Friday, November 11, 2011
Troops of the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) are using cloth masks to cover their nose and eyes (not medical masks) for protection from the poisonous fumes of the chemical weapons being used by the Burmese Army in the ongoing civil war in the country’s northern Kachin State, said KIA.
It is meant to protect them from soft chemical weapons being used regularly by Burmese troops, who have launched a major military offensive against the KIA in Kachin State and Northern Shan State since June 9, said KIA officers of the 3rdBrigade, unwilling to be named.
Now after three days of fighting from November 9 in the areas between Nam Hpak Hka stream and Hpakawn Village near Taping (Dapein) dam in N’Mawk (Momauk) Township in Bhamo (Manmaw) district, Burmese Army troops have been firing mortar shells daily loaded with an unidentified poison gas, according to local villagers and KIA soldiers in the war zone.
When the KIA soldiers breathe in the red and white coloured smoke from the Burmese Army’s mortar, they fall unconscious and suffer continuous vomiting. Their vision is also being affected, said villagers and KIA soldiers, who were victims of the gas attack.
There were over 100 casualties among government troops in the three-day fighting with KIA troops of the 3rd Brigade, said KIA officers on the frontline.
No KIA soldier was killed in the fighting though over 10 KIA soldiers are sick after inhaling poison gas, said a KIA officer in the 3rd Brigade, who did not want to be named.
According to local people and KIA soldiers, government troops attacked the KIA with poison gas in war zones in Kachin State such as Ga Ra Yang, Lung Zep Kawng, Ntap Bum, Sang Gang, Shwe Nyaung Pyin and Hka Wan Bang.
Chemical weapons were also used in Northern Shan State when the Burmese Army launched an offensive on the KIA’s 4th Brigade in October, said KIA brigade officers.
From:KNG
It is meant to protect them from soft chemical weapons being used regularly by Burmese troops, who have launched a major military offensive against the KIA in Kachin State and Northern Shan State since June 9, said KIA officers of the 3rdBrigade, unwilling to be named.
Now after three days of fighting from November 9 in the areas between Nam Hpak Hka stream and Hpakawn Village near Taping (Dapein) dam in N’Mawk (Momauk) Township in Bhamo (Manmaw) district, Burmese Army troops have been firing mortar shells daily loaded with an unidentified poison gas, according to local villagers and KIA soldiers in the war zone.
When the KIA soldiers breathe in the red and white coloured smoke from the Burmese Army’s mortar, they fall unconscious and suffer continuous vomiting. Their vision is also being affected, said villagers and KIA soldiers, who were victims of the gas attack.
There were over 100 casualties among government troops in the three-day fighting with KIA troops of the 3rd Brigade, said KIA officers on the frontline.
No KIA soldier was killed in the fighting though over 10 KIA soldiers are sick after inhaling poison gas, said a KIA officer in the 3rd Brigade, who did not want to be named.
According to local people and KIA soldiers, government troops attacked the KIA with poison gas in war zones in Kachin State such as Ga Ra Yang, Lung Zep Kawng, Ntap Bum, Sang Gang, Shwe Nyaung Pyin and Hka Wan Bang.
Chemical weapons were also used in Northern Shan State when the Burmese Army launched an offensive on the KIA’s 4th Brigade in October, said KIA brigade officers.
From:KNG
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