An ethnic Burmese ceasefire group has learned from history. Based from a story sourced from The Irrawaddy, the Kachin Independence Organization (KIO), one of the biggest ethnic ceasefire groups, again rejected the military junta’s border guard force plan and called for autonomy in Kachin State.
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The meeting between the KIO and Burmese military officials led by Maj-Gen Soe Win, the commander of the Northern Regional Command and head of the transformation committee of the border guard force for the Northern Regional Command, took place in Myitkyina, the capital of Kachin State and the headquarters of the regional command, on July 8.
KIA recruits pledge to remember the martyrs who gave their lives for the Kachin people.
Representatives of the KIO told the Burmese that the KIO wanted to keep its military wing, the Kachin Independence Army (KIA), under its current status and rejected having Burmese military commanders in its ethnic armed forces.
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