PSLF Agrees To Rebuild Kon Tha Destroyed By Regime Airstrikes
By Network Media Group
Tuesday, December 27, 2022
The Ta’ang National Liberation Army (TNLA) is working with residents to rebuild their village, which was almost completely destroyed by regime airstrikes during the recent offensive against the armed group in Namhsan Township.
“Many of the houses, the school and the Buddhist monastery in Kon Tha were badly damaged by regime shelling and attacks from air crafts. Five civilian houses were reduced to ash,” explained TNLA spokesperson Lt-Col Tar Aik Kyaw.
The residents are very poor and that is why the leaders of the TNLA’s political wing, the Palaung State Liberation Front (PSLF), have formed a rehabilitation committee to work with them in the village in northern Shan State, he said.
Top Ta’ang leaders recently went to see the destruction for themselves after the regime’s 7-13 December offensive against the group had ended. PSLF Vice chair 1 Maj-Gen Tar Jok Jar, General Secretary Brig-Gen Tar Bone Kyaw, Joint Secretary 1 Col Tar Oam Ta Mao, Lt-Col Tar Aik Kyaw and Tar Kon Chi, deputy in charge of the Administration Department, and Lt-Col Tar Moe Hein, in charge of the Organisation Department, personally met with residents.
Lt-Col Tar Moe Hein was appointed chair of the rehabilitation committee, Tar Gu Ring is secretary and Lt-Col Tar Nyut Myam is a member.
A PLSF statement released on 23 December promised to rebuild the entire village, including the monastery.
“We have helped other villagers in the past. This time Kon Tha was severely damaged and so we have to form the rehabilitation committee (to oversee the reconstruction),” Tar Aik Kyaw told NMG.
After the fighting stopped, the residents had asked both the TNLA and the regime to provide them with new homes.
