The Battles Continue Unabated In Spite of President Thein Sein’s Order For a Halt

A meeting between the Burmese government officials and the civilians was held at the City Hall in Myitkyina on December 12^th  2011. About 600 civilians, including the domestic journalists were present at the meeting.

The Secretary of the Kachin State offered 70 million kyat (about $ 70 thousand dollars)  assistance for the refugees to Hpauyam Bawk Ja, the director of State Education, Religion and Human Services,

The Minister of the Kachin State, Lajawn Ngan Seng addressed at the meeting, and he indicated that President Thein Sein has ordered the Burmese military a halt to the current offensive attack on the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) and their headquarters, Laiza. The written order to the military generals includes the current offensive campaign to be transformed into a defensive posture.

However, KLN correspondents in the war zone report that arm clashes are still breaking out across the Kachin State in spite of the order from the President. There was an intense battle broke out at the KIA’s 15^th Battalion area between KIA and the Burmese soldiers on December 12th 2011. In addition, a local source informed KLN that there were (14) military convoys passing through the city of Namhkam around 9:00 a.m. to reinforce the attack against the KIA’s 3^rd Brigade.

Kachin Land 13.12.2011:Three Tatmadaw helicopters flew to Tatmdaw Mu Bum outpost near Mai Ja Yang to drop the rations. The helicopters dropped bombs on the way back, but no casualty was reported today.around 3pm local time today

The talk about the halt of the war is yet to be actualized by the action of the Burmese military.

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The United Nations’ Historic Arrival to the KIO’s Administrative Area

The officials from UNOCHA (United Nations Office for The Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs), UNICEF (United Nations International Children Emergency Fund), UNHCR (United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees), arrived Laiza, the KIO’s Administrative headquarter, around 3:30 p.m. local time on December 12^th, 2011.

Four UN representatives, members of a Culture Group from Bamaw, and ministers from religious organizations reached Laiza with a fleet of 8 trucks loaded with aid goods. The vehicles that transport aids have been denied access to the area due to the “security reasons” in the past.

Since the war broke out, the number of refugees who fled from their homes has been rapidly increasing, and KLN learns that there are now over 50,000 refugees in different parts of the Kachin State, the Shan State, and along the Sino-Burmese border. Since the beginning, the refugees under the KIO’s administrative area have been assisted by the KIO, and the Kachins from abroad, inside Burma and China.

This is the first time that the UN has ever reached to the KIO’s administrative area.

http://kachinlandnews.com/

Tatmadaw helicopters drop bombs on Kachin_Burma,s written instructions to the commander-in-chief of the Defence Services lost on its way?

Kachin Land:Three Tatmadaw helicopters flew to Tatmdaw Mu Bum outpost near Mai Ja Yang to drop the rations. The helicopters dropped bombs on the way back, but no casualty was reported today.around 3pm local time today

ျပည္ေထာင္စု ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရးအဖဲြ ့ေခါင္းေဆာင္ ဦးေအာင္ေသာင္းႏွင့္ ဗိုလ္မွဴးခ်ဳပ္ ေစာလားပြယ္ႏွဳတ္ဆက္ေနပံု

ဗိုလ္မွဴးခ်ဳပ္ ေစာလားပြယ္ ဦးေဆာင္ေသာ ဒီေကဘီေအ ကလို႔ထူးေဘာ အဖြဲ႔ ႏွင့္ ဦးေအာင္ေသာင္း ဦးေဆာင္ေသာ ျပည္ေထာင္စု ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရး အဖြဲ ့တို႔သည္၊ ၿပီးခဲ့သည့္ ဒီဇင္ဘာ (၃) ရက္ေန႔က ကရင္ျပည္နယ္ ဖါးအံၿမိဳ ့၌  ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရး သေဘာ တူညီခ်က္တရပ္ကို လက္မွတ္ေရးထိုး ခဲ့သည္ဟု ဒီေကဘီေအဖက္က ဒီေန႔ထုတ္ျပန္ခဲ့ပါသည္။

 

လက္မွတ္ေရးထိုးပဲြတြင္ အခ်က္ (၆) ခ်က္ သေဘာတူ လက္မွတ္ေရးထိုး ခဲ့ေၾကာင္း ႏွင့္ ျဖစ္ေပၚလာသည့္ျပသနာမ်ားကို ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းစြာ ေျဖရွင္းသြားမည္ျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း သေဘာတူၾကပါသည္။

