DPLF Chair Resigns as NLD MP
By Network Media Group
Sunday, February 11, 2024
A prominent Danu MP under the National League for Democracy (NLD) government is leaving politics to join the armed struggle against the military regime.
U Tun Tun Naing, originally from Tawng Shwe Puhto in Pindaya Township of Danu Self-administered Zone in southern Shan State, recently announced on his Facebook that he has resigned to form the Danu People’s Liberation Front (DPLF).
During the 2020 election, he won a seat in Pindaya Township before the military overthrew the NLD government in early 2021.
Tun Tun Naing told NMG he thought about it carefully and took a long time before announcing the news. The armed struggle is the right path for him to take, he said. “I discussed it with my close friends for their advice before deciding.”
Following the coup, he was the first to form a People’s Defense Force (PDF) to fight soldiers loyal to the State Administration Council in the Danu Self-administered Zone.
SAC responded by seizing his home.
The Ta’ang National Liberation Army, a member of the Three Brotherhood Alliance, supported Tun Tun Naing’s efforts to form the Danu People’s Liberation Front in July.
He said he’s in touch with the National Unity Government but the interim government didn’t offer him any assistance despite formerly being an MP in the Shan State parliament.
“I attended many meetings in the Union parliament,” Tun Tun Naing said, explaining he has mixed feelings about the revolution. Still, he said that he hasn’t ruled out participating in politics again when the military dictatorship is finally defeated.
Presently, Tun Tun Naing and his DPLF will join the 1027 Operation launched by Three Brotherhood Alliance in northern Shan State and command his troops in the southern state.
