Shan in Kachin State protest for being ignored in peace talk
Local Shan residents protested against the delegates of the Kachin Independence Organization (KIO) as they were returning from the peace conference held in Myitkyina to the Laiza Headquarters in Myanmar’s northern state of Kachin, said news report from Eleven Media. Protestors numbering about 200 were dressed in their traditional costume were holding posters in Waimaw [...]
The Kachin Consultative Assembly has made a remarkable announcement with regards the 1947 Panglong Agreement that it must be brought into discussions before the delegation of Myanmar government and Kachin Independence Organization (KIO) will meet for negotiations this week, Mizzima news report. The statement came after a meeting between Kachin Christian religious leaders and representatives [...]
Continue reading …Two countries such as the United States and United Kingdom will no longer participate as observers in the scheduled peace talk between the Kachin Independence Organization (KIO) and the government of Myanmar because China disapproved of their involvement, said news report from Eleven Media. According to San Aung of Peace Coordinating Group (PCG), even if [...]
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According to Myanmar’s Ministry of Defence spearheaded by Lieutenant General Myint Soe, all the accusations that the military forces has been conducting military operations in Shan State (North) and Kachin State that started at the end of February and early March were baseless and not true at all, said news report from Eleven Media. He [...]
Continue reading …Kachin exiled group react to Thein Sein claim on no fighting in Kachin State
March 8, 2013 No Comment
During the official visit of President Thein Sein in Europe, he gladly announced that clashes in the border regions had stopped. His remark made the Kachin activists react more furiously, Irrawaddy News report said. The President’s tour in Europe includes discussion with the government to discontinue the remaining economic sanctions against his country. After talking [...]
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The vice chairman of the Union Peace Working Committee Aung Min said that the internal conflict for almost 60 years in Myanmar can only be settled if the government will provide greater autonomy and the country’s natural resources will be shared for the national races, said news report from Eleven Media. Ethnic groups are disappointed [...]
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The UN refugee agency said on Friday that an inter-agency visit to northern Myanmar’s Kachin state has successfully delivered badly-needed aid to hundreds of conflict-affected people. UNHCR staff took part in the February 17-21 missionary to the Hpakant area of Kachin state after access was granted by the Myanmar government. The area saw intensified fighting [...]
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Burmese army has launched new operation against the SSA by removing their bases located in northern Shan State last February 18, SHAN news reported. According to Shan State Progress Party / Shan State Army (SSPP/SSA) spokesperson Maj Sai La, the Burmese military has been betraying the peace process. Since the hostility in Kachin State has [...]
Continue reading …Myanmar continues serious human rights abuses in Kachin and Rakhine states
February 18, 2013 No Comment
Grave human rights abuses continuously happen in Burma even if various reforms on democracy are undertaken by the present government headed by President Thein Sein, BBC report said. UN official Tomas Ojea Quintana who paid an official 5- day trip to Burma disclosed that the Burmese military are still engaged in arbitrary arrests and torture [...]
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By: Kanbawza Win The Burmese regime insistence on the use of word Myanmar over Burma in the English language reveals the highest stage of their ethnic cleansing policy implemented by the Divide and Rule policy over the Non Myanmar, the ethnic nationalities, which constitutes more than half of the population of Burma when the modern [...]
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