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Police Killed as KIA Attacks Junta Positions at Jade Mine: Residents
Smoke from military and police outposts is seen after the KIA launched attacks on Saturday morning at the Hkamti jade mine, Sagaing Region. / CJ
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By The Irrawaddy 22 May 2021
The Kachin Independence Army (KIA) attacked two military and police security outposts and killed at least two police officers at the Hkamti jade mine, Sagaing Region early Saturday morning.
Residents said that the KIA set fire to both military and police outposts in Machyang Hka and Nam Si Bum villages at the Hkamti jade mine after the attack.
The villagers said the two compounds are owned by the Myanma Economic Holdings Public Company Limited (MEHL), one of two major conglomerates controlled by the coup leaders. MEHL, Myanmar Economic Corporation (MEC) and its subsidiary are heavily involved in the jade mining business in the country’s major jade hub in Hpakant and Hkamti townships.
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Anti-coup protesters flash the three-finger salute during a demonstration in Yangon, Myanmar, Friday, May 14, 2021.
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More than 100 days after the February coup in Myanmar, and with no sign of action from a divided U.N. Security Council, international sanctions and boycott campaigns have assumed an ever greater importance in denying any legitimacy to the new military junta.
Western governments responding to global outrage at the mounting bloodshed have expanded sanctions to target the vast labyrinth of the Myanmar military’s economic assets, which are based on two conglomerates: Myanmar Economic Holdings Limited (MEHL) and Myanmar Economic Corporation (MEC).
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Democracy campaigners defying the military junta in Myanmar have pleaded with Australia to sanction the generals who engineered Februaryâs coup and the businesses that sustain the military regime.
Nearly 400 civil society organisations inside Myanmar have written an open letter to the foreign minister, Marise Payne, condemning Australiaâs âshameful inactionâ and urging it to impose new sanctions to de-legitimise the military regime and squeeze its sources of foreign funding.
âWe 390 civil society organisations across Myanmar are shocked by Australiaâs continued inaction on Myanmar, which emboldens the terrorist military junta,â the letter sent to Payne reads.
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