Myanmar’s ambassador to Beijing, Thit Linn Ohn, was summoned to the Chinese Foreign Ministry on Friday, as Vice Foreign Minister Liu Zhenmin lodged a formal protest and demanded a thorough investigation into the incident, Xinhua reported.
Myanmar’s warplane on Friday bombed a sugarcane field near Lincang city in China’s southwestern Yunnan province.
The Myanmar military are fighting ethnically Chinese Kokang rebels in Shan state, with the violence occasionally spilling across the border. Earlier this week a shell hit a house on the Chinese side of the border while on March 8 another house was destroyed by a Myanmar bomb.
The conflict between Kokang guerrillas and the Myanmar government has been ongoing for decades. The latest ceasefire was agreed to in 1989, but sporadic hostilities resumed in 2009. The current flare-up began last year and escalated in February, with violence focusing on the Kokang town of Laukkai. An estimated 30,000 people have fled across the border in recent weeks.
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