Burma-Myanmar: Coup d’etat threatens ceasefire, Restoration Council of Shan State (RCSS) ethnic rebel leader says
Myanmar’s fragile ceasefire with several armed ethnic insurgent movements is in danger of unraveling after a military coup this week, a senior representative of a coalition of rebel groups told Reuters on Wednesday.
More than two dozen ethnic armed groups are active in Myanmar’s borderlands. Some have signed ceasefire agreements while others continue to wage conflicts that flare sporadically.
General Yawd Serk of the Restoration Council of Shan State (RCSS), who is also acting chairman of a group representing 10 groups in a National Ceasefire Agreement, condemned the coup on Monday which overthrew elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
“The military has put its self-interest first, and this caused a loss of trust,” he said, calling on the army to prove its sincerity by holding talks with all parties.