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MAGWAY DIVISION – Yaw People’s Defence Force (YPDF) shared that they offered alms to the monks on the Myanmar New Year Day as the new year good deeds of the battalion.
“We weren’t able to do this the last two years. Only this year, we offered alms as the battalion. We also performed antiphonal chants,” said Comrade Yaw Lay, the chair of the central executive committee of YPDF.
As the new year donation event of YPDF, on April 17, the battalion invited a monk, chanted Parate Sutta, offered robes, alms bowl and listened to the New Year Dhamma preaching. It is said that members of the battalion, family members and local residents partook in the event.
YPDF is a regional defence force formed with local people and is one of the forces that have signed a MOU with the Chin National Army (CNA).