MNDAA detains civilians in Lashio for alleged military collaboration, local media reports no executions yet

The Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army (MNDAA) has detained some civilians in Lashio for allegedly providing information to the military, and they have not yet been executed, according to some local media reports.

The MNDAA is arresting civilians for allegedly informing the military of the target areas of the airstrikes in Lashio city as the army is conducting a series of airstrikes and some Telegram channels wrote that they will be executed.

According to a report by Shan State's local media, Shwe Phee Myay News Agency, the MNDAA has arrested more than 20 people for providing information to the military, but they have not been executed, according to sources close to the MNDAA.

Currently, the phone lines and internet lines are down in Lashio, and access to Starlink has been banned by the MNDAA, according to the news agency.

In the same way, the Shan Herald agency for news reported that more than 30 informers to the Tatmadaw had been arrested and paraded around the city to make execution, and that the death penalty had not yet been carried out, quoting a local.

Deng Xijun, Special Envoy for Asian Affairs of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for China, met with the Wa representatives on August 27 In China's Yunnan Province to discuss to control for the MNDAA, and the minutes of the meeting were leaked to the media in early October.

In the minutes of the meeting, it included the conditions of the occupation of Lashio by the MNDAA which has affected China-Myanmar relations, as well as affecting border trade and the China-Myanmar Silk Road Belt and Road (BRI) projects, and the conditions that have become an opportunity for the United States and the West to intervene in Myanmar affairs, blocking the supplies of electricity, water, internet and consumer goods including fuel, medicine, and rice by Chinese government on the MNDAA and the Kokang region, prohibiting the entry and exit of people, in the conditions in which Chinese border gates bordering the Kokang region are also tightly closed, the conditions in which the Chinese government's sanctions against the MNDAA have failed as goods and people from the “Wa” control area bordering the Kokang region and Mongla (NDAA) are passing through the Kokang region, contents warning the “Wa” not to sell arms and ammunition to other ethnic armed forces, including the MNDAA and TNLA and the conditions under which action would be taken against the TNLA.

The Central Committee for Counter-Terrorism announced on September 2 that MNDAA, TNLA and AA have been declared terrorist groups.