Burmese Military Decieved Kachin Independence Army to Exchange POWs

(Photo-KIA: KIA lance-corporal brutally killed by the Burmese military)

On June 9th, 2011 Burmese military deceptively promised KIA to exchange prisoners of war. One KIA information officer was arrested while he was in his office. Three Burmese soldiers were also arrested during a battle near Moemauk town in Kachin State, Burma.

According to Kachin News, "Lance-Corporal Sau Ying Corporal KIA freedom fighter was killed by different forms of torture by Burmese troops after he was arrested at the KIA Sang Gang Post Wednesday morning". Mizzima, a pro-democratic media group interviewed a spoke-man in KIA regarding this issue. According to this source, the Burmese military deceptively told KIA that they would exchange the prisoner of war without mentioning whether the arrested one was dead or alive. The Burmese military also deceived KIA of retreating after exchange of prisoners. The KIA leased 6 Burmese soldiers including 2 officers.

However, the Burmese military brutally tortured the arrested KIA lance-corporal until death. His dead body was then to the KIA military camp, and throw the corpse outside of the camp. This treatment indeed was believed to be a psycho-war and insult.

Two Burmese officers and one soldier were captured in Sang Gang by KIA Battalion 15 on Wednesday, June 8, and three more Burmese soldiers were captured in the Sang Gang fighting, said sources from KIA Battalion 15.

Since May 19th, 2011 Burmese military started deadly attack over the Kachin Independence Army. KIA is known to be an ethnic arm-force struggling against Burmese military dictatorship for freedom and democracy for Kachin Ethnic National in Burma, and for the country Burma.

KIA and Burmese military used to have cease-fire since 1994 until the Burmese military regime renamed KIA as an 'insurgent group' after KIA had denied Burmese military's proposal to make KIA one of Boarder Guard Force under the new Burmese government.

The Kachin Independence Army (KIA) set a May 25th deadline for withdrawal of Burmese troops stationing around the Pang Hkawn-based KIA’s Battalion 5, based in Sinbo, in southern Kachin State, battalion officials said. The battalion 5, under command of Brigade 2, rejects the removal of the battallion, officials added.