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No Great Wall of China on the Wa front
No walls are being built on the border between Wa and China even though Chinese authorities have begun constructing walls on the north-eastern Burma border, in areas under the control of Kachin Independence Organization (KIO), according to sources from Panghsang, capital of the Shan State’s Wa Self Administered Region.
General/Sino-Burma
border
By Hseng Khio
Fah
9 December 2008
Since the last week of
November, Chinese workers and machines began digging a border stream while some
places bricks have already been laid and the ground dug near the KIO areas,
according to a report of the Democratic Voice of Burma (DVB)
yesterday.
“There is no activity in our region. There are not many people
travelling in and out like Laiza and Muse,” said a resident in Panghsang.
Laiza is one of the famous trade zones and the general headquarters of
KIO. Muse, the Shan State town opposite China's Ruili, is also one of the
business centers on the Sino-Burma border. The trade between China and Burma
(Kunming-Ruili-Jiegao-Muse-Mandalay) is the largest among the Burma’s
crossborder trades.
The DVB also reported that the Chinese authorities
were erecting fences and iron posts on the Shweli (Ruili)-Jiegao
areas.
“We don’t hear anything about building walls from both the Burmese
military and the Chinese either,” said a source in Mongla, officially known as
the National Democratic Alliance Army-Eastern Shan State
(NDAA-ESS).
However, the junta army had reinforced more units and
established new outposts in the both Wa and Mongla areas, according to a SHAN
report on 1 December.
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