Chinese border authorities have ordered Kokang refugees back to Burma, threatening to deport those who resist the directive, according to sources on both sides of the border.
“They came through Thursday and destroyed 40 or 50 dwellings,” said Sai Lao, a brigadier-general in the Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army (MNDAA), a Kokang ethnic armed group that waged an intense campaign against the Burma Army in months-long hostilities that drove tens of thousands of civilians into China last year. “They will not tolerate staying along the border anymore.”
Before they destroyed the houses, “they came to take photos and told the refugees to leave the area, otherwise they would be arrested and deported back to Burma,” he said. (Courtesy of Irrawaddy)
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