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Myanmar Times
April 26, 2018
After the government and Kachin Independence Organisation (KIO) agreed to a ceasefire in 1994, Than Chaung and ABSDF North left the Kachin area to join the Shan State Progress Party/Shan State Army North (SSPP/SSA). In 1998, Than Chaung left SSPP/SSA and joined the Restoration Council ofÃâà...
Myanmar Times
April 19, 2018
In 1998, Than Chaung left the SSPP/SSA and joined the Restoration Council of Shan State/Shan State Army (RCSS/SSA), becoming commander of the 241 RCSS/SSA brigade. Both ABSDF and the RCSS have signed the Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement (NCA) with the government and started a dialogueÃâà...
Radio Free Asia
April 13, 2018
The village is situated along the Namtu-Lashio Highway, the main thoroughfare between the two towns, where the Myanmar army and two ethnic armed groups — the Restoration Council of Shan State/Shan State Army-South (RCSS/SSA-S) and Ta'ang National Liberation Army (TNLA) — frequently travel.
The Irrawaddy News Magazine
April 5, 2018
Led by the United Wa State Army (UWSA), the FPNCC also includes the Arakan Army (AA), the Kachin Independence Army (KIA), the Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army (MNDAA), the Ta'ang National Liberation Army (TNLA), the Shan State Progress Party/Shan State Army (SSPP/SSA), and theÃâà...
Burma News International
April 5, 2018
... an armed group shot fire at a vehicle transporting cattle on the highway between Wan Kon Sar and Wan San Laung villages in Hsipaw Township on March 31. The Tatmadaw is active in this area near the highway. The Shan State Progress Party/Shan State Army – North (SSPP/SSA-N) is active inside theÃâà...
Burma News International
March 29, 2018
Although fighting has currently stopped between the Restoration Council of Shan State/Shan State Army – South (RCSS/SSA-S) and the Ta'ang National Liberation Army (TNLA) in the northern Shan State, local residents of Man San Village of Kun Kaw Village Group near Kyaukme are still unable to returnÃâà...
The Irrawaddy News Magazine
March 28, 2018
The Restoration Council of Shan State/Shan State Army (RCSS/SSA) — an NCA signatory — and the TNLA— a non-signatory — have consistently clashed in northern Shan State. The RCSS signed the NCA on Oct. 15, 2015. Fighting between the two groups erupted on Nov. 27, 2015, due to the RCSS'sÃâà...
South China Morning Post
March 25, 2018
“These are soldiers of the Shan State Army,” says our guide, who doesn't want to be named, after we cross the checkpoint. He refers to the armed wing of the Restoration Council of Shan State, an ethnic group that has signed a ceasefire with the government and that controls part of the territory we will crossÃâà...
Burma News International
March 21, 2018
Over 200 local residents are taking shelter in Aung Mingalar Monastery in Kyaukme in northern Shan State due to the fighting between the Ta'ang National Liberation Army (TNLA) and the Restoration Council of Shan State/Shan State Army – South (RCSS/SSA-S) in Kyaukme Township. A total of 233Ãâà...
Mizzima News
March 20, 2018
Shan State Army - South (SSA-S) soldiers training at their headquarters in Loi Tai Leng, in Myanmar's northeastern Shan State. Photo: KC Ortiz/AFP. According to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) and local charity organizations, the number of peopleÃâà...
Radio Free Asia
March 17, 2018
The TNLA and RCSS, the political organization that oversees the Shan State Army-South, held a preliminary meeting along the Myanmar-China border on Jan. 22 to discuss the ongoing conflict and how to resolve it. They agreed that their senior officials would continue talks to end the hostilities. “But nowÃâà...
Frontier Myanmar
March 16, 2018
... non-signatories of the NCA at a summit hosted by the United Wa State Party at its headquarters at Panghsang in April last year. Apart from the UWSP, the FPNCC comprises the KIO, Mongla-based National Democratic Alliance Army, Shan State Progress Party-Shan State Army-North, TNLA, MNDAA andÃâà...
Tricycle
March 16, 2018
Yawnghwe's mother involved herself in revolutionary activities in Burma, forming the Shan State army to fight for Shan independence, while Yawnghwe stayed abroad, where he had gone to study. In 1988, when Aung San Suu Kyi appeared as a figurehead for the people's uprising, Yawnghwe relocated toÃâà...
Burma News International
March 8, 2018
The Restoration Council of Shan State/ Shan State Army – South (RCSS/SSA), a signatory to the Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement (NCA), is planning to hold the national-level political dialogue before May, for the Shan people in order to participate in the third session of Union Peace Conference— 21stÃâà...
