The KIA rejects Burmese government’s ceasefire offer, made after it occupied the KIA’s Bum Sen Post Sunday evening, said KIA officials at the Laiza headquarters.
Kachin Independence Army (KIA) officials said the government offered a ceasefire after they occupied the Bum Sen Post, a strategic military base for the KIA, connecting the Laiza Headquarters and the KIA’s 3rd Brigade in N’mawk Township and 4th Brigade in Northern Shan State.
On Monday afternoon, the KIA, the leader of the ethnic political and military alliance known as the United Nationalities Federal Council (UNFC), declared the renewal of civil war in the whole country.
Early this morning, at around 3:30 a.m. local time, the KIA destroyed the Nam Hpuk Hka Bridge, which connected the KIA’s Bum Sen Post and two Taping River dams in N’mawk (Momauk) Township, with Manmaw (Bhamo), KIA officials in Laiza confirmed.
Local people said fighting has continued around the Bum Sen Post and the two Taping Dams for four straight days.
