I was, I confess, quite looking forward to snapping photos of the Myanmar flags flying in Canberra next week during President Thein Sein’s planned visit to New Mandala‘s hometown. He has now postponed his stay in our “bush capital” citing “domestic commitments”. We all know that he has plenty to keep him busy in Naypyidaw.
For the moment we can only guess at exactly what motivated him to keep the focus on the home-front. My quiet hope is that the President is pushing hard for a peaceful and sustainable resolution to the new Kachin war.
That would certainly explain his reluctance to enjoy a few days of Australian summer.
Instead he may have put the priority on three key and symbolic dates in the Kachin calendar: Christmas Day (25 December), Kachin State Day (10 January) and Kachin Revolution Day (5 February). I doubt these looming milestones have escaped the attention of senior Myanmar government planners.
To my mind any of those special days could — with the right of mix of political savvy, generosity of spirit and good timing — provide a real catalyst for renewed peace efforts with the Kachin Independence Army (KIA). And when you put Independence Day (4 January) and Union Day (12 February) into the mix the constellation is even more startling.
’tis the season, as they say.
Of course, after so much recent bloodshed and ill will, direct presidential intervention may be required to seal any final deal. For some time now I have been speculating on the prospect of a “statesman” scenario for ending the Kachin war: to my mind that would mean President Thein Sein would need to make a personal and unpredictable play.
Why would he do that? In 2012 he may well end up sharing TIME’s “Person of the Year” title. But if he really wants to earn the world’s applause then I wonder whether some well-targeted and well-timed domestic travel shouldn’t be on the immediate agenda.
So could President Thein Sein make a below-the-radar trip to the KIA base at Laiza to hammer out a new deal? In-person? Fanciful? Perhaps. But it would mark a magnificent and meaningful turning-point in relations between the warring sides. And it would certainly justify the accolades the President is receiving, and go some further way to proving the doubters wrong.
Not just Thein Sein, Than Shwe himself and the whole lot of them can go on all the significant and non-significant days to Liaza or Putao and sign anything they want with any KIA/ KIO “leaders”, so long as they want to keep battalions for the potentially inflammable and polluting and definitely disruptive Chinese Pipe crossing the heartland of Kachin and the Dam and dams flooding the heartland of Kachin desecrating the sacred rivers, all the signatories will become separated from the Kachin populace. Current history of Burma is written in blood and blood only whether fresh or fried.
It is remarkable about the level of international tacit support for the said Thein Sein of Noble Peace candidature burning the monks alive, even though traditionally people wait until the monks are dead before cremation, and using possibly White Phosphorus which interestingly is a substance, the use of which is War Crime except when used by prolific users, The United States of America and Israel. Having Aung San Suu Kyi at hand to vouch for again of the desirability of burning these troublesome, meddlesome monks alive does draw the battle lines clearer.
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The next Chinese passports might show Kachin State and Arunachal Pradesh as Chinese territory, to be called Nan Zhang (Southern Tibet). Thein Sein might need a passport to go to Laiza, so he better hurry up!
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Thein Sein, the guy who can’t reign in his army in the Kachin State after he declares a ceasefire? I think the Kachins will want some army officers there as well, and see some troop movement away from the Kachin positions before they’ll even consider talks.
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indeed! and in the meanwhile dosens of chinese *buy* myanmar id-cards in Muse every day.
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Aside from any fanciful or wishful thinking, why would he bother when he’s becoming the golden boy with everything going his way?
While ASSK gets buoyed by the endless international accolades but somehow never manages to win the real prize- freedom from the military yoke for all the peoples of Burma – as she goes about pursuing elitist collaboration so she can be the joint initiator of progress and prosperity however skewed, her govt counterpart and ally in the venture(and joint top global thinker)is looking for a bigger prize than mere plaudits, another three decades perhaps if not more of military domination of the economic as well as the political life of the nation à la Suharto’s New Order which lasted 32 years. Even after he was long gone Indonesia remains under a former general, and according to a report by Human Rights Watch, plus ça change.
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“..freedom from the military yoke for all the peoples of Burma ..”
“..progress and prosperity…”
Phrases written in the same paragraph along with the names of two people unworthy of being anywhere near those phrases.
Aung San Suu Kyi is simply a well crafted “key” for efficient and effective use of the international business corporations to open Burma at the expense of well being, peaceful lives and, as it now appears, health of the majority public of Burma.
