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Commentary: Chinese security companies are putting boots on the ground in Myanmar. It could go disastrously wrong. China has decided to unequivocally back the junta after years of hedging its bets, but its support opens the door for various complications, says this international studies lecturer.
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  1. Thailand to Host Informal Talks on Strife-Torn Myanmar This Week.

Thailand will host an informal meeting of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations this week to discuss the latest situation in strife-torn Myanmar and the way forward.

The gathering of foreign ministers of interested member countries of the bloc known as Asean will also look at the implementation of the so-called Five-Point Consensus meant to help end the civil war that’s marked the military regime’s rule since a coup in 2021.
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(15-12-2024, 07:57 PM)Tee tiong huat Wrote:  Commentary: Chinese security companies are putting boots on the ground in Myanmar. It could go disastrously wrong. China has decided to unequivocally back the junta after years of hedging its bets, but its support opens the door for various complications, says this international studies lecturer.
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/commenta...ta-4805171
Chinese foreign commentator loves to talk so much on media abt how good and gentleman China is, by not interfering with other countries affairs. But, behind the scenes, they are supporting those rogue countries leader  in killing its citizens. Such hypocrite China.
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野猫论政 2168:中国严厉警告克钦独立军,立即停火,并且保障中方人员安全;否则,中缅安保公司将对其进行惩罚


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After 7-years of medical school in Myanmar, finally her goal of becoming a doctor a month after she graduated then found a job, her dreams started unraveling. In Feb 2021, Myanmar’s military seized power in a coup, the country’s economy, hammered by COVID-19 pandemic, started to buckle. Prices soared, & May’s paycheck equivalent of $415 a month, evaporated even faster. W/her father suffering from kidney disease, she grew more and more desperate,  she met "date girls,” making twice as much as her, money was enticing — even if it involved sex with men. It’s difficult to accept despite all years of study to become a doctor, I’m kind of work just to make ends meet,” said May, 26, who work as a prostitute over a year in Mandalay 2nd-largest city. She, like others who spoke for this article, asked not be identified b'cos her family does not know how she earns money, been a Dr & as prostitution is illegal in Myanmar.

The coup ensuing civil war ravaged Myanmar’s economy. Inflation soared to 26% this year.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/16/world...ution.html
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(17-12-2024, 01:53 PM)Tee tiong huat Wrote:  After 7-years of medical school in Myanmar, finally her goal of becoming a doctor a month after she graduated then found a job, her dreams started unraveling. In Feb 2021, Myanmar’s military seized power in a coup, the country’s economy, hammered by COVID-19 pandemic, started to buckle. Prices soared, & May’s paycheck equivalent of $415 a month, evaporated even faster. W/her father suffering from kidney disease, she grew more and more desperate,  she met "date girls,” making twice as much as her, money was enticing — even if it involved sex with men. It’s difficult to accept despite all years of study to become a doctor, I’m kind of work just to make ends meet,” said May, 26, who work as a prostitute over a year in Mandalay 2nd-largest city. She, like others who spoke for this article, asked not be identified b'cos her family does not know how she earns money, been a Dr & as prostitution is illegal in Myanmar.

The coup ensuing civil war ravaged Myanmar’s economy. Inflation soared to 26% this year.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/16/world...ution.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/16/world...ution.html
According to the World Bank.This calamity has forced a new cadre of women in Myanmar into sex work: doctors, teachers, nurses and other educated professionals.

It is hard to track how many women are involved in the trade, but women plying the streets have become much more apparent. In interviews, half a dozen women — four white-collar workers who have turned to prostitution and two rights activists — said that more educated women are now having sex with men to make a living.

Following the coup, women were at the forefront of protests. They marched on the streets and hung up their sarongs as a hex against soldiers. There was a flicker of hope over dismantling Myanmar’s deep-rooted patriarchy. But the rise in prostitution is another blow to the status of women, who have been sexually abused by the military for decades.
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Yangon, Mandalay Deserted After Dark as Myanmar Junta Hunts for Conscripts. Junta has intensified forcible conscription to replenish its ranks amid a series of battlefield defeats. Severe setbacks, especially in Rakhine and Kachin states, have seen several hundred regime troops captured or killed, including those pressganged under new conscription law.

Fear is now mounting more young men will be snatched for military training & rapidly dispatched to war zones, junta forces are struggling badly. In Rakhine State, Arakan Army (AA) seized Maungdaw Township & Border Guard Police Battalion No. 5 on Dec 8, securing full control over Myanmar’s 270-km border with Bangladesh.

