BURMA ARMY CAPTURE OF KACHIN INDEPENDENCE POSTS

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• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2022
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• Case Number: F-2016-02614
• Publication Date: June 21, 1989

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I E A .1.11 OS AD IN EARLY MAY, BA
UNITS FROM THE NORTH RN S A MOVED TO THE SOUTHERN KACHIN STATE
TO AUGMENT LOCAL BA UNITS. BY MID-MAY, THE BA HAD LAUNCHED ATTACKS
ON THE KIA POSTS AND CAMPS 10 THE VICINITY OF SIMA 011 6972), PAJAO
INCOMING
TELEGRAM
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ILK 6954) AND LUEJE CG 70791. SOME OF THE FIGHTING WAS INTENSE
BECAUSE THE BA USED ARTILLERY EXTENSIVELY AGAINST THE KIA. BY EARLY
JUNE, THE BA HAD CAPTURED MOST KIA POSTS AND CAMPS ALONG THE
BURMA/CHINA BORDER NEAR LWEJE. THE OUTCOME OF THE FIGHTING FARTHER
NORTH AT SIMA AND PAJAO WAS UNCERTAIN. (-----]COMMENT: CASUALTIES(b)(1 )
WERE UNKNOWN BUT BELIEVED HIGH ON BOTH SIDES).
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2. IN MID-MAY, THE BA MOVED SQUAD-SIZE UNITS TO THE CHINA'
BORDER NEAR MU-SE 0.6 9356) WHERE THEY DONNED CIVILIAN CLOTHES AND
AID THEIR MILITARY GEAR IN CRATES AND SACKS. THE BA UNITS THEN
.CROSSED THE BORDER INTO CHINA AND TOOK BUSES NORTH WHERE THEY
DISEMBARKED AND REASSEMBLED TO INFILTRATE AREAS ALONG THE BURMA/CHINA
BORDER IN ORDER TO MOUNT ATTACKS ON THE KIA POSITIONS FROM THE CHINA
SIDE OF THE BORDER. COMMENT: THE NUMBER OF BA UNITS
INFILTRATED IN THIS MANNER IS NOT KNOWN. THERE WAS NO INDICATION
THAT THE BURMA GOVERNMENT HAD PERMISSION FROM THE CHINA GOVERNMENT 1(3)(.3)
MOVE TROOPS THROUGH THE CHINESE TERRITORY.
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. 3. THE BA ALSO MADE EXTENSIVE USE OF HUMAN PORTERS CONSCRIPTED
IN THE KACNIN STATE AND NORTHERN SHAH STATE TO CARRY BA SUPPLIES TO
THE BATTLE FRONT AND TO SHIELD THE ATTACKING BA UNITS FROM KIA FIRE.
THE BA ASSEMBLED THE PORTERS TO SURROUND THE BA UNITS PRIOR TO THE
ASSAULTS'ON THE KIA POSITIONS. BECAUSE OF THE CIVILIAN SHIELD USED
BY THE BA, THE KIA AND DISSIDENT STUDENTS AT THE POSTS COULD NOT FIRE
ON THE ATTACKING BA UNITS. THEY ABANDONED THEIR POSITIONS AND FLED
INTO CHINA. MANY WOMEN WERE AMONG THE CIVILIAN SHIELD, INCLUDING
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SONE WHO WERE PREGNANT AND GAVE BIRTH DURING THE KANUEVERS.
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4. AS OF EARLY JUNE, NEGOTIATIONS BROKE DOWN BETWEEN THE
KOKANG REBEL FACTION OF THE BURMA COMMUNIST PARTY 0ICP) AND MO)) (b)(1 )
HSINGHAN, WHO IS ACTING ON BEHALF OF THE BURMA GOVERNMENT AND THE BI(b)(3)
IN MAY, LO SENT 6,008 BAGS Of RICE TO THE KOKANG FACTION LED BY k
(IP'ENG)) CHIA-SHENG WITH THE APPROVAL OF THE BA. HOWEVER, AFTER
DISCUSSIONS IN MID- AND LATE MAY IN THE KOKLONG OIF 64931 AREA, P'ENG
TOLD LOCAL SUPPORTERS THAT HE COULD NOT TRUST OR COOPERATE 111TH LO.
P'ENG AND THE KOKANG FACTION CONTINUED TO SEEK MEMBERSHIP IN THE
NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC FRONT.
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5. DESPITE AN ANTI-NARCOTICS CAMPAIGN STARTED IN APRIL AND ,,,x,,,x
CONTINUED THROUGH EARLY JUNE, P'ENG AND THE KOKANG FACTION OF THE 110)A,D)
CONTINUED A BRISK NARCOTICS BUSINESS AT THEIR MONG NO WM 3466)
HEADQUARTERS IN KUTKAI TOWNSHIP. A TRADER WHO VISITED THE MARKET IN
EARLY JUNE, STATED THAT HEROIN SUPPLIES WERE LAID OUT IN THE MARKET
PLACE FOR PURCHASE BY ANY TRADERS IN THE REGION. TRADERS FROM MU-SE
AND OTHER TOWNS WERE PURCHASING LARGE STOCKS, WHICH THEY TOOK TO MUSE
TO PLACE ON TRUCKS DESTINED FOR LASHIO ILE 71401 AND MANDALAY IKE
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