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Posts Tagged ‘Karen National Union’ (106 found)

ေကအဲန္ယူ-ကရင္အမ်ဳိးသားအစည္းအရံုး၏ အပစ္အခတ္ရပ္စဲေရးဆိုင္ရာ ေတြ႕ဆံုေဆြးေႏြးေရး တတိယခရီးစဥ္ သတင္းထုတ္ျပန္ေၾကညာခ်က္

ေကအဲန္ယူ-ကရင္အမ်ဳိးသားအစည္းအရံုးဘက္မွ အေထြေထြအတြင္းေရးမွဴး ေနာ္စီဖိုးရာစိန္ႏွင့္ ေကအဲန္အယ္လ္ေအ တြဲဘက္စစ္ေရးခ်ဳပ္ ဗိုမွဴးခ်ဳပ္ စရွာတုေဝၚ ဦးေဆာင္သည့္ ကိုယ္စားလွယ္ (၉) ဦးႏွင့္ ျပည္ေထာင္စုသမၼတ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံေတာ္ အစုိးရတို႕၏ ျပည္ေထာင္စုအဆင့္ ေတြ႕ဆံုေဆြးေႏြးပြဲကို […]

September 5, 2012  •  By Karen National Union  •  Tags: , , ,  •  Read more ➤

Statement on the Burmese Government’s Postponement of the Third Round of Negotiations with the Karen National Union

The Karen National Union (KNU) announces that the Government of Burma has unilaterally postponed the third round of ceasefire negotiations between the Parties, previously scheduled for August 27th to 29th in the City of Pa’an in Karen State. The Government’s representatives […]

August 27, 2012  •  By Karen National Union  •  Tags: ,  •  Read more ➤

Continued Conflict Overshadows Karen Martyrs Day

While Karen people around the world celebrated the 62nd Karen Martyrs Day last week to honour those who have died for the Karen cause, the fragility of the ceasefires with various groups remains tenuous as the Burma government continues to neglect the root causes of the conflicts. Denial and refusal to face up to human rights abuses while neglecting substantial political dialogue with the ethnic armed groups is not a sustainable solution to decades of conflict. Even during peace talks between the Government and the Karen National Union (KNU) in Myawaddy, eastern Karen State on August 7th, clashes between the government’s Border Guard Force and the Karen National Liberation Army (KNU’s armed wing) were occurring in other parts of the Karen region […]

August 20, 2012  •  By Burma Partnership  •  Tags: , , ,  •  Read more ➤

Statement on the Current Peace Process and Implementation of Mega-development Projects in Karen Areas of Burma

From June 5-7, 2012, over sixty people, including local democratically-elected development committee leaders, representing about 7,000 villagers from 23 villages in two townships, met at the Karen State-Thai border to discuss the current peace negotiation process between the Karen National Union (KNU) and the government. The purpose of the forum, facilitated by Karen civil society, was to allow input by Karen farmers and other community-based groups into the current peace process and publicly share this with all relevant stakeholders […]

June 11, 2012  •  By Karen People's Forum  •  Tags: , , , , ,  •  Read more ➤

KNU Press Release on Meeting with Daw Aung San Suu Kyi

The KNU delegation, led by General Secretary Naw Zipporah Sein, met with Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and other NLD party leaders at the residence of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi on Sunday morning, April 8, 2012.

The KNU delegation shared its strategy for the peace process, in which it has been engaging in negotiations with the Burmese Government […]

April 9, 2012  •  By Karen National Union  •  Tags: ,  •  Read more ➤

Press Release on 1st Meeting Between KNU Delegation and Union-Level Peace Delegation

The 1st meeting between the KNU Delegation and the Union-Level Peace Delegation was held on April 6, 2012 in Rangoon.

The union-level meeting was attended by 19-member delegation, including 7 ministers led by Railways Minister U Aung Min, on the side of government of the Republic of the Union of Burma (Myanmar) and the 14-member delegation led by General Secretary Naw Zipporah Sein on the side of the KNU […]

April 7, 2012  •  By Karen National Union  •  Tags: ,  •  Read more ➤

Karen National Union (KNU) and Myanmar President U Thein Sein Meeting

1. Seven leaders from the Karen National Union (KNU) delegation, led by General Secretary Naw Zipporah Sein, met with the President of Union of Myanmar, U Thein Sein, at 7 am on April 7, 2012 in Nay Pyi Daw. After holding an informal discussion, the delegation arrived back in Yangon around noon by a special flight […]

April 7, 2012  •  By Karen National Union  •  Tags: ,  •  Read more ➤

KNU and the Burmese Government Continued State-level Ceasefire Talks

The Karen National Union and Burmese Government held the first day of the second round of talks on April 4, 2012 in Pa-An, the capital of Karen State.

The two sides discussed details related to ceasefire, including […]

April 4, 2012  •  By Karen National Union  •  Tags: ,  •  Read more ➤

KNU Leaves to Continue Talks on Ceasefires with the Burmese Government

Today, April 4, 2012, the KNU delegation led by Naw Zipporah Sein, the General Secretary, leaves the Thai border town of Mae Sot to continue the second round of ceasefire talks with the Burmese Government. The talks with the Government will take place initially in Pa-An, and subsequently in Yangon and Pago from April 4 to 11, 2012 […]

April 4, 2012  •  By Karen National Union  •  Tags: ,  •  Read more ➤

KNU Statement on Release of Padoh Mahn Nyein Maung

A member of the Central Standing Committee of the KNU, Mahn Nyein Maung, who hand been sentenced to life plus 3 years, was released on March 19, 2012, on the pardon by President of the Union of Burma (Myanmar), U Thein Sein […]

March 26, 2012  •  By Karen National Union  •  Tags: , , ,  •  Read more ➤