JAKARTA - The Kachin Independence Army (KIA), the ethnic armed wing of Kachin State attacked the Myanmar military headquarters in Mohnyin District, Kachin State on Thursday 11 March.
Cited from Myanmar Now, KIA attacked the Myanmar military headquarters near Sal Zin Village, said KIA spokesman Colonel Naw Bu.
“We don't know the details. But our central command has not issued any orders to ambush military camps or clash in cities", he explained.
"Around 10 a.m., the military started using fighter jets to counterattack", he added.
He further explained that two KIA camps had been attacked by Myanmar military forces in Kutkai City, northern Shan State during the past month.
It is known that tensions between ethnic armed forces and the Myanmar military have increased since the February 1 coup. Previously, the armed ethnic Karen National Union (KNU) and the Restoration Council of Shan State (RCSS) clashed several times with the Myanmar military.
Together with the KNU and RCSS, Kachin State is part of 10 armed ethnic groups that signed the National Armistice Agreement (NCA) in 2015.
On February 20, 10 armed groups that had signed the NCA announced that they would postpone a political meeting for negotiations with the junta.
The announcement also said the groups supported the Civil Disobedience Movement and other forms of public resistance to military coups and would look for ways to support their communities.
Previously, Brigade-1 Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA), which is the armed wing of the Karen National Union (KNU), was involved in a gun battle in Hpa-an Township, Thaton District on Tuesday.
The spokesperson for the KNU Concern Group Naw Sipho Yar Sein said there were victims on their side as well as the Myanmar military. He said the Myanmar military carried out a lot of shootings in Mandalay and Yangon because there were no armed ethnic groups.
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"What is being done in the cities now is more because there are no armed groups. In fact, people are being harmed by inhuman actions", he criticized as reported by burmese.voanews.com.
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