Parting with the Past

Q:  Do you have plans to form an alliance or work with any other party?

A:  We will make friends with every party and avoid making enemies of them. Our only concern is to serve the national interest.

Q:  What is your party’s position on political prisoners?

A:  I think the new government will grant a general amnesty to political prisoners after the election. We have to do this. Putting political prisoners in jails is wasting our work force. If these people are free, we can listen to their thoughts, and that can be useful. By working together, we can build friendship and trust between different ethnic nationalities.
 
Q:  Does your party’s policy mainly focus on the interests of Shan nationalities and Shan State?

A:  We are not only focused on Shan State but will be working for other states and divisions as well as for the whole Union. I trust that some of our party representatives will be seated in the lower and upper houses so we will be working together.