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Ethnic alliance claim government’s peace offer is ploy to destroy their unity
The United National Federal Council claim in a statement released this week that President Thein Sein’s peace offer to ethnic armed groups is only an attempt to break up the unity of the UNFC.
Naing Han Tha, general secretary of the UNFC said that the government peace offer is to divide ethnic alliance and it won’t lead anywhere.
“They [Burma government] claimed that as there are different ethnic States, the needs in each case are different. They approached individual member organizations of UNFC and we viewed this is an attempt to divide us. They want to meet UNFC members individually and make ceasefire agreement separately, and then will delay a genuine peace process by reaching individual [business] development agreements with each group. The end point is as they have written in their constitution – ceasefire groups will be turned into Border Guard Force or a militia group under the direct c