AA has now seized 12 of Rakhine’s 17 townships, as well as Paletwa Township in neighboring Chin State as junta is desperate to increase troop numbers to defend its few remaining Rakhine strongholds as AA’s relentless advance. New conscripts pick up military equipment at junta camp in Nov. / Telegram/People’s Militia Group. In Kachin State, the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) & allies have gained partial or full control in 12 of the 18 townships are attacking the strategic town of Bhamo.

Embattled junta military & admin bodies have responded by escalating efforts to fill growing gaps in both frontline & rearward positions. The junta has called up eight batches of conscripts, totaling around 30,000 men, since launching the conscription process in March. Regime admin, military, & police are now rounding up young people in territory they control for the upcoming 9th & 10th batches of training. Major cities like Yangon & Mandalay remain hotspots for junta’s forcible recruitment. At around 11 pm on Dec 10, soldiers & police snatched 8-men aged 25-27 off the street in U San Pe ward of Thingangyun Township, Yangon. 

A 52-year-old aunt of one of victims recounted the incident. “4-young men, including three Muslim men, were sitting on street with two trucks of troops & a police car arrived. Without saying anything, security forces grabbed them and threw them into their vehicles.” Junta snatch squads then raided three other houses in the ward, arresting four more young men. They informed the families that men were being conscripted, there was nothing families could do to get them back, according to residents.
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The military junta wil fall soon to rebel forces once they get near to the capital. The evil junta are forcing young men to battle grounds when they hv no military knowledge or training at all. It is a mere suicide mission.  ICC hv already handed arrest warrant for the Myanmar junta leader.
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Ignoring Chinese Pressure, KIA Seizes Myanmar Junta-Allied Militia Outpost  Kachin Ignoring Chinese Pressure, KIA Seizes Myanmar Junta-Allied Militia Outpost in Kachin. Despite China’s calls for it to stop fighting against Myanmar junta, the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) has reopened an offensive front in the country’s northernmost Putao District, Kachin State, by seizing an outpost from a militia group under the junta’s military.

Around 4:30 p.m. on Dec. 15. KIA, armed wing of Kachin Independence Organization (KIO),& allies seized outpost in La He Si Bum Village, Khaunglanhpu Township, where at least 70 junta troops militia group members were stationed, according to KIO statement,  outpost is located between Khaunglanhpu in Putao District and Sawlaw in Chipwi District. KIA sources said their forces moved into area from Phimaw, adding, they captured outpost an important position for junta in Putao on Chinese border.
https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/war-again...achin.html
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(18-12-2024, 04:34 PM)Tee tiong huat Wrote:  Ignoring Chinese Pressure, KIA Seizes Myanmar Junta-Allied Militia Outpost  Kachin Ignoring Chinese Pressure, KIA Seizes Myanmar Junta-Allied Militia Outpost in Kachin. Despite China’s calls for it to stop fighting against Myanmar junta, the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) has reopened an offensive front in the country’s northernmost Putao District, Kachin State, by seizing an outpost from a militia group under the junta’s military.

Around 4:30 p.m. on Dec. 15. KIA, armed wing of Kachin Independence Organization (KIO),& allies seized outpost in La He Si Bum Village, Khaunglanhpu Township, where at least 70 junta troops militia group members were stationed, according to KIO statement,  outpost is located between Khaunglanhpu in Putao District and Sawlaw in Chipwi District. KIA sources said their forces moved into area from Phimaw, adding, they captured outpost an important position for junta in Putao on Chinese border.
https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/war-again...achin.html
Why is China putting pressure on rebels? China always talk big on media that they are neutral and don't interfere in other countries affairs. Some more, can tell the West and Europe what is right and wrong, not to cause instability in the region. China shd look at the mirror first. They are greedy for lands on eyeing at Bhutan, Tibet and Taiwan.
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Myanmar army’s election plan part of regional talks in Thailand, sources say
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Myanmar Junta Commander Dies Fleeing Victorious AA. Dec 19. Killed by a landmine planted by his own side, Colonel Aung Nay Mo’s body found Tuesday near Bangladeshi border alongside a hoard of gold and money. 

