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The Panglong Agreement ( ) was reached in
Panglong, Southern Shan State Panglong (, ''Paang⁰long⁰'', ), offiically Pinlon (, ) is a town in Loilem Township of Loilem District, southern Shan State, Myanmar (Burma). The town is also home to Panglong University and is the largest town in Loilem Township. The Town ...
, between the
Burmese government Myanmar (Names of Myanmar, formerly Burma) () operates ''de jure'' as a unitary state, unitary assembly-independent republic under its 2008 Constitution of Myanmar, 2008 constitution. On 1 February 2021, Tatmadaw, Myanmar's military took ove ...
under
Aung San Aung San (, ; 13 February 191519 July 1947), known honorifically as '' Bogyoke'' Aung San, was a Burmese politician, independence activist and revolutionary. He was instrumental in Myanmar's struggle for independence from British rule, but he w ...
and the Shan Committee, Kachin Committee, and Chin Committee peoples on 12 February 1947. The anniversary of this agreement, which promised autonomy to ethnic minorities, is celebrated annually as Union Day.


In popular culture

In 1973,
Sai Kham Leik Sai Kham Leik (, ), is a Burmese songwriter. Said to be a physician by training he is an ethnic Shan songwriter and has written more than 500 songs in Burmese, 200 in Shan and about 35 in English. His father, Kham Ka, was a noted poet and a ...
composed the
Shan language Shan is the native language of the Shan people and is mostly spoken in Shan State, Myanmar. It is also spoken in pockets in other parts of Myanmar, in Northern Thailand, in Yunnan, in Laos, in Cambodia, in Vietnam and decreasingly in Assam an ...
song, "Lik Hom Mai Panglong" (), for
Sai Hsai Mao Sai Hsai Mao (; 1948 – 17 July 2024), also known as Sai Saing Maw (), was a distinguished Burmese singer and musician of Shan descent. Born in Muse, Burma, he was the most prominent singer of Shan pop music, known for his prolific cover son ...
, which remains a pop classic.


See also

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Federalism in Myanmar Federalism has been proposed as a potential solution to the Myanmar conflict. The many different ethnic groups of Myanmar have been in conflict since the country's independence in 1948. The Panglong Agreement of 1947 outlined an early form of fede ...
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Panglong Conference The Panglong Conference (), held in February 1947, was a historic meeting that took place at Panglong, Southern Shan State, Panglong in the Shan States in Burma between the Shan people, Shan, Kachin people, Kachin and Chin people, Chin ethnic mi ...
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Chin State Chin State (, ) is a state in western Myanmar. Chin State is bordered by Sagaing Division and Magway Division to the east, Rakhine State to the south, the Chattogram Division of Bangladesh to the west, and the Indian states of Mizoram to th ...
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Kachin State Kachin State (; Jingpho language, Kachin: ) is the northernmost administrative divisions of Myanmar, state of Myanmar. It is bordered by China to the north and east (Tibet Autonomous Region, Tibet and Yunnan, respectively), Shan State to the sou ...


References

{{reflist Treaties of Myanmar 1947 in Burma Text referencing the Panglong AgreementU Nu, ''The Panglong Agreement'', 12 February 1947, in ''The Politics of Burma: A Documentary History'', ed. Kyaw Win and Robert H. Taylor (London: Oxford University Press, 1979), pp. 57-63. 1947 documents Federalism in Myanmar