After losing strategic military camps near Laiza town where the KIA headquarters is located in Kachin State, the military junta is launching deadly airstrikes, according to investigation from local people.
“The Kachin Independence Army (KIA) had started to an offensive against the military junta bases and camps in Kachin State since March 7, and more than 20 military camps were captured within 4 days,” the KIA/KIO spokesperson Colonel Naw Bu confirmed this.
Accordingly, the junta is continuosly launching aerial bombardments around the town of Laiza where the KIA headquarters is located, and they are doing like this in order to escape the junta troops who were captured alive from the seized militar camps, a KIA source said.
“It is to open the way for the junta troops to retreat from the base, and the airstrikes are no less than ten times a day,” said a KIA source.
The residents of Laiza are reportedly fleeing from the war and are currently sheltering in the nearby forests due to the ongoing bombing and execessive air attacks by the junta.
“It is right there is bombing every day. We flee close by forest. There are air strikes both day and night,” said a resident of Laiza.
Currently, the military junta fears that the KIA forces will attack the towns of Myitkyina, Bhamo, and Waing Maw, so they are preparing the military in these towns and arresting unsuspecting youths.
“There is a war IDP camp at the Robert Church in Bhamo. The junta troops raided this camp and young men were arrested after looking at their knees and baskets,” said a resident of Bhamo.
Due to the aerial bombardments by the junta in Kachin State where the fighting is intense, civilians were reportedly killed, including children and the elderly.