General Aung Than Htut, commander of northeast military head quarter and his followers about 20 came and donated 13 packs of rice and 300,000 Kyat. He also addressed the speech encouraging the Palaung people.

The Palaung Nationality Association also provided the condolence in the funeral quoting, “We, the Palaung grassroots do feel sad that we have lost the Palaung leader, who was leading the Palaung political with the full-skilled. We recorded and admired the leading role of Thar Nyi Long for his passion to the Palaung people.”

He passed way on 18 February, 2008 with the disease of lung cancer. He has been treated in China, Dehong (Mone Khorn) city by the end of 2007, but there wasn’t fixed with his situation.

He participated in the Palaung National Front, PNF as a comrade level in 1966. He was trained at Thai-Burma border about communication, medic, military and politic, alliance affair. During that time, he was posited at joint sergeant.

He was promoted the position from the joint sergeant to sergeant at Military Strategic Region No. 2 after he had come back from the border being completed the various training in 1973.

Within the region 2, he had effectively implemented his all passionate skill for the Palaung army in the military, administration, public affair and others.

He got marriage in 1977 with the Nurses, Daw Nan Sine and they got 3 children. In 1983, after he was promoted to the general level, he was moved to Central Head Quarter.

As he has effectively implemented his military skill at the head quarter and he was promoted to the captain. He became a member of Central Committee and vice commander in chief.

After that he became a member of military commission and also he leaded political role of the Palaung people as well. In 1990, he was leading the Central Committee as vice-chairman, commander in chief in army, military commission as the chairman.

After the cease-fire with the Burmese government in 1991, he continued becoming the chairman of Region Development Committee and coordinator of alliance affair. Beyond the leading of Central Committee as vice chairman and coordinator of alliance affair, he also had to lead the Central Economy and liaison in charge as well in 1999 and moved to Lashio Township.

He was the leader of representatives of Special Region 7 (Palaung Region), attended the National Convention which held by the government in 2004.

In the Palaung State Liberation Army, PSLA, after he was promoted as senior general and until he passed away, he continued leading the Central Committee as vice chairman, Central Economy and Liaison as in charge, and alliance affair as coordinator.

As he implemented all he could for the Palaung politic with his full-skilled, the mass Palaung people admired him as the skillful leader for his Palaung people and also he was memorized as the Palaung nationality leader by the alliance organization.

There were 3 sons and 1 daughter and two grandsons and his lovely wife left after he passed away on 18 February 2008.

Mai Aik Pan (1962-2002) died on July 31, 2002 in Moulmein prison

Mai Aik Pan was healthy when he was arrested; however he was taking to the Moulmein hospital in 30th July 2002 and died the day after of ascetics according to the letter from the prison authority to his family.

Mai Aik Pan joined the Palaung state liberation party (PSLF) since 1984. In 1986 he was decreed to go to the center Headquarters of the National Democratic front (NDF) to serve as a representative of the Palaung State Liberation Party (PSLP) in Karen National Union (KNU) Manerplaw headquarter.

In April 1991, the Palaung State Liberation Party and the Palaung State Liberation Army, which were his mother organizations, were forced to make a cease-fire agreement with the military regime. But he believes that making the cease-fire agreement with the military regime will not bring peace to the Palaung people, he continued to fight against the Burmese military regime in order to get self-determination, to restore genuine peace and democracy in Burma.

For this reason, some of the Palaung leaders and young Palaung people including Mai Aik Pan were negotiation with the NDF delegation and they agreed to found the Palaung State Liberation front in Jan 12, 1992. Since then, he had been acting as a National Front Center Executive Committee member. Moreover, he was still a chair member of the NDF center-working group until his arrest.

Mai Aik Pan was also elected to be a joint-secretary of the PSLF in the first time of PSLF seminar in year 2000 when they were founding the new center working committee for PSLF. He was a leader who organizing and bringing young Palaung people from inside to the liberated area and helping them to found the Palaung associations in liberated area such as the Palaung Women Organization (PWO) and the Palaung Youth Network Group (PYNG). He had been building a bridge between Palaung people inside and the international community.

Young Palaung people in exile truly believe that the reason Mai Aik Pan died is because there is lack of food, accommodation, and improper medical treatment when he was ill and was treated badly when the prison authority investigated him. It is a deeply failure for the whole Palaung people loosing Mai Aik Pan to the military regime and not event only Palaung people also the whole people in Burma that want freedom and democracy.

The PSLF, Palaung people in Palaung state, his friends and colleagues are very grieving for the lost of Mai Aik Pan. Moreover, we highly appreciate and honor him for his cooperation with other revolution organization, his comrade-in-arms, and his colleagues and for his being very active in working to restore democracy in Burma during his revolution duration.

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.