Fan, vice chairman of the Central Military Commission, made the remarks while speaking with Min Aung Hlaing, commander-in-chief of the Myanmar Defense Services over the telephone, after a bomb dropped by a Myanmar warplane on Friday killed four Chinese in southwest China's Yunnan Province.
- Fan called on Myanmar to seriously investigate the incident, and urged the Myanmar side to severely punish the perpetrators, as well as apologize to and compensate the families of the victims.
Min Aung Hlaing said the Myanmar side understood China's feelings and assured that the Myanmar side would send personnel to jointly investigate the incident with the Chinese side. Min Aung Hlaing also promised to properly handle relevant issues and hold relevant people accountable.
He said the Myanmar military would advance friendly cooperation with the Chinese army.
Myanmar's warplanes have on several occasions crossed the China-Myanmar border and stray fire has caused casualties and loss of property of the Chinese people, Fan said.
On March 8, stray fire from a fight that occurred between Myanmar's government forces and a local ethnic army had damaged a house in China.
Friday's bombing hit a sugarcane field in the border city of Lincang, killing four people working there and injuring nine others.
Since Friday, China's Air Force have sent fighter jets to patrol over the China-Myanmar border areas to "track, monitor, warn and chase away" Myanmar military planes flying close to China.
Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Liu Zhenmin summoned Myanmar ambassador Thit Linn Ohn in Beijing Friday night, lodging solemn representations to him.
On Saturday, Chinese ambassador to Myanmar Yang Houlan also lodged urgent and solemn representations to Myanmar government and military.
Xinhua - china.org.cn
15/3/15
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Myanmar denies bombing in China as Beijing protests...
ReplyDeleteA senior Myanmar official yesterday denied Chinese accusations that one of its warplanes crossed China’s border and dropped a bomb that killed four farmers during fighting with Myanmar’s rebels.
Beijing strongly protested against the bombing and said it had sent fighter jets to fend off further intrusion.
Calling the bombing a “very distressful matter”, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang yesterday underscored the strong responses made by China’s Foreign Ministry and military.
“We have the responsibility and capacity to firmly safeguard stability in the border areas between the two countries and protect the life and property of our people,” Mr Li told reporters at a previously scheduled news conference.
The official in Myanmar’s presidential office said his government regrets the deaths and suggested it could have been the work of a group seeking to create confusion. He also promised “full cooperation” with Beijing into the incident, which has tested generally good ties that have been strained in recent years by Myanmar’s perceived shift towards the United States..............http://www.todayonline.com/world/asia/myanmar-denies-bombing-china-beijing-protests15/3/15