KNU GS_ Open Letter to Karen Society

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The Situation of the K N L A – 20-12-2003 to the Current Situation

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Myanmar Peace Support Initiative (MPSI): Kyauk Kyi Pilot Project in Bago Region

The Kyauk Kyi Pilot Project in Bago Region

Last updated: 09/10/2012 // The Kyauk Kyi Pilot Project is the first pilot project that has been initiated under the Myanmar Peace Support Initiative (MPSI). The aims of the pilot project, in line with the aims of MPSI, are to provide much needed assistance to conflict-affected IDPs, to support trust building and dialogue at a local level in order to increase confidence in the ceasefire, and to expand humanitarian space in this area.

Based on consultation with the KNU and the Myanmar Government, the project is focused on the Ker Der Village Tract, a remote area in the jungle twenty miles east of Kyauk Kyi on the road to the Thai Border in eastern Bago division. The project activities are in the area adjacent to Mu The village, involving a population of 1585 internally displaced people (224 households). The population is Karen, and predominantly animist. Since 1975, armed conflict has forced communities to flee into more remote and hilly areas. In most cases, villagers previously cultivated irrigated rice fields in villages on the plains and closer to road. Since being displaced, they have been cultivating mostly swidden (slash-&-burn) rice in the hills.

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KNU is Eaten by Anonymous Proxy

သတင္းစာမ်က္ႏွာတစ္ခုမွာဖတ္ ဘူးတယ္.. လူထုဦးစိန္၀င္းေျပာတဲ့စကား ေလးတစ္ခြန္းပါ။ သူေျပာဒါက သတင္းစာဆရာေတြဟာ လူမုိက္ေတြတဲ့ လူေတြ မေျပာခ်င္တဲ့အရာေတြကုိ ေျပာတယ္ ေရးတယ္.. လူမုန္းမ်ားတယ္ ဆုိတဲ့သေဘာေပါ့…
ခုလည္း က်ေနာ္တုိ ့အဖြဲ ့သားမ်ားလည္း အေပ်ာ္တန္း ဘေလာ့ဂါေတြကေန လူမိုက္ႀကီးေတြျဖစ္ေနျပီလာ းမသိဘူးေနာ္..အထူးသျဖင့္ လူေတြလက္ေရွာင္တဲ့သတင္းေတြ ကုိ က်ေနာ္တုိ ့ဆုိဒ္က ဒုိင္ခံျပီးတင္ေပးေနရဒါပါ။ မတင္ေပးရင္လည္း တခ်ိဴ ့က မတင္ေပးလုိ ့ဆုိျပီး အီးေမးနဲ ့လွမ္းဆဲတဲ့လူေတြလည္းရွိေသ းပါ၏။ ဘာပဲျဖစ္ျဖစ္ မတူညီတဲ့ အျမင္မ်ားကုိ အားလုံးဖတ္ဖုိ ့အတြက္ တင္ေပးလ်က္ရွိပါေႀကာင္း… ..

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Demonstration in Rakhine – Sitwe_NO OIC_ (10 OCT 2012)-photos

Arakan – Rakhine Women Association based in Sitwe had demonstrated today around 1 pm. Demanding 8 points including “NO OIC OFFICE IN BURMA”. The demonstration was held peacefully and around 200 women had participated to express their concerns.

စစ္ေတြၿမိဳ႕ရွိ ရခုိင္အမ်ိဳးသမီးမ်ားအဖြဲ႕မွ ယေန႔ (ေအာက္တုိဘာလ ၁၀ ရက္ေန႔) ေန႔လည္ ၁ နာရီအခ်ိန္ ခန္႔တြင္ ဆႏၵ ထုတ္ေဖာ္ခဲ့ေၾကာင္း သိရသည္။ ထုိသုိ႔ ဆႏၵ ေဖာ္ထုတ္သြားရာတြင္ အမ်ိဳးသမီးမ်ား သီးသန္႔ ပါ၀င္ခဲ့ျပီး စစ္ေတြၿမိဳ႕ အုိးတန္း ရပ္ကြက္၊ ကမ္းနားလမ္းရွိ ေရွ႕ဘက္ဧေစတီတြင္ စတင္ စုရုံးကာ ထြက္ခြာခဲ့ ေၾကာင္းႏွင့္ အမ်ိဳးသမီး ၂၀၀ ခန္႔ ပါ၀င္ေၾကာင္း သိရွိရပါသည္။ ဆႏၵထုတ္ေဖာ္ရာတြင္ အဓိကအခ်က္ ၈ ခ်က္ကုိ တင္ျပ ေတာင္းဆုိခဲ့ေၾကာင္း သိရသည္။ ထုိအခ်က္မ်ားမွာ (၁) ၁၉၈၂ ခုႏွစ္ ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံသား ဥပေဒကုိ ေလးစားလုိက္နာၾကပါ။ (၂) တရားမ၀င္ခုိး၀င္လာသည့္ ဘဂၤလိမ်ားအား အလုိမရွိ၊ (၃) ျမန္မာျပည္တြင္းအေရးကုိ OIC ၀င္ေရာက္မစြက္ဖက္ပါႏွင့္ ျမန္မာ့ေျမေပၚမွ ထြက္သြားေပးရန္။ (၄)ျမန္မာျပည္တြင္ ဘယ္တုံးကမွ် ရုိဟင္ဂ်ာမရွိပါ။ (၅) သားေရေပၚအိပ္၊သားေရနားစားမ်ား ထြက္သြားပါ။

