Third clash between junta, ex-ceasefire Shans

THURSDAY, 30 SEPTEMBER 2010 14:57 S.H.A.N

A handful of Shan State Army (SSA) ‘North’ fighters guarding inmates, mostly drug addicts, outside a village between Mongyai and Hsipaw townships, Shan State North, was attacked by an unidentified Burma Army patrol this morning, according to a rebel source.

The Burma Army took positions on two hills overlooking the ‘treatment center’, where inmates were required to work in the surrounding pineapple orchard, at 06:00. The 8-men at once released their charge, about 20 of them, and retreated. “Nobody was hurt,” he said. “We don’t know how the attackers fare.”

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The latest clash, the third in 15 days, has been confirmed by the anti-Naypyitaw SSA South leader, Lt-Gen Yawdserk.

The site is located outside Kung Niu, a village half way between Hsengkeow and Mongyai, a distance of 27 miles from each other.

According to a Wa source on the border, the Burmese commander in Mongton, opposite Chiangmai, recently told them, the time for negotiations was over since 1 September. “You have only three choices: move back to the Sino-Burma border where you came from, surrender or fight,” the unidentified commander was quoted as saying:

A Wa fighter traveling alone in a passenger car was taken in custody in Mongton township last week. “He was said to have been beaten and killed,” he said.

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