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 [...]

September 27, 2011 | Tags: Armed Conflict, Kachin Independence Organization, National Reconciliation, UN Secretary General, United Nations | Read more >>

KIO Stetement Regarding Naypyidaw Converence (Aug 17)

အစိုးရအဖြဲ႕သစ္၏ ပထမဦးဆံုးအၾကိမ္ က်င္းပသည့္ သတင္းစာရွင္းလင္းပြဲသည္ အစိုးရအဖြဲ႕သစ္၏ မူဝါဒမ်ား၊ ျပည္သူႏွင့္ႏိုင္ငံအတြက္ ေရွ႕လုပ္ငန္းစဥ္မ်ား ထုတ္ျပန္ေျပာဆိုျခင္းမဟုတ္ပဲ KIO ႏွင့္ တိုင္းရင္းသား လက္နက္ကိုင္ ေတာ္လွန္ေရး အင္အားစုမ်ားကို [...]

August 17, 2011 | Tags: Burmese, Ceasefire, Kachin Independence Organization, Naypyidaw | Read more >>

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 [...]

July 28, 2011 | Tags: Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, Kachin Independence Organization, Karen National Union, New Mon State Party, President Thein Sein, Shan State Army | Read more >>

ဦးသိန္းစိန္ႏွင့္ တိုင္းရင္းသား လက္နက္ကိုင္ အဖြဲ႕အစည္းမ်ား ထံသို႕ေပးပို႕ေသာ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္၏ အိတ္ဖြင့္ေပးစာ

ျပည္ေထာင္စုသမၼတ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံေတာ္သည္ တိုင္းရင္းသားလူမ်ဳိးစုမ်ားႏွင့္ ေပါင္းစပ္ဖြဲ႕စည္းထားေသာ ႏိုင္ငံျဖစ္ပါသည္။ ယင္းတိုင္းရင္းသားမ်ား အားလံုးသည္ ႏွစ္ပရိေစၦဒ မ်ားစြာကပင္ တေျမတည္းေန တေရတည္းေသာက္ အတူေနထိုင္ခဲ့ၾကေသာ ညီအစ္ကို ေမာင္နမမ်ား ျဖစ္ၾကပါသည္ [...]

July 28, 2011 | Tags: Burmese, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, Kachin Independence Organization, Karen National Union, New Mon State Party, President Thein Sein, Shan State Army | Read more >>

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

June 20, 2011 | Tags: Burma Army, Burmese, Fighting, Kachin, Kachin Independence Army, Kachin Independence Organization | Read more >>

ကခ်င္ျပည္နယ္တြင္ ျဖစ္ေပၚေနေသာ စစ္ပြဲမ်ားအေပၚ အမ်ဳိးသားဒီမိုကေရစီ အဖြဲ႕ခ်ဳပ္၏ ေၾကညာခ်က္

ယခုအခါ တပ္မေတာ္ႏွင့္ ကခ်င္ျပည္နယ္ အေျခစိုက္ KIA အဖြဲ႕တို႕သည္ အျပန္အလွန္ လက္နက္ၾကီးမ်ားျဖင့္ ပစ္ခတ္တိုက္ခိုက္ ၾကသျဖင့္ ထိခိုက္ႏွစ္နာ ဆံုးရႈံးမႈမ်ား၊ ေသေၾကပ်က္စီးမႈမ်ား ျဖစ္ေပၚေနေၾကာင္း လူေပါင္းေသာင္းဂဏန္းခ်ီျပီး အိမ္နီးခ်င္း တရုတ္ႏိုင္ငံသို႕ ထြက္ေျပးေနၾကရေၾကာင္း [...]

June 20, 2011 | Tags: Burma Army, Kachin Independence Army, Kachin Independence Organization, Kachin State, National League for Democracy | Read more >>

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 [...]

June 15, 2011 | Tags: Burma Army, Burma Rivers Network, Ceasefire, Dams, Kachin Independence Organization, Kachin State, Myitsone Dam, Shan State, Shan State Army-North | Read more >>

CSW Calls for Ceasefire and International Support for Refugees in Burma’s Kachin Civil War

Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW) is calling for a ceasefire in Burma’s Kachin state and urges the international community, including the United Nations (UN) and European Union (EU), to press Burma’s nearest neighbours, China and India, to protect refugees who have fled the Kachin conflict to seek refuge in the border regions [...]

June 14, 2011 | Tags: Burma Army, Ceasefire, Christian Solidarity Worldwide, European Union, Kachin Independence Organization, Kachin State, United Nations | Read more >>

Open Letter to China on Mali Nmai Confluence Dam Project

I, hereby present to your most honorable Chairman of Republic of China our humble request. I am serving as the Chairman of Kachin Independence Organization. On behalf of the Kachin Independence Organization (KIO) and the Kachin Ethnic people inhabiting in the Union of Myanmar, I submit this open letter to you [...]

May 16, 2011 | Tags: China, Communist Party of China, Kachin Independence Organization, Mali Nmai Confluence Dam Project, Myitsone Dam | Read more >>

ဗဟိုေကာ္မတီ ကခ်င္အထူးေဒသ (၂ ) ေကအိုင္အို ၏ ထုပ္ျပန္ေၾကညာခ်က္

၁။ ေကအိုင္အို၏ ခံယူခ်က္ႏွင့္ ပန္းတိုင္သည္ ႏုိင္ငံေတာ္အတြင္း မွီတင္းေနထိုင္ၾကေသာ ျပည္သူလူထုတြင္ အခ်ဴပ္အျခာ အာဏာတည္၍ ေအးခ်မ္းသာယာျပီးဖြံ႔ျဖိဳးတိုးတက္ေသာ ႏိုင္ငံအျဖစ္တည္ရွိႏုိင္ရန္ ရည္ရြယ္သည္[...]

September 5, 2010 | Tags: 2010 Elections, Ceasefire Groups, Kachin Independence Organization | Read more >>