Colonel Aung Nay Myo, acting commander of the 22nd Light Infantry Division from Karen State’s Hpa-an Township, was killed while fleeing to the Bangladeshi border, ethnic Arakan Army (AA) reported. When AA seized Border Guard Police Battalion No. 5 in Rakhine State’s Maungdaw Township on Dec. 8, the commanding team led by the colonel fled in disarray. AA said it found some gold bars, gold jewelry & approximately 80 million kyats by his body in the farm hut. Tuesday 9 days after fall, Aung Nay Myo was found dead at a prawn farm near Shwezar village in rural Maungdaw. 
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Sri Lanka Navy rescues over 100 Rohingya adrift in the Indian Ocean. The 102 refugees, including 25 children, were taken to Sri Lanka’s eastern port of Trincomalee.  102 people, including 25 children, were taken to Sri Lanka’s eastern port of Trincomalee, a navy spokesman said on Friday.
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BANGKOK - A plan by Myanmar’s ruling junta to hold an election amid raging fighting is expected to be discussed in talks on Dec 19 between its Foreign Minister and counterparts from neighbouring countries, according to three sources.

Thailand is hosting two separate regional meetings on Myanmar this week, the first involving the war-torn country's neighbours, including China, Bangladesh and India, followed by one comprising members of the Asean regional bloc.

The talks come as Malaysia in 2025 takes over the chairmanship of the 10-member Asean, which has failed to implement a peace plan in Myanmar, where escalating conflict is also impacting its neighbours.
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Thailand's Air Force deploys F-16s as unidentified aircraft seen near Thai-Myanmar border.

BANGKOK (The Nation Thailand/ANN): The Royal Thai Air Force (RTAF) on Friday deployed two F-16 fighter jets to identify and intercept an unidentified aircraft, which was spotted above the Thailand-Myanmar border in Tak province. The RTAF radar picked up a signal of an unidentified aircraft at the Thailand-Myanmar border in Phop Phra district
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Myanmar's ethnic armed group says it captured western army headquarters. Military regime losses 2nd regional command after fall in northeast. Arakan Army shows members of the Arakan Army posing for a photograph in front of the captured district police office in Ann township, Rakhine state, Myanmar on Nov. 29. (The Arakan Army via AP) © AP
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(22-12-2024, 09:02 PM)Tee tiong huat Wrote:  Thailand's Air Force deploys F-16s as unidentified aircraft seen near Thai-Myanmar border.

BANGKOK (The Nation Thailand/ANN): The Royal Thai Air Force (RTAF) on Friday deployed two F-16 fighter jets to identify and intercept an unidentified aircraft, which was spotted above the Thailand-Myanmar border in Tak province. The RTAF radar picked up a signal of an unidentified aircraft at the Thailand-Myanmar border in Phop Phra district
https://www.thestar.com.my/aseanplus/ase...ar--border
Thailand shd hv shot it down. No need to give chance to such rogue junta.
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Myanmar Junta Boss Urges Unity as Forces Disintegrate in Rakhine and Chin
by Maung Kavi December 24, 2024 256

Min Aung Hlaing makes desperate plea after witnessing hundreds of his troops hoist white flag amid reports of dissent within the ranks.

After witnessing his forces raise the white flag of surrender in Rakhine State last week, Min Aung Hlaing again called for efforts to build unwavering unity within the ranks and between the military and the public.

The regime boss stressed the need for unity during his speech at a graduation ceremony for female officer cadets in Yangon’s Hmawbi Township on Sunday. He was speaking just days after the loss of Western Command headquarters in Rakhine’s Ann town and Mindat and Kanpetlet towns in Chin State.
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(24-12-2024, 10:44 PM)Tee tiong huat Wrote:  Myanmar Junta Boss Urges Unity as Forces Disintegrate in Rakhine and Chin
by Maung Kavi December 24, 2024 256

Min Aung Hlaing makes desperate plea after witnessing hundreds of his troops hoist white flag amid reports of dissent within the ranks.

After witnessing his forces raise the white flag of surrender in Rakhine State last week, Min Aung Hlaing again called for efforts to build unwavering unity within the ranks and between the military and the public.

The regime boss stressed the need for unity during his speech at a graduation ceremony for female officer cadets in Yangon’s Hmawbi Township on Sunday. He was speaking just days after the loss of Western Command headquarters in Rakhine’s Ann town and Mindat and Kanpetlet towns in Chin State.
https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/mya...-chin.html
Calling for unity to genocide their own citizens? What kind of rubbish is that evil junta talking abt? Instead, it shd a call of unity by rebels forces to finished off that evil junta.
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(25-12-2024, 12:24 AM)Gemstar Wrote:  Calling for unity to genocide their own citizens? What kind of rubbish is that evil junta talking abt? Instead, it shd a call of unity by rebels forces to finished off that evil junta.

