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Insurgents group members exchange
arms for
peace
Yangon,
29 Jan — The State Peace and Development Council, with genuine
goodwill as well as with might and main, is exerting every
effort to establish a peaceful, modern and developed nation.
Armed insurgent groups, realizing the goodwill of the State and
Tatmadaw, have been exchanging arms for peace in groups or
individually with the conviction that their regions lagged far
behind development because of their age-long destructive acts,
which in no way benefited the nation and the people.
From 1 to 31
December 2002, Sergeant Hpa Palo, wife Ma Tin Tin Win and son El
Kanyaw, forest group leader Hpa Plate, wife Ma Aye Yi and sons
Saw Kulu, Saw Darble and Darchipole, area in-charge Aung Myint,
wife Ma Dar Oh, sons Ak Htoo and Mo El and daughters Ma Kaing,
Aye Mon and El Mon, area in-charge Kyaw Oo and wife Naw Pi Ni
and area in-charge Soe Myint of company 4, battalion 16 of KNU
insurgent group, together with two .30 carbines, one AK 47
rifle, one RPG launcher, three assorted magazines and 30 rounds
of ammunition, and one radio receiver, and Private Saw Kyepyaung
of battalion 6, with one AK 47 rifle, one M 16 rifle, two
magazines and 20 rounds of ammunition exchanged arms for peace
at South-East Command.
Private Hpa
Hpa of company 4, battalion 10 of KNU insurgent group, together
with one grenade, Platoon Commander Hti Pho Kaw of company 3,
battalion 11 of KNU insurgent group, with one home-made gun,
exchanged arms for peace at Coastal Region Command.Private Maung
Ta Ne of CNA insurgent group exchanged arms for peace at
North-West Command.
Administrator Lwe Mu, area in-charge Ne Mu, and Privates Saw Paw
Mu, Lwai Mu, Se Lathwai, Educator Phado Lawsha and Arkimo of
KNPP insurgent group, together with three M 16 rifles, three
magazines, and 73 rounds of ammunition exchanged arms for peace
at Eastern Command. Altogether 30 persons who exchanged arms for
peace during the period were warmly welcomed by respective
military camps and were provided with necessary assistance.
Likewise, there are still some more remnants of insurgent group
to follow suit. |
