It is a time tested conclusion that the Tatmadaw, and also the Aung San Suu Kyi headed NLD regime for that matter, cannot go it alone.

The wishful-thinking of that the Tatmadaw’s military pressure to break the will of the ethnic resistance into accepting the watered down version of the Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement (NCA) version, which is not accompanied by ending the Tatmadaw’s offensives in Shan and Kachin States, lacks all-inclusiveness participation and equitable, level playing field, will remain an illusion or pipe dream only.

As for Suu Kyi, coercively sticking to her rigid time schedule would eventually bring in the NCA-non-signatory ethnic armies is also equally an impoverish way of thinking, likely following the Inter Mediate’s, a policy think-tank that supervises Suu Kyi, suggestion, according to a knowledgeable signatory ethnic armed organization.

It seems Suu Kyi is employing a paternalistic attitude, by probably thinking and believing that: “She is grabbing the non-signatories of NCA by the collars and forcibly putting them into a paradise-like atmosphere – literally Nat Pyi in Burmese, where the latter complained that it is too high and instead jumped down”.

What a pity that the situation has been misinterpreted by the Tatmadaw and as well Suu Kyi.

Link to the story: http://frontiermyanmar.net/en/preparing-for-the-next-panglong-conference