Clash broke out between Myanmar Army and Kachin Independence Army

Myanmar Army had declared unilateral ceasefire in all of ethnic regions except in the lost Arakan to Myanmar ( western Myanmar) particularly to launch military operation against the Arakan Army for just four months. However, Myanmar Army broke its unilateral ceasefire in northern Shan State by attacking to Kachin Independence Army, a few days ago, when it was unable to crush Arakan Army and it did not want forthcoming meeting between the Kachin Independence Army and PCG of Myanmar Government. The meeting is known to make bilateral agreement between the KIA and Myanmar or Burma. Arakan Army is also expected to attend it.

In northern Shan State’s Muse Distrait, Light Infantry Division 99 of Myanmar Army started to seize a village of Howa and attacked battalion No. 36 of Kachin Independence Army.

Myanmar Army’s offensive attacks took place in the last week of a four-month unilateral ceasefire declared by Myanmar Army in December 2018.

Meanwhile, Myanmar Army’s offensive attacks against the Arakan Army is also badly going on in Arakan. Due to Myanmar Army’s shelling and bombing on villages in northern Arakan, there are, right now, over 35000 Internally Displaced Persons across the five townships in which a curfew was imposed by Myanmar Government controlled by Myanmar Army to colonize Arakan continually one way and another.

Since April 19, 2019, Myanmar Army launched artillery fire on the villages again , accusing every Arakanese villager and civilian as member of Arakan Army. Poor villagers were just to flee from their villages to nearby places with just only clothes on their bodies. No local aid group is allowed to help humanitarian and relief aid to IDPs. It is pain from very bottom of heart that we, Arakan, feel never before in history after our nation was occupied by Myanmar or Burma.