缅甸时报：缅军称木姐炮击系克军所为（转）

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缅甸时报：缅军称木姐炮击系克军所为

按：何不以木姐缅军军营为目标，一次发射数十上百发炮弹？
缅军指责木姐105英里处贸易区炮击事件系克钦独立军所为。
缅军报纸《妙瓦底日报》6月29日报道，6月28日至少发射了三枚炮弹致伤两名居民，其中第一枚落在Shwe Leik Pyar饭店附近（博主注：饭店边上是警察所，或许目标不是饭店而是警察所），第二枚落在缅甸国民银行支行附近，第三枚落在农产品交易中心附近。
一位高级商务官员告知缅甸时报，炮弹落在距中缅边界主要国境点13公里处，贸易未受干扰。
克钦独立军的Teng Seng少校否认缅军的指责：“我认为缅军嫁祸我军是因为我方上周指控他们炮轰拉咱一所学校，不同的是我们有证据。”“我认为缅军无意签署全国停火协议，否则他们不会进攻民族武装组织。”
木姐一位高级警官说，警方和军方检查了被炮火击中的地区，并找到了弹片。警方说他们还在进行调查，尚不能证明缅军关于克军所为的断言。
缅军公共关系与心战部上校发言人昨日说，军方掌握了木姐炮击系克军所为的证据，但拒绝作进一步评论。
KIA accused of shelling close to Muse trading zone

By Ye Mon   |   Tuesday, 30 June 2015

The Tatmadaw has accused the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) of firing several artillery rounds in the area of the 105 Mile trading zone in Muse township in northern Shan State, which is also the country’s most important border crossing for trade with China.

Myawady Daily, a military newspaper, reported yesterday that at least three shells were fired on June 28, wounding two residents. Shells were said to have landed first near the Shwe Leik Pyar restaurant, then a branch of Myanmar Citizens Bank and the third near the agricultural commodities exchange centre.

The shells landed 13 kilometres (8 miles) from the main border crossing point with China and there was no disruption to trade, a senior commercial official told The Myanmar Times.

The reported incidents were the latest signs of increased tensions between armed ethnic groups and government forces in Kachin and Shan states since nationwide ceasefire talks stalled in early June, with both sides accusing each other of initiating fighting.

However, Major Teng Seng of the KIA denied that his group was responsible for the shelling in Muse township, saying the Shan State Army or the Ta’ang National Liberation Army could have been responsible.

“I think the Tatmadaw blamed it on us because we accused them of using artillery near a boarding school in Laiza [the KIA headquarters] last week. But we have evidence,” the KIA major said. He said the shell landed about 200 metres (660 feet) from the dormitory and the headmaster’s house of Alem Bum boarding school.

Major Teng Seng said that fighting between the KIA and the Tatmadaw had resumed in the jade mining area of Hpakant in Kachin State following initial clashes two weeks ago. Local aid groups said about 200 people had been displaced by the first outbreak.

“I think the Tatmadaw has no intention of signing the nationwide ceasefire agreement. Otherwise they would not attack the ethnic armed groups,” said Maj Teng Seng.

A senior police officer in Muse said police and Tatmadaw had checked the areas near Muse hit by artillery fire and found remnants of shells. Police said they were still investigating and could not confirm the Tatmadaw’s allegations that the KIA was responsible.

Myawady Daily said the KIA was attempting to disrupt stability and sow fear among residents.

A colonel acting as spokesperson for the Tatmadaw’s Public Relations and Psychological Warfare section said yesterday the military had evidence of KIA responsibility for the alleged Muse shelling. He declined to give further comment.

Nine local humanitarian agencies released a statement on June 26 calling on all sides in Kachin State to take measures to protect civilians in armed conflicts.

The Kachin conflict is one of the longest-running ethnic insurgencies in Myanmar. A ceasefire agreed in 1994 lasted until 2011. Peace talks, mediated initially by China, resulted in an agreement in May 2013 to scale back hostilities, but not a ceasefire. About 100,000 people remain in camps for internally displaced persons.