{"id":68208,"date":"2015-04-01T03:29:50","date_gmt":"2015-04-01T03:29:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.freeburmarangers.org\/?p=60538"},"modified":"2015-04-01T03:29:50","modified_gmt":"2015-04-01T03:29:50","slug":"civilians-murdered-and-widespread-use-of-air-strikes-despite-high-level-meetings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.freeburmarangers.org\/my\/2015\/04\/01\/civilians-murdered-and-widespread-use-of-air-strikes-despite-high-level-meetings\/","title":{"rendered":"Civilians Murdered and Widespread Use of Air Strikes Despite High-Level Meetings"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><strong>Civilians Murdered and\u00a0Widespread Use of Air Strikes Despite High-Level Meetings<\/strong><\/h1>\n<address><strong><\/strong><em>1 April 2015<\/em><\/address>\n<address><em>Kachin and northern Shan States, Burma<\/em><\/address>\n<p>Despite recent meetings between senior representatives of the Kachin Independence Organization (KIO), President Thein Sein and Burma Army military head Min Aung Hlaing to discuss a potential ceasefire agreement, incidents of aggression by the Burma Army have increased to levels not seen since initial fighting in 2011.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Civilians Murdered<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>On 23 March, three civilians, a father, mother and their son, were shot to death by Burma Army soldiers\u00a0of Infantry Battalion (IB) 10 and Light Infantry Battalion (LIB) 317 at Du Hku Village.\u00a0Mr. Dama, his wife, and their son Dama La, were all killed while\u00a0another son, Dama Naw, escaped with his wife to Mung Hkawng Village.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Multiple Incidents of Air Strikes<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>At 5:15 on the 22 March, two Burma Army air force fighter jets attacked Kachin Independence Army (KIA) positions around Mahtet, which is defended by the KIA\u2019s 1<sup>st<\/sup> Battalion.<\/p>\n<p>Between 08:05 \u2013 15:00 on 24 March major fighting erupted when an estimated 100 Burma Army soldiers of IB 10 attacked the KIA&#8217;s Du Hku Post defended by the 27<sup>th<\/sup> Battalion.<\/p>\n<p>Two Burmese aircraft bombed the KIA defenses more than ten times in three rounds of assaults that occurred between\u00a013:10 \u2013 13:25,\u00a014:16 \u2013 14:35\u00a0and between\u00a015:45 \u2013 16:02\u00a0times.<\/p>\n<p>A number of Burmese personnel were killed or wounded in this offensive and KIA troops recovered the dead bodies of a Burmese sergeant and two privates and a captain rank uniform, as well recovering ten Rocket-Propelled Grenade (RPG) projectiles, eight 60mm shells, 500 .50 caliber machine gun rounds, a quantity of 5.56mm ammunition, operational maps and assorted other military equipment in the aftermath of the clash.<\/p>\n<p>On the 26 March between\u00a014:50 \u2013 15:20\u00a0air strikes launched from Bhamo struck the KIA\u2019s Du Hku, Nga Tu Kawng, Hpa Ra and Lun Ja Kawng posts. After launching a total of seven strikes with rockets and strafing runs with cannon the aircraft returned to Bhamo.<\/p>\n<p>Also on the 26<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0between\u00a017:20 \u2013 17:40,\u00a0Burma helicopters targeted the KIA\u2019s Hpa Ra, Mahtet and Sindi posts. Three strafing runs (when aircraft-mounted automatic weapons fire upon ground targets) were made in total with rockets and machine guns.<\/p>\n<p>God bless you,<\/p>\n<p>Free Burma Rangers<\/p>\n<script type='text\/javascript'>\nvar post=eval({\"id\":68208,\"title\":\"Civilians Murdered and Widespread Use of Air Strikes Despite High-Level Meetings\",\"subject\":\"FBR: Civilians Murdered and Widespread Use of Air Strikes Despite High-Level Meetings\",\"admin_email\":\"info@freeburmarangers.org\",\"admin_name\":\"FBR\"});\n<\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Civilians Murdered and\u00a0Widespread Use of Air Strikes Despite High-Level Meetings 1 April 2015 Kachin and northern Shan States, Burma Despite recent meetings between senior representatives of the Kachin Independence Organization (KIO), President Thein Sein and Burma Army military head Min &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wp.freeburmarangers.org\/my\/2015\/04\/01\/civilians-murdered-and-widespread-use-of-air-strikes-despite-high-level-meetings\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reports"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"2.7.8","language":"my","enabled_languages":["en","my"],"languages":{"en":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"my":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.freeburmarangers.org\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.freeburmarangers.org\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.freeburmarangers.org\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.freeburmarangers.org\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.freeburmarangers.org\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68208"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/wp.freeburmarangers.org\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68330,"href":"https:\/\/wp.freeburmarangers.org\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68208\/revisions\/68330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.freeburmarangers.org\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.freeburmarangers.org\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.freeburmarangers.org\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}