CHIANG MAI. Resumed fighting from July 20 till July 21, 2014 between Burma Army Battalion 248 and Shan State Army-North (SSA-N) Brigade 72 in Kehsi township, southern Shan State, has displaced people from six villages.
According to Sai Harn, a Shan youth who assisted the displaced villagers, the six villages include Parng Jay, Wan Kyawng, Par Teap, Wan Kwarn, Parng Mong and Parng Mike Kay, in Kehsi township. Sai Harn could not confirm the number of newly displaced villagers.
Since tension mounted in early July, hundreds of people have been seeking shelter at Wan Wap temple. The newly displaced villagers could not been able to seek refuge at Wan Wap due to the Burma Army operations in the surrounding area.
According to Sao Sai Kaw a retired SSA officer, the Burma Army wanted to occupy at Ta Pa Sawng in central Shan State because they were trying to cut off the connection between Shan State Army-North and Shan State Army-South.
Shan State Progress Party/Shan State Army-North General Secretary Sao Khun Seng said: "Before we reached a ceasefire, we built a bridge for the benefit of the people, and then the Burma Army burned down the bridge. After we signed a ceasefire, we rebuilt the bridge for the transportation of the people. For the security of the bridge, we set up our base there. We were told to move out, but this is our motherland, so how can we abandon it?"
SSPP/SSA signed a ceasefire with the Naypyitaw government in January 2012, and the group is a member of the Nationwide Ceasefire Coordination Team (NCCT) formed by ethnic armed groups negotiating for a Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement with the Union Peacemaking Working Committee, Naypyitaw.
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