The lady so far has been only keen to engage with the Tatmadaw, basically to be able to survive in maintaining the NLD’s role as an administration that tackles with the day-to-day tasks, while the military make major decisions like peace process using the unspoken understanding of ruling the ethnic states.

She has to refrain from appeasing the Tatmadaw only and put more meaningful cooperation with the ethnic nationalities armed and unarmed organizations, if peace and reconciliation are to be achieved.

In concrete terms, it means help to stop the ongoing war in ethnic states; understanding the real sense of Panglong Agreement, Promises and Spirit included, as its originally stated value, and not reinterpreting to suit the Bamar ethnocentric doctrine; and rebuilding a federal union that has been envisaged by our founding forefathers; of course with necessary innovations to be in tune with the modern world.

To understand all these, the Bamar political class and as well, the ethnic nationalities’ leadership should basically restudy the following documents in details, so that we all will come to realize what our forefathers’ envisaged vision of a federal union should look like. They are:

1. Panglong Agreement
2. General Aung San’s guidelines on constitutional drafting (1947)
3. Union of Burma Constitution (1947)
4. Ethnic Nationalities’ Federal Proposal, Taunggyi (1961)

Link to the story: http://frontiermyanmar.net/en/time-to-lead-on-the-peace-process