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Bookmark or Share- In northern Myanmar, forgotten Kachin conflict intensifiesLAIZA, Myanmar (AP) — On the front lines, the army is pounding rebels with airstrikes and artillery. In the displacement camps, terrified civilians are building bomb shelters of sandbags and stones. And everywhere in this troubled swath of Myanmar’s north, there is a growing sense the conflict will only get worse.
- Myanmar Military Bombs Refugee Camp, Killing 29, Rebels SayThe victims were internally displaced people from a camp that housed about 500 near the town of Laiza on the Myanmar-China border, according to Naw Bu. Among the dead, 11 were under the age of 16...
- Laiza: Kachin Borderlands—Life After the CeasefireLaiza, located in the south-eastern part of Kachin State bordering with China, was just a village until 1994, but has developed into a modern border town within just a decade. It is currently under the administrative control of the Kachin Independence Organisation (KIO), the largest ethnic armed group in Kachin State.
- Laiza - WikipediaLaiza (Burmese: လိုင်ဇာ, romanized: Laingza, Chinese: 拉咱; pinyin: Lāzá) is a remote mountainous town in the Kachin State, Myanmar. It lies on the China-Myanmar border, with Nabang, Yingjiang County. located across the border. Laiza is the headquarters of the Kachin Independence Organisation since 2005. History
- Laiza in the spotlight: Myanmar's rebel capital digs in – and switches ...Last modified on Mon 3 Feb 2020 07.48 EST. Laiza is a city under siege – sort of. On one side of this remote, mountainous but important settlement in Myanmar’s breakaway Kachin state lurks the ...
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