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.
Representatives from the armed group and Naypyidaw-backed negotiators also agreed to hold their first round of union-level talks on 10 August, according to the MPC’s Nyo Ohn Myint.