သေဘာတူညီခ်က္မ်ားမွာ-

(၁) ၂၀၁၁ ခုႏွစ္ ႏို၀င္ဘာ (၃)ရက္ေန႔က ကရင္ျပည္နယ္ ျငိမ္းခ်မ္းမွဳ တည္ေဆာက္ေရးအဖဲြ႔ ဒီေကဘီေအ ကလို႔ထူးေဘာ အဖဲြ႔တို႔ လက္မွတ္ေရးထိုးခဲ့ေသာ ျငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရး တည္ေဆာက္ရန္ ပဏာမ သေဘာတူညီခ်က္ကို အတည္ျပဳရန္ သေဘာတူသည္။

(၂) ကရင္ျပည္နယ္သည္၊ ျပည္ေထာင္စု သမၼတျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံေတာ္၏ အေရးပါေသာ အစိပ္အပိုင္းတခုျဖစ္သည္။ ကရင္ျပည္နယ္ကို ျပည္ေထာင္စုအတြင္းမွ မည္သည့္အခါမ်ွ ခြဲမထြက္ရန္ သေဘာတူသည္။

(၃) ျပည္ေထာင္စု မၿပိဳကြဲေရး၊ တိုင္းရင္းသား စည္းလံုးညီညြတ္မွဳ မၿပိဳကဲြေရးႏွင့္ အခ်ဳပ္အခ်ာတည္တန္႔ ခိုင္ၿမဲေရးတို႔ကို  ထာ၀စဥ္ေစာင့္ေရွာက္ရန္၊ သေဘာတူသည္။

ျပည္ေထာင္စု ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရးအဖဲြ ့ေခါင္းေဆာင္ ဦးေအာင္ေသာင္းႏွင့္
ဗိုလ္မွဴးခ်ဳပ္ ေစာလားပြယ္ႏွဳတ္ဆက္ေနပံု

(၄) ဆံုစည္းၿမိဳင္ေဒသတြင္၊ ယာယီအေျချပဳ၍ စုကလိေဒသတြင္ နယ္ေျမဖြံ႔ျဖိဳးတိုးတက္ေရး၊ ကလို႔ထူးေဘာ အဖြဲ ့၀င္မ်ား ႏွင့္ မိသားစုမ်ား အေျခခ်ေနထိုင္ လုပ္ကိုင္စားေသာက္ႏိုင္ေရး၊ လူမွဳဘ၀ျမွင့္တင္ေရး လုပ္ငန္းမ်ားကို ဥပေဒႏွင့္အညီ အစိုးရႏွင့္ ပူးေပါင္းၿပီး ေဆာင္ရြက္ရန္ သေဘာတူသည္။

(၆) မူးရစ္ေဆး၀ါးႏွင့္ စိတ္ကိုေျပာင္းလဲေစေသာ ေဆး၀ါးမ်ား တိုက္ဖ်က္ေရးအား၊ ျပည္ေထာင္စု အစိုးရႏွင့္ ပူးေပါင္းေဆာင္ရြက္ရန္ သေဘာတူသည္။

(၆) ဆက္လက္ၿပီး ထာ၀ရ ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရး တည္ေဆာက္ႏိုင္ေရးအတြက္ ေဆြးေႏြးမွဳမ်ား ျပဳလုပ္သြားရန္ သေဘာတူသည္။

http://www.phophtaw.org/burmese/index.php/news/local-news/921-2011-12-13-09-22-24.html

UN Aid reach Kachin Refugees-phophtaw

UNICEF အဖြဲ႔မွ ကခ်င္စစ္ေျပး ဒုကၡသည္မ်ားကို အကူအညီေပးရန္ ကခ်င္လြတ္ေျမာက္ေရး တပ္မေတာ္ ထိန္းခ်ဳပ္ရာ လိုင္ဇာၿမိဳ ႔သို႔ ေရာက္ ႐ွိေနၿပီးျဖစ္သည္ဟု ကခ်င္ ဒုကၡသည္မ်ားအေရး ကူညီ ေဆာင္႐ြက္ေရးအဖြဲ႔မွ အမည္အေဖာ္လိုသူ တာဝန္႐ွိ ပုဂၢိဳလ္ တစ္ဦးက ေျပာၾကား ခဲ့ပါသည္။