Radio Free Asia
March 1, 2018
Yawd Serk, an ethnic Shan political leader who was chairman of the Restoration Council of Shan State (RCSS) and commander-in-chief of the Shan State Army-South (SSA-S), did not attend, nor did Saw Mutu Sae Po of the Karen National Union (KNU), which represents the interests of the ethnic KarenÃâà...
Burma News International
February 28, 2018
The Hopong Township Court has given one to ten years sentences to eight villagers for supporting and associating with the Restoration Council of Shan State/ Shan State Army – South (RCSS/SSA-S), which is a signatory of the nationwide ceasefire agreement (NCA). The eight residents of HopongÃâà...
The Irrawaddy News Magazine
February 23, 2018
... Ta'ang National Liberation Front (TNLA), Arakan Army (AA), Myanmar National Democratic Alliance (MNDAA), Kachin Independence Army (KIA), and Shan State Army (SSPP/SSA). But the army appears to have singled out the Wa. “There are other ethnic armed groups in the FNPCC, not only the UWSA.
Myanmar Times
February 20, 2018
The Shan State Army (SSA) laid down its arms in a ceasefire with the Myanmar government two years ago and the state's ruling administration is now enjoying the fruits of the transition to peace. These quieter times have allowed the building of the first vocational college in the rebel-controlled area, whichÃâà...
Burma News International
February 16, 2018
The eight residents of Nam Hkoke Village were arrested by the Tatmadaw's 225th and 249th Infantry Battalions (IB-225 and IB-249) on July 17, 2017 for not giving information about the Restoration Council of Shan State/Shan State Army – South (RCSS/SSA-S). After the RCSS/SSA-S signed the nationwideÃâà...
Mizzima News
February 16, 2018
Every year the Restoration Council of Shan State Shan State Army (RCSS/SSA) holds a massive celebration for Shan National Day on 7 February at their mountaintop headquarters at Loi Tai Leng in Shan State, Myanmar, close to the Thai border. The event, which attracts Shan people from all across ShanÃâà...
Eleven Myanmar
February 14, 2018
NAYPYITAW- Third round of 21st Century Panglong Conference can be held after holding of National Level Political talks being organised by New Mon State Party (NMSP) and Restoration Council of Shan State/Shan State Army (RCSS/SSA), says Zaw Htay, Director General of State Counsellor's Office.
DVB
February 13, 2018
LOI TAI LENG, Shan State — During the 71st Shan National Day commemoration at the headquarters of the Restoration Council of Shan State/Shan State Army-South's Loi Tai Leng headquarters last week, European ambassadors and UN representatives rubbed shoulders with ethnic armed group leadersÃâà...
The Nation
October 26, 2017
Shan State Army (SSA) military officers and their family members on Thursday held a sandalwood-flower laying ceremony to pay tribute to His Majesty the late King Rama IX. General Sao Yawd Serk assigned his deputy commander to preside over the ceremony on their military base at Doi Tai Lang inÃâà...
The Irrawaddy News Magazine
December 31, 1999
The militarization of Shan State has increased despite the ethnic Shan armed groups, such as the Restoration Council of Shan State/Shan State Army-South and the Shan State Progressive Party /Shan State Army-North, signing bilateral ceasefires with the government in 2012, and the former being aÃâà...
Democratic Voice of Burma
December 31, 1999
The Kachin Independence Army, the Arakan Army, the Ta'ang National Liberation Army, the Shan State Army-North and the Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army were also present. They went on to form an umbrella coalition known as the Federal Political Negotiation and Consultative Committee.
DVB
December 31, 1999
More than 300 locals fled their villages and took refuge in a monastery near Namtu town when armed clashes broke out on Saturday between the Restoration Council of Shan State/Shan State Army (RCSS/SSA) and Ta'ang National Liberation Army (TNLA). “The fighting broke out in Mong Hway village,Ãâà...
Radio Free Asia
December 31, 1999
The TNLA engaged in skirmishes with the Myanmar army in the state's Mangton, Namtu, and Namhkam townships in March, as well as with troops from the Restoration Council of Shan State (RCSS), the political organization that oversees the Shan State Army-South militia, in Namhsan and KyaukmeÃâà...
The Irrawaddy News Magazine
December 31, 1999
The second element, the painting “Shan State Army” (2017), depicts his imagined impression of the ethnic Army as it existed in 1964. The third and largest painting is “Peace Industrial Complex ll” (2017). Sawangwongse Yawnghwe explained that the title refers to “the network of resource and financial flowsÃâà...
The Irrawaddy News Magazine
December 31, 1999
By Nyein Nyein 12 April 2018. CHIANG MAI, Thailand – The Shan State Progressive Party and the government's Peace Commission will meet at the party's Wan Hai headquarters in northern Shan State's Kehsi Township within the next three weeks, according to the commission. According to sources close to the SSPP, theÃâà...
