CNI News
17 January 2024
Any organization that performed to destroy lives and properties of the people living in the Shanni region including other public interests would be fought against, the Shanni Nationalities Army (SNA) stated on 15th January, 2024.
The SNA stated like that in relation to that some Shanni people from Thanan Village, Tamu Township by the Kuki National Army.
" The SNA is in a friendly relationship with any ethnic group for peaceful coexistence. But it will try to defend any brutal acts such as oppressing Shanni nationalities unjustly and committing human violations on Shanni people. Any organization that performed to destroy lives and properties of the people living in the Shanni region including other public interests would be fought against." said the SNA.
While seeing the statement released by the SNA
The SNA reported that the Kuki National Army (KNA) cruelly killed innocent 37 Shanni people including family and its children from Thanan Village, Aung Zeya Town, Sagaing Region.
Moreover, while Shanni people were taking refuge in San Khat Law Village on the India-Myanmar border line, four Shanni people were cruelly killed on the way back from attending a funeral by the KNA/KNO on 13th January 2024, said in the statement released by the SNA.
" It is an intentional armed terrorist killing of innocent people. Not only the act is inhumane, one race also oppresses another race. It is the killing of Shanni people with the intention of destroying Shanni people with attempted genocide. So, the SNA strongly opposes and denounces the act." said the SNA.
Because a kind of mass murder like that was nothing short of committing genocide, the KNA and the organizations that help the KNA must be responsible for that, the SNA has warned.
While seeing the KNA, the Kuki Force
The KNA/KNO was built on 24th February 1989 and has been active in the India-Myanmar border, Tonzang Township, Chin State, Khamti, Homalin, Leshi, Myothit and Tamu Townships, Sagaing Region.
The KNA/KNO's allies are the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) and the People's Defense Force (PDF) and the KIA mainly supports the arms and ammunitions.
The SNA was built in July, 1989 and it is striving to get the Shanni State, gathering Shanni regions in Kachin State and Sagaing Region. Moreover, it is trying to protect Shanni people from being bullied by regional armed groups as well as to make all ethnic people get equal rights, enjoy regional peace and stability and to build a federal democratic union.
