abstract:The Kokang people () are an ethnic group of Burma (also known as Myanmar). They are Mandarin-speaking Han ChineseBurma has other, non-Kokang populations of Han Chinese; depending on what area of China they originally immigrated from, these populations speak Yunnan Mandarin, Hokkien, Cantonese, Hakka, and Hainanese.
ByFridaymorning, about 10,000 people, includingethnicKokangandChinesebusinessmen, had crossed over from Myanmar into Nansan town and GenmacountyofYunnan province.
When conflict broke out in 2009 with the Kokang, an ethnic-Han-Chinese minority, 37, 000 people fled to China, provoking sharp criticism of the Burmese junta.