Military tensions remain high between armed groups, specifically the military junta and the Shan State Progress Party (SSPP) after the Burmese Military demand the SSPP to withdrawal their three military bases in Mong Hsu township, and there is an expansion of Burmese Military Junta in those areas at Loilem district, Southern Shan State. At the same time, the military junta leader, General Min Aung Hlaing, invited some ethnic armed groups to attend so-called ‘peace talk’ in May. Both of the Shan State Armies (SSA), RCSS and SSPP, accepted the military junta’s invitation.

Two young men driving from Kutkhai to Muse were stopped and forced to transport junta troops to Maw Tawng village, near Muse township on May 4.[1] One of the two young men was an executive member of the Tai Youth Network (TYN), and a member of the Secretariat of the Committee of Shan State Unity (CSSU). The two young men were killed during a clash between the Military junta and an armed group. Later on, May 16, the People Security and Defence Army-Northern Shan State was came out by statement that they’re the group that fighting the military junta on that day and to take responsibility for the attached.