China makes formal complaint to Myanmar over bombing raids
Foreign ministry asks Myanmar to confine its military action against Kachin rebels to its own territory after air strikes on the Chinese side
China has made a diplomatic complaint to Myanmar after three bombs landed on its territory during air strikes on ethnic minority rebels in Kachin state, causing damage to one house.
"The Chinese side has launched representations with the Myanmar side requiring them to take effective and immediate measures to avoid the repetition of similar incidents," Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying told a regular news briefing yesterday. She said there were no casualties from the bombs, which landed on a village in Yingjiang county, Yunnan , on Sunday night.
Residents of the border county said there had been bombing and air raids close to their homes every day in the past week as the Myanmese army struck rebel positions.
"My home is just 10 metres from a river that forms the border with Myanmar's Kachin state," a resident of the town of Nabang said.
"We have heard bombing and air raids in Kachin day and night since [December 28]."
He confirmed that no one had been injured on the Chinese side of the border, but that a house had been flattened by a bomb on Sunday night.
Another Nabang resident said villagers had seen two Myanmese military jets enter China's air space on December 28.