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Hopang and Panlong Returned to Wa State Government Control

UWSP

On January 10, the three Northern Alliance brotherhood members handed back to the Wa State People's Government the two areas of Hopang and Panlong, which they had captured from the terrorist junta on January 5.

These are Wa-owned towns that remained to be transferred to the UWSA under General Saw Maung in 1990. Under the 2008 Constitution, Hopang is the capital of the Wa Self-Administered Division, and it has returned to Wa control after 34 years.