KIO demands federal union before surrendering weapons

မွန္ကန္ေသာ ဆုံးျဖတ္ခ်က္ပါ ကခ်င္အမ်ိဴးသားအေပါင္းတုိ ့.. ေခတ္အဆက္ဆက္ က်ေနာ္တုိ ့ တိုင္းရင္းသားေတြ အလိမ္ခံခဲ့ရတာေတြကုိ သခၤန္းစာယူျပီး ဒီတႀကိမ္ေတာ့ ရာဇာ၀င္အရုိင္းမခံႀကနဲ ့ေတာ့။ စစ္မွန္ေသာ ဖယ္ဒရယ္ ျပည္ေတာင္စု မေပၚေပါက္သ၍ က်ေနာ္တုိ ့တုိင္းရင္းသားမ်ားရဲ့ လက္နက္သည္ က်ေနာ္တုိ ့လက္ထဲမွာ က်စ္က်စ္ကေလးရွိေနရပါမည္။

ဗုိလ္ခ်ဴပ္ေအာင္ဆန္း ကတိေပးခဲ့ျပီး ဗုိလ္ခ်ဴပ္ေအာင္ဆန္းလုပ္ႀကံ့ခံရသည္။ သူ၏ ေသျခင္းႏွင့္အတူ တုိင္းရင္းသားမ်ားႏွင့္ ဗမာေတြအႀကား ကတိက၀တ္မ်ား ေျမရွဴိးမုိးပ်ံ ေပ်ာက္ကြယ္သြားပါသည္။ ဗုိလ္ခင္ညြန္ ့့ ့ကတိေပးျပီး ဗုိလ္ခင္ညြန္ ့ဇတ္စင္ေပၚမွာ ေပ်ာက္သြားသည္။ ယခု ပူပူေႏြးေႏြးပဲ ဗုိလ္ရဲျမင့္က ကတိေတြ လုိက္ေပးျပီး သူလည္း ေပ်ာက္သြားျပီ။ ဗုိလ္ခင္ညြန္ ့နဲ ့ဗုိလ္ရဲျမင့္တုိ ့၏ တုိင္းရင္းသားမ်ားနဲ ့ထိေတြ ့မွဳ အခန္းမွာ သိပ္အေရးမပါေပမယ့္ ဗမာ့ႏုိင္ငံေရးမွာ ေရွ ့လူက ေပးထားတဲ့ ကတိ ေနာက္လူနဲ ့မဆုိင္ဘူးဆုိတဲ့ပုံစံမ်ိဴး လုပ္ထုံး လုပ္ရုိး တခုလုိ အစဥ္တစုိက္က်င့္သုံးေနတာေတြ ့ရပါတယ္။

တကယ့္ေတာ့ ဗမာ့ႏုိင္ငံေရးေလာကမွာ က်ေနာ္တုိ ့တုိင္း ရင္းသားေတြ ရရွိတဲ့ ဗမာ့စစ္ေခါင္းေဆာင္ အဆက္ဆက္က ေပးတဲ့ ကတိက၀တ္ေတြဟာ ဖာသယ္မ ေပးတဲ့ ကတိစကားအဆင့္ေလာက္ေတာင္ မရွိဘူးဆုိတာ ေတြ ့ေနရပါတယ္။ ေနာင္တခ်ိန္မွာ က်ေနာ္တုိ ့တစ္ေတြ ့ အျပန္အလွန္ညိွလုိ ့ရသည့္တုိင္ေအာင္ သူတုိ ့ရဲကတိေတြကုိ ယုံဖုိ ့အင္မတန္မွပဲ ခက္ရင္းပါတယ္။ ေရွ ့လူကတိ ေနာက္လူနဲ ့မဆုိင္ ပုံစံမ်ိဴးေပါ့။

ဒီေတာ့ ကမၻာ့ကုလသမၼက လုိ အဖြဲ ့အစည္းေရွ ့မွာ ကတိက၀တ္ေတြ ျပဳႀကမွာသာ က်ေနာ္တုိ ့ ့တုိင္းရင္းသားေတြရဲ့ အနတ္ဂါတ္အေရးဟာ လူသိရွင္ႀကားျဖစ္ျပီး စိတ္ခ်ရမည့္ အေနအထားေရာက္မွာပါ။ ဒီလုိမွမဟုတ္ရင္ ဗုိလ္ခ်ဴပ္ေအာင္ဆန္းရဲ့ ၁၀ ျပည့္လုိ ့မေနခ်င္ရင္ ခြဲထြက္ရတယ္။ ဗုိလ္ခင္ညြန္ ့နဲ ့ဗိုလ္ခ်ဴပ္ျမတုိ ့ ့ရဲ့ ဖတီးနဲ ့ဖုိးဒုိ ဇာတ္လမ္း၊ ဗုိလ္ရဲျမင့္ နဲ ့ဗုိလ္ခ်ဴပ္ထိန္ေမာင္တုိ ့ရဲ့ ငါ့စကားႏြားရ ကတိက၀တ္ေတြ ဟာ က်ေနာ္တုိ ့တုိင္းရင္းသားေတြ အတြက္ ႀကီးႀကီးမားမားေပးဆပ္ေနရေပမယ့္ ဗမာေတြ အတြက္ေတာ့ ဟာသ တပုဒ္လုိျဖစ္ေနပါတယ္။

Tuesday, 31 August 2010 21:27 KNG

Burma’s ethnic Kachin Independence Organization (KIO) has put its foot down and in a statement today has reiterated that it will not transform its armed-wing the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) till a genuine federal union comes about and lasting peace is restored in Burma.

If the ruling junta restores lasting peace through protracted dialogue with the KIO and implements the goals and aims set forth in the 1947 Panglong Agreement, which was signed by Kachin and other ethnic leaders for a multi-ethnic union with equal rights, the KIO will transform its armed-wing and other departments, the KIO statement released on August 30 said.

KIA soldiers in Laiza capital. Photo: Kachin News Group.

The statement made it clear that the KIO’s stance and goal are based on democracy (existing sovereignty of the people) in a peaceful and developed country.

Wawhkyung Sin Wa, Deputy General Secretary of KIO said, the statement will be important and meaningful for any group or organization related to the KIO as well as the Kachin people.

For the first time in its over 16 year ceasefire period, the KIO was ordered on August 22 to surrender weapons from September 1 by the junta.

The surrender order came in the wake of the junta and KIO meeting over 15 times on the contentious Border Guard Force issue, where the regime demanded transformation of the KIA.

The junta has repeatedly rejected the KIO’s proposal for a political dialogue before the armed-wing issue is addressed, said KIO officials.

On the junta’s controversial November 7 elections, the KIO has, however, stated that it would like it to be “free and fair”.

In order to inform pro-democracy groups, the statement pointed out that the KIO will cooperate with whoever works towards a consolidated and genuine federal union of Burma.

The KIO had signed a ceasefire agreement with the junta hoping for a meaningful political dialogue. It also approved the new junta-centric 2008 constitution despite severe opposition from the Kachin people and pro-democracy outfits.

As an offshoot of its rejecting the junta’s BGF proposal, the KIO is regaining the support of the Kachin people and pro-democracy organizations, who had been alienated because of the KIO’s proximity to the junta.

The statement on KIO’s new policy was the result of two meetings --- the meeting between KIO officials and Kachin public representatives on August 14 to 16 and the first Party Congress for KIO members on August 27 to 29 in Laiza, said Deputy General Secretary Sin Wa.
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