Peace Process Steering Team vows to work with the people to end dictatorship

By DMG 11 Mar 2021

DMG Newsroom
11 March 2021, Sittwe

The Peace Process Steering Team’s temporary leader General Yawd Serk says he was very sad for all fallen people during the recent fatal crackdowns of the State Administration Council on protests and the Civil Disobedience Movement, adding that the PPST will work with the people to end the dictatorship.

At a March 11 meeting of the PPST, General Yawd Serk said the PPST of ethnic armed organisations that signed the Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement (NCA) denounced the cruel crackdown on protestors, using fully armed security forces as if in war.

“I’d like to call for no more unlawful arrests of protestors and striking employees by blocking wards at night with soldiers and police, and for the unconditional release of all detained people,” he said.

The Restoration Council of Shan State, one of the NCA signatories, is now talking with the Committee Representing Pyidaungsu Hluttaw (CRPH) about the political crisis in Myanmar and approaches to resolving the issue, the CRPH said.

The PPST has decided it will suspend political talks with the SAC under the current situation.

General Yawd Serk urged ethnic armed organisations to conduct their activities with regard to the desires of the people during a time important to the country.

The NCA signatories are the Karen National Union; Chin National Front; All Burma Students’ Democratic Front; Karen National Liberation Army-Peace Council; Pa-O National Liberation Organization; Arakan Liberation Party; Restoration Council of Shan State; Democratic Karen Benevolent Army; New Mon State Party; and Lahu Democratic Union.