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The Palaung State Liberation Front (PSLF) leaders refused to sign a state-level ceasefire during the July 31 meeting with the government’s Union Peace-making Working Committee (UPWC) in northern Shan state.
Since then, government forces have been bolstering their presence near PSLF-affiliated towns like Kutkai, Nankhan and Namtu. PSLF Chairman Tar Aik Bone said this latest move is a pressure tactic to force them to sign a ceasefire.
After more than two decades of fighting, the All-Burma Students’ Democratic Front (ABSDF) signed a preliminary ceasefire deal with government peace negotiators in Rangoon on Monday.
During a meeting at the Myanmar Peace Centre (MPC) in Burma’s commercial capital, the two sides signed a four-point deal that will allow the group’s members to travel unarmed through government-controlled territories and establish a liaison office in Karen state’s Myawaddy.
India has accused Pakistani troops of killing five Indian soldiers after firing across the Line of Control, the de facto border in disputed Kashmir. Pakistan any firing from its side, and calls the allegation “baseless.”
This latest incident comes amid attempts to renew diplomatic overtures for peace between the two nuclear-armed rivals.
A total of 94 communist rebels surrendered, were killed or arrested last month, the military claimed Thursday.
The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP), however, also suffered with 29 soldiers killed and wounded in the same period.
Sudan’s Foreign Ministry says a rebel ambush on an army convoy has killed nine soldiers.
The convoy was transporting fuel supplies for the U.N. mission in Abyei, a disputed region between Sudan and South Sudan.