Ethnic Armed Organizations’ Summit Statement

The Summit of the Ethnic Armed Organizations’ (EAOs) top leaders was held successfully in Chiang Mai, Thailand on August 21-24 and was attended by fifteen of the seventeen EAOs’ representatives […]

Two Armed Non-State Actors Become the First Signatories of Geneva Call’s Deed of Commitment for the Protection of Children from the Effects of Armed Conflict

The Karenni National Progressive Party/Karenni Army (KNPP/KA) and the New Mon State Party/Mon National Liberation Army (NMSP/MNLA) from Burma/Myanmar are the first to sign this instrument. The signings took place on 2 August 2012 in Geneva […]

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 […]

Week 25: 2010 Election Watch (24-30 August)

Developments

• Union Democracy Party Chairman Thein Htay said that the party had decided to field only three candidates nationwide to protest the SPDC election laws. National Democratic Force leader Khin Muang Swe said he would not stand for election because of the SPDC Election Commission’s restrictions […]