The allied forces besieged Lao Cai, the Kokang Ming family Ming Xuechang "committed suicide", and Ming Guoping, Ming Julan, and Ming Zhenzhen were arrested. Seeing that the police from all over the country rushed to Yunnan to "raise people", some people still looked confused: What's going on?Overnight, the electric fraud that has plagued the people for many years is gone
In fact, the general logic has also been mentioned above, and today I will talk about the story behind this incident in detail.
For the previous article, please see "The Great Power Tiger Might: The Fall of the Northern Myanmar Wire Fraud Group - Understanding the Logic Behind the Kokang Chaos".
Myanmar, our neighbor, has always had a "tradition" of military interference in politics. In short, it's messy enough.
The cause of this incident is related to the assassination of General Aung San.
In World War II, Aung San first defected to Japan and the British, and then defected to the Allies, successfully allowing Burma to become independent from British control.
Aung San is not a two-sided one. We know that Burma was originally a British colony. You can understand that Aung San first borrowed the sword of the Japanese to drive the British army away, and then with the help of the Allies, he defeated Japan, and the operation of "knowing the current affairs" freed Burma from colonial rule.
Aung San also pushed for the signing of the Panglong Agreement, which granted full autonomy and equal status to Myanmar's ethnic minorities. The Panglong Agreement has greatly enhanced the unity of all ethnic groups in Myanmar and promoted the process of national reunification. Therefore, General Aung San is also unanimously recognized by all ethnic groups in Myanmar and is revered as the "father of the nation".
But such a Burmese "founding father" was assassinated by his close comrades-in-arms who "started a business" together.
On July 19, 1947, at the behest of his university classmate former conservative former Prime Minister U Su, Aung San and six cabinet officials were assassinated in Yangon. Aung San was the leader of the Burmese military and commanded the army during his lifetime, but his sudden death led to a power vacuum in the military, laying the groundwork for the later military chaos in Myanmar.
Inside the barrel of the gun comes out of the regime. The unbearable history of the Burmese literati has finally attracted bad consequences. In 1962, Myanmar staged a military coup d'état, and Myanmar has since fallen under the rule of the Myanmar army.
General Aung San has a daughter, the famous Aung San Suu Kyi. After graduating from Oxford University in 1967, she resolutely returned to China to pursue a career in politics, and was deeply loved by the people of Myanmar.
In the 1990 parliamentary elections in Myanmar, Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy (NLD) won a landslide victory, but the military refused to transfer power and placed Aung San Suu Kyi under house arrest.
After more than ten years of house arrest, from 2011 to 2015, Myanmar's democratic reforms were launched, and in the 2015 Myanmar parliamentary elections, the NLD won again, and Aung San Suu Kyi was freed and served as Myanmar's "State Counsellor", finally taking back the position that should belong to her and becoming the supreme leader of Myanmar. However, she also had to compromise with the military, which tolerated the fact that it retained much of its power, including the direct appointment of a quarter of Myanmar's federal parliamentarians.
At the heart of Aung San Suu Kyi's political decision-making is the primacy of Myanmar's national interests. Since taking office, she has always taken economic development and people's livelihood as an important part of her work. She insisted on ethnic equality and advocated a flexible and mobile reconciliation policy with ethnic minority armed groups, and externally adhered to a neutralist foreign policy of "great power balance". This series of correct actions naturally made her more popular with the people.
In Myanmar's 2020 parliamentary elections, Aung San Suu Kyi's NLD won 396 of the 476 seats, more than in 2015, while the military-controlled Union Solidarity and Development Party won only 33 seats.
Naturally unwilling to accept the further loss of power, the Myanmar military accused the NLD of electoral fraud, followed by a military coup, another house arrest of Aung San Suu Kyi, and the arrest of Win Myint, cabinet members and leaders of 14 provinces, seizing control of the country.
What happened to Aung San's family?A tragic death and house arrest, "I would have turned my heart to the bright moon, but the bright moon shines on the ditch."
The Myanmar military's perverse actions soon triggered demonstrations against the military coup across Myanmar, demanding the release of the ** leader and recognition of the election results, while the Myanmar military and police used extreme measures such as direct shooting of demonstrators to suppress the demonstrations. As of September 1, 2023, a total of 4,029 civilians have been killed by military police as a result of the military coup, including hundreds of minors under the age of 18.
You know, the death toll of modern local wars is no more than that, and only the tragic Gaza conflict today has caused more civilian casualties than it, right?Isn't this exactly the rhythm of the reversal?Moreover, Myanmar has always retained autonomous armed forces among its ethnic minorities.
