Four cuts strategy. Oct 17, 2024 · Leaked details of an August 27 meeting between China’s special envoy to Myanmar, Deng Xijun, and the powerful United Wa State Army (UWSA) reveal the armed group was told to employ the “four cuts” strategy against the Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army (MNDAA) and the Ta’ang National Jul 7, 2021 · The ‘four cut’ was a doctrine which was designed to server insurgents from keys inputs like funding, food, intelligence and recruits. The four cuts strategy (Burmese: ဖြတ်လေးဖြတ်) is a military doctrine of the Tatmadaw (the military of Myanmar) that consists of violent collective punishment against civilians perceived to have ties to insurgent groups. . [1][2] The strategy has its origins in the 1960s in the internal conflict in Myanmar and has been used Mar 3, 2023 · GENEVA (3 March 2023) – Myanmar’s military has created a perpetual human rights crisis through the continuous use of violence, including the killing, arbitrary arrest, torture and enforced disappearance of anti-coup opponents, a published by the UN Human Rights Office said today. But now the groups that are being targeted are based at the Sino-Burmese border and the Thai-Burmese border. It was prosecuted against the Karen rebellion first, before being rolled out to deal with insurgencies. But what is the “four cuts”? Dec 5, 2023 · The four-cuts strategy, designed to cut off food sources, funds, information and recruits, was created in Karen state in the 1960s when the Myanmar Army started fighting the Communist Party and the Karen National Union (KNU). Jul 5, 2021 · Kim Jolliffe, an independent researcher focused on security and conflict in Myanmar, says the ‘four cuts’ strategy was first developed in the 1960s when the Tatmadaw was struggling to fight May 28, 2025 · Decades-old counterinsurgency strategy resurfaces as Myanmar junta targets civilians in modern warfare. Jul 15, 2017 · The army has cited its four cuts strategy as key to successfully forcing the insurgent Karen National Union out of the Irrawaddy Division and the Communist Party of Burma out of the Yoma mountain range into the Shan State in the 1970s. It has been deployed repeatedly since in various military operations, including in Rakhine state in 2017. mz ssc6f bodxqkbo hzndwpd q72 trui jg2 eve6t bvoacl eis17