Just as much like that 94 year old currently sick Mandela who “revolutionised” the social system of South Africa to the non-stop acclaim of his inventors and international handlers achieving absolutely nothing for the Blacks who simply ended up losing their professionals currently serving the people of Australia, UK and New Zealand on top of every thing else. Before Mandela’s rock star status, De Beers of Rothschild owned South Africa, now after 19 years of “End of Apartheid” hoola-baloo, De Beers of Rothschild own South Africa with some crumbs falling towards Ramaphosa.
Burma under the thumb of Aung San Suu Kyi would ends up the same except that the grass-root public’s faith in her is wearing thin rapidly and the “west” is not yet really in a position to take control the populace which are as yet not CORRUPTED enough even with non-stop help from the “west” funded “exile” media crowing how wonderful Burma will be in a short time so long as we go along with eviction and enslaving of the whole country and let the money changers ran wild across the land.
Guess what, even the thus-far-proved-to-be-outsmarting-everyone military in sheep “gaung-paungs” might double cross the money changers as it is no secret that all the -at -the-end- killed- or- exiled dictators started out like Thein Sein is now – pampered beyond belief- before the “military” take-overs in the old days or “Public Uprisings” in new age of “Smart Power” of Suzanne Nossel.
But once the power of money is re-established after hither-to disconnected monetary system of Burma is repaired, it would be simply a case of a few key strokes to manipulate the essential commodity prices and impossibly huge loan repayment incurred for those lovely big wide thoroughfares, high rise buildings, ports, rails, sub-subsistence wage factory yards, etc. and of course the conservation of nostalgic Colonial Building on top of the already billion dollar “Instant City in the Jungle” tunnelled hide out on every world traveller’s itinerary except for the ones with morbid fear of the North Koreans.
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If there’s a classic example of a poacher turned game keeper,youhave none better than South Africa’s Cyril Ramaphosa. Another one is Tokyo Sexwale. Mandela with his fancy shirts is not alone.
And guess who got shot? Chris Hani. Surprise,surprise.
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“… smash the hell out of KIA/KIO.”
Like a video game!
And people around the world like to say they have become advanced and cultured with time! Which way?
All American TV viewers REJOICED when the first cruise missile blast those helpless bunker-ful of Iraqi soldiers into “dust”. Or the “depleted” uranium “smoked” the tanks and continued to make endless generations of locals sick.
Or the cowardly Drones of Obama ( who was so scared to go to Burmese Jungle hide out) evaporate unsuspecting civilians every day and threat them forever continuously.
The brave and dignified Bamar Tatmadaw backed ex-Tatmadaw men in different uniforms burning sleeping monks alive though is sheer mark of gallantry.
Besides, the specific use of White Phosphorus does raise the question how much of this “reform” crap itself is thoroughly, closely and in detail stage-managed by the Americans, as White Phosphorus usage is designated as War Crime even in the hot battlefields except when used by the Americans and Israel, frequent, massive users.
Back to Laiza. Killing does never end, how big the gun is or how many killed in one go or how beautiful is the fireworks in video afterwards or how loud are the cheers.
Killings be-get killings.
(Here one assumes The Valiant Bamar Tatmadaw cannot kill every single Kachin in Burma and around the world in one quick flash like in the latest video games. It may though be possible with both Chinese and American – both would benefit from the Dam and Pipes!-helping as they, old and new best friends of Bamar Sit-tut, are world’s leading experts in all forms of killings.)
See how calm and peaceful is the land of the most prolific, indiscriminate and spectacular killers- the Yanks. All rushing to buy Doomsday Preps killing other people in the queue and retreating into self-prisons called “gated communities” and hoarding Dum-dum bullets.
Kill them U Aung Moe. Kill all the Kachins.
War is Peace!
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All American TV viewers REJOICED when the first cruise missile blast those helpless bunker-ful of Iraqi soldiers into “dust”.
No, we didn’t.
I remember watching the first bombs fall on the news, turning to my friend and saying “This is stupid.”
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Thanks Lleij,
I will count ONE with delight and relish. Only 300 odd millions more to go!
I understand my own comments in these columns would be regarded as “extreme” or definitely “un-orthodox”. But unfortunately they are likely to be nearer truth. That is the problem. Me alone being do-la-la all by my myself is no one’s worry. But at the odd chance that what I say are true, we all are in trouble!
The Americanism which used to be so, so honourable at the time of John Lennon ( this does not imply his own personal stand) was true moral and social high point for the world- like in anti-war movements.