“ေရာက္ေနပါၿပီခင္ဗ်၊ အခုလိုင္ဇာကို အကူအညီ ပစၥည္းေတြ ေရာက္ေနပါၿပီ၊ လူႀကီးေတြ စီးတဲ့ ကားႏွစ္စီးနဲ႔ ပစၥည္းေတြ သယ္လာတဲ့ကား (၇) စီး ေရာက္လာတယ္၊ အားလံုးေပါင္း (၉) စီး ေရာက္လာပါတယ္၊ ဒုကၡသည္ေတြကို လာၾကည့္ရင္းနဲ႔ လာၾကတာပါ၊ ကြၽန္ေတာ္တို႔ KIA အေနနဲ႔ တရားဝင္ လက္ခံ ရ႐ွိေသးျခင္း မ႐ွိေသးပါဘူး၊ UNICEF က အကူအညီ ေတြဆိုရင္ ကြၽန္ေတာ္တို႔ လက္ခံဖို႔ အသင့္႐ွိပါတယ္ခင္ဗ်” ဟု အဆိုပါအမည္အေဖာ္လိုသူ တာဝန္႐ွိ ပုဂၢိဳလ္တစ္ဦးက ေျပာၾကားခဲ့ပါသည္။

သမၼတ ဦးသိန္းစိန္က ကခ်င္စစ္ပြဲကို ရပ္ဆိုင္းရန္ ၿပီးခဲ့သည့္ ဒီဇင္ဘာ (၁၀) ရက္ေန႔တြင္ ကာကြယ္ေရး ဦးစီးခ်ဳပ္ (ၾကည္း) ထံသို႔ ၫႊန္ၾကားခ်က္ ေပးၿပီးေနာက္ပိုင္း မွ UNICEF အဖြဲ ့လိုင္ဇာသို႔ ေရာက္႐ွိခဲ့ျခင္းျဖစ္ပါသည္။ လိုင္ဇာသို႔ မေရာက္ခင္ ဗန္းေမာ္ၿမိဳ ့၌ အတန္ၾကာ ရပ္တန္႔ ထားခဲ့ရေၾကာင္းလည္း သိ႐ွိရပါသည္။

KIO ႏွင့္ စစ္အစိုးရတို႔ အပစ္အခတ္ ရပ္စဲရန္ ေဆြးေႏြးပြဲ မွတ္တမ္းဓါတ္ပံု (ဓါတ္ပံု – အင္တာနက္)

“အၾကမ္းဖ်င္း ကြၽန္ေတာ္တို႔ သိရသေလာက္ေတာ့ Camp ထိုးဖို႔ ပတ္ထူ၊ တာလပတ္ဖ်င္ေတြ၊ အိုးခြက္ပန္းကန္ေတြနဲ႔ အစားအ ေသာက္ပစၥည္းေတြ၊ အဝတ္အထည္ေတြ ေဆးဝါးေတြ ပါတယ္လို႔သိရတယ္၊ ကြၽန္ေတာ္တို႔က တရားဝင္ လက္ခံရေသးတာ မဟုတ္ေတာ့ အတိအက် မေျပာႏိုင္ေသးဘူးခင္ဗ်၊ ဒါေပမယ့္ အစိုးရဘက္က အကူအညီ ဆိုရင္ေတာ့ ကြၽန္ေတာ္တို႔ လံုးဝ လက္မခံပါဘူး၊ KIO က ခ်မွတ္ ထားၿပီးသားပါ၊ ႏိုင္ငံတကာ အဖြဲ႔အစည္းရဲ့ အကူအညီဆိုရင္ ကြၽန္ေတာ္တို႔ လက္ခံသြားဖို႔ ႐ွိပါ တယ္” ဟု ကခ်င္ ဒုကၡသည္မ်ားအေရး ကူညီ ေဆာင္႐ြက္ေရးအဖြဲ႔က ဆိုပါသည္။

