Analysts : ETHNIC reconciliation Suu Kyi’s biggest challenge

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The biggest challenge for the new Myanmar government is to end ethnic conflict and establish peace inside the country, political analysts have said.
Nobel laureate Aung Sun Suu Kyi’s party National League for Democracy (NLD) – which assumed power on April 1 – is trying to hold a peace conference known as Panglong Conference next month to have reconciliation among all citizens.
Han Thar Myint, one of the 13 Central Executive Committee members of the NLD, said: “We are trying to hold the Panglong Conference next month. Lets see if we can hold the conference.”
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However, experts believe that it would be very difficult to bring everyone under one umbrella.
Nyunt Maung Shein, a former ambassador and the incumbent chairman of Myanmar Institute of Strategic and International Studies, said reaching a peace accord with the ethnic groups was the new government’s biggest challenge. 
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