Now Americans and the allies are blatantly killing, bombing and torturing innocent people in the world and taking over (even though financially not so great as Iraqi war was too expensive at one trillion) oil rich countries- Iraq, Libya, now- Syria on flimsy make up pretexts and aiming to kill all or at least majority Iranians next to loot their riches without a murmur of dissent from the American public is sure sign of degradation of morality and wisdom of majority if not all of the inhabitants of the Great Untied States of America.
Killings sure be-gets killings.
After so much killings around the world for preserving “American Way of life”, people go and buy guns. Such is peace. One such gun was used by a boy to kill so many others, just now.
when Obama in his idiotic way say “I have only two words. Predator drones.” , it was much expected of him as a consummate actor for his handlers, but the sycophantic and enthusiastic laughter that followed that comment defined today’s America.
Following another horrendous and senseless shooting,it is not the gun law that is required. But simple humanity.
Americans needs to be HUMAN before they will ever have peace.
Simple. Just being HUMAN, Lleij.
Yes I am stating Americans are NOT human now any more. One and all. No human will go and kill the Syrians or foment a civil war.
Please do not say it was their own people killing each others or Assad being such monster. Just about every one has done that much already.
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You won’t get any argument from me. The hypocrisy of the anti-war crowd, that was so vocal during the Bush days, but now so silent now that Obama is in office, is astounding.
There are more Americans who wish to end “the Empire” than you might be aware of. Our views just don’t fit the media’s “narrative”, so they aren’t heard.
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Sorry U Moe Aung. Reply 7.1 as apparent was to be attached to #8.
Thank you for the links. It is kudos to the well bought up international press and the academics that legitimate voices
http://www.news24.com/MyNews24/How-Mandela-sold-out-blacks-20120717
are stifled and only the “party line” – Mandela is such a great man and of such great stature, sacrificed, honourable, etc,etc, so that every one in South Africa should or MUST go along with his saying which is to surrender to the Whites’ dictates. And in reality end up the same or worse after two decades under a government staffed by new names!
The political assassinations in South Africa are counted 50 since and is accelerating as the very seed of continued violence and distrust is fertilised well in rotten soil. South African people DO NOT DESERVE that. They are not borne killers. They are borne into killing atmosphere.
Burma is now in a rapid catch up stage for similar destitution and violence as in South Africa plus intense drug abuse (HIV spread) and roaring trade domestically in near future (this one is in honour of the dear neighbour Thailand).
Only required ingredients are;
Covetous and greedy and always feeling “inferior” yet ruthless mindset populace
( in other word people full of Lawba and Mawha)- corruption of people.
Forceful appropriation of centuries old traditional farm lands and other establishments.
Most importantly the repair of monetary system’s connection to the international system which is- alas!- controlled tightly by only a handful of unknown individuals.
In today’s Burma, it is apparent that the three biggest efforts are concentrated on
1. making people feel totally inadequate and worthless and covetous
2.land confiscations
3.change of monetary system.
International academics as well as media mainly by trusted “exile” media play central role. I note you made a comment in Saw Yan Naing’s article in the Irrawaddy that supermarkets are not what Burma need. In fact supermarkets are real example of the voluntary enslavement of the people with death wish surrendering their freedom and in fact health itself to the multinational corporations for the vane desire of shopping experience in big, big shining buildings with totally artificial seductive lightings and colours. (All human are proud to be slave to big, big supermarkets, as if cursed.)
http://www.sovereignty.org.uk/features/footnmouth/smarket.html
http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/dont-be-fooled-the-supermarkets-are-milking-us/
http://plover.net/~bonds/nosupermarket.html
It simply proves that no amount of PhD’s could make people wise.
Apart from supermarkets and “worst city in Asia” descriptions, etc, etc, of making people little and inferior while promising to be “modern”- meaning buying Coke and McDonald- spread of decadent culture will erode the traditional contented nature of people of Burma. All the leading monks now never ever talk about Five Precepts, end of Lawba, Dawtha, Mawha or contentment but regularly give sermons about “donations” of billions of kyats or foreign travels or latest electronic gadgets or the desirabilities of plush lives ( in their minds)of foreign countries and their life styles. The “exile” media constantly reminds people of how pathetic they are in news articles and editorials.
Land in Burma is at the mercy of the Sit-tut government. It is more than likely that the fire sale of public properties by the people in the government to the people in the government in 2009-2010 would have been in accordance with well planned advise by the international financial corporations. No one in the international press objected to it. Lack of any noise by “west” funded “exile” media was expected.
