缅政府：果敢冲突是根据中国提供情报所采取的行动。
由 NW » 周五 9月 11, 2009 12:32 pm
缅政府首次承认，果敢事件是根据中方提供情报采取的行动
缅甸军人政府邀请来自世界多国的50多名观察人员前往果敢特区，在这次行程中，缅甸内政部副部长Phone Swe 告诉这群参观人员，缅甸军搜查非法武器工厂是根据中方提供的情报，并最终导致这场冲突的。
Myanmar Says Chinese Tip-off Led To Border Clash
Myanmar Says Tip-off From China Led To Border Clash With Ethnic Forces
(AP) Myanmar troops were acting on a tip-off from China when they seized an illegal arms factory last month, triggering several days of clashes with an ethnic militia that sent more than 30,000 refugees fleeing across the border into China, an official said.
Myanmar's ruling military junta secured the northeastern region of Kokang late last month and thousands of refugees have since returned to their homes. On Tuesday, it held a government-organized tour of the region for diplomats and reporters.
Myanmar Deputy Home Affairs Minister Brig. Phone Swe told participants that government troops seized the weapons factory near the Chinese border on Aug. 8 after being informed about it during a ministerial meeting with China on combatting transnational crime.
Myanmar's junta earlier said the ethnic militia then raided a police checkpoint and took 39 police officers hostage. Fifteen officers were later killed, leading to full-scale fighting that state media say killed 11 soldiers and eight militia members, it said.
Phone Swe's comments appeared to be an attempt to show that relations with China _ the junta's top ally _ were on a steady keel, after speculation about strains following the refugee influx and a rare public request from Beijing that Myanmar calm the situation.
Myanmar's border regions have for decades been the site of clashes between ethnic armies and the ruling military that have displaced hundreds of thousands of people.
Myanmar, also known as Burma, is largely estranged from the West, but China has maintained close economic and diplomatic ties with the junta, ensuring Beijing's access to its neighbor's vast mineral wealth. Major Chinese state companies are big investors in Myanmar's oil and gas industries.
The new leader of the ethnic group, meanwhile, said it will participate in elections next year, the first in nearly two decades.
Phe Sauk Chen, who was appointed head of the newly formed Kokang Region Provisional Leading Committee after the former leaders fled, told reporters during the same trip Tuesday that his group also agreed to join the government's border security guards.
The issue of whether to take part in national elections, the first in nearly 20 years, has been a point of contention among ethnic groups, which are being asked to put down their weapons and join the border guards.
So far, the Kachin Independence Organization is the only other ethnic group that has agreed to take part in the elections. Larger ethnic groups like the Wa, which has a militia estimated at over 20,000 fighters, have so far resisted.
Critics call the elections a sham designed to cement the military's grip on power.
Myanmar has been under military rule since 1962. The current junta took power in 1988 after violently crushing a pro-democracy uprising.
The Kokang were the first among 17 armed ethnic groups to reach a peace agreement with the government in March 1989.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/09/ ... 7014.shtml
缅甸军人政府邀请来自世界多国的50多名观察人员前往果敢特区，在这次行程中，缅甸内政部副部长Phone Swe 告诉这群参观人员，缅甸军搜查非法武器工厂是根据中方提供的情报，并最终导致这场冲突的。
Myanmar Says Chinese Tip-off Led To Border Clash
Myanmar Says Tip-off From China Led To Border Clash With Ethnic Forces
(AP) Myanmar troops were acting on a tip-off from China when they seized an illegal arms factory last month, triggering several days of clashes with an ethnic militia that sent more than 30,000 refugees fleeing across the border into China, an official said.
Myanmar's ruling military junta secured the northeastern region of Kokang late last month and thousands of refugees have since returned to their homes. On Tuesday, it held a government-organized tour of the region for diplomats and reporters.
Myanmar Deputy Home Affairs Minister Brig. Phone Swe told participants that government troops seized the weapons factory near the Chinese border on Aug. 8 after being informed about it during a ministerial meeting with China on combatting transnational crime.
Myanmar's junta earlier said the ethnic militia then raided a police checkpoint and took 39 police officers hostage. Fifteen officers were later killed, leading to full-scale fighting that state media say killed 11 soldiers and eight militia members, it said.
Phone Swe's comments appeared to be an attempt to show that relations with China _ the junta's top ally _ were on a steady keel, after speculation about strains following the refugee influx and a rare public request from Beijing that Myanmar calm the situation.
Myanmar's border regions have for decades been the site of clashes between ethnic armies and the ruling military that have displaced hundreds of thousands of people.
Myanmar, also known as Burma, is largely estranged from the West, but China has maintained close economic and diplomatic ties with the junta, ensuring Beijing's access to its neighbor's vast mineral wealth. Major Chinese state companies are big investors in Myanmar's oil and gas industries.
The new leader of the ethnic group, meanwhile, said it will participate in elections next year, the first in nearly two decades.
Phe Sauk Chen, who was appointed head of the newly formed Kokang Region Provisional Leading Committee after the former leaders fled, told reporters during the same trip Tuesday that his group also agreed to join the government's border security guards.
The issue of whether to take part in national elections, the first in nearly 20 years, has been a point of contention among ethnic groups, which are being asked to put down their weapons and join the border guards.
So far, the Kachin Independence Organization is the only other ethnic group that has agreed to take part in the elections. Larger ethnic groups like the Wa, which has a militia estimated at over 20,000 fighters, have so far resisted.
Critics call the elections a sham designed to cement the military's grip on power.
Myanmar has been under military rule since 1962. The current junta took power in 1988 after violently crushing a pro-democracy uprising.
The Kokang were the first among 17 armed ethnic groups to reach a peace agreement with the government in March 1989.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/09/ ... 7014.shtml
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