The Kachin Independence Army (KIA) has advised unlicensed gold and amber miners to vacate the sites of their operations as the ethnic armed group plans to launch guerrilla attacks against Burma’s armed forces in parts of Tanai Township from 10 April.
The Kachin Independence Army’s objective in recent attacks launched by the ethnic armed group against government troops was limited to attempting to “disrupt” the military, not to “overrun” the bases it has targeted, according to a KIA spokesperson.
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The capture comes after several days of armed clashes in a strategic area that is home to several gold and amber mines under KIA control.
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Government forces have reportedly launched assaults on its positions across Kachin State, including artillery shelling near the Kachin headquarters of Laiza.
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The dwindling alliance of ethnic armed groups joined under the United Nationalities Federal Council banner convenes a conference in Thailand chaired by a leader of one of its former members, the influential Kachin Independence Army.
Senior leaders of the Karen National Union (KNU) and Kachin Independence Organisation (KIO) met to talk peace and war in northern Burma’s Kachin State on Wednesday.
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More Kachin Independence Army (KIA) outposts near the Lai Hpawng position that the ethnic armed group previously held in Waingmaw township, Kachin State, were captured by Burma Army troops on Sunday, according to the military.
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The Tatmadaw appears to be pressing its advantage in Kachin State after conquering the Gidon mountaintop outpost, held until earlier this month by the Kachin Independence Army near the group’s Laiza headquarters, with a statement from Senior General Min Aung Hlaing proclaiming the capture of point 768, known by the KIA as Lai Hpawng, on Tuesday.
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A recent offensive by the Burmese military in Kachin State, seizing the Kachin Independence Army’s Gidon mountain outpost, has exacerbated the dire conditions for displaced people living in the area as northern Burma enters its coldest stretch of the year.
Military reports that a convoy was en route to the battlefront in Hsenwi Township when a remote-controlled IED exploded in its path.
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Members of the Kachin Independence Army started a fire that destroyed a warehouse in Hpakant Township on Wednesday, according to Myawady News.
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Government forces in northern Burma are continuing to close in on Kachin Independence Army (KIA) positions in Waingmaw Township, southeast of Myitkyina.
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A KIA spokesman says the Kachin militia engaged Burmese troops along the road between Kamaing and Hpakant on Monday morning after government forces had advanced on a position where the KIA’s 6th Battalion had dug in.
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A military mouthpiece claimed that three men allegedly working for the Kachin Independence Army confessed to carrying out a recent series of bomb attacks in Burma’s jade-mining region.
Local residents of Kachin State’s Mansi Township say three Burmese military aircraft were seen bombing KIA positions at two locations.
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Amidst an ongoing clash between government troops and the Kachin Independence Army, DVB spoke to KIA representative La Nan.
Three local residents were killed and five others injured in Mansi Township, where fighting erupted between government forces and the KIA on Wednesday.
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Government forces have clashed with the Kachin Independence Army in northern Burma as negotiations on the NCA proceed in Naypyidaw.
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Fighting has broken out in Kachin State between the KIA and Burmese army forces. DVB speaks to a KIA Major to find out more.
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The Kachin Independence Army report Burmese army bombing of its positions as ethnic leaders and government delegates met in Rangoon.
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Policemen, whose detention by the KIA sparked renewed violence between the armed group and government forces, are released to mediators.
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Fierce clashes break out between government forces and KIA after the state minister for transport is briefly detained by KIA troops.
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Burmese government forces have captured a Kachin rebel outpost in Kar Mine, near the jade mining town of Hpakant.
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Youths light candles for cadets killed, pray for continuation of Burma’s peace process.
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The Shan Ethnic Affairs Organisation says 98 villagers have managed to escape forced service in the KIA, but that hundreds remain.
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The Kachin Independence Army (KIA) has reportedly requested the Burmese government forces hand over two of their soldiers captured late last month.
Government representatives will meet members of the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) on 13 May to try to resolve recent violence in northern Burma. The meeting will be held in the[…]
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Seven Red Shan villagers were said to have been abducted by the Kachin Independent Army (KIA) on 11 March in Bhamo district, according to the Shan Ethnic Affairs Organisation.
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The Kachin Independence Army engages Burmese government forces in three sites in northern Shan State – Chying Htawng, Gyu Mwi and Nam Gut. No casualties have been reported.
A Shan rights group claims that the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) is still detaining 17 Red Shan villagers said to have been released on 20 December. According to the Shan Ethnic Affairs Organisation (SEAO), only four of the villagers have returned home, leaving the rest unaccounted for.