But the process of accelerating land confiscations and eviction will now become a seed for rallying point for the “still un-corrupted” portion of general populace as is now seen even with the best effort to stifle it by false messiah Aung San Suu Kyi whose days as useful Trojan are numbered now not lasting no where as long as Mandela for all the West’s effort. She does undo herself with many sudden, unexpected and erratic acts that would make her handlers breathless at times! And yet more to come! Soon.
But the most damaging and dangerous still is the manipulation of the monetary system and the effort for DEBT PILING. Even if the populace remains honest and not corrupted by unholy desire and stay cohesive, and the land is not forcefully taken away by the Sit-tut under Phosphorus bombs and guns,once the monetary system is re-connected, it is simple matter of few key strokes to destroy the country faster than any neutron bombs and drone launched missiles.
Here the all out effort by the international economists and the happily collaborating Burmese ones working hand in hand would be so exhilarating to see for the money masters.
One is reminded of
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogqZ6pnWM7o
Imran Hosein’s description that the notion of independence in countries after the second World war is meaningless as the monetary system was by then attached to he puppeteers’ string.
Burma’s current system of opium trade ( later ATS as well) and black market based money chaos while damaging and non-beneficial to the majority public is to be replaced by far worse fully integrated monetary system which be-unknown-to-the hither-to-outsmarting-everyone generals will effectively mould the country and the inhabitants (including the -alas!- the generals) to the liking of the money’s controllers.
Few key strokes will change the essential commodity prices, land value, transport charges, interest rate and loan availability, etc to foment designer chaos as already seen in the Caribbean, South America, Africa and parts of Asia.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YL_6TYQ6KDQ
People of Burma honestly working peacefully for production of FOOD for others for centuries are now at the end of the brunt of cruel and incessant assault from the outside world comprehensively for the first time in history for total obliteration.
It is helped and facilitated by none other than people they have full faith in.
The world will be sadder and poorer, how shiny it is, for the loss.
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Laiza is well within the range of Burmese army’s 105mm Howitzers already positioned on the nearby hills since last year and the army is patiently waiting for the order from the President to smash the hell out of KIA/KIO.
Fortunately for KIA, the President Burma army is waiting to issue the firing order is not Thein Sein but Hu Jintao.
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Xi Jinping is now the head of CMC (Central Military Commission) in China, not Hu Jintao anymore!
Long live the Princeling!
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“Buyer remorse” by proxy:
1)Making KIA a saintly force that represent the Kachin that have chosen to pick a un_winnable fight especially with the still unfolding history of Kayin vs Bamar/Tamadaw in plain view, sure make KIA pathetic in the face of looming tragedy for ALL.
2)Road Map To Discipline Democracy (RMTDD) per Sr Gen Than Shwe, is an accepted course by ALL involved be it the West or Daw Aung San Suu Gyi.
“With no guarantee, no return, as it and at buyers’ own risk”, Sr Gen Than Shwe RMTDD certainly do not include U Thein Sein visiting Laiza anytime soon. Not w/o KIA accepting any demands.
Obviously no one is reading the fine print or figuring out the possible combined ramifications of RMTDD YET.
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Hi Nic, It’s a stupid & wishful idea. You better come up with other pragmatic idea as you’re expertise in this field.
Meanwhile, Thein Sein sending more troops instead of making personal visit to Laiza. There is no such a deal even though Thein Sein visit Laiza and KIO would reject his visit. Experts should sbetter understand the history of modern Burma. The Kachin made a deal with Gen. Aung San. The Burmese never fulfill the promise. That’s the problem Burmese never want to fix.
Well, Burma Army is wasting not less than 5% of its combat force within a period of a year and half. To take control Laiza, Burma Army need at least another 10% of combat force with another year, maybe. It’s extremely embarrassing for Thein Sein that he claimed Burma Army can take over Laiza in a few days.
For those who are anti-KIO/KIA and Burmese chauvinists, it’s time to join Burma Army to fight alongside with your compatriots war criminals in the front line, just to get paid by Chinese.
There will be no peace as long as Burma is ruled by war criminals and gangsters recognized by international community. Chinese gained all the profits of the land.
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“The Kachin made a deal with Gen. Aung San. The Burmese never fulfill the promise. That’s the problem Burmese never want to fix. ”
This ideal realm of Pinlone is NEVER EVER going to be realized.
The reality of post 1962/1988 is upon Myanmar with the full approval and complicity of the West (which now have no better choice) and Daw Aung San Suu Kyi.
