MYANMAR TIMES
A senior Tatmadaw peace negotiator and a senior leader of the Arakan Army met on December 9 in Shan State as talks between the two sides intensifies, a source privy to the ongoing negotiations told The Myanmar Times.
The source said the meeting between a Tatmadaw major general and Nyo Tun Aung, the vice chair of the Rakhine ethnic armed group, was held in the headquarters of the United Wa State Army (UWSA) in Pangkham township in Wa’s self-administered region in Shan.
UWSA, the country’s largest ethnic armed group and AA are holdover groups that refused to sign the government initiated Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement (NCA).
“If they get good results from the meeting, Rakhine will continue to experience relative peace,” the source said. “I hope this would be the dawn of a more sustainable peace in Rakhine after over two years of fighting.”
During the meeting, there was discussion on a dialogue between Tatmadaw top peace negotiator Lieutenant General Yar Pyae and AA chief Major General Htun Myat Naing.
The Tatmadaw and AA negotiators have agreed on a temporary truce during an hour-long online meeting on November 25, according to the Arakan Army.
U Zaw Zaw Htun, the secretary of non-government group Rakhine Ethnic Congress said over 70,000 internally displaced people (IDPs) went back to their villages starting on November 9 as clashes between the two sides declined after the Tatmadaw formed a committee to negotiate with all armed ethnic groups in the country.
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