၆) ေျမမ်ိဳ၍လူမ်ိဳးမေပ်ာက္၊ လူမ်ိဳမွ လူမ်ိဳးေပ်ာက္မည္။ (၇) ျမန္မာအမ်ိဳးသမီးမ်ား ဘ၀လွပလုံျခဳံမႈရွိပါေစ။ (၈) ျမန္မာ တစ္မ်ိဳးသားလုံးစည္းလုံးညီညြတ္ၾကပါ တို႔ ျဖစ္ၾကသည္။ ရခုိင္ျပည္နယ္အတြင္း ယခုအပတ္တြင္ ဆႏၵေဖာ္ထုတ္မႈမ်ား ဆက္တုိက္ျဖစ္ေပၚေနခဲ့ၿပီးေဒ သဆုိင္ရာအာဏာပုိင္မ်ားခြင့္ျပဳခ်က္ျဖင့္ ျပဳလုပ္ျခင္းျဖစ္ေၾကာင္းလည္း သိရွိရပါသည္။ လက္ရွိကာ လသည္ စစ္ေတြၿမိဳ႕ ညမထြက္ရမိန္႔ ၁၄၄ ထုတ္ျပန္ထားေသာ္လည္း ယင္းသုိ႔ ဆႏၵျပမႈမ်ားကုိ ဥပ ေဒအဘာင္အတြင္းက ေဆာင္ရြက္ျခင္းျဖစ္ရာ စည္းကမ္းတစ္က်လုပ္ကုိင္ရန္လုိအပ္လွေၾကာင္း လည္းေဒသခံမ်ားက ေျပာဆုိၾကပါသည္။ ထုိွဆႏၵထုတ္ေဖာ္မႈမ်ားအားသုံးသပ္ရာတြင္ ဆႏၵထုတ္ေဖာ္သူမ်ားအားလုံးသည္ ျမန္မာႏုိင္ ငံအတြင္းသုိ႔ OIC ၀င္ေရာက္လာျခင္းကုိ လုံး၀သေဘာမေသာ အခ်က္တစ္ခ်က္မွာ တူညီေနေၾကာင္း ေတြ႕ရွိရသည္ဟုလည္း ေဒသခံမ်ားသုံးသပ္ၾကပါသည္။ တည္ျငိမ္ေအးခ်မ္းေရး အတြက္ လူမ်ိဳးစုႏွစ္ခုလုံးက လုိလားၾကေသာ္လည္း အေျခအေနမ်ားကုိ သုံးသပ္ၾကည့္ရန္လုိအပ္ ေၾကာင္းႏွင့္ ရခုိင္ျပည္နယ္အတြင္းျဖစ္ေပၚေနေသာ ပကတိအမွန္တရားကုိ ရွင္းလင္းျမင္သာစြာ ေဖာ္ထုတ္ျပသႏုိင္ေရးမွာလည္း အေရးပါလွေၾကာင္း ေဒသခံၿမိဳ႕မိၿမိဳ႕ဖမ်ားက ေျပာပါ သည္။ Photos and News : Eleven Media Group

HOT NEWS: Norwegian peace fund initiative temporarily suspend

The Norwegian government has vowed to temporarily suspend its peace fund initiative for Burma’s border regions until the leadership of the Karen National Union (KNU) resolves their political differences.

The move follows news of a serious rift in the senior ranks of the KNU over how to approach ceasefire negotiations with the government, resulting in the dismissal of three senior leaders last week.

“We are actually going to step back for a while in order to allow for these internal discussions to work themselves out,” Charles Petrie, head of the Myanmar Peace Support Initiative (MPSI) told DVB in an interview. “We are not going to push for more pilots, we are not going to bring any visibility to existing pilots.”

Commander-in-Chief General Mutu Say Poe and two leading peace negotiators, David Htaw and Roger Khin were dismissed last Thursday over allegations they colluded with the army to open an unauthorised liaison office in the Karen state capital Hpa-an. Brig-Gen Baw Kyaw Heh was swiftly appointed the new Commander-in-Chief.