29 OCTOBER 2007
WA AND KOKANG POLICE FORCE ARE PERPETRATORS IN CRACKDOWN AGAINST MONKS
Wa and Kokang police force are perpetrators in crackdown against monks
We learned that Wa and Kokang police forces were sent to Rangoon to crackdown over peaceful protests
led by monks in September 2007. These police forces are from Ching Shwe Haw from Kokang, Kunlone
Township. They cracked down monks and students in these Rangoon protests brutally.
They were sent to Rangoon under the instruction of Minister of Home Affairs Maung Oo for 4
consecutive days starting from 23 September 2007. Minister Maung Oo said in his instruction to recruit
and send 500 police personnel who cannot speak Burmese.
The warlords and fat cats in these Kokang and Wa territories can recruit and maintain these combat police
forces as their pocket army. We learned that most of the police personnel are from these pocket armies.
The police force of Wa ethnic U Haw was included in this police personnel sent to Rangoon, first they
were told to be sent to Lashio in blue police uniforms and then later sent to Rangoon instead to
crackdown brutally on monks, students and police. Most of them can not speak and understand Burmese
language fluently and instructed by Minister U Maung Oo to beat the men in yellow robes by saying that
they were the rebels. He gave them order to fire these rebels too.
Remark
These police forces are not recruited under the Ministry of Home Affairs, but they are recruited under the
command of 'United Wa Solidarity Army' (UWSA) and Kokang militia as their own security forces with
police force status. They are under the complete control of UWSA and Kokang organization.
We learned that Wa and Kokang police forces were sent to Rangoon to crackdown over peaceful protests
led by monks in September 2007. These police forces are from Ching Shwe Haw from Kokang, Kunlone
Township. They cracked down monks and students in these Rangoon protests brutally.
They were sent to Rangoon under the instruction of Minister of Home Affairs Maung Oo for 4
consecutive days starting from 23 September 2007. Minister Maung Oo said in his instruction to recruit
and send 500 police personnel who cannot speak Burmese.
The warlords and fat cats in these Kokang and Wa territories can recruit and maintain these combat police
forces as their pocket army. We learned that most of the police personnel are from these pocket armies.
The police force of Wa ethnic U Haw was included in this police personnel sent to Rangoon, first they
were told to be sent to Lashio in blue police uniforms and then later sent to Rangoon instead to
crackdown brutally on monks, students and police. Most of them can not speak and understand Burmese
language fluently and instructed by Minister U Maung Oo to beat the men in yellow robes by saying that
they were the rebels. He gave them order to fire these rebels too.
Remark
These police forces are not recruited under the Ministry of Home Affairs, but they are recruited under the
command of 'United Wa Solidarity Army' (UWSA) and Kokang militia as their own security forces with
police force status. They are under the complete control of UWSA and Kokang organization.
