Myanmar civil war getting too close to India’s border for comfort 

While a report by the Special Advisory Council on Myanmar said the US, European and Asian firms are helping the Tatmadaw manufacture weapons, the International Crisis Group said the resistance forces are crowdfunding the civil war

: The civil war in Myanmar is getting too close to the Indian border for comfort and could heighten the refugee problem, security officials in the border States of Manipur and Mizoram said. 

A bigger worry is the possibility of the ethnic armed groups fighting for and against the Myanmar junta getting the spoils of war, primarily sophisticated weapons supplied by international manufacturers or procured from global funding. 

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In January, local organisations in Mizoram’s Champhai district had flagged the impact of the bombing by Myanmar’s armed forces “perilously close” to the border between the two countries. The air raids were on camps of ethnic armed groups resisting the Myanmar junta.   

Pro-democracy groups in Myanmar said on social media platforms that the civil war intensified after martial law was imposed in seven townships across Myanmar’s Chin State on February 2. 

The Chin National Army and Chinland Defence Force, two anti-military ethnic armed groups aligned with Myanmar’s National Unity Government (NUG) in exile, have stepped up their attack on Myanmar Army camps.  

Four days ago, the armed groups used drones to drop bombs at a village near Thantlang, a company location of the Myanmar Army in the southernmost fringe of Chin State.