New Mon State Party (NMSP) Min Thu-ta”There will be a peace talk “

IMNA – New Mon State Party (NMSP) has planned to organize peace talks with representatives of the Burmese government, said Nai Hong Sar, the General Secretary of the NMSP.
Minster of Myanma Railway U Aung Min and his group, who have been developing peace talks with ethnic armed groups, offered the NMSP to enter into a peace dialogue. Nai Hong Sar however, did not mention when they were offered.
He continued, “We don’t deny the offer and will have a talk. What we urge is to declare a nationwide ceasefire and as the next step, to develop a political dialogue between the central government representatives and our United Nationalities Federal Council’s (UNFC) representatives. We have known the state government does not have authority to discuss (with us).”
The UNFC was originally formed to include 12 ethnic armed groups, including the NMSP. At present it has 11 groups as two Kachin groups had combined, according to Nai Hong Sar.
In the previous month, the members of UNFC – Karen National Union (KNU), Karenni National Progressive Party (KNPP), Chin National Front (CNF) and Kachin Independence Organization (KIO) – have already met with Minister of Myanma Railway U Aung Min.
The NMSP has held peace dialogues twice before. The first talks were held with representatives of Mon State government in October in Ye. The second was with “Peace Agents” of Mon State government and was held at their headquarters.
The 8th Central Conference of the NMSP is due to be held this month. The ceasefire issue regarding the Burmese government will be the main topic of discussion during the conference, according to military issues advisor of the NMSP – Colonel Kao Rot (retired).
“It’ll be good if they meet before the central conference. If the meeting occurs after the conference, the decision might be changed,” he Colonel Kao Rot continued.
The NMSP entered a ceasefire agreement with the Burmese government in 1995. In September of 2010, after the military government coerced the NMSP to transform into the Border Guard Force (BGF), the agreement was broken.

Burma’s Union Election Commission (EC) Allows NLD Registration

Burma’s Union Election Commission (EC) has allowed an application to register as a political party filed by the National League for Democracy (NLD), landslide winners of the 1990 general election and led by Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi.

The New Light of Myanmar, a state-run Burmese, reported on Tuesday that the EC had permitted the NLD’s application for registration as a political party in accordance with the commission’s rules and regulations.

အမ်ိဳးသား ဒီမိုကေရစီ အဖြဲ႔ခ်ဳပ္မွ ဦးတင္ဦး အပါအဝင္ အျခား ေခါင္းေဆာင္ (၂၁) ဦးတို႔ျဖင့္ ေလွ်ာက္ထားသည့္ အမ်ိဳးသား ဒီမိုကေရစီ အဖြဲ႔ခ်ဳပ္ ပါတီသည္ ပါတီ တည္ေထာင္ခြင့္ ေလွ်ာက္ထားခ်က္ ဥပေဒ နည္းဥပေဒမ်ားႏွင့္ ကိုက္ညီ ဆီေလ်ာ္မႈ ႐ွိသျဖင့္ ယင္းအမ်ိဳးသား ဒီမိုကေရစီ အဖြဲ႔ခ်ဳပ္အား တရားဝင္ ႏိုင္ငံေရး ပါတီအျဖစ္ သတ္မွတ္ အတည္ျပဳ လိုက္ၿပီျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း သိ႐ွိရပါသည္။

Nyan Win, a spokesperson for the NLD, said that the party had submitted its application on Nov. 25. He said that there are two steps to register as a political party, and that the NLD has passed the initial step. The second step, he said, was the registration process itself.

Speaking to The Irrawaddy on Tuesday, Nyan Win said, “According to the law, the EC inspects the backgrounds and profiles of the 21 members who are listed on a party’s application form. They also investigate whether there is any connection between the party and an illegal organization based in a foreign country.”

He said that a selected number of party members will be sent to Naypyidaw next week to oversee the second step of the party’s application process.

The NLD was dissolved by the EC on Sept. 14, 2010, by the EC for refusing to register for the 2010 general election. The EC also announced that day that the NLD would no longer be permitted take part in any form of political activity.

Assuming the registration process is completed successfully, the NLD says it will participate in the upcoming by-elections, no date for which has yet been announced. It said it will compete in all 48 available constituencies.

Despite the fact that the NLD won the country’s 1990 election by a landslide, the party was never allowed to take power by the military junta.

On Sunday, NLD leader Suu Kyi met for an hour with Khin Aung Myint, the head of the Upper House of Parliament. Nyan Win said that Khin Aung Myint previously remarked in October that he recognizes the 1990 election result.

The NLD spokesman said that Sunday’s meeting between Suu Kyi and Khin Aung Myint was an informal affair, more akin to a “chat among friends.”

The NLD also announced on Monday that it was changing its logo to that of a fighting peacock. Its previous emblem was a bamboo hat, which it successfully employed as a politicking tool when campaigning for the 1990 election.

The fighting peacock symbol is perhaps better known as the logo of the All Burma Students’ Democratic Front and the All Burma Federation of Student Unions.

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