Commander-in-Chief of Defence Services Senior General Min Aung Hlaing has expressed concern that the Maijayan summit of ethnic armed organisations (EAOs) will be used to consolidate the groups’ military power, according to General Khun Okkar, a member of the Peace Process Steering Team (PPST).
The senior general also said he was worried factionalism would break out between national ceasefire agreement signatories and non-signatories, according to the PPST member, who met the senior general on June 29 in Nay Pyi Taw.
General Khun Okkar of the Palaung National Liberation Organisation said: “The upcoming summit might be the last event for those who did not sign the nationwide ceasefire agreement to be involved in the peace process. We will discuss and negotiate during the summit before the official peace talks begin. We will be closer through this summit. However, the military commander-in-chief warned us of two things. First, he noted that ethnic militia leaders have a tendency to showboat their territorial holdings through these conferences, as in the Pangsang conference, which was held in the Wa region. [The commander-in-chief] said ethnic militia leaders amass power and land through these conferences and try to show off their military power in order to stop the war in the north [of Kachin State]. That is why he does not want power-building through the conference.” (Courtesy of elevenmyanmar.com)
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