An unknown chemical weapon is being developed in highly-secured areas in the country’s north, by workers wearing protective suits and guarded by Burmese military personnel, according to witnesses.
The secret site where the weapon is being developed is situated in Mabein Township, in southern Shan State, close to the border with Kachin State, according to locals and timber loggers.
Sources at the weapon site told the Kachin News Group (KNG), workers at the site have to wear NBC (Nuclear, Biological and Chemical) protective suits and the guards have also been alerted that people who breathe the gas from the site will die.
However, the secret weapon has not been identified yet, the sources added.
No one except workers are authorized to approach or enter the secret weapon project site by Burmese soldiers, who have guarded the site since the project started early last year, locals said.
Since last year, Chinese timber loggers and trucks have been banned from entering logging sites in the Mabein area, where teak is logged and transported to the Chinese border.
The site is isolated from villages in the township and it is also not accessible by local ethnic armies like the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) and Shan State Army-North (SSA-N), local observers said.
The military-controlled Burmese government is cooperating with North Korea and Russia for the development of modern weapons and a nuclear bomb.