Aung San Suu Kyi**'s supporters felt they had no choice but to call for an armed nationwide uprising against the warlords. Many of them fled to Burma and Thailand, our country and India, and to areas under the control of ethnic armed forces, seeking access to military training and armaments that they generally lacked, and gradually formed another regime: National Unity (NUG).
Some powerful ethnic groups, such as the Karen, Kachin, Karenni, and Chin ethnic groups, have decided to form an alliance with national unity**.
However, not all ethnic armed groups are allied, especially the Shan factions. Shan State is a vast and lawless land bordering our country and Thailand.
It was once one of the world's largest producers of illegal drugs, but after the international community came to an end in 2005, two other industries rose up: casinos and telecom fraud.
That's right, this is what we often call the northern Myanmar telephony, the main area of "Ga waist".
Since Burma's independence from Britain in 1948, Shan State has been ravaged by armed conflict and poverty, and has become a backdrop of warlords, drug lords and ethnic groups. They attacked each other and fought against each other.
Shan State is Myanmar's largest ethnic minority group, with two rival ethnic groups claiming to represent the region, but in recent years, four more small ethnic groups have established strong armed groups.
The strongest military force is the Wa (wa). They have modern armaments, about 20,000 troops. Although Bao Youxiang, the leader of the Wa forces, was a native of the Wa people, in his early years, he had a grudge against the Kuomintang army that had retreated to Burma, and he joined the Communist Party of Burma.
Then there are the Kokang ethnic Chinese, who have a long history of armed activityThe De'ang (Palaung or Ta) ethnic group located in remote mountainous areas'ang), whose forces have grown rapidly since their inception in 2009;Then there are the Rakhine, who actually come from Rakhine State on the other side of Myanmar, but many of them emigrated to the east to help form the Arakan Army (AA), which is now one of the most elite civilian forces in Myanmar.
This Kokang tribe is actually a Han ethnic group of Chinese descent, which was described above, and it is no longer verbose here.
The Wa people are the smartest, they reached a ceasefire agreement with the Burmese army in 1989, and generally avoid intervening in various armed conflicts. They claim to remain neutral in clashes between the army and the rebels, but they are also considered to be the majority of many anti-army resistance groups across the country
Do not participate in conflicts, maintain military strength, get close to and learn Xi from our country, pay attention to the economy and people's livelihood, and also make arms and money. This Wa State is slippery enough.
The following three are the protagonists of this "crackdown on wire fraud". Especially the Kokang Allied Army, which took the lead. For their stories, see above.
The three remaining ethnic groups – the Kokang Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army (MNDAA), the Ta'ang National Liberation Army (TNLA) and the Arakan Army – form the so-called "Three Brothers Alliance". Since the coup, they have clashed with the ** army together on several occasions, but always for their own territorial interests, not for the sake of supporting national unity**.
The three rebel groups have prudently provided shelter, military training and some armaments to *** from all over Myanmar.
It can be seen from here that the "Three Brothers Alliance" does not care so much about who governs Myanmar, but this may be related to their geographical location.
After all, they are the closest to our country, and they still have to take into account the interests of our country, that is, to ensure the stability of the border areas and maintain the best circulation. China has never interfered in the internal affairs of other countries, and at present, it recognizes the Burmese military diplomatically, just as China recognizes the West Bank and Fatah in Palestine in accordance with international practice.
But this does not mean that we support Israeli violence, and our attitude towards Gaza is clear: to stop Israel's "collective punishment" of the people of Gaza.
It can be seen that the "Three Brothers Alliance" is careful to keep in line with the attitude of our country. This is the influence of the great powers.
Needless to say, the harm of telecom fraud to our people is needless to say. We all know that northern Myanmar is "gajiazi", but after all, it is a people's country, and we can't send troops to arrest people, so we greeted the Burmese army ** and asked them to eradicate the blackmailers and hand over people. But the Burmese army is not strong.
Everyone understands that within the military, there must be an umbrella of wire fraud, and local forces collude with local ** to make profits from wire fraud.
In order to eradicate the acts of electric fraud that seriously damage the lives and property of our people, our country has taken great pains to do so.
Over the past year, China has continued to put pressure on the Myanmar Army** to step up efforts to ban fraud parks mainly operated by Chinese criminal syndicates. A large number of victims of wire fraud have been brutally treated in the park and abducted by human traffickers to local confinement on the Internet, making it difficult for my country, which cares about the people.
Under pressure from our side, the Wa State and other ethnic armed forces in Myanmar's border areas were more cooperative, and between August and October this year, they handed over more than 4,000 people suspected of participating in fraud activities to China's public security. However, due to the huge benefits, the major families of Kokang Lao Cai are still emboldened and continue to turn a deaf ear to the demands of our country.
