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Posts Tagged ‘Kachin Independence Organization’
Ceasefire and Political Dialogue, Highest Hurdles Ahead for Thein Sein’s Government
Thein Sein’s government has been applauded for some recent reforms, including last week’s release of 299 political prisoners. However, one of the biggest hurdles remaining for the regime will be dealing with the ongoing armed conflict in Eastern Burma and the political concerns of the country’s ethnic nationalities.
President Thein Sein has issued two separate orders to halt offensives against the Kachin Independence Army (KIA), the most recent of the two coming the day before the regime’s delegation led by Aung Thaung was set to meet with the Kachin Independence Organization (KIO). According to Minister of Immigration and Population, Khin Yi, this most recent order covered the entire country. However, the Burma Army continued launching attacks against the KIA, including on the second day of the ceasefire talks between the regime and the KIO, resulting in a premature end of the negotiations. The Burma Army’s ongoing attacks continue to raise serious questions about Thein Sein’s decision-making power within the regime [...]
| |Statement on Dialogue Between KIO/KIA and Thein Sein’s Government
… The undersigned Kachin organizations call for an immediate end to offensives in Kachin State and all ethnic areas, and the initiation of politically meaningful dialogue between ethnic nationalities and Thein Sein’s government to achieve ethnic equality and self-determination. We would like to make the following calls regarding the ceasefire negotiations and political dialogue process [...]
| |Burma: Army Committing Abuses in Kachin State
Burma’s armed forces have committed serious abuses against ethnic Kachin civilians in renewed fighting in Kachin State, Human Rights Watch said today. Since hostilities began over five months ago against the Kachin Independence Army (KIA), Burmese armed forces have [...]
| |Letter to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon
On 26 September, the President of the Kachin Independence Organization (KIO) Lanyaw Zawng Hra wrote a letter to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon regarding national reconciliation Burma [...]
| |KIO Stetement Regarding Naypyidaw Converence (Aug 17)
အစိုးရအဖြဲ႕သစ္၏ ပထမဦးဆံုးအၾကိမ္ က်င္းပသည့္ သတင္းစာရွင္းလင္းပြဲသည္ အစိုးရအဖြဲ႕သစ္၏ မူဝါဒမ်ား၊ ျပည္သူႏွင့္ႏိုင္ငံအတြက္ ေရွ႕လုပ္ငန္းစဥ္မ်ား ထုတ္ျပန္ေျပာဆိုျခင္းမဟုတ္ပဲ KIO ႏွင့္ တိုင္းရင္းသား လက္နက္ကိုင္ ေတာ္လွန္ေရး အင္အားစုမ်ားကို [...]
| |Open Letter to President Thein Sein and Ethnic Armed Groups
(Unofficial Translation)
The (post-independence) Union of Burma was co-founded by different nationalities. Like siblings from a single family, all these nationalities had cohabited this land since time immemorial. Therefore, forging peaceful ties and unity among the nationalities is of paramount importance [...]
| |ဦးသိန္းစိန္ႏွင့္ တိုင္းရင္းသား လက္နက္ကိုင္ အဖြဲ႕အစည္းမ်ား ထံသို႕ေပးပို႕ေသာ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္၏ အိတ္ဖြင့္ေပးစာ
ျပည္ေထာင္စုသမၼတ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံေတာ္သည္ တိုင္းရင္းသားလူမ်ဳိးစုမ်ားႏွင့္ ေပါင္းစပ္ဖြဲ႕စည္းထားေသာ ႏိုင္ငံျဖစ္ပါသည္။ ယင္းတိုင္းရင္းသားမ်ား အားလံုးသည္ ႏွစ္ပရိေစၦဒ မ်ားစြာကပင္ တေျမတည္းေန တေရတည္းေသာက္ အတူေနထိုင္ခဲ့ၾကေသာ ညီအစ္ကို ေမာင္နမမ်ား ျဖစ္ၾကပါသည္ [...]
| |Press Release on Chronology of Events of Armed Conflicts in Kachin Conflict
(Unofficial Translation)
We respectfully announce the followings to the people in Kachin State.
(1) There has been fighting between the KIA troops and the Burma army since 9 June 2011.
(2) The KIO (Kachin Independence Organization) never want to make and see the troubles and damages of people [...]
(3) We make this announcement with an intention to inform the people the true events and to counter the false news
| |ကခ်င္ျပည္နယ္တြင္ ျဖစ္ေပၚေနေသာ စစ္ပြဲမ်ားအေပၚ အမ်ဳိးသားဒီမိုကေရစီ အဖြဲ႕ခ်ဳပ္၏ ေၾကညာခ်က္
ယခုအခါ တပ္မေတာ္ႏွင့္ ကခ်င္ျပည္နယ္ အေျခစိုက္ KIA အဖြဲ႕တို႕သည္ အျပန္အလွန္ လက္နက္ၾကီးမ်ားျဖင့္ ပစ္ခတ္တိုက္ခိုက္ ၾကသျဖင့္ ထိခိုက္ႏွစ္နာ ဆံုးရႈံးမႈမ်ား၊ ေသေၾကပ်က္စီးမႈမ်ား ျဖစ္ေပၚေနေၾကာင္း လူေပါင္းေသာင္းဂဏန္းခ်ီျပီး အိမ္နီးခ်င္း တရုတ္ႏိုင္ငံသို႕ ထြက္ေျပးေနၾကရေၾကာင္း [...]
| |Hydropower Dams Fuelling Conflict in Burma
Recent fighting near the Dapein and Shweli hydropower dams in northern Burma shows how the buildup of Burma Army troops to secure deeply unpopular Chinese dam projects is fuelling conflict.
Fighting broke out between the Burma Army and the Kachin Independence Organization (KIO) last week at the Dapein No. 1 and 2 dams, which are being constructed by China’s state-owned Datang Company [...]
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