Abstract: In Kokang, Myanmar, ethnical struggles have never stopped and family politics has always been a hot issue, which can mainly be attributed to lack of ethnical identification of the locals, the under-the-desk deconstruction of the military government and the complicated local geographical politics. Among the above mentioned causes, lack of ethnical identification is the fundamental one, for the military government makes use of the missing shared history to deconstruct the society, resulting in loss of social order, persistent family boundary and unreachable common efforts of the locals. This is a lesson to be learnt, as construction of ethnic identification is a hard, complicated process subject to influences from various factional forces, internal and external.

Key words: inter-ethnic politics, ethnical identification, historical memory, community