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Chinese envoy holds talks with Kachin armed group after fall of rare-earth mining town
The official reportedly urged senior leaders of the Kachin Independence Organisation to end their offensive against Myanmar’s military
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Rare earth mining expanding in Myanmar army’s Kachin ‘Special Region’
China’s imports of rare earths from Myanmar—mostly from a remote corner of Kachin State controlled by a junta-aligned warlord—is now double its own annual production quota
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Several officers from ethnic Kachin armed group captured by Myanmar military
The arrests come amid tightened security in the Kachin State capital and weeks after the junta’s aerial bombing of a concert commemorating the KIO’s anniversary
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A Nang Pa airstrike fatalities expected to rise as Myanmar military blocks victims’ access to medical care
At least 100 wounded people are trapped at the site of an aerial bombing by the junta, as troops manning military checkpoints refuse to allow cars to enter or exit the area
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‘Yakkha’ pilots in Yak-130s likely responsible for Hpakant airstrike: defector
Yakkha, the Burmese word for “ogre,” was part of the call sign of each of the pilots involved in the deadly aerial assault
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