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Posted By admin on April 5, 2008

Mai Ba Chi, 39 was a vice commander in chief of Palaung State Liberation Front (PSLF) passed away on 4 January 2002 in the fighting at the front in Thai-Burma border. Mai Ba Chit was born in Zeal Bang Kok, Namhsan District in 1961. His parents are Tar kueihuwn and Yar mreihuwn. His young name was Mai Aik Kysein when he grew up; he was called Ba Chit in Burmese.

He was the third son in their five siblings. He exerted himself in the Palaung traditional tea cultivation. Mai Ba Chit was underprivileged of education. When he was 10 years old, he moved to Mandalay at monastery to educate there at primary.

After he finished the primary school, he persisted to study the monastic epistle. At the age of sixteen, he went back to his native home to look after his parents. As long as he lived in his village, he studied the Palaung language and he could speak and write the Palaung language fluently.

During he lived in his native village in Zeal Ban Kok, Burmese army came and attacked the village and anguished the villagers variously. Throughout the attacking in the village, Mai Ba Chit was depressed that he could not feed his parents probably. He lost his occasion in the running of the attacking of the Burmese army. He was very patriotism after he felt that the Burmese army often came and bothered the innocent people. Therefore, he was very unsatisfied and he went to join the Palaung army calls Palaung State Liberation Army (PSLA) at Mantong Township in 1979.

Mai Ba Chit initiated to involve in armrest struggle and took responsibility to defend for the Palaung people. When he joined the army, he only was 18 years teenager. After he experienced his responsibility in the army for fifty years, he was promoted as a Sergeant of the army. He was a person who scarified for the defending of the people.

PSLA was established in 1963 one year later after General Nay Win seized the power of the country and Mai Ba Chit joined the PSLA army in 1979. He took his responsibility doubtlessly and effectively in the army during his position. He could construct the wireless telegraph probably for the army. But on April 1991, the PSLA could not evade from doing the ceasefire with the State Peace and Development Council (SPDC). Mai Ba Chit trusted that ceasefire was not genuine agreement, so he quitted from PSLA peacefully. But he still rejoined the Palaung non-ceasefire arm calls Palaung State Liberation Front (PSLF) in Manerplaw in the Thai-Burma border.

Mai Ba Chit was appointed as a Vice commander in chief of PSLF in 1990. He remained his proverb addressing, “It is our responsibly for the young generation of Palaung people to prevent the people from the torment of the SPDC and we have to take responsibility for the national historical task. If we don’t do that our nationality will be under the other hand.” He used to address to his comrades to have the compassion for the people, to have dedication and heroic for the people.

He said the revolution we resisted was to abolish the patriotism of the government (SPDC). It was the struggle that demanded the equal right for all the ethnics. It was not for the self-esteem to be devoted for our own nationalities, it was to reach all the objectives of the revolutionary resistances of Burma. Mai Ba Chit was a comrade who was very compassion for the people’s liberation to fight the bad guy who oppressed the other nationalities. As he passed away in the battle at the front, it was a huge causality or failure for the Palaung people in the revolution.

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