Posted on 06/05/2018 9:33:59 AM PDT by BBell
A Sky News investigation has uncovered evidence that the Burmese military is targeting other ethnic minorities.
The investigation, which involved travelling to remote parts of Myanmar, follows months of persecution against Rohingya Muslims by the country's military.
More than 700,000 have been forced to flee to Bangladesh in what the United Nations called a "textbook example of ethnic cleansing".
Now another ethnic group - the mainly Christian Kachin people - believe they are being increasingly targeted because the Myanmar military's persecution of the Rohingya went unpunished.
The attacks by the military are increasing in intensity and severity.
Kachin rebels, who mostly live in the northern mountainous area of Myanmar bordered by China and India, say one in eight of their population has been displaced.
The area which they call Kachin state is cut off by borders and Myanmar troops.
Authorities in Myanmar have been denying journalists, aid agencies, international observers, foreign diplomats and politicians access to the state.
Sky cameraman and producer Neville Lazarus and myself managed to reach this remote region with the help of a Kachin network that stretches from Myanmar to Europe.
What we found in this forgotten part of the world was worrying evidence of a second genocidal campaign - at least that's certainly what the Kachin people believe.
They have been fighting for self-determination since Burma (later renamed Myanmar, but the Kachin people are reluctant to recognise this) gained independence from the British in 1948.
Over the decades they have formed an effective army, known as the the Kachin Independent Army (KIA), and an administrative body called the Kachin Independence Organisation (KIO).
Thousands have died in bombings and attacks against them carried out by the Myanmar military - and these attacks have increased substantially since January after the same forces had spent months driving the Rohingya
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“Kachin rebels, who mostly live in ...the area which they call Kachin state ...have formed an effective army, known as the the Kachin Independent Army”
Maybe there is more to it then just being “Christian”?
The Kachin/Karen have been going at it with the Burmese government since the 50’s. I thought they had reached a peace settlement with the Myanmar government.
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