Day: July 19, 2011

KNU Stops Tavoy Road Construction

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A giant construction project managed by an Italian-Thai company has run into a number of major stumbling blocks in Karen State. Villagers say they have not been compensated for the loss of their land and the Karen National Union has stopped it building a highway to Thailand.

The Italian-Thai Development Company has begun negotiations with the Karen National Union to try to restart work on the Kanchanaburi-Tavoy Highway project after Karen soldiers stopped its construction in early July.

Work was stopped east of Tavoy, between Myitta village to Klo Hta village, by the Karen National Liberation Army. Continue reading “KNU Stops Tavoy Road Construction” →

Burma: Black Hawk, with Thai commander on board, down in Burma

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Chiang Mai (Mizzima) – Nine people were onboard a Thai Army Black Hawk that crashed in a forest in Burma across the border from Thailand on Tuesday, according to the Bangkok Post. Also on board the aircraft were two reporters, the source said.

According to an army source, Maj-Gen Tawan Ruangsri, commander of the 9th Infantry Division, and a number of army officers were flying to oversee the retrieval of the bodies of five soldiers who were killed in an earlier helicopter crash in Kaeng Krachan National Park in Ratchaburi province in Thailand on Saturday.

The national park lies along the Burmese border next to Burma’s Tenasserim Division.

The Black Hawk helicopter reportedly crashed before noon into the forest inside Burma, opposite Ban Khao Mai Daeng in Ratchaburi’s Kaeng Krachan district.

Further details were unavailable and the fate of those on board was not known.

Thai media reported the earlier crash on Saturday occurred half a mile from the Burma border. The helicopter, working on anti-logging operations in the national park, crashed in poor weather.

The army reportedly has six Black Hawk helicopters in operation. This is the first to have crashed.

KIA တပ္မဟာ ၄ ကိုသိမ္းပိုက္ရန္ ျမန္မာက တ႐ုတ္ကိုအေၾကာင္းၾကား

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Tuesday, 19 July 2011 13:36 KNG

 

Lahpai_Zau_Rawေကအိုင္ေအ ေတာင္ပိုင္းတိုင္း (တပ္မဟာ ၄) အုပ္ခ်ဳပ္ေရးမွဴး သဘာပတိ လဖိုင္ေဇာ္ေရာ္ (လယ္)

 

ရွမ္းျပည္ေျမာက္ပိုင္း ကခ်င္လြတ္ေျမာက္ေရးတပ္ဖြဲ႔ (KIA) တပ္မဟာ ၄ အားတိုက္ခိုက္သိမ္းပိုက္ေတာ့မည္
ျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း နယ္စပ္တ႐ုတ္အာဏာပုိင္မ်ားထံသို႔ သက္ဆိုက္ရာျမန္မာ အစိုးရအရာရိွမ်ားအေၾကာင္းၾကားခဲ့ ေၾကာင္း သိရသည္။

ဇူလိုင္ ၁၆ ရက္ စေနေန႔၊ မံုကိုးမ်က္ႏွာခ်င္းဆိုင္ မန္ဟိုင္း၌ တ႐ုတ္အစိုးရ ျပည္ပဆက္ဆံေရး႐ံုးတြင္ ႏွစ္ဖက္ႏိုုင္ငံမွ တာ၀န္ရွိပုဂၢိဳလ္မ်ားေတြ႕ဆံုစဥ္ တ႐ုတ္ထံ ျမန္မာဘက္က ေဆြးေႏြးအေၾကာင္းၾကားျခင္း ျဖစ္သည္ဟု နယ္စပ္သတင္းရပ္ကြက္မွ သိရသည္။

လြယ္ကန္အေျခစိုက္ KIA တပ္မဟာ ၄ အားသိမ္းပိုက္စဥ္ ျမန္မာစစ္သားမ်ား မန္ဟိုင္းသို႔ ၀င္ထြက္သြားလာႏိုင္ရန္ တ႐ုတ္ထံခြင့္ေတာင္းသည့္အေပၚ အခ်င္းခ်င္းနားလည္မႈတစ္ခု ျပဳလုပ္ႏိုင္ခဲ့သည္ဟု ထပ္မံသိရသည္။

အစည္းအေ၀း၌ ယခင္ မံုးကိုးကာကြယ္ေရးတပ္ဖြဲ႔ (Munggu Defense Army) ထိန္းခ်ဳပ္ေဒသသို႔ပါ KIA မ်ား စိမ့္၀င္လႈပ္ရွားလာေသာေၾကာင့္ အျမန္ဆံုးေခ်မႈန္းပစ္ရန္ ကက(ၾကည္း)ႏွင့္ လား႐ိႈးအေျခစိုက္ အေရွ႕ေျမာက္ပိုင္းတုိင္းစစ္ဌာနခ်ဳပ္ (ရမခ)မွ ညႊန္းၾကားခ်က္ထြက္လာျခင္းမ်ားကို ျမန္မာဘက္မွ ေဆြးေႏြးခဲ့သည္ဟု အစည္းအေ၀းႏွင့္နီးစပ္သူမ်ား ေျပာသည္။

ယခင္ကလည္း KIA တပ္မဟာ ၄ အား KIO/KIA ဌာနခ်ဳပ္ တည္ရွိရာ ကခ်င္ျပည္နယ္သို႔ ေျပာင္းေရႊ႕ရန္ သုိ႔မဟုတ္ ျပည္သူ႔စစ္သို႔အသြင္ေျပာင္းလဲရန္ ျမန္မာစစ္တပ္က အၾကိမ္ၾကိမ္ ဖိအားေပး တိုက္တြန္းခဲ့သည္။

သို႔ေသာ္ လက္ရိွအေျခအေနထိ တပ္မဟာ ၄ အားသိမ္းပိုက္ရန္ ျမန္မာစစ္တပ္၏ သိသာထင္ရွားသည့္ စစ္ေရးလႈပ္ရွားမႈမေတြ႔ရေသာ္လည္း ဌာနခ်ုဳပ္လိုင္ဇာတြင္မူ KIO ေခါင္းေဆာင္မ်ားမွ အေရးပါေသာ အစည္းအေ၀းမ်ား က်င္းပေနသည္ဟု သိရသည္။

Last Updated ( Tuesday, 19 July 2011 14:16 )

Wa authorities, since early July, has been cracking down on drug addicts, Burmese agents and newcomers

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19 July 2011
Wa authorities, since early July, has been cracking down on drug addicts, Burmese agents and newcomers. Until 15 July, they have already rounded up some 200 people, including Shans and Burmese. Those who agree to become Wa soldiers are given uniforms and kept apart from others. Those who refuse to become Wa soldiers are told they are to serve as laborers. As a result, the number of newcomers entering Wa territory has dropped during the last week. (SHAN)