Chapter 1662: Kachin State, I'm Coming! (Above)
The country of China stands like a lion in Southeast Asia. In this big country, which is becoming increasingly rich and prosperous, it is attracting more and more attention from the world.
In the impression of the Chinese people, Myanmar seems to be a dispensable country, and with the quiet passage of time, many people have forgotten the close relationship between this country and the Chinese state.
Since the beginning of the 21st century, the Burmese government has been tormented by war. All warring parties are seeking China's help as much as possible. The Burmese government's side had hoped to attack the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) from behind through Huaxia, but the Chinese government seriously refused.
This made KIA very happy, but when KIA tried to visit Yanjing to meet with the Chinese leadership, the bordering province of Yunnan Province was extremely unhappy.
Last year's artillery shells fell in Yunnan Province, a reflection of the fierce fighting between the Burmese army and the KIA.
The headquarters of the Kachin Independence Army (KIA), Laha, is currently the most heavily fought place in northern Myanmar, just across the river from Huaxia State.
The goal of the Burmese government is clear, to eat Kokang first, and then cut off the land communication between KIA and Wa State, zuihou to eliminate Wa State and complete the reunification of Myanmar.
As the second largest military force of the rebels, KIA desperately wanted to join forces with the Wa to resist the government forces, but at such a moment, the Wa chose to remain silent.
Since Kokang was conquered in 2009, the political power reshuffle in the Golden Triangle of northern Myanmar has begun around surrender or war, and often, this reshuffle is accompanied by betrayal and killing, and the new Golden Triangle time has begun.
At the end of January 2010, Min An, secretary general of the Mengla Army in the Fourth Special Region of northern Myanmar (bordering Xishuangbanna), was shot dead by two masked men with submachine guns at close range in front of the Oriental Hotel, not far from the border with China, during an early morning exercise. On that unimaginable morning, the shocked border people did not dare to come forward to watch for a long time, leaving Min An's body on the ground, with half of the Apple and mobile phone he had eaten before his death rolling beside him.
During his lifetime, Min An advocated surrender and was the core of the "doves" in the 4th District, presiding over and participating in many negotiations with the Burmese government, which are about to be completed. As the remnants of the Burmese Communist Party, the territory guarded by the Monglas Army was extremely important, almost the gateway to the Wa State, another armed force that refused to surrender. After Min An's death, although there was a lot of speculation, as is customary in the Golden Triangle, no one claimed responsibility for the incident, and no one ever mentioned surrendering and reorganization again. Now that the Fourth Special Region has deployed troops along the Line of Control and is in a confrontation with the Burmese army, negotiations have long since broken down.
In today's high-level conference rooms of armed groups in the Golden Triangle of northern Myanmar, surrender or not to surrender is a real question on the table. After 60 years of civil war, it would be a rhetoric to say today that the ethnic minorities of the Golden Triangle still see themselves as Burmese. The reality is that surrender to the Burmese government, which has always been a Greater Burmese nationalist, can only be due to a disparity in force, not a national centripetal force from Yangon.
In the Golden Triangle, if the Burmese government is nominally a co-owner, the Wa State may be the big brother in the real sense.
For the government army, sending a large army to fight a modern war on the border between China and Burma is a taboo and extremely difficult operation, which requires unimaginable diplomatic foreshadowing and war organization, especially given the geographical conditions of both countries with large Wa ethnic groups.
What is even more unfavorable is that among the characteristics of the Wa coalition army, greed for life and fear of death and easy abandonment are not significant. As the most powerful non-governmental armed force in Southeast Asia, people with a modicum of sanity and common sense understand that a small-scale local war cannot contain the elephant of the Wa coalition army.
Although the Wa State, which has 30,000 armed men and wants guns and cannons, has declared to the outside world that it will never seek independence and will never give up negotiations, if it is said that whoever has the strength to truly achieve national independence, everyone will vote for the Wa State.
The latest story is that a high-ranking Wa State official, who has been suspected but never admitted to possessing missiles, once hit back at a Burmese officer who was tough on his words, "You fall asleep today, and you may not see the sun in the Golden Triangle tomorrow." ”
The officer's residence is located in the Burmese-controlled area, a hundred kilometres away from the Wa State, which has missiles, and it is obvious.
Because of the existence of the Wa State, all the armed forces of the Golden Triangle know how to use their strength to fight and bundle sales.
For example, the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) mentions Wa in every public statement, and even if there is no time to think about it or have a weak heart, the KIA spokesperson will still promise repeatedly: "If Wa is attacked, we will ...... it"
Before the fall of Kokang in 2009, even if he paid to make guns and cannons, the scheming "Kokang King" Peng Jiasheng also strictly required that the weapons produced in the arsenal should be printed with the words "Made in Wa".
At the end of August 2009, after the fall of the Kokang Special Administrative Region, when the Burmese army death squads rushed over, the Kokang Allied forces stayed with the Wa flag, and of course only the flag.
Although it was only two months after the brief exchange of fire at the end of last year, the adverse effects of the fighting were already being felt, as the United Nations Food Programme was forced to withdraw from the Wa State, which prevented a large number of children from receiving a monthly subsidy of 22 catties of rice, and the school dropout rate in the Wa State exploded.
In the eyes of the Burmese people, whether or not a series of issues such as the Golden Triangle can be successfully resolved will be the top priority for the rise and fall of the nation and the development of the country.
For such a goal, it is impossible to accomplish it without the cooperation of neighboring countries such as Huaxia.
While the ethnic armed forces were eating the rice of the Chinese country, the Burmese government army was also holding on to the weapons made in the Chinese country.