This new reality is called “Road Map To Discipline Democracy”.
Under RMTDD
Tamadaw is The defacto government with or without Hlutthaw approval. Thus making Sr Gen Than Shwe and such the as power that be (PTB) and U Thein Sein at best next to PTB but never PTB.
Bemoaning without having any foresight to all the implications associated with RMTDD will not change the present destiny of Myanmar Citizenry.
Kachin is but ONE ethnic group that KIA claimed to represent. The history has clearly shown:
1) As with any discord within Myanmar the west (This one clearly the shameful divide and rule of the British) has a hand in it.
2) The Bamar will always come out ahead even if need to be repeated umpteenth times at the expense of all Myanmar it every repetition having a spiraling down effect.
The Kachin like every ethnic groups need to realize the eventuality within these concepts that identity without unity among a citizenry with a common destiny will prolong the status quo created since after the 3rd colonial war if not even earlisr to the time of the Portuguese in Syriam/Thanlyn.
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“It’s extremely embarrassing for Thein Sein that he claimed Burma Army can take over Laiza in a few days.”
Not really. At least two reasons. First he is souk-shat-ma-shi . Not just him. All the prominent players in Burma nowadays say BS using all the buzzwords and stuff the armchair “Libertarians” around the world could enjoy simply for entertainment value. Aung San Suu Kyi herself had turned so many 180 degrees now so that poor sod would not know which planet she is in any more.
Next reason is simpler. That bald guy fronting the current production of Bamar Pantomime simply reads the script so that he would not remember any of it.
But on serious side, all meddling Americans, now freely interfering their newest possession’s internal affairs, trying to pre-bribe the KIO could not be faulted as that Dam and that link (Pipe, Rails, Roads, whatever Chinese needs)are going to benefit not just Chinese but all the Asian (rich minute minority there of) and the rest of the world (rich minute minority there of).
Hard to say present massive (more massive than usual) military assault is a serious end-game or not. Whatever it is, innocent people will definitely die in thousands not that any of these fashionably compassionate world’s, and indeed, Burma’s population would give a damn.
In the event that Sit-tut is taking this as the real end-game trying desperately to emulate the Buddhist brothers-in-hell in Sri Lankan led by the Rajapaksa brothers
http://www.channel4.com/programmes/sri-lankas-killing-fields/4od
, Min Aung Hlaing’s hither-to disastrous and shameful C-in-C career will be mercifully over. And it will bring down his “benefactor” as well.
From the sufferings of the Kachin populace and some blood and large amount of Burmese youth blood, something new will come up.
Shame KNU of today is not only spineless but colourless as well.
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Thein Sein is having it both ways. First his ceasefire orders went unheeded because the pony dispatch took too long to reach the front line. Now he was confident Laiza would fall in no time.
He in the main performs his good cop role with consummate skill but perhaps occasionally slips up when his military ‘past’ catches up with him. At least the Kachin realise ASSK can’t be their guardian angel let alone the avenging angel.
Even the US can’t afford to ruin its chances by a halfhearted support for the KIO translating into material terms. Tough luck for the Kachin every other player has decided to do business, not just play the fiddle, while they burn.
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Meanwhile, Burmese Army’ Cyber Unit has taken down the WWW site of KIA propaganda mouth piece KNG (Kachin News Group).
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Propaganda or not, the very fact that Russian educated, Chinese and now American abetted Bamar Sit-tut chooses to shut down a news outlet in sync with unusually large amassing of air and land forces including heaviest artillery China, Russia, Belarus and that largest democracy country to the west, India would sell, is the most serious development of this “open season” (pwint-lin yar thi).
Likely reason is that Bamar Sit-tut is bashful about pictures and video’s like in this one
http://www.channel4.com/programmes/sri-lankas-killing-fields/4od
surfacing during their acts waking up the hither-to ignorant/ apathetic/ brain washed/ mesmerised and hypnotised (by Aung San Suu Kyi) Burmese populace.
The Kachin Civil War is now better defined. It is between the people on the ground who has owned and looked after the land undamaged for millennium against business interests internationally (where the interest of Chinese is the same as interest of Americans or Indians) or nationally (where Sit-tut is amply supported by all forms of “democratic oppositions”- NLD,88′s, etc- as well as all the vocal “media” -inside and outside the country- and internet commentators who are all for business and making money called “development” at any cost as described in that celebrated book of Thant Myint-U).
