Was Still Keeping Doors Closed After Blast

Was Still Keeping Doors Closed After Blast

Following the explosions that incapacitated their electric power plant last month, the Was in Mongyawn are still keeping their side of the Thai border closed, reported Maihoong. 

"People from their side can enter Thailand, but entry into their territory has been forbidden", he said. "Some of the Thais who even used to work in their construction projects and asked permission to go back and pick up their belongings were turned back saying they should wait until things returned to normal". 

A Wa officer who was briefly in Thailand told Maihoong that the leadership believed it was the Burmese plot to sow discord among the Was, notably between Wei Hsiaokang, who was wanted both by Thailand and the United States for drug offenses, and Wei Hsaitang, their main military commander in the south. 

"We don't have any problems among us that cannot be resolved peacefully", the source told Maihoong. "Most of us don't suspect the Thais either, because they have not been allowed to come in". 

"But the Burmese, they want us to fight among ourselves", he said.