Activities of Ethnic Parties and People of Burma in June
(June 22, 2005)( S.H.A.N. & Burma's News Published by Burma's Chinese 貌强 21-6-05)
Kachin
The leaders of Kachin Independence Organisation (KIO), on 3 June, explained their experiences of attending the constitution drafting Nyaung-Hnapin 'National Convention' organised by Burma's military junta,State Peace and Development Council (SPDC), to local Kachin population. (boxun.com)
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Moreover, it was hinted that pressures have been put onceasefire groups by the junta, to surrender their weapons.
Burma's military junta ordered the Kachin Independence Organization tocancel a public briefing scheduled for last Saturday in Nam San Yang—a village in Kachin State—to explain its policy with regard to the NationalConvention, according to a high KIO official.
Dr La Ja, General Secretary of the KIO, told The Irrawaddy by phone from Kachin State that the public meeting, which was originally reported to the Burmese authorities in order to obtain permission to hold the event, was planned to discuss the organization's attendance at the government-sponsored National Convention—charged with the task of drafting a new constitution—and to review the current status of the convention. Dr Tu Ja, a vice chairman of the KIO and the leader of Kachin delegates to the national convention, had been scheduled to give a speech at the public meeting.
On June 11, however—just a few hours before the meeting was to start, and after more than 1000 people had already arrived—the Burmese northernregional commander Maj-Gen Maung Maung Swe instructed the KIO's liaison office in Myitkyina, the capital of Kachin State, to cancel the meeting without giving any reason, said Dr La Ja, who added that he had no idea what might have prompted the move.
The KIO has held similar public briefings since the National Convention adjourned at the end of March, amid growing doubts within the Kachin community about the ethnic ceasefire group' s attendance of the convention.
Past meetings have been held in many towns that have large Kachin populations, as well as in Lashio, Bhamo and Maija Yang. The most recent public briefing took place in Laiza, a town on the China-Burma border.
Karenni
According to a senior KA commander, General Aung Htay, the buildup of SPDC troops close to Nya Moe began in mid-December. Four SPDC battalions (totaling about 650 troops) were brought into position. Crucially, they were combined with some 700 troops from the Karenni National People's Liberation Front (KNPLF), an armed group that split many years ago from the Karenni National Progressive Party (KNPP). A recently constructed road through the remote hills of Karenni state has enabled the SPDC and its allies to bring in heavy artillery. With the new troops in place, the attack on Nya Moe was launched.According to Aung Htay, the fighting has been intense, with artillery attacksalmost daily and a total of more than 60 clashes. Heavy shelling brieflydisrupted humanitarian aid work in the area in January.
The Karenni National Progressive Party (KNPP) which has been fighting against successive Burmese governments for a separate Karenni State for more than 50 years, is to abandon its claim for a separate state and accept the building of a federal Burma which includes all the states.
The official declaration was made at the end of the 10th KNPP Conference which was held from 27 May to 2 June at a location on theThai-Burma border.
Rakhine
The 28th anniversary of Khaing Moe Lun Day was observed bymembers of the Arakan Liberation Party (ALP) in a border area on 4 June 2005, said a statement released by the ALP.Khaing Moe Lun is a very famous revolutionary leader among the Arakanese people because he was a founder of the Arakan Liberation Party (ALP) and he died in battle with the Burmese army in 1977. The well-known battle took place during the 2000 mile march to Arakan from Karen state across several Burmese ethnic revolutionary areas including Karenni,Shan and Kachin states.
Shan State
* Facing pressure both from the inside by the pro-Rangoon United Wa State Army and from the outside by the Thai Army, the besieged Shan State Army had decided to relocate the 200 refugees under its protection away from the Thai-Burma borderline
* Hkun Htun Oo, leader of Burma's second largest party, is still alive and well in Insein prison, four months after being detained along with nine other activists, according to sources close both to the family and theceasefire groups.A military officer with the rank of second lieutenant has been assigned to look after him, said the sources.
But he is not allowed to appoint his own legal counsel but instead forced to work with the government designated lawyers.
* Commander of the northeastern military command Lt. Gen. Myint Hlaing summoned on June one the leaders of the Shan State Army (North), a Shan ethnic arm rebel group, led by Lt. Gen. Loimao, to Lashio town and asked them to "exchange arms for peace", a source close to the rebel group said.Moreover, the military have reportedly been reported looting the property of the SSA (N).
Leaders of one of the ceasefire groups, Shan State Army - North (SSA-N) which signed the cessation of hostility with Burma's military junta, State Peace and Development Council (SPDC), was told by the junta to cut off ties with their former allies, members of Shan State National Army (SSNA) who decided to fight against the junta again.
Lt. Gen. Myint Hlaing's assistant Maj. San Shwe Tha and his troops were reported to have gone to the piggery, run by the SSA (N), in Phwe Hong village in Muse township on June six to arrest the owner of the farm. But when the owner escaped the arrest, the military personnel then turned to the piggery and took away some pigs and seized a medical clinic.
Former units of the Shan State National Army that had been forced tosurrender during the past two months have been permitted to set up localmilitia forces, according to sources in northern Shan State.
On 15 May, Ganna, ex-commander of the SSNA's 11th Brigade who surrendered in Hsenwi a month earlier, was told by Maj-Gen Myint Hlaing, Commander of Lashio-based Northeastern Region Command, that the Burma Army would like him to form a 60-men militia force "for your own personal security and to assist the Army in defending the area."
Mon
A Mon National Revoulation Army founder, Nai Pan Htar, passed away June 4 in Rangoon capital of Burma in his son house. Nai Pan Htar 84, who involved in founding of Mon National Revolutionary Army since 1947 with Bo Thein who led and started founding Mon National Army.
Karen Rangoon's demands on 14-15 March to KNU were
1. The KNU would be confined to three areas decided by the SPDC;
2. It would not be allowed to set up an administrative body
3. It would not be allowed to involve itself in political work, but would be able to conduct business and keep their weapons.
On 5 May, KNU representatives informed Lt-Col Myat Htun Oo that they could not accept the terms imposed by the Burma Army. (Khit Pyaing).
The Burma Army continues to uproot civilians in its counter-insurgency campaign against rebels in Karen State, a global watchdog says in its latest report issued on Thursday. The New York-based Human Rights Watch says Rangoon's troops still commit human rights abuses including extrajudicial killings, sexual violence and forced labor
As of late 2004, as many as 650,000 people were internally displaced in Karen areas, eastern Burma. Since the end of 2002, 157,000 civilians have been displaced and at least 240 villages destroyed, relocated or abandoned.
Wa
Rangoon has postponed a ceremony scheduled for June 24 to announce that United Wa State Army-controlled territory is officially "drug free."According to an officer of the UWSA, Rangoon stated that the beginning of the rainy season was the reason for the delay.
The once rebellious Wa reached a peace agreement with the military government in 1989, allowing the ethnic group to exercise a measure of autonomy in its region and even maintain a well-armed force.
Sources within the diplomatic community say the ceremony was postponed until after the monsoon rains because the junta was displeased with the wording on the invitation which called the Wa organization the "People's Government of the Wa State." The military did not want the Wa army to describe themselves as a government, diplomats say.
UNA * United Nationalities Alliance (UNA) which is made up of nine election winning ethnic national parties, is restarting its activities, despite the fact that its leader U Hkun Htun Oo is still being detained by Burma's military junta, State Peace and Development Council (SPDC).
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