You go and join them to fight lor!  Tongue
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Myanmar receives 3,500 tons of rice for disaster-hit communities from Asean and its partners
YANGON (Xinhua): Myanmar has received 3,500 tons of rice provided by South Korea and China for disaster-hit communities for 2025 under the ASEAN Plus Three Emergency Rice Reserve (APTERR) program 2024, Yin Min Htun, staff officer of the Rice Division under the Department of Agriculture, told Xinhua on Tuesday.

Myanmar receives 3,500 tons of rice for disaster-hit communities from Asean and its partners
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YANGON (Xinhua): Myanmar has received 3,500 tons of rice provided by South Korea and China for disaster-hit communities for 2025 under the ASEAN Plus Three Emergency Rice Reserve (APTERR) program 2024, Yin Min Htun, staff officer of the Rice Division under the Dept of Agriculture, told Xinhua on Tuesday. Since 2017, Myanmar's Department of Agriculture, under the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, and Irrigation, has actively participated in the APTERR program for rice storage and distribution, said the official.

Between 2017 and 2023, Myanmar received nearly 9,000 tons of rice through the APTERR program with the contribution of Plus Three countries, namely South Korea, Japan & China, & distributed to the disaster-hit areas.

Myanmar received 3,450 tons of rice from South Korea and China through the APTERR program 2023, benefiting over 340,000 people through the distribution efforts, he said. - XInhua
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On Sunday, Min Aung Hlaing arrived from his fortress in Naypyitaw at St. Mary’s Cathedral in Yangon for a X'mas dinner organized by Myanmar Council of Churches, he rubbed shoulders with Cardinal Bo. The communities in Myanmar have slammed their faith leader, Cardinal Archbishop Charles Bo, for his unholy alliance with Myanmar’s junta chief, who responsible destruction of nearly 100 churches since 2021 coup.
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Over 200,000 pilgrims visit Myanmar's famous Kyaiktiyo Pagoda in December
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A former minister whose family left Myanmar for Britain has added his voice to growing calls for the release of Aung San Suu Kyi, who is imprisoned by the dictatorship there.

Paul Scully said her role as the figurehead for the campaign for democracy in the country was “both why she remains in prison and why we should keep pushing for her release”.
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Background: ICC Arrest Warrant on Min Aung Hlaing and the Future of Myanmar

On 27 November 2024, the ICC prosecutor announced his intention to seek an arrest warrant for Myanmar's Prime Minister Senior General Min Aung Hlaing.
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Thailand says no evidence of bank deals linked to Myanmar arms. 

BANGKOK – Thai authorities said they found no evidence to support United Nations claims that some banks in the country helped Myanmar’s junta buy military supplies in 2023.
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(29-12-2024, 08:10 PM)Tee tiong huat Wrote:  Background: ICC Arrest Warrant on Min Aung Hlaing and the Future of Myanmar

On 27 November 2024, the ICC prosecutor announced his intention to seek an arrest warrant for Myanmar's Prime Minister Senior General Min Aung Hlaing.
The arrest warrant for min Aung by ICC is long overdue. He cud ended up either in Russia or China if ousted, just like Assad.
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China Plunders Rare Earth Minerals as Myanmar’s Civil War Rages. Chinese companies increased their extraction of rare earths northern Myanmar by an “unprecedented” amount, a new report says  extraction of rare earth minerals in Myanmar has reached unprecedented levels, according to by Irrawaddy, said plunder of minerals had caused an “environmental catastrophe” in Kachin state. News outlet said Chinese customs data revealed a “staggering 70% growth in imports” in 2023, with shipments reaching 34,241 metric tons.
Suggested China was exploiting country while it is engaged in worst civil strife independence, saying “Beijing’s aggressive stockpiling strategy extends far beyond its domestic requirements”. “China is hoarding resources to weaponize them against potential future sanctions.”

Northern Kachin state had been famous for its pristine forests and rich biodiversity, it said, but “now resembles a lunar landscape pockmarked with mining pits and processing facilities.”
Chinese companies said to be operating via “a complex web of local proxies and shadowy partnerships, had expanded operations by over 40%, to the point where Myanmar is now “China’s primary source of heavy rare earths, supplying approximately 40% of crucial elements like dysprosium, yttrium, and terbium. Environmental impact was “catastrophic” is widespread destruction of ecosystems, with toxic chemicals from processing contaminating water sources agricultural land.

Local communities complained of severe health impacts – skin diseases, respiratory problems and internal organ damage, their concerns were ignored by junta, be'cos it “depends on Chinese support for survival.” but Chinese firms had been operating without scrutiny, “flouting int'l trade regulations environmental with impunity,” had established a virtual “private rare earth reserve” came at a dreadful human cost and their abuses were “hidden from international scrutiny by Myanmar’s isolation.”
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