In August 2009, the United Wa State Army became involved in the Kokang incident, a violent conflict with Burma's military junta's Myanmar Armed Forces (Tatmadaw). This was the largest …

2024年7月29日 · On Saturday the United Wa State Army (UWSA)—another ethnic minority armed group with greater manpower—moved personnel into Lashio to “protect” its properties there, …

On 16 August 2022, two mortar shells fired by the Myanmar Army landed in a Rohingya refugee camp in Bangladesh, killing one man and injuring five others. Myanmar Army helicopters …

2024年11月26日 · Military tension is rising as Thailand deployed more troops on the Myanmar border to pressure the United Wa State Army (UWSA) to withdraw from bases that allegedly …

2024年7月30日 · On the morning of July 28, a convoy of soldiers from the United Wa State Army (UWSA) drove through Lashio, the capital of the northern Shan State and home of the …

2023年11月1日 · One of Myanmar’s most powerful ethnic armed groups, the United Wa State Army (UWSA), said it won’t take sides in the ongoing fighting between the Myanmar regime …

2022年2月22日 · With the military, or Tatmadaw, distracted and overstretched by spreading revolt in the national heartland, Myanmar’s largest and best organized ethnic armed force, the China …

2019年4月17日 · It has a standing army of 25,000, manufactures its own guns and conscripts at least one member of each household – meet the United Wa State Army: Communist, …

The Wa have carved out a virtual independent nation for itself in eastern Myanmar called the Wa State and have the largest nonstate army in Asia. For centuries, they resisted rule by …

2024年8月6日 · The United Wa State Party issued a statement on 29 July 2024, confirming their decision to adopt a neutral policy of non-involvement in military conflicts of any organization …