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Since
they unilaterally terminated the 17 years-long ceasefire agreement last
year and resumed the hostilities against the Myanmar(Burma) army KIA has been
facing massive casualties and severe loss of materials and weaponry.
Thus
as a recent strategy change KIA has now avoided the army mobile columns
and fortified army bases, the hard targets, and started attacking the
so-called soft targets such as small army outposts and undefended
government offices in the Kachin State.
At
about 2 pm in April 28 this year about 50 troops from the Third
Battalion of KIA Fifth Brigade violently raided the Sa-done town near
the China border. They shot the town indiscriminately and then entered
the Township Administrative Office and captured seven members of the
staff while other six managed to escape.
The
KIA men tied four staff members (all non-Kachins) including the Town
Administrator to the building’s timber posts and executed them by
shooting like they normally do to the dogs for dog-meat. Brutally killed
were the Township Administrator Khin Maung San (Burmese) and the junior
clerks Zaw Sai (Shan) and Hay One (Shan) and Zaw Myo Thant (Burmese).
The
KIA men left the town after looting money and gold and other valuables
from the town people and the government office. They also took along
with them three prisoners captured from the Township Administrative
Office.
According
to the town locals the brute KIA men are just simply terrorizing the
people by killing innocents by laying land-mines indiscriminately and
now the deliberate execution of government officials who are just doing
their jobs for the people of this Kachin State.
“We
do not want to get involve and say anything against the battles
happening now between the army and KIA as we all know that two sides
have irreconcilable differences. But shooting the town deliberately and
killing the innocent public servants who had nothing to do with this
meaningless conflict was just an ugly act of terrorism and we as the
locals of Sa-done Town strongly protest against the KIA and we’ll also
respond together with the government forces,” was what Sai Zaw Naung a local Shan sadly said of the KIA’s brutal raid on his native town.
According
to an anonymous KIA officer from KIA HQ in Laiza the serious dent in
the active strength of KIA frontline troops from the whole year of
fighting against overwhelming government troops has forced KIA to
deliberately avoid direct confrontations with the army.
And
instead concentrating on attacking the so-called soft targets like
small towns and villages and government offices in population centers
and major bombing campaign to terrorize the populace into submission, he
added.
To
implement that new grand strategy of terrorizing the populace the Third
Battalion of KIA Fifth Brigade issued a public order prohibiting the
movement of motorized vehicles inside Sa-done Township on April 15 this
year.
The
KIA order basically prohibited the vehicles from travelling on the main
Myitkyinar-Kanpaikti Road that pass through the Sa-done Township. The
KIA order included the punishment of death for ignoring their order.
According
to U La-zae of Sa-done Town the road blockage has altogether stopped
the outside connections and jacked up the general prices in the town
many folds. To tighten their terror grip on the townsfolk further KIA
has now committed this atrocious terrorist act of brutally and
deliberately killing the innocent public servants, he added.
On
29 April, the day after the massacre of public servants in Sa-done
Town, Two Kachin men out of three public servants taken as the hostages
were released as a public-relation stunt by KIA as they now know very
well that killing their own Kachin nationals is not good for recruiting
new soldiers and collecting monetary donations (otherwise known as
Protection Money) and also their general image.
The
two released are junior clerks Gun Jar Naw and Yaw Kwyae, both Kachins.
KIA captors had taken them to their fortified based at Lon-htan and
later sent them back to Sa-done.
“KIA
men entered our office at about 2 pm in 28th. They tied us down with
ropes and Chinese cable-ties and later shot the Administrator and other
three staff members dead. But they took three of us to their Lon-htan
camp and put us in the stocks. Only at night a high-ranking KIA officer
arrived and talked to us and then let us go,” said Yaw Kwyae one of the released Kachin hostages.
People
of Sa-done are now really concerned about the life of the remaining
hostage a non-Kachin Shan. According to the non-kachin locals, which is
quite substantial percentage anywhere in this land just known as the
Kachin State, KIA is a brutally racist organization as they have always
treated other non-Kachin races even in their ranks and files differently
from their own Kachins as all KIA officers are Kachins while the Shans
and other mixed-races are just the cannon fodder.
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