The Restoration Council of Shan State this week warned that it would “continue the armed struggle” to achieve its political aims if left with no other choice.
In a statement released on Wednesday, the 56th anniversary of Shan State People’s Resistance Day, the ethnic rebel group said a recent raid by Burmese government authorities on the RCSS’s liaison office in Kengtung had “badly affected the mutual trust that has so far been achieved between the two sides.”
A group including police and Burmese Military Intelligence personnel raided one of the RCSS’s seven liaison offices on May 6, providing no specific reason for the action and temporarily detaining its office coordinator.