Burma Regime Demonstrates Continued Lack of Interest in Genuine National Reconciliation

Over the course of the past week the military regime has made several statements suggesting that it wishes to begin the national reconciliation process with ethnic armed groups and opposition activists. Unfortunately, none of these overtures can be considered genuine.

On 17 August, President Thein Sein gave a speech in which he invited any of the ethnic armed groups currently engaged in conflict with the Burma Army to “hold talks with respective [regional] governments if they really favour peace.” But by issuing the invitation only for groups to talk individually with regional government, the regime clearly signaled its intention to continue its policy of only piecemeal talks and agreements, part of its divide and rule strategy […]

KIO/KIA ႏွင့္ SSPP/SSA တို႕အား ထိုးစစ္ဆင္တိုက္ခိုက္ေနျခင္းအေပၚ သေဘာထားထုတ္ျပန္ခ်က္

ျပည္ေထာင္စုၾကံ့ခိုင္ေရးႏွင့္ ဖြံ႕ျဖိဳးေရးပါတီ (ၾကံ့/ဖြံ႕) အစိုးရသစ္၏ သမၼတဦးသိန္းစိန္ က်မ္းသစၥာ ၾကိမ္ဆိုသည့္ေန႕က အစိုးရသစ္၏ ေပၚလစီကို ေျပာၾကားသြားရာတြင္