SPDC Begins Clamp Down on Ceasefire

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SPDC Begins Clamp Down on Ceasefire Groups

Units of Shan ceasefire groups south of Mongkung-Kesi motor-road were
instructed by SLORC /SPDC to move north, according to recent reports
received by S.H.A.N.

Reports indicate areas south of the road have become an all-out war zone
where SLORC / SPDC troops and their militia are allowed to kill, loot, rape
and burn at will. Even stragglers of the Shan State National Army, a.k.a.
the Shan State Army Central, were shot to death and their weapons
confiscated during last month's operations against forces of the Shan State
Army Southern, the group that was not permitted by Slorc to become a
ceasefire group like others. It is led by Yordserk, a 22-year veteran of the
Shan resistance.

People are being forced to relocate in barren places under SLORC / SPDC
control. Commander of the Northern Command, Brig. Gen. Tin Aung Myint Oo,
was reported to have threatened both the Shan State Army (Northern) and the
Shan State National Army at a meeting late last month  that villages in the
Northern Sector would also be relocated if both allows Yordserk's group to
operate there.

When S.H.A.N. argued that the obvious solution was for SLORC / SPDC to
accept the ceasefire offer from Yordserk, the source replied everyone else
also thought the same but so far no satisfactory answer from SLORC / SPDC
commanders was forth coming.

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