December 22: Although the SPDC State Peace and Development Council abolished the National Intelligence Bureau NIB led by former Prime Minister Gen Khin Nyunt, it has decided to continue to implement a project proposed by the NIB to dissolve ethnic armed groups in hilly regions and border areas.

It has been learnt that the Defence Services Office of Strategic Studies proposed the project at the SPDC’s special military operations meeting in early August. According to sources close to the War Office, details about the project is still not known but the first stage of its implementation will be to disarm groups who have agreed to cease-fire.