The former Army Chief of the New Mon State Party (NMSP), Nai Aung Naing who broke away from NMSP and formed a new party the Mon Peace Group is mobilizing university students of Moulmein (Mawlamyine) capital of Mon to join its surrender ceremony.
 
According to a Mon university student, Nai Aung Naing's company and Burmese military officers sent some monks to meet university students.
 
"They said they will hold a surrender ceremony in the next couple of days" a university student said.
 
Nai Aung Naing has been going to the monastery of Joitoikarama in Zay Cho quarter and meeting some university students. According to an analyst, Nai Aung Naing will contest the 2010 elections.
 
Nai Aung Naing, broke away last March when NMSP leaders tried to take action relating to his corruption cases involving selling land. He was accused by NMSP for revealing details of the underground movement. But he denied all NMSP accusations.
 
Nai Aung Naing led 12 NMSP members to negotiate with the military government for better business prospects four months ago without informing the NMSP headquarters. Nai Aung Naing went to Rangoon ostensibly for medical treatment and talked to the military junta to found a peace group for supporting the referendum and elections in 2010.

His peace group asked the junta to allow it to run businesses freely in Three Pagoda Pass area, Tenasserim Divison, Myawaddy Road , and an area, near NMSP's Thaton District. Currently his group is mobilizing people to make the peace group stronger.

The 76-year old Nai Aung Naing headed for Nay Pyi Taw a couple of times for the deal with the junta after treatment in Rangoon . After the deal he formed the peace group and started moving in the Mon community. His peace group is trying to get former NMSP members who have retired to join his group.

Nai Aung Naing was appointed army chief in 2005 at a NMSP central committee meeting and he worked with the party for 34 years after deserting from the Burma Army in 1974. He was a good fighter but has a background of corruption in land deals in Three Pagoda Pass area.