Pa_Laung_Self-Administered_Zone
Pa Laung Self-Administered Zone
Self-administered zone in Shan State, Myanmar
The Palaung Self-Administered Zone (Burmese: ပလောင် ကိုယ်ပိုင်အုပ်ချုပ်ခွင့်ရ ဒေသ [pəlàʊɰ̃ kòbàɪɰ̃ ʔoʊʔtɕʰoʊʔ kʰwɪ̰ɰ̃ja̰ dèθa̰]) is a self-administered zone consisting of two townships in Shan State:[2] Its capital is the town of Namhsan.
Pa Laung Self-Administered Zone
ပလောင် ကိုယ်ပိုင်အုပ်ချုပ်ခွင့်ရ ဒေသ | |
|---|---|
Location in Shan State | |
| Country |  Myanmar |
| State | Shan State |
| No. of Townships | 2 |
| Capital | Namhsan |
| Population | |
| • Total | 110,805 |
| Demonym | Palaunggese |
| Time zone | UTC+6.30 (MMT) |
The Pa Laung Self-Administered Zone was created as a separately administered unit by the 2008 Constitution.[2] Its official name was announced by decree on 20 August 2010.[3][4] It is to be self-administered by the Palaung people.
During the current Myanmar civil war in December 2023, the zone came under the control of the Ta'ang National Liberation Army during Operation 1027 following their capture of Namhsan and Mantong.[5][6]
Under the terms of the 2008 Burmese constitution, the Pa Laung Self-Administered Zone should be administered by a Leading Body, which consisted of at least ten members including Shan State Hluttaw (Assembly) members elected from the Zone and members nominated by the Burmese Armed Forces. The Leading Body has both executive and legislative functions and is led by a Chairperson. The Leading Body has competence in ten areas of policy, including urban and rural development, road construction and maintenance, and public health. [7]
The zone is divided into two townships that were previously part of Kyaukme District:
- Shan State. The 2014 Myanmar Population and Housing Census. Vol. 3-M. Naypyitaw: Ministry of Immigration and Population. May 2015. p. 18.
- ပြည်ထောင်စုသမ္မတမြန်မာနိုင်ငံတော် ဖွဲ့စည်းပုံအခြေခံဥပဒေ (၂၀၀၈ ခုနှစ်) (in Burmese). 2008. Archived from the original on 2015-11-19.
- "တိုင်းခုနစ်တိုင်းကို တိုင်းဒေသကြီးများအဖြစ် လည်းကောင်း၊ ကိုယ်ပိုင်အုပ်ချုပ်ခွင့်ရ တိုင်းနှင့် ကိုယ်ပိုင်အုပ်ချုပ်ခွင့်ရ ဒေသများ ရုံးစိုက်ရာ မြို့များကို လည်းကောင်း ပြည်ထောင်စုနယ်မြေတွင် ခရိုင်နှင့်မြို့နယ်များကို လည်းကောင်း သတ်မှတ်ကြေညာ". Weekly Eleven News (in Burmese). 2010-08-20. Retrieved 2010-08-23.
- Hein Htoo Zan (23 December 2023). "Brotherhood Alliance Seizes Another Ethnic Zone in Myanmar's northern Shan State". The Irrawaddy.
- "Myanmar rebels seize town from military junta despite China-backed ceasefire". France 24. 2023-12-16. Retrieved 2023-12-16.
- "Nagaland: A frontier, for now". 9 April 2019.