“The Chinese Embassy in Myanmar Sunday urged authorities in Myanmar to take effective measures to stop violence and punish the perpetrators after several Chinese-invested factories in Yangon were smashed, looted or burnt and some Chinese employees were injured.”
“Chinese investment in the textile industry in Myanmar has created nearly 400,000 jobs for Myanmar, and such behavior will also damage the interests of Myanmar people, the embassy said.”
“”The event is really bad,” the embassy said, urging the Myanmar side to take effective actions, punish the perpetrators and called for Myanmar people not to be provoked and used.”
“About 20-30 motorbike riders with iron bars, axes and gasoline stormed the factories, which are located in Shwe Lin Ban Industrial Zone, Hlaing Thar Yar Township, a Chinese businessman engaged in China-Myanmar textile cooperation, who requested anonymity, told the Global Times on Sunday.”
“The suspected arsonists are possibly anti-China locals who have been provoked by some Western anti-China forces, NGOs and Hong Kong secessionists, sources in Myanmar told the Global Times.”
“The Global Times found that on Friday, two days before the attacks targeting Chinese enterprises started, Kyaw Win, the founder of a London-headquartered NGO in Myanmar named “Burma Human Rights Network (BHRN)”, released a tweet on Friday warning that “If one civilian killed one Chinese factory become ashes.””
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