Burma-Myanmar: Chin National Front (CNF) tells Arakan Army (AA) to leave Chin State and fighting with Myanmar military
The Chin National Front (CNF) has issued another warning to the Arakan Army (AA), asking the armed group to withdraw from Chin State’s Paletwa Township, which the AA has used as a base to fight the Myanmar military.
The CNF held its second central executive committee meeting of the year from July 7-15, after which it repeated its demand that the AA leave Paletwa.
The CNF was formed in March 1988 and is dedicated to achieving self-determination for ethnic Chin people and to working for democracy and a federal Union. It is based in Camp Victoria, in Thantlang, Chin State, and has around 200 members in its armed forces, according to Myanmar Peace Monitor. It entered into peace talks with the previous government in late 2011 and singed a bilateral ceasefire in January 2012 and the Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement in October 2015.