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ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္၏ ရခိုင္ခရီးစဥ္ႏွင့္ပတ္သက္ေသာ သေဘာထားထုတ္ျပန္ခ်က္

ကြဲျပားစရာအေၾကာင္းအရာမ်ား မည္သို႔ပင္ရွိေစကာမူ ကြ်ႏ္ုပ္တို႔အေနျဖင့္ သမိုင္းေၾကာင္း
အစဥ္အလာဂုဏ္သိကၡာအရ အိမ္ရွင္မွဧည့္သည္အေပၚ ဧည့္ဝတ္တရားေက်ပြန္ရမည္ျဖစ္သျဖင့္
အမ်ဳိးသားဒီမိုကေရစီအဖြဲ႔ခ်ဳပ္ဥကၠ႒ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္၏ ရခိုင္ျပည္ခရီးစဥ္အား က်န္တိုင္းရင္း
သားျပည္သူတစ္ရပ္လံုးႏွင့္အတူ ဂုဏ္ယူဝမ္းေျမာက္ ႀကိဳဆိုပါသည္ […]

October 16, 2015  •  By Arakan National Network  •  Tags: , , , , ,  •  Read more ➤

Vice Chair Crowley Extremely Concerned About Burmese Government’s Arrest of Peaceful Activists

(Queens, NY) – Today, Rep. Joe Crowley (D-Queens, the Bronx), Vice Chair of the Democratic Caucus and a leader in the House of Representatives on Burma, released the following statement in response to the Burmese government’s arrest and charging of two peaceful activists for peacefully exercising their freedom of speech […]

October 16, 2015  •  By US Congressman Joseph Crowley  •  Tags: , , , , ,  •  Read more ➤

Statement by Kawthoolei Armed Forces on signing NCA

Our First Karen President in history never signed to be a part of Burma, or a part of a Union to gain the Independence of Burma from the British. (Neither did the Arakan, Mon or Karenni) […]

October 16, 2015  •  By Kawthoolei Armed Forces  •  Tags: , , , , , , , , , ,  •  Read more ➤

Statement by the Peace Support Group on the Signing of the Nationwide Ceasefire Accord in Myanmar

The Peace Support Group ( PSG) welcomes the first signing of the Nationwide Ceasefire Accord ( NCA) by the political and military leadership of several armed groups, the Government and the Tatmadaw in Nay Pyi Taw […]

October 15, 2015  •  By Peace Support Group  •  Tags: , , , ,  •  Read more ➤

If Naypyidaw Wants Peace, it Must Stop its Military Advances into Shan Ceasefire Territories

Shan Community Based Organisations (CBOs) are gravely concerned at the current offensive by Naypyidaw troops against Shan ceasefire territories in four townships of central Shan State, which has displaced over 1,500 villagers so far […]

October 15, 2015  •  By Shan Community Based Organisations  •  Tags: , , , , , ,  •  Read more ➤

Statement by John Kirby, Spokesperson: Singing of the Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement in Burma

The United States commends all sides for their ongoing efforts to bring an end to the longest running civil conflict in the world. The signing of the text of the Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement ( NCA) by the government and eight ethnic armed groups is a critical first step in a long process of building a sustainable and just peace in Burma. We recognize that some groups were not able to sign today, and we understand and respect their concerns. We welcome their commitment to continue discussions within their communities and with the government about the necessary conditions for signing at a future date, and we urge the government to engage constructively in a dialogue with these groups to pursue a more inclusive peace […]

October 15, 2015  •  By US Department of State  •  Tags: , , , , , , , ,  •  Read more ➤

The Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement between the Government of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar and the Ethnic Armed Organizations

This Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement, between the Government of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar and the Ethnic Armed Organizations, recognizes, reinforces, and reaffirms all previous agreements between the Government of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar and the Ethnic Armed Organizations. This agreement also aims to secure an enduring peace based on the principles of dignity and justice, through an inclusive political dialogue process involving all relevant stakeholders […]

October 15, 2015  •  By Ethnic Armed Organizations and Union Peace Working Committee  •  Tags: , , , , , ,  •  Read more ➤

Statement of Kachin Democratic Party Related with Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement

က်ြ ႏ္ုပ္တုိ႔ ကခ်င္ဒီမုိကရက္တစ္ပါတီသည္ တႏိုင္ငံလုံးဆုိင္ရာ အပစ္အခတ္ရပ္စဲေရး သေဘာတူ စာခ်ဳပ္ (Nation-wide Ceasefire Agreement, NCA) အေပၚ ေအာက္ပါအတုိင္း သေဘာထားထုတ္ျပန္ခ်က္ကုိ ထုတ္ျပန္လုိက္သည္ […]

October 15, 2015  •  By Kachin Democratic Party  •  Tags: , , , , ,  •  Read more ➤

Statement Attributable to the Spokesman for the Secretary-General on Myanmar

The Secretary-General welcomes the signing today in Nay Pyi Taw of the Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement by the Government of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar, the Myanmar Defence forces and several Ethnic Armed Organizations. This marks an important step in advancing national reconciliation and consolidating the reform process in the country […]

October 15, 2015  •  By United Nations  •  Tags: , , , , ,  •  Read more ➤

Myanmar: Immediately Release Two People Detained for Mocking Army on Facebook

Myanmar’s authorities must immediately and unconditionally release a peace activist and a young woman who have been arrested for mocking the country’s army chief on Facebook, Amnesty International said […]

October 15, 2015  •  By Amnesty International  •  Tags: , , , , ,  •  Read more ➤