Gen. Nai Aung Naing the army chief of the New Mon State Party (NMSP) has disappeared after he left for Rangoon for medical treatment early last month, sources in Mon organizations said.
Gen. Nai Aung Naing had an agreement with his party for a long-term treatment and disappeared after he checked in for medical care at Pann Hlaing health centre in Rangoon, the former capital of Burma, said a source from Rangoon.
"Nai Aung Naing left Three Pagodas Pass (Border Town) early last month from Than Phyu Zayat for Rangoon. The party allowed him pension for first class long-term health care. He disappeared after February 6. We are trying to find out where he is," Nai Ong Mangye a NMSP spokesman told Kaowao. (First class health care pension means the highest pension that takes care of all expenditure related to health care.)
Gen Nai Aung Naing was arrested by the SPDC, said pamphlets opposing the SPDC's referendum. The pamphlets in Mon and Burmese languages were distributed around the state by unknown people. It also asked for Gen Nai Aung Naing's release.
Analysts of Mon politics believe that the army chief of the NMSP may have surrendered to the Burmese junta and may be negotiating disarmament. He may have become a long term pensioner for medical treatment.
At the 6th Central Committee meeting held three years ago in 2005, Gen. Nai Aung Naing became the army chief of the Mon National Liberation Army (MNLA), the NMSP' military wing.
A rumour spreading in Mergue (Myeik), Tennasserim, southern Burma suggested that Gen Nai Ong Naing went with the Mon rebel group, the Monland Restoration Party led by Nai Pan Nyunt to negotiate disarmament and now he is in Tennasserim.
On the NMSP' stand about the referendum planned by the junta in May, last month the Bureau of Special Operation of the SPDC made a deal with some officers of the NMSP in Three Pagodas Pass. On March 9 the NMSP released a statement on the constitutional referendum saying that they believe that the referendum should not be conducted before a tripartite dialogue is held. It felt that the political crisis in Burma could not be solved without amending and discussing the draft constitution.
"There is no way we will surrender and give up our arms without Mon nationals benefiting, said Nai Ong Mangye.
The 76-year old Gen. Nai Aung Naing was an excellent fighter in war offensives and was injured twice on the hip and abdomen. He currently suffers from diabetes and pain in the abdomen.
He asked for pension for health care in December 21, 2006 and got the first three month's permission in 2007 November.
Gen. Nai Ong Naing who is from Ta Nut Pin, Bago Division joined the Burmese Communist Party after leaving the Burmese Army as a corporal in 1974 and two years later joined NMSP.
