CNI News

23 Sept 2022

Deputy general staff officer Lt-Col Khun Tun Shwe of the Pa-O National Organization told the CNI that it had dealt with the issues over the killing of five members of the Pa-O National Liberation Organization/Pa-O National Liberation Army.

The PNO/PNA arrested and killed five PNLO/PNLA members from Warpyone Village, Pinmoon Village-tract, Pinlaung Township in Pa-O Self-Administered Zone in Shan State South.
Lt-Col Khun Tun Shwe told the CNI, “Everything has been dealt with. We have fulfilled everything necessary to their satisfaction. As both sides have discussed military and social issues, we are in good relations with each other.”

He added that both sides agreed to handle issues responsibly through liaison offices in the future.

A soldier from the PNLO/PNLA.

The PNO is working with all organizations to protect the Pa-O Self-administered Zone from armed conflicts, Lt-Col Khun Tun Shwe said.

He said, “We live in peace and try to maintain stability in our region and protect residents from armed conflicts together with all organizations through negotiation. We are trying to protect our people from the destruction of war.”

The PNLO/PNLA is a signatory to the Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement and active in Hsehsai, Hopong, Mawkmai in Shan State (South).
The PNO/PNA is an ethnic armed group that signed a peace agreement with the Tatmadaw in 1991. The Tatmadaw allowed the group to establish a self-administered zone in Special Region–6.

In 2010, the group changed its name to the PNO/PNA and registered a political party called the PNO with the Union Election Commission.