The Ta’ang National Liberation Army (TNLA) denies recent allegations of extrajudicial killing and mass abduction of local villagers in northern Shan State’s Kyaukme district.

The Ta’ang National Liberation Army (TNLA) denies recent allegations of extrajudicial killing and mass abduction of local villagers in northern Shan State’s Kyaukme district.
Relief workers say that these internally displaced persons are urgently in need of blankets and warm clothing as the cold season sets in.
Kyaukme has been for many years a peaceful town, its ethnic Shan and Ta’ang residents co-existing in relative harmony. But armed conflict is threatening to tear the communities apart.
“They claimed that three or four villagers from Wanmai were abducted by the Palaung armed group [TNLA] and yet to return.”
Naypyidaw has extended an olive branch to the Ta-ang National Liberation Army (TNLA), inviting the armed rebels to sign a separate bilateral ceasefire.
Claims, counter-claims and confusing statements emerge from a weekend of intense hostilities between Burmese military and Kokang ethnic forces.