‘Four Wounds’ was first used against Karen in the 1960s and was re-sent to Rakhine in 2017.
Myanmar’s military, also known as Tatmadaw, appears to have returned to its “four-cornered” strategy to overthrow his regime, seizing power from the government elected to overthrow the government on February 1.
But what is “cutting four”?
According to Naw Htoo Htoo of Karen Human Rights Group, Tatmadaw began using “four wounds” in the 1960s to try to deal with weapons in areas controlled by Karen National Union (KNU), Myanmar military unit.
“They shoot every person and village they think might be connected to KNU,” he said. “They fired indiscriminately at Karen villages, destroyed any food and aid they thought would help KNU… banned medical care in the affected areas, arrested people suspected of providing aid and food, and arrested their families … became increasingly violent and forced to evacuate. ”
Tatmadaw has also used four wounds in Kachin State, when a ceasefire between Tatmadaw and the Kachin Independence Organization collapsed in 2011 and more than 100,000 people fled their homes in the new war, as well as in Rakhine State, where fighting is raging between Tatmadaw and Arakan Soldiers. 230,000 migrants between 2018 and 2020.
In August 2017, the group called itself Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA) Initiating terrorist activities near police in northern Rakhine State, Tatmadaw carried out so-called “legitimate activities” for all Rohingya people in the northern towns of the state.
Massacres, rapes, and assassinations have sent thousands of people fleeing the border into Bangladesh, and Myanmar is now facing a murder charge before the International Court of Justice.
A minority group hopes that the Aung San Suu Kyi government, which remained in power from 2016 until the overthrow of the government, will blame Tatmadaw for the violence in ethnic groups.
But he and his party, the National League for Democracy, have instead repeatedly supported Tatmadaw’s invasion of ethnic groups and barred international opportunities to help the homeless; Aung San Suu Kyi also defended Myanmar in the 2019 Hague massacre.
“The National League for Democracy has failed to stop or criticize [four cuts] even though they were lucky, ”says Naw Htoo Htoo.
