Uwsa in a sentence

On Aug. 27 China’s special envoy to Myanmar Deng Xijun held talks with Bao Ai Kham, the son of UWSA commander-in-chief Bao Youxiang, and UWSA vice chair Zhao Guoan at a Chinese border town.

He claimed only UWSA President Jeremiah Bowers can speak on the UWSA’s behalf.

Here, they lure young people with the promise of high-paying jobs, before trafficking them to Wa State, an autonomous enclave in northeastern Myanmar controlled by the United Wa State Army (UWSA).

In Myanmar’s revolutionary war, the UWSA likes to play big brother to its indigenous allies – the Ta’ang, the Kokang, the Arakan – but it sees no benefit from direct conflict.

Nyi Nap, chairman of the junta-appointed administrative body of Wa Self-Administered Division, handed over control of the two towns to the UWSA’s administrator for Mongmao District in a ceremony last Wednesday.

The Wa leaders are always accompanied by Chinese intelligence officers, and it is no exaggeration to say the UWSA is an extension of China’s People’s Liberation Army.

Peter has been in Ghana for three times and he said he is privileged to be associated with the UWSA.

Since the ceasefire deal in 1989, there have been no clashes between the UWSA and the Tatmadaw.

The UWSA did not provide further comment on Index’s closure to The Uniter as of publication.

Although, unlike many of my fellow Lancers out there, I’ve before heard about or seen the UWSA from outside eyes.

Based in northern Shan State, the UWSA is the largest ethnic armed force in Myanmar, with an estimated 40,000 personnel.

But the government has also supplied weapons to EAOs, particularly the UWSA, who have then passed some of them on to the KIA and other EAOs.

Defehr encourages students to come forward either to the UWSA or recreation services if they have any suggestions or concerns regarding accessing the gym space or any other areas on campus.

Lahu Baptist Convention (LBC) Secretary-General Reverend Lazarus said his group would go back to the Wa region again if the UWSA allowed it to.

The UWSA has always made the case for an autonomous Wa State, yet insists that it does not call for secession or independence.

The UWSA has temporarily shut down all churches, but will allow some to reopen after it completes its investigation of Christian leaders, he said.

The UWSA issued a statement on Dec. 9, but it was in Chinese only, according to Nyi Rang, who declined to let The Irrawaddy see it.

The UWSA is the largest ethnic armed force in Myanmar with over 40,000 men under arms in the Wa region, although it currently has a ceasefire agreement with the Myanmar Army, or Tatmadaw.

The UWSA split from the Burmese Communist Party in 1989 and later entered a ceasefire agreement with the military government that ruled Myanmar at the time.