The unconfirmed incident may have become the fuse of this "anti-wire fraud war".
On October 20, a very bad incident occurred in the electric fraud park controlled by the Ming family-Wohu Villa.
It is believed that it was our people's police, in order to rescue the compatriots suffering in Crouching Tiger Villa, regardless of their lives, undercover to conduct an investigation, and tried to organize thousands of confined people to escape, but they did not expect the plan to fail.
The "undercover agent" who was caught by Crouching Tiger Villa revealed his identity to the Ming family who came to interrogate, but he was still beaten to death by the Ming family.
Yunnan Lincang**, who learned the news, was sad and angry, and sent a strongly worded letter to the Kokang Army**, demanding that the perpetrators be severely punished. However, the military ** still continued to prevaricate and delay again and again.
On October 27, the "Three Brothers Alliance" saw the opportunity and attacked it, and the reason naturally became to overthrow the army ** and rescue the compatriots who were harmed by the electric fraud (most of the Kokang people are Chinese), and the anti-electric fraud war began.
Now everyone should understand why the four major families of courage are the only ones who are the most miserable and punished the heaviest: Ming Xuechang "committed suicide", Ming Guoping, Ming Julan, and Ming Zhenzhen were detained and were Chinese ** a large number of ** reasons, right?
The Ming family is extremely evil, who will they kill if they don't kill them?
With the support of other armed forces, the three ethnic armed forces of Shan State (Shan State) quickly occupied dozens of ** army strongholds under the coordinated attack, and seized most of the border checkpoints and highways that carry most of the ** to and from our country.
They were overwhelmed, and some ** army divisions and regiments raised their hands and surrendered without firing a single shot. The coalition claims to have captured more than 100 strongholds and four towns, including the Chinshwehaw and Hsenwi with border checkpoints. Xingwei is right at the intersection of the highway leading to Mujie, which is the main gate facing our country.
The army retaliated with air strikes and artillery shelling, forcing thousands of civilians to leave their homes. However, it was unable to mobilize reinforcements, let alone regain lost territory. Brig Gen Aung Kyaw Lwin, commander of the Shan State Army, is said to be one of the hundreds of officers and soldiers known to have been killed, and he is the highest-ranking general to be killed during combat since the coup.
The alliance forces blew up bridges to prevent the entry of army reinforcements, and surrounded the town of Laukkaing, which is home to a number of scam parks run by military-affiliated families.
An estimated number of foreign nationals are trapped in Lao Cai, and local residents have to queue up to buy their last remaining food, and chaos is growing in the city.
In the face of the heavily armed army and air force, the armed volunteers of national unity fought desperately for a while. National unity** was overjoyed by the successive successes of the alliance, and even said that it had given new strength to their armed struggle.
The People's Defence Forces (PDF), which supports national unity, are not as equipped or experienced as the armed forces of the Shan State, but they also took advantage of the fact that the ** army seemed to be at a disadvantage, and took the opportunity to launch an attack near Shan State, and for the first time seized control of the regional capital from the ** army.
Myanmar National Unity promises that as long as the army falls, the alliance will be allowed to participate in the negotiations on the new structure of the Union of Myanmar, which will help the alliance strengthen its bargaining chips.
The De'ang National Liberation Army (RENJ) has long wanted to expand its sphere of influence beyond the constitutionally permitted autonomous regionThe National Democratic Alliance Army (NDA) wants to regain Lao Cai, which was lost to the army in 2009, and its adjacent border area, which was led by the army's top leader, Gen Min Aung Hlaing.
All eyes are now on the Arakan Army (AA). They have so far only supported fighting in Shan State, but their forces are concentrated in Rakhine State and they have taken control of many towns and villages. If they decide to attack the ** army, the ** army will take care of one thing and lose the other, and it will be extremely dangerous.
A spokesman for the De'ang National Liberation Army said that they no longer see any legitimacy in the military and that it is worthless to negotiate with them.
Even if any agreement can be reached between the national armed forces and the ** army, I am afraid that it will be invalidated by the future popular election**. Winning constitutionally recognized statehood for their respective ethnic groups under the new confederation system is the common goal of the De'ang, Kokang and Wa peoples.
By joining the fighting, these ethnic groups may contribute to the end of Myanmar's military rule, but their ambitions will inevitably contradict those of the rest of the Shan state. This bodes well for those who seek to chart a blueprint for Myanmar's future democracy, with many challenges ahead of them.
On August 1, before the war, Aung San Suu Kyi was released under pressure from all sides, but it was, perhaps, too late.
This time, the military ** may really fall. I hope that our neighbor can truly usher in a lasting and stable peace, and there will be no more infighting.