U WIRA THU : “ဦးဝီရသူထံ လုိင္ဇာ ျငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရးအဖြဲ႕ လာေရာက္ေတြ႕ဆုံ ဂါရဝျပဳ”

“ဦးဝီရသူထံ လုိင္ဇာ ျငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရးအဖြဲ႕ လာေရာက္ေတြ႕ဆုံ ဂါရဝျပဳ”
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လုိင္ဇာထိပ္သီးေဆြးေႏြးပြဲမွ ျပန္လာၾကေသာ ျငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရးအဖြဲ႕ မႏၲေလးၿမဳိ႕၊ မစုိးရိမ္တုိက္သစ္၊ ဓမၼသဟာယ ေက်ာင္းသုိ႔ ယေန႔ 6.11.2013 ညေန 3:00 နာရီတြင္ ေရာက္ရွိကာ ဆရာေတာ္ ဦးဝီရသူအား ဂါရဝျပဳၾကျပီး ၾသဝါဒစကား နာယူခဲ့ၾကေၾကာင္း သိရသည္။
ျငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရးအဖြဲ႕တြင္ ဦးညဳိအုန္းျမင့္ (M.P.C) မြန္ျပည္သစ္ပါတီႏွင့္ UNFC အေထြေထြ အတြင္းေရးမွဴး ဦးႏုိင္ဟံသာ၊ KNPP ဥကၠ႒ႏွင့္ UNFC ဥကၠ႒ ဦးေအးဆက္တြိဒ္၊ ရခုိင္ျပည္အမ်ဳိးသားေကာင္စီ(ANC) အေထြေထြ အတြင္းေရးမွဴး ဦးထြန္းေဇာ္၊ ရခုိင္ျပည္တပ္မေတာ္ တပ္ဦးစီးခ်ဳပ္ ဗုိလ္မွဴးၾကီးမင္းထြန္း၊ လားဟူဒီမုိကရက္တစ္ သမဂၢ (LDU) ဝ-အမ်ဳိးသားအဖြဲ႕ခ်ဳပ္ (WNO) တုိ႔ ပါဝင္ေၾကာင္း သိရသည္။
ျငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရးအဖြဲ႕မွ တင္ျပေလွ်ာက္ထားခ်က္မ်ားကုိ နားေထာင္ျပီး၊ ျငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရးရလုိက ဘုရားတရားေတာ္ အတုိင္း လုိက္နာက်င့္သုံးၾကဖုိ႔ တုိက္တြန္းခဲ့ေၾကာင္း သိရသည္။

Myanmar Burma : Ethnic leaders – Ceasefire deal unlikely unless all armed groups participate

 

Leaders from various ethnic parties have expressed skepticism over the signing of a nation-wide ceasefire deal between the government and ethnic armed groups.

The nation-wide deal which is to be signed in Nay Pyi Taw in October risks becoming a non-starter if some ethnic armed groups do not participate, according to Colonel Saw Lwin, the joint-secretary of the Kayan New Land Party.

“The root cause of clashes between the ethnics and the government is the political problem. It won’t come to an end only with the ceasefire. What the ethnics long for is the political dialogue. It will be meaningless if all ethnic armed groups do not join in the ceasefire deal. If this happens, we won’t sign the deal,” said Colonel Saw Lwin.

“If for instance if the Kachin Independence Army does not join it [the ceasefire] we won’t either. Armed revolution is due to the political problem. If the political problem is set aside, we won’t come to the signing,” added the colonel.

Skirmishes between the Myanmar army and ethnic armed groups have continued in various contested areas despite government efforts to push for a nation-wide ceasefire deal. The latest incident involved fighting in Mangyin Village of Shan State on September 17 as trust-building talks for peace were still underway in the state capital of Taunggyi.

“There have been over 100 skirmishes between the government and the Shan State Progress Party/Shan State Army (SSPP/SSA) despite a ceasefire agreement in January 2012. The fighting continued up to the end of September and therefore the October ceasefire deal is unlikely to be held,” said Khun Tun Oo, the chairman of Shan Nationalities League for Democracy.

