A view of the General Aung San Statue at Bogyoke park in Yangon. Photo: Nyein Chan Naing/EPA

Ethnic Chin groups have expressed opposition to a Chin state government proposal to erect statues of three past Chin ethnic leaders to appease public opposition over a plan to put up a statue of General Aung San, RFA reported.

To try to mitigate opposition, the Chin state government recently informed the public that statues of three Chin leaders from the state’s Tedim, Falam, and Hakha regions who signed the general’s Panglong Agreement 72 years ago could be erected alongside that of Aung San.

According to the RFA report, Salai Mon Boi, a central committee member of the Chin Youth Network, said the three Chin leaders to be immortalized in statues did not represent all tribes in Chin state when they signed the agreement.