Self-administered zone in Shan State, Myanmar
The Pa'O Self-Administered Zone (Burmese : ပအိုဝ်းကိုယ်ပိုင်အုပ်ချုပ်ခွင့်ရဒေသ [pəʔo̰ kòbàɪɰ̃ ʔoʊʔtɕʰoʊʔ kʰwɪ̰ɰ̃ja̰ dèθa̰] ), also abbreviated as Pa'O SAZ , as stipulated by the 2008 Constitution of Myanmar , is a self-administered zone consisting of three townships in Shan State . [2] [3]
History Pa'O SAZ's official name was announced by decree on 20 August 2010.[4]
In the wake of the 2021 Myanmar coup d'état and ensuing civil war , Pa'O youths , like many throughout the country, formed and joined resistance forces like the Pa-O National Defence Force, in opposition to military rule.[5] [6]
On 24 February 2023, fighting began in Pinlaung Township, forcing more than 5,000 villagers to flee, including most villagers from Namneng.[7] [8] On 11 March 2023, the village of Namneng became the site of the Pinlaung massacre , during which Myanmar Army troops killed at least 30 civilians, including 3 Buddhist monks .[9]
Government and politics The zone is currently under the de facto control of the Pa-O National Organisation .
Headquarters of the Leading Body at Hopong
Administrative divisions The Zone is divided into three townships:
townships of Pa'O SAZ
The three townships are administratively part of Taunggyi District .
References ^ "2014 Myanmar Population and Housing Census" (PDF) . ^ ပြည်ထောင်စုသမ္မတမြန်မာနိုင်ငံတော် ဖွဲ့စည်းပုံအခြေခံဥပဒေ (၂၀၀၈ ခုနှစ်) (in Burmese). 2008. Archived from the original on 2015-11-19. ^ ပြည်ထောင်စုသမ္မတမြန်မာနိုင်ငံတော် ဖွဲ့စည်းပုံအခြေခံဥပဒေ (၂၀၀၈ ခုနှစ်) (in Burmese)^ "တိုင်းခုနစ်တိုင်းကို တိုင်းဒေသကြီးများအဖြစ် လည်းကောင်း၊ ကိုယ်ပိုင်အုပ်ချုပ်ခွင့်ရ တိုင်းနှင့် ကိုယ်ပိုင်အုပ်ချုပ်ခွင့်ရ ဒေသများ ရုံးစိုက်ရာ မြို့များကို လည်းကောင်း ပြည်ထောင်စုနယ်မြေတွင် ခရိုင်နှင့်မြို့နယ်များကို လည်းကောင်း သတ်မှတ်ကြေညာ". Weekly Eleven News (in Burmese). 2010-08-20. Retrieved 2010-08-23 . ^ "'They are preparing for war': Forced recruiting by Pa-O militia in Shan". Frontier Myanmar . 2023-02-28. Retrieved 2023-03-13 . ^ "Junta forces kill 29, including three monks, in southern Shan State". Myanmar NOW . 2023-03-13. Retrieved 2023-03-14 . ^ "Thousands Displaced as Myanmar Junta Forces Clash With Karenni Resistance". The Irrawaddy . 2023-03-09. Retrieved 2023-03-13 . ^ "Thousands Displaced By Fighting In Panglaung Township". Burma News International . 2023-03-07. Retrieved 2023-03-14 . ^ "At least 30 civilians killed in southern Shan State". Democratic Voice of Burma . 2023-03-13. Retrieved 2023-03-14 .
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