Military-allied border militia commander Zahkung Ting Ying has reportedly come back to Myanmar this month after the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) captured the territory under his control in November, forcing him to flee to China.
Earlier this month Zahkung Ting Ying left Tengchong—the city in China’s Yunnan Province where he was taking refuge—before flying on a Chinese airline to the junta’s administrative capital of Naypyitaw, according to a source in Laiza, Kachin State, the site of the KIA’s headquarters.
On Wednesday afternoon, photos appeared on a pro-junta propaganda channel on Telegram, which showed Zahkung Ting Ying meeting with the Myanmar military regime’s minister for border affairs, Lt-Gen Tun Tun Naung, in Naypyitaw.
His motives for flying to the capital and meeting with the junta minister are unconfirmed.
According to the source in Kachin State, Zahkung Ting Ying has. . .
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