After massive civilian slaughter which is inevitable in an all out war, The World- the United Nations, honourable Western Democracies ( which include Japan and Korea) and International Organizations of all sorts will come out then with, by now very well rehearsed, usual refrain used several times before following Rwanda, Dafur, Srebrenica, Timor, Cambodia, etc. How horrible!, should not happen at this day and age, would have done something if we knew, etc,etc.
This time as in all others, the world has prior knowledge of the intention of The Aggressor (Bamar Sit-tut, proxy for business interest of national and international players- to kill off all the Kachins in the way), their long preparation in arsenals, logistics,intelligence and diplomatic support, and imminent nature of the attack – which is NOW- before yet another massive slaughter of civilian population.
Regardless of feeble attempts to stop the immediate release of pictures and video’s, they will come out in better quality- may be 20 megapixel, and faster magnifying the grotesqueness.
Yet being able to conduct the business- The Pipe keeps on going, plus rail tracks and roads as well for China and the big and small dams, and the mines and mines and mines, forests,etc- the international business and media and organizations owned by them will unite to cover up and divert people’s attention to forget the whole thing.
It is up to the people of Burma NOW to say if there is something they have to say.
In the event that this latest assault fails just like all the previous clumsy slaughtering/torturing/ terrorizing escapades (sacrificing tens of thousands of youths) of Min Aung Hlaing, he is not likely to last beyond this. With him, his Appointer.
Even Aung San Suu Kyi, well versed in the art as she is, may find it impossible to sugar coat that heinous crime against humanity this time even though her total silence and mesmerization of the populace right now at the eve of potential national human disaster is totally expected.
Laiza will be Than Shwe’s Waterloo.
Burma will be “Western” business interests’ Waterloo.
(These are not predictions or rallying cries, mere observations.)
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Thein Sein going to Laiza? About same chances than Bashar al-Ashad going to Aleppo to negotiate with the FSA.
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Assad does have genuine authority as opposed to our bald pantomime actor. But “he” does send Mig 29′s and Russian attack helicopters onto civilian targets presumably in agreement with or in accordance with the Americans as the Deputy Defence Secretary in Burma was on record advising the “counter-insurgency measures” to already most ruthless and virulent armed forces existing solely for attacks against their own people.
The deafening silence of the world on this latest most open and blatant aggression will have wide and long lasting repercussions.
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“Army sources have already openly admitted that the continuous shelling from their heavy 105 mm Howitzers will continue on as, instead of costing a fortune firing expensive shells, Burmese army has been making approximately US$ 14.5 for each shell fired as the shells used are from the Singapore Armed Forces and these shells are expired shells needed to be destroyed.”
http://hlaoo1980.blogspot.com/2013/01/lajaryan-fell-and-laiza-surrounded-by.html
This is the kind of news that should perturb anyone with anything to do with dividing “Brothers against Brothers”.
Look upon the EVIL that divisiveness started only under the British colonialists has wrought.
Where now The Tamadaw/Bamar boasting of ‘making a profit killing KIA/ Kachin and Shan’.
Will the Chinese now consider giving similar support to the Kachin as they did to BCP and repeat the new cycle of destruction seen since after independence that justified the continual existence of the military government?
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Thanks Plan B for the link.
It was fun read as usual with Hla oo in the cloud. His take is though at divergence with that of other comic Zaw Htay.
It does remind one of that jet episode though. It was true event. Two Thai jets flew low and two regiments went awry thinking they were being bombed. That was what triggered vain Maung Aye to waste huge amount of public money (who said Burma is so,so poor?) to buy large number of those run down Mig29′s via Belarus and Tay Za.
To be fair they then did not know about jets and they were F16′s. Then again now the Yanks are so desperate to get to know Than Shwe and get a land base closer to China as well as out of fractious/ customarily chaotic Thailand, it is only days before our Brave and Distinguished Bamar Tatmadaw would get those cool Sunglasses and leather jackets.
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The point of the link is not to validate any ebb of flow of Tamadaw vs KIA.
IF EITHER SIDE HURT, ALL CITIZENRY HURT AS WELL.
This divisiveness b/t Kachin and Bamar, as well as among other ethnic group created etirely by the British Colonists MUST not be propagated neither through cheering for the Bamar nor incessant lamenting of eventuality.
Doing so will just continue the yoke of the colonial legacy which all citizenry of Myanmar still bear.
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The only person that will benefit from Aung San Suu Kyi is…………..
Aung San Suu Kyi.
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So far Charles F.
You are correct.
Please stay tuned.
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