New Mon State Party's golden jubilee had been celebrated in many places and hundreds of people joint the event.
20 July 2008.
New Mon State Party celebrated its golden jubilee in different districts and hundreds of people participated the ceremony joyfully.
The main purpose of celebration is to getting more cooperation between the party and people in Mon community affair. The felicitation from the president of New Mon State Party Nai Htaw Mon said that because of we couldn't negotiate peacefully with Burmese leaders to solve the political crisis in the country, we Mons had to resort to an armed struggle in 1948. This long struggle is bearing fruit because we get full support from our people and we are in the right process. We are together with our people fighting for establishing our own government which is chosen by people of Mon State.
The biographies of former presidents of NMSP such as Nai Shwe Kyin, Nai Nonlar and Nai Htin had been read aloud in the event.
New Mon State Party was formed in July 1958 under the leadership of Nai Shwe Kyin just after a big surrender under the leadership of the Mon People's Front (MPF) which took up armed resistance since 1948.
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