Burma admits air strikes targeted Kachin rebels(20130104)

The Burmese government has confirmed thaｔ it carried out air strikes this week against rebels in northern Burma. The government officials told VOA on Wednesday that "training jets" were used against ethnic rebels in Kachin state. He says the air strikes were meant to answer attacks by the Kachin independence organisation. Some government officials have early denied carrying out an air offensive in rebel-held territory. But officials later said the army have used air strikes to help recapture a base during an increase in fighting that began last week. Each side has blamed the other for increased violence. Tens of thousands of people have been displaced in northern Burma since June of 2011.That was when the fighting between the army and Kachin rebels began, ending a 17-year ceasefire.     

original news・日本語のニュース

（日本語訳）

ミャンマー政府は、ミャンマー北部の反乱軍に対して今週空爆を行ったことを認めた。政府高官は水曜日カチン州の民族反乱軍に対して訓練機を使用したとＶＯＡに語った。彼は、空爆はカチン独立組織による攻撃への反撃であると言っている。当初政府高官たちは反乱軍が支配している地域での空爆の実施について否定していたが。後になって軍隊が先週始まった戦闘が激化する中で基地を奪回するため空爆を使用したことを認めた。お互い（政府軍と反乱軍）が、戦闘が激化した責任は相手にあると言っている。北部ミャンマーでは、17年の停戦が終わり、軍隊とカチン反乱軍が戦闘を始めた2011年の6月以降数万人の人々が避難を強いられている。

My thought/opinion on this issue

I have paid attention to the development of the country after military rule had ended. But I have first learned that the country has this kind of problem. Ethnic problem is often uncovered after rule by  strong power has ended, I think.