2018
DOI: 10.1355/cs40-3e
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Producing Intransigence: (Mis)understanding the United Wa State Army in Myanmar

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“…The UWSA offers an image of itself as a wellprotected country that does not seek international recognition but wants status as a selfgoverning state in Myanmar with its own armed forces (The Frontier, March 20, 2019). In Myanmar's constitution, the Wa territory on the border of China has a unique status as a self-governed division, while the status of a separate territory controlled by the UWSA on the border to Thailand has not been formalised (Ong 2018).…”
Section: The Kachin Independence Armymentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The UWSA offers an image of itself as a wellprotected country that does not seek international recognition but wants status as a selfgoverning state in Myanmar with its own armed forces (The Frontier, March 20, 2019). In Myanmar's constitution, the Wa territory on the border of China has a unique status as a self-governed division, while the status of a separate territory controlled by the UWSA on the border to Thailand has not been formalised (Ong 2018).…”
Section: The Kachin Independence Armymentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In short, the activities managed by the UWSA and UWSP ranging from infrastructure development to mining are of such a scale that their illumination is visible from space. When analyzed in combination with other data sources, NTL imagery can therefore help expose the supposed "shadow networks" enveloping these groups [112], which extend across Myanmar's borders and below its surface. that the tin mine is owned by senior UWSA and UWSP officials rather than well-established mining companies [111], its visibility in NTL imagery suggests industrial operations, especially because artisanal mines have been found to be generally undetectable in VIIRS imagery [88].…”
Section: Northeastern Border With Chinamentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In short, the activities managed by the UWSA and UWSP ranging from infrastructure development to mining are of such a scale that their illumination is visible from space. When analyzed in combination with other data sources, NTL imagery can therefore help expose the supposed "shadow networks" enveloping these groups [112], which extend across Myanmar's borders and below its surface.…”
Section: Northeastern Border With Chinamentioning
confidence: 99%
“…7 The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam in Sri Lanka, for instance, were a secessionist ethnic rebel group that engaged in terrorism, but also acted as a guerrilla movement instituting governance structures in "liberated" territory (Mampilly 2011). The United Wa State Army in Myanmar are ethnic rebels who fight infrequently and engage in both governance activities and lucrative commerce, enjoying cooperative relations with the Chinese state and seeking autonomy within Myanmar, not independence (Ong 2018). The Islamic State has a networked structure and engages in terrorist attacks, but its affiliates have also sought to build transnational caliphates and engage in governance, analogous to other organizations with transnational revolutionary ideologies (Kalyvas 2015b;Revkin and Ahram 2020).…”
Section: Conceptualizing Armed Group-state Tiesmentioning
confidence: 99%