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RANGOON — The joint chairman of the New Mon State Party (NMSP) has used a celebration on the Thai-Burmese border to make the case for a federal system of governance and the retention of ethnic armies, after ethnic leaders repeated their desire for co... [1]

Fierce clashes broke out in northern Shan State on Sunday and Monday as an ethnic Kokang armed group attacked a strategic junta base atop a hill in preparation for seizing Laukkaing Town, the administrative center of Kokang Self-Administered Zone alo... [2]

More than 270 Myanmar civil society groups have called on China to immediately halt all threats against the country’s ethnic armed organizations (EAOs) and to stop pressuring them to agree to a ceasefire and concessions with the illegal Myanmar milit... [3]

Senior officials of the Myanmar military regime recently met with two powerful ethnic Wa and Shan armed groups to cement relations with them. [4]

Chinese special envoy to Myanmar Deng Xijun held talks with the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) in China’s Tengchong, Yunnan Province, on Wednesday. (confirmed by 2 sources) [5]

Sources
[1] MM www.irrawaddy.com · 2015-05-11 · 100% match

NCCT Leader: Federalism Proposals Should Include Ethnic Army Guarantees

RANGOON — The joint chairman of the New Mon State Party (NMSP) has used a celebration on the Thai-Burmese border to make the case for a federal system of governance and the retention of ethnic armies, after ethnic leaders repeated their desire for co

[2] MM www.irrawaddy.com · 2023-12-05 · 100% match

Ethnic Army Battles to Seize Another Base From Myanmar Junta Near Border With China

Fierce clashes broke out in northern Shan State on Sunday and Monday as an ethnic Kokang armed group attacked a strategic junta base atop a hill in preparation for seizing Laukkaing Town, the administrative center of Kokang Self-Administered Zone alo

[3] MM www.irrawaddy.com · 2024-09-06 · 100% match

Hundreds of Myanmar Civil Society Groups Demand China Stop Threatening Ethnic Armies

More than 270 Myanmar civil society groups have called on China to immediately halt all threats against the country’s ethnic armed organizations (EAOs) and to stop pressuring them to agree to a ceasefire and concessions with the illegal Myanmar milit

[4] MM www.irrawaddy.com · 2021-04-10 · 100% match

Myanmar Regime Shores Up Ties With Two Powerful Northern Ethnic Armies

Senior officials of the Myanmar military regime recently met with two powerful ethnic Wa and Shan armed groups to cement relations with them.

[5] MM www.irrawaddy.com · 2024-08-28 · 100% match

China Closes Border to Pressure Myanmar Ethnic Armies Into Peace Talks

Chinese special envoy to Myanmar Deng Xijun held talks with the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) in China’s Tengchong, Yunnan Province, on Wednesday.

[6] MM www.irrawaddy.com · 2013-05-07 · 100% match

Ethnic Armies’ Role in Burma Drug Trade Off Table at Six-Nation Talks

RANGOON — Ethnic armies’ involvement in Burma’s drug trade was not discussed at a high-level meeting in Rangoon on Tuesday, despite a surge in narcotics production over six years concentrated in regions largely controlled by ethnic militia.

[7] MM eng.mizzima.com · 2024-08-26 · 100% match

Pro-junta ethnic army finishes training for 10,000 in southern Shan state

RFA More than 10,000 freshly-trained fighters from an ethnic army are on their way to replenish Myanmar’s depleted junta forces.

[8] MM www.irrawaddy.com · 2023-12-02 · 100% match

Operation 1027 Will Not End Until Myanmar’s Junta is Removed, Ethnic Army Says

The Brotherhood Alliance will not stop Operation 1027 till it rids all of Myanmar – not just the north – of the military junta, the spokesperson for one of its three members told The Irrawaddy.

[9] MM www.irrawaddy.com · 2022-06-02 · 100% match

Junta Urges Myanmar’s Most Powerful Ethnic Army not to Supply Arms to Resistance

Myanmar’s military regime has urged the United Wa State Party (UWSP), the political wing of the United Wa State Army (UWSA), the country’s most powerful ethnic armed organization (EAO), not to supply arms to the People’s Defense Forces (PDF) fighting

[10] MM www.irrawaddy.com · 2024-05-14 · 100% match

Myanmar’s Military is Being Cornered in Kachin State, Ethnic Army Says

Fighting to isolate junta troops in Bhamo township is intensifying as the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) pushes to expand the buffer zone around its headquarters in Laiza town, according to residents of the area and the KIA.

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