ကရင္နီလူငယ္ ညီလာခံ က်င္းပၿပီး

ယခု ေမလ (၂၂) ရက္ေန႔က ကရင္နီအမ်ိဳးသား လူငယ္အစည္းအရံုး KNYO မွ ညီလာခံတစ္ရပ္ က်င္းပျပဳလုပ္ခဲ့ၿပီး တက္သစ္စ လူငယ္ေကာ္မီတီ အသစ္တစ္ရပ္ကို ေရြးေကာက္တင္ေျမာက္ခဲ့ၾကသည္။

ကရင္နီအမ်ိဳးသား တိုးတက္ေရးပါတီ KNPP ၏ ညာလက္ရုန္းဟု ဆိုသည့္ KNYO သည္ ပဥၥမအႀကိမ္ေျမာက္ ညီလာခံကို ထိုင္း-ျမန္မာနယ္စပ္ တေနရာတြင္ က်င္းပျပဳလုပ္ခဲ့သည္။

ကရင္နီျပည္တြင္းမွ ကရင္နီလူငယ္မ်ား၊ ထိုင္း-ျမန္မာနယ္စပ္ ကရင္နီဒုကၡသည္စခန္းအတြင္းရွိ လူငယ္မ်ားႏွင့္ တိုင္းတပါးသို႔ ေရာက္ေနၾကသည့္ ကရင္နီလူငယ္မ်ား အခ်င္းခ်င္း စည္းလံုးညီညြတ္မႈ တည္ေဆာက္ႏိုင္ရန္ႏွင့္ အမ်ိဳးသားေရး လုပ္ငန္းတို႔မွာ လူငယ္အခ်င္းခ်င္း ေဖးမကူညီမႈမ်ား ရွိလာႏိုင္ဖို႔ ႀကိဳးပမ္းေဆာင္ရြက္သြားမည္ဟု ဆိုသည္။

 

KNYO ညီလာခံတြင္ ကရင္နီလူငယ္မ်ားမွ ေဆြးေႏြးၾကစဥ္

“ေလာေလာဆယ္ေတာ့ စဥ္းစားထားတာကေတာ့ လူငယ္ေတြရဲ့ ကာယဥာဏ စာရိတၱ သုံးပိုင္းကို လုပ္ေဆာင္သြားမယ္လို႔ ရည္ရြယ္ထားပါတယ္။ ရည္ရြယ္ခ်က္ကေတာ့ လူငယ္ေတြ စည္းစည္းလုံးလုံးနဲ႔ တိုးတက္ေအာင္ျမင္သြားဖို႔ပါပဲ။ ကရင္နီ လူငယ္ေတြကို က်ေနာ့္ အေနနဲ႔ ေျပာခ်င္တာက စည္းစည္းလုံးလုံးနဲ႔ အမ်ိဳးသားေရး ပညာေရးနဲ႔ လူငယ္အေရးကို ဝိုင္းဝန္းလုပ္ေဆာင္ၾကပါလို႔ က်ေနာ္ ေျပာၾကားလိုပါတယ္” ဟု အသစ္ေရြးေကာက္တင္ေျမာက္ျခင္း ခံရသည့္ KNYO ဥကၠဌ ကိုေထြးရယ္က ေျပာသည္။

HKU Centenary Dialogue with Aung San Suu Kyi -video by dawnmanhon 30.May

http://www.dawnmanhon.com/2011/05/blog-post_9246.html

“The soldiers from 1012 are no longer wearing BGF uniforms” Brig7 KNLA Gen.Johnny

A renegade Karen faction of the Border Guard Force (BGF), Battalion 1012, has taken over full control of the BGF headquarters in Myaing Gyi Nyu, southern Karen State, unofficially refusing to serve under Burmese army control, according to Karen sources.

http://www.kwekalu.net/update/bgfsiezemyeingkyingu.html

Battalion 1012, formerly of the Democratic Karen Buddhist Army (DKBA), is currently on high alert after Lt-Col Po Bi ordered his troops to discard the BGF badges from their uniforms in favor of their old DKBA insignia.

Sources close to BGF 1012 said that Po Bi also deployed his troops from Myaing Gyi Nyu in Hlaing Pwe Township to Mae Tha Waw in southern Karen State. Po Bi’s battalion has an estimated 500 troops. There are a total of 10 Karen BGF battalions comprising some 2,000 soldiers.

“The soldiers from 1012 are no longer wearing BGF uniforms,” said Brig-Gen Johnny, the commander of Karen National Liberation Army Brigade 7. “They have gone back to wearing their DKBA uniforms with DKBA badges.”

High-ranking DKBA officers pose for a photo in Myaing Gyi Nyu to mark their joining the Border Guard Force in August 2010. (Photo: The Irrawaddy)

The DKBA joined the Burmese government’s BGF initiative in August 2010. The government ordered all ethnic ceasefire groups in April 2009 to transform their units into BGF battalions under Burmese army command. However, most ethnic armed groups—including the ethnic Kachin, Wa, Shan and Mon—rejected the order.

