Remarkably in February-March 2013, the government army's order SSA troops to depart from its mountain bases west of the Salween River. SSA refused and armed conflict occurred. The fight had claimed more than 100 casualties on both sides including the local inhabitants.
On March 17, 2014, a report by the Shan Human Rights Foundation was released expressing government's army shelling of villages, torture, looting that caused two thousand villagers to flee their homes near Chinese pipelines in Northern Shan State.
According to SHRF, more than one thousand government troops fired shells and sprayed gunfire into villages in Nawng-Khio Township. Soldiers severely tortured a villager, and looted livestock, causing about 2,000 villagers from eleven villages to flee their homes on March 1-2, 2014. The attack on villagers occurred at a place just 10 miles far-off from Chinese oil and gas pipelines which pass through northern Shan State.
The SHRF recent report stated, noting that fortunately there were no causalities caused by the attacks. Because of the shelling and shooting, about 2,000 people, most of the inhabitants of the following villages, fled from their homes during March 1st and 2nd 2014. People fled to neighboring villages, including to Kio Arng, about 6-7 miles away. Some fled with bullock carts, others on trucks.
Shan Women's Action Network (SHAN) primarily demands for a real ceasefire and to honor the terms of agreements made between the government and ethic armed groups. It also demands moving forward of the peace process in order to have a genuine peace that all the people are wishing. It is necessary that clashes to be stopped and government must pull out its armed forces from all recent deployment positions during the conflicts, the right group told Shan Herald Agency for News.
As a result, the ceasefire agreement between Naypyitaw and SSPP/SSA on 28 January 2012 looks like invalid for Burma's armed forces. Then, mistrust arises that the government's temporary ceasefire agreements with ethnic armed groups seem to draw the international backing, rather than genuine peace.
At present, Burma Army's actions are not likely supporting the peace process by its government. If the army did not change its course by peace process, the people would consider the president's reform plans as a charade. The consequences of the army's two-faced acts will push the country into an extra insufficiency.
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