RCSS/SSA to return detained soldier to Tatmadaw
The Restoration Council of Shan State/Shan
State Army (RCSS/SSA) says
it will return a Burmese soldier who was apprehended earlier this week during a
clash in Mong Kung Township, southern Shan State.
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| Gen Yawd Serk, the chairman of the Restoration Council of Shan State/Shan State Army (RCSS/SSA). |
Gen. Yawd Serk, the chairman of the RCSS/SSA, told Shan Herald that the
arrested soldier will be handed over to the Burmese army. He
said that his group had reported the case to Shan State’s
Joint Monitoring Committee (JMC), which
was formed to monitor both government forces and ethnic armed groups in
accordance with the terms of the Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement (NCA) signed on October 15, 2015.
“This arrested soldier
is from Bago Township,” he said. “We
are in the process in transferring him back to the Tatmadaw [Burmese
army].”
Fighting between RCSS/SSA and
Burmese army Infantry Battalion 577 broke out in Wan Mong village tract in Mong
Kung Township on August 13.
On October 5, 2016, Shan Herald reported that
clashes between two groups broke out in Mong Kung Township, a RCSS/SSA stronghold, when a Burmese
unit overran an RCSS/SSA rehabilitation center.
The
hostilities compelled more than 2,000 civilians to flee their homes.
The RCSS/SSA is considered one
of the strongest ethnic armed groups in Burma. Despite the ceasefire accord, it
has clashed more than 20 times with Burmese government forces since the signing
of the NCA with the then President Thein Sein administration.
By Shan Herald Agency for News (SHAN)
Tags: News, War