Huaxia's engineering team has benefited the ethnic minorities on the border, and has also built the new capital of the Burmese military junta. At some point, the moment the ethnic minority fighters died from the shells of the Huaxia Kingdom, perhaps the Burmese military Cao stepped on the mines of the Huaxia Kingdom, and it is certain that while the leaders of the ethnic minority armed forces were undergoing medical examinations in the Kunming Hospital, the generals in Yangon also bought mansions in Yanjing, and everything was as contradictory and natural as it was, until one day, when something deviated from its trajectory, everything was different.
The influence of the Chinese state on Myanmar is ubiquitous, and among some government officers, it is still the military idol of many military personnel. Some Burmese government officers even vowed to lead the Burmese "Eighth Route Army" to eliminate the separatist forces in northern Burma.
Kachin State is an autonomous state of the Kachin Nationality in the northeastern part of the Union of Myanmar. The capital is in Myitkyina. It is bordered to the east by the Nujiang Susu Autonomous Prefecture and the Dehong Dai Jingpo Autonomous Prefecture of Yunnan Province in the Huaxia State, and to the north by the Qamdo Prefecture of the Tibet Autonomous Region.
The Kachin people are predominantly Christian. The Jingpo and Susu ethnic minorities in China are also assigned to the Kachin ethnic group.
Kachin State has been the passage of the Southwest Silk Road since ancient times, and the China-India Highway built in the 40s of the 20th century further communicated China, Myanmar and India, and Kachin State is known as the "North Gate of Myanmar".
The population is about 360,000 with the Kachin ethnic group as the main ethnic group. The state is also inhabited by ethnic minorities such as Shan, Susu, Ayi, Lasi, Yangwan, Maru, Gedu, Gran, and Mochi, as well as tens of thousands of overseas Chinese and expatriates from India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh.
Kachin State covers an area of 89,041 square kilometers, 38.66% plain and 61.34% mountainous, with an area of about 2.5 million acres. About 1 million acres of land are plantable farmland for rice, corn, barley, grapes, etc.
Kachin State is the second largest of Myanmar's 14 provincial states. The capital is in Myitkyina. There are three counties of Myitkyina, Bhamo and Grape and 18 towns and cities.
With a population of about 900,000, Kachin State is about 470 kilometers long from north to south and 300 kilometers wide from east to west.
The whole state of Kachin State is high in the north and low in the south, with four north-south mountain ranges, from east to west are Gaoligong Mountain, Jiangxinpo, Kumen Ridge and Naga Mountain. There are three large rivers running between the four mountain ranges, namely the Nmei Kai River, the Mai Li Kai River, and the Tanai River, all of which belong to the Yijiang River system.
There are many river valleys and plains in the northern mountainous area, the largest of which is the Hukang River Valley, which covers an area of more than 2,000 square kilometers. From Myitkyina downwards, the basin gradually widens to the point of a flat river.
The north of Myitkyina is a deep valley with high mountains and deep valleys, including Mengbang Mountain, Xiannuo Mountain, Gaoligong Mountain, the altitude is mostly between 2000 and 4000 meters, and the highest peak in the north reaches 5887 meters. There are two major rivers in the state, the Mai Li Kai River and the Enmei Kai River, with deep valleys and steep slopes, mostly covered by tropical rainforests. The mountainous region is sparsely populated, and traffic is relatively closed except for the road from Myitkyina to the north to the grapes.
The area south of Myitkyina is mostly alpine forests. Kachin State has valleys such as Hugong, Mon Gong, Mon Yang, Myitkyina and Bhamo, which are low-lying and flat, with many rice paddies and marshlands. These valleys are passed by important communication routes connecting northern Myanmar with central Myanmar and Myanmar with India.
The climate of Kachin State is vertically distributed. The valleys are hot, and the mountains are cooler. In the northern mountainous areas, heavy snow covers the mountains from December to March of the following year, and some shady slopes above 3,000 meters above sea level are covered with snow all year round. The rainy season is from May to October. Annual rainfall is more than 3,000 mm north of Myitkyina and 1,000-1,500 mm south of Myitkyina.
Myitkyina is the political and economic center and transportation hub of northern Myanmar, and is the largest city in Kachin State. The terminus of the North Myanmar Railway is located on the west bank of the Irrawaddy River, and the nearby Irrawaddy River is about 500 meters wide and has a ferry port for vehicles.
Myitkyina is surrounded by mountains, there are airports in the west and north of the city, the highway extends in all directions, the south can reach Bamo, the north leads to Sunbrabang, and the west has the Ledo Highway to Ledo, India, with a population of more than 130,000 people.
The Kachin and Susu ethnic groups in Kachin State and the Jingpo and Susu ethnic groups in Nujiang Prefecture, Baoshan Prefecture and Dehong Prefecture in Yunnan Province, China are the same ethnic group living across the border.
The Irrawaddy River (known as the Great Jinsha River in China) originates from Chayu in the Qamdo region of Tibet, China, and enters Myanmar in the south, where the Nmekai River and the Mai Li Khai River converge 42 kilometers north of Myitkyina, traversing the north and south of Myanmar. The Irrawaddy River is located in Ba Mo to accommodate the Daying River, and the Irrawa River is to be stored in Rui Lijiang.
Vice Premier Chen Yi wrote in the poem "Gift to Friends in Myanmar" before his death: "I live at the head of the river, and you live at the end of the river. Infinite love for each other, drink a river of water. "It vividly depicts the deep friendship between the people of China and Myanmar and the friendly neighborly relations linked by mountains and rivers.
Long before the Tang and Song dynasties, the Chinese people had associations with the Kachin people and other ethnic groups living in Kachin State.
In ancient times, the "Silk Road" of the southern land, that is, the "Shu Body Poison Road", entered Bamo and other places from the area of Tengchong, Lianghe and Longchuan, and then led to India from Kachin State in northern Myanmar.