 |
| The flag of Burma Army's North-eastern Regional Military Command based in Lashio, Shan state. |
The Kachin Independence Army (KIA) detained two Burma army officers and a soldier who were all wearing civilian clothes when they arrived at the Bang Hkam checkpoint near the Burma-China border in Kachin state on January 25, according to officials from the KIA's 3rd brigade.
The three Burma army personnel are all said to be serving under the North-eastern Regional Military Command based in Lashio in Shan state. Lt-Col Thet Khaing Oo (army identification No. K/26014), captain Yan Naing Aung (army identification No. K/50106) and soldier Myint Thu Shine (army identification No. T/394020), identified themselves as members of Burma's armed forces who had taken the wrong direction on a road.
“We detained them because they told us they were from the Northern Regional Military Command. We interrogated and asked their identification numbers and freed them the next day at around half past noon,” a KIA battalion 27 officer involved in their detention told the Kachin News Group.
The men were released on the orders of senior KIA officials stationed at the group's Laiza headquarters, according to the KIA 27 Brigade officers.
The detained officers told their KIA counterparts that they wrongly entered into Kachin state from the Muse-Jiegao road, according to the KIA battalion 27 officer.
Bang Hkam was previously controlled by government forces however it was captured by soldiers from KIA battalion 27 shortly after the Kachin conflict erupted in June 2011.
www.kachinnews.com
www.burmese.kachinnews.com
www.kahcin.kachinnews.com
www.kachin-news.blogspot.com
http://www.facebook.com/Kachin-News-Group
0 comments:
Post a Comment
Note: Only a member of this blog may post a comment.