Shan States Army (SSA)'s Col. Chit Swe dies in a Chiangmai, Thailand hospital -

http://www.mizzima.com/news/regional/8235-col-chit-swe-dies-in-chiang-mai.html This is just a few days after the death of Karen National Union's Saw David Taw in the military hospital in Rangoon, where he was saluted in death by ethnic affairs minister U Aung Min - Peace in Burma is as remote as ever - posthumous tribute or not. In any case, Burmese politics is too personality driven. If they handled the Issues fairly and promptly, they would not have had the longest running civil war in the world. Kyi May Kaung

Hang Dong Market Shrine (nat shrine) near Chiangmai Photo copyright Kyi May Kaung.