Recent speech made by the military proxy Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) General Secretary ex-major general Htay Oo will only serve as another fly in the ointment of the ongoing ceasefire talks of Naypyitaw led by U Aung Min and U Aung Thaung, said Hkun Okker, Joint General Secretary of the United Nationalities Federal Council (UNFC).

Since the return of its delegation from Taunggyi on 24 January and subsequent reporting to its central committee on 26 January, Restoration Council of Shan State / Shan State Army (RCSS/SSA) South officers have been visiting several communities under its control along the Thai-Burmese border to explain the following new policies, according to spokesman Maj Lao Hseng:

Following President Thein Sein’s ongoing ceasefire talks and agreements with several armed ethnic movements, I can’t help remember the old saying, “Fool me once, shame on you! Fool me twice, shame on me.”