Khun Tun Oo added that matters regarding the Wa and Mongla armed groups had yet to be settled.

Lieutenant General Hsay Htin who was involved in the ceasefire processes under General Ne Win in 1963, as well as assisting to General Khin Nyunt’s efforts in late 1990, said that trust in a ceasefire was necessary for it to succeed.

“If an ethnic armed group keeps on fighting, ceasefire will not come true. If all ethnic armed groups agree to a ceasefire, it would be the best for the country,” said Hsay Htin.

The Kachin Independence Army (KIA) is not likely to participate in the signing of ceasefire to be held in October. The Union Peacemaking Implementation Work Committee is planning to meet the KIA in order to push it to the signing deal.

TO ETHNIC LEADERS: How to Win Friends & Influence People by U Nu (Burmese Version)

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SHAN’s advice to all therefore is it’s time to come to senses and stop this madness.

As Carnegie wrote as he concluded his first chapter, quoting Dr Johnson: “God himself, sir, does not propose to judge man until the end of his days.” Why should you and I?

Indeed, why should we?

*N.D. This is not to dismiss common principles. For instance, according to pros, whether making war or peace, there is a great need to know both oneself and the other side. If you know oneself, but not the other side, for every success gained you will also suffer a failure. Similarly, if you know neither yourself nor the other side, you will succumb in every engagement.

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Rebel leaders: Few will show up for the nationwide ceasefire agreement

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Resistance leaders that attended a meeting yesterday to discuss the latest developments in the ongoing process say if the text of the nationwide ceasefire agreement covers no more than the original 5 point guideline laid down by the President on 1 March 2012, few movements will show up at the actual signing ceremony.

“Most likely, no one’s going to show up,” said a prominent leader who requested his identity be withheld.

According to the 5-point guideline, both sides would agree:

• To stop all hostilities
• To stay only in the agreed areas
• Not to hold any arms in places except from those agreed areas
• To open liaison offices in the mutually agreed places
• To fix the venue, time and date for Union level dialogue

U Aung Min, Vice Chairman of the Union Peacemaking Work Committee (UPWC), when asked by Lt-Gen Yawd Serk, leader of the Restoration Council of Shan State/Shan State Army (RCSS/SSA), on 15 June how the second signing would be different from the first, replied: “The difference is that at the second signing, it will be witnessed by dignitaries all over the world. All those concerned will sign it. Afterward, nobody will be able to renege on it and reverse the process even if he wants to.”

 

So far, 13 resistance movements have signed ceasefire with Naypyitaw. Those remaining to sign it include the Kachin Independence Organization/Kachin Independence Army (KIO/KIA).

“We need to have a comprehensive peace agreement which not only includes ceasefire, but also a framework for political negotiations,” he said, speaking on the sideline of the meeting.

The Working Group for Ethnic Coordination (WGEC), formed by representatives of the ethnic armed movements and civil society organizations in 2012, has already drafted a comprehensive agreement, which also contains:

• Common principles
• Framework for political dialogue
• Transitional arrangement
• Scope of participation
• A 19-point dialogue issues
• Military Code of Conduct

Speaking to the parliament on Friday, 28 June, U Aung Min said, “The government has a plan to hand over the task of organizing political dialogue to Parliament,” after the signing of the nationwide ceasefire, according to Eleven Media.

Following Aung Min’s address, Shwe Mann, Lower House Speaker, has called for direct involvement of the Parliament in the peace process on Tuesday, 2 July.

Deputy Information Minister Ye Htut: Public Service Media (PSM) would be used for the 2015 Election

The Public Service Media (PSM) would be used for the 2015 Election, Deputy Information Minister Ye Htut said on Saturday during the press conference.

The deputy minister made the remark in reply to the question by The Daily Eleven whether PSM is a form of preparation by the ruling Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) for the upcoming election in 2015.

While Ye Htut confirmed that PSM has been prepared for the 2015 Election, he denied that it is under the USDP.

“It will never be the mouthpiece of any political party. It will only be the mouthpiece of the public,” said Ye Htut.

