Fourteen years after their patriarch was betrayed, Kokang’s Peng clan are finally poised to get revenge

In 2009, the warlord Peng Jiasheng was betrayed and forced to relinquish control of Kokang, the autonomous region in Myanmar’s north-east that he had ruled for decades. But now, 14 years later, amid Myanmar’s revolutionary war and China’s war on cyber scam operations, the Peng clan is poised to finally get revenge. After days of fierce fighting, their army this week reportedly seized the hilltop Four-Sided Buddha Pagoda, a key strategic position that overlooks Kokang’s administrative capital, Laukkai. The Pengs’ goal is literally in sight. “There’s a family feud element to all of this,” independent Myanmar analyst and researcher David…