Burmese military officials initiated a BGF advisory board, which comprised seven Karen officers, including the former military chief of the DKBA, Gen Kyaw Than, as well as Col Chit Thu, Gen Tun Hlaing and Pah Nwee.

Po Bi attempted an unsuccessful arrest of the BGF’s Gen Kyaw Than on May 24 in Myaing Gyi Nyu, according to DKBA sources.

“Po Bi disliked the BGF advisors,” said Saw Htee Moo, a source close to the DKBA. “He felt the BGF leaders were forcing his troops to work for them.”

With the exception of Gen Tun Hlaing, the rest of the BGF advisors left Myaing Gyi Nyu due to fears of an attack by Po Bi’s troops.

U Thuzana, an influential Buddhist monk within the BGF and former DKBA circles, reportedly traveled recently to Pa-an, the capital of Karen State, to meet BGF advisor Gen Kyaw Than with the intention of urging him to return the BGF battalions to DKBA ranks. However, Kyaw Than did not meet him.

“Tension between Po Bi and the BGF advisors has not been resolved yet,” said Brig-Gen Johnny.

Imprisoned Saffron Revolution Monk Leader U Gambira on Hunger Strike

An imprisoned Burmese monk who was one of the leaders of the 2007 anti-government protests has been on a hunger strike since Friday to demand better treatment in prison, according to a family member and prison sources.

U Gambira, a 31-year old Buddhist monk who is well-known for his leadership role in the “Saffron Revolution” and is now serving a 68-year prison term in Kalay prison in Upper Burma, launched the hunger strike together with other political prisoners.

Since the hunger strike began Gambira has not been allowed any visitors, according to his sister Khin Thuzar.

She said that she was not allowed to meet with him when she went to the prison on the first day of the hunger strike and did not know the exact number of political prisoners who were staging the strike.

http://www.irrawaddy.org/article.php?art_id=21386

31 Burmese Rebels Arrive in New Delhi

 

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Many Burmese were waiting at the domestic arrivals meeting area inside New Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport.

Seeing traditionally dressed people, girls with garlands, and a number of reporters, someone asked: “Are you Tibetans welcoming His Holiness the Dalai Lama?”

“We are Burmese,” replied one.

One Burmese man held a placard, which read: “We welcome our patriotic heroes!”

Then someone asked again: “Are you waiting for some senior official such as a foreign minister?”

“No. We are welcoming our patriotic revolutionaries who were released from over 13 years imprisonment in Kolkata prison,” answered the same man.

The onlooker said, “Wow! How magnificent and joyful!”

Despite the attention directed at them, the Burmese only paid attention to the arrivals board.

While reporters and others were eagerly waiting, one Burmese said, “There they are! They are coming!”

Wearing white T-shirts with Arakan and Karen logos, 31 recently freed revolutionaries walked out to the meeting area.

Amazement, joy, and despair could be seen on the faces of the revolutionaries amid the camera flashes.

“We didn’t expect that we would be greeted this way—placards and garlands,” said released Karen rebel Sa Toe Toe, “Seeing the crowd suddenly, I can’t even describe how I feel. I am happy for my release and cry for being honored this way.”

In 1998, Sa Toe Toe and 39 others were arrested at Landfall Island in the Andaman Islands and held without charge for eight years by the Indian navy. They were later convicted and imprisoned for entering India illegally, weapons smuggling and aiding insurgents in northwestern India. Six group members died while being transported from their initial holding placement in the Andaman Islands to a correctional facility in Kolkata.

Burma’s Upper Paunglaung Dam-Report-Video-Costs of Building

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Statement KUS(Karen National Unity Seminar) May 2011 final

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Bo San Aung DKBA & ABSDF-video

Burma:Villagers Flee Fighting in Mae Thasa Village

May 30th, 2011

By Independent Mon News Agency – About 20 families from Mae Thasa village arrived in Three Pagodas Pass (TPP) yesterday after fighting between Burmese and Karen troops forced them to flee their homes, according to border sources.

Residents in Three Pagodas Pass include children are crossing to the border of Thailand when the fight broke out after the national election, on November 8. ( Photo: IMNA )

A villager from Mae Thasa said that the 20 families fled their village after troops from the Democratic Karen Buddhist Army (DKBA) attempted to ambush government troops on May 26, which resulted in small-scale fighting in their village.

“Elderly people, especially, fled from the village as they are worried that there will be more fighting in the village,” said the villager.

Mae Thasa village is approximately 6 kilometers from TPP. It consists of 205 houses separated into two sections which are referred to as the ‘new village’ and the ‘former village’. The area is under the control of the Karen National Liberation Army Brigade 6.

A resident in TPP said, “The families are staying at Dama Hhe Wom monastery, which is a Karen monastery located in the town of TPP.”

Coup in place. Prsdnt Thein Sein threatened by Than Shwe.

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