CNI News
22 December 2024

Distributing the letter in Katha Town, in which the Shanni Nationalities Army (SNA) would not consider to make friends with the KIA and the NUG, spoke ill of the SNA as well as to make the people misunderstand the SNA, said spokesperson of the SNA. 

The letter was written by those who impersonated the SNA, he said.

" The letter that is spreading online was not written by the SNA. It is unscrupulously being distributed on purpose in order to get the SNA into trouble. The public will be able to estimate who wrote the letter. There are elements that are launching offensives to the SNA. They are making attempts to capture the Shanni region. Because the SNA was collaborating with the SAC, they are fighting against the SNA. They spread propaganda it's not wrong that they are invading the Shanni region. The SNA is an organization that wants democracy and peaceful co-existence with all the nationalities." he said.

The letter was spreading in Katha on 19th December and it was not being distributed by the SNA; those who wrote the letter intended to invade the SNA region as well as to degrade the dignity of Shanni nationalities, said spokesperson.

Although the SNA is carrying out the regional stability and the security of lives and properties of the people, battles are breaking out between the KIA/PDF and the SNA because the KIA/PDF joint forces are attacking the SNA controlled territories.

The SNA was established in July, 1989 and it will gather Tamu, Homalin, Khamti, Katha, Banmauk, Mawlike and Kalay Districts which are included in Sagaing Region as well as Myitkyina, Mohnyin, Mogaung, Bahmo Districts, Karmine and Indawgyi regions and is trying to get Shanni State.