“When you look at the media coverage during the 2012 by-election, 90 per cent of them were about one or two big parties.  If so, how will smaller parties and ethnic parties get the chance to speak?”

According to him, PSM will allow politicians and parties a chance to speak while also serve as a platform for social organisations to raise issues to politicians.

“So, we are preparing to give fair coverage and equal chance for the ‘media prism’,” he said.

Although the deputy minister said he would not get involved in the state-owned newspapers after the media law come out, journalists were suspicious of how much success the state-media turned PSM outlets will have in reaching the objectives of PSM.

He is, however, positive that PSM will succeed in Myanmar even though it was under military rule for many years by giving examples of its success in Germany, which was under Hitler’s rule, and Czechoslovakia and Poland, which were former Communist countries.

“The Parliament will decide [whether to approve the PSM bill or not]. They will act after listening to public voice,” said Ye Htut.

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Ye Tun from the Shan Nationalities Democratic Party (SNDP) argued that Myanmar should implement a Public Service Media (PSM) Bill as the private media cannot be completely trusted. The ethnic party leader made the comment during a meeting to discuss the Printing and Publishing Bill drafted by the Information Ministry in Yangon on Sunday.

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Ethnic leaders joining The Lady to meet Clinton tomorrow

THURSDAY, 01 DECEMBER 2011 11:10 S.H.A.N.

According to Shan sources in Rangoon, the schedule for visiting US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to meet the Shans at their community temple tomorrow has been changed to a joint meeting at Aung San Suu Kyi’s home.

The meeting will be at 08:30 and joined by U Win Tin, the National League for Democracy’s elder, and 4 other representatives from the Committee Representing People’s Parliament (CRPP). The Shan Nationalities League for Democracy (SNLD) will be represented by Sai Saw Aung, an executive member of its secretariat.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton walks from airplane upon arrival in Naypyitaw (Photo: Saul Loeb/AP)

The venue will then move to Beithano (Vishnu) Art Gallery.

Asked what message the SNLD has for Mrs Clinton, Sai Lake, Spokesperson for the party, said Sai Saw Aung is expected to deliver a 3 point memo:

Ethnic leaders welcome U.S. envoy’s call to investigate abuses

September 16th, 2011

Rai Maroah – Ethnic armed groups welcomed statements from America’s new special envoy to Burma urging the establishment of a commission to investigate claims of human rights abuses in ethnic areas.

The statement came at the end of U.S. Special Representative to Burma Derek Mitchell’s recently concluded five-day visit to the country. Mitchell spoke of “the importance of establishing a legitimate and credible mechanism for investigating reported abuses in ethnic areas as a first step toward building trust and promoting national reconciliation through accountability.”

“His suggestion should become reality. We also encourage the establishment of such a system,” said Nai Hongsa, the general secretary of the New Mon State Party (NMSP).

The Karenni National Progressive Party (KNPP) also welcomed the U.S. envoy’s urging of the Burmese government to solve the conflicts in the ethnic areas as a first step towards stability, security, and legitimacy.

KNPP secretary Khu Oo Rei said, “The Burmese military regularly abuses human rights in ethnic areas, while some ethnic armed groups also cause abuses. The Burmese government should take action against violators of human rights.”

KNPP chief of armed forces, Bee Htoo predicts united armed struggle after Burma’s election

Exclusion of ethnic groups from the coming general election in Burma will lead to a consolidation of rebellious armed forces along the border with Thailand to fight against the new militarybacked government, an ethnicminority leader said.

“We all know that the election will not benefit us, so we have to unite to fight against them,” said the Karenni National Progressive Party (KNPP) chief of armed forces, Bee Htoo.
“The election will change nothing in this country. I expect there will be a major offensive from Burma’s military shortly after the election,” he said.

The elected government will claim it is a democratic one but the suppression of minorities will continue, he said.
The KNPP, one of three rebellious ethnic groups along Burma’s border with Thailand, announced it would continue its armed struggle after the November election in Burma. The other two groups are the Karen National Union (KNU) and Shan State Army (SSA).
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