Shan want to work together
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Over 90 per cent of people in northeastern Shan State want to see Shan national parties working together, the Shan National League for Democracy (SNLD) said, citing a recent survey.
The survey, conducted by Shan National Forum Implementation Committee, talked with more than 3,000 people in 40 townships across the state. The respondents were not related to any political party or government army, according to the SNLD.
Saying that they were happy at the survey findings, Sai Nyunt Lwin, secretary of SNLD, said, “Right now, it’s impossible for the parties [to work together]. But they collaborated at the grassroots level on some issues.”
The forum in Yangon was mainly sponsored by the SNLD, the Shan National Development Party and other Shan cultural organisations.
The parties and organisations which attended the forum agreed to work together to end the ethnic conflicts in the state.
Meanwhile, the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) has released two teenagers hours after capturing them from Kanyin Myaung village in Moekaung Township of Kachin State.
About 200 people in KIA uniforms picked up the two villagers around 10pm on Tuesday last week.
The two teenagers have returned to their village, the locals said.
According to the local people, the KIA operatives pick up people this way and draft them into the organisation while releasing some of them.
