SAC’s fighter jets on Monday raided KIA’s frontline positions at Alaw Bum, Laja Bum, Hpunlum Bum and 19th Battalion headquarters in Momauk township. In attempts to reoccupy the Alaw Bum post, a strategically important frontline base which was overrun by KIA troops on March 25, SAC’s fighter jets made 14 sorties, reportedly from Myitkyina’s Nampong […]
Photo: Kutkai Nsen Saturday August 31, 2019 looked to be a fine sunny day until the villagers of Mawhik were rudely awakened by the sound of gunfires around 7 am. Mawhik village is a suburb of Kutkai town in northern Shan state. It is right by the toll gate on the busy Mandalay-Muse road, also […]
Nhkum Nang Htang, a 48-year-old mother of two, was reportedly beaten to death by Burma Army soldiers from 261st Light Infantry Regiment in Nam Sung village in Kutkai township on July 3. Nhkum Nang Htang was in her shophouse selling groceries when a group of soldiers from BA’s 261st LIR entered the place. Local residents […]
A series of battles took place between KIA’s 9th Battalion troops and BA’s 427th Light Infantry Regiment near the old Nam Pati village in Kutkai township on April 30 at 5:50 am and later again at 4 pm. On April 29, KIA’s 9th Battalion troops and about 50 soldiers from BA’s 427th LIR engaged at […]
As Burmese military’s unilateral four-month ceasefire period is ending, its troops launched renewed military operations in northern Shan state. Burmese Army (BA) troops entered into Kachin Independence Army (KIA)’s 36th Battalion area beginning April 18 and the two sides have fought for almost a week. On April 20, KIA’s 36th Battalion troops and BA’s 99th […]
Photo: KIA soldiers destroying opium fields In a letter to the Jeremy Douglas, Southeast Asia and the Pacific regional representative of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), KIO officially objects to the data listed in “Myanmar Opium Survey 2018” report. The UNODC’s report alleged that “in Kachin State, the highest density of […]
