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PEACE Info (September 16, 2019) PEACE Info (September 16, 2019) − Reconciliation Key to Developing Myanmar’s Democracy, President Says − Myanmar Military MP Echoes Dictator, Suggests Current Democracy ‘Chaotic’ − RCSS: Four Years After NCA, Peace Process ‘Isn’t Moving Anywhere’ − Kyaingtong talks to include military matters for first time − Tatmadaw lieutenant-generals to attend meeting with Northern Alliance groups − Commander-in-Chief Min Aung Hlaing turning over a new leaf? − Armed conflicts likely to intensify in Kokang, Ta,ang and Rakhine − Namhsan Locals ‘Hide in Their Homes’ During Tatmadaw, TNLA Clash − One killed, hundreds flee in new Shan fighting − Civilian Dies, 6 Hurt as Villages Shelled in Clash Between AA, Myanmar Military − Hundreds Flee Burma Army, TNLA Clashes in Namhsan − Ta'ang Villagers Flee Myanmar Army Bombardment − Driver Shot, Injured by Tatmadaw in Kutkai − 5 villagers wounded in naval firing − Shan people opposes IFC’s study promoting dams in Namtu river: NGO − Locals Protest Meeting on Myitnge Hydropower Project − Locals Protest IFC Meeting in Taunggyi, Citing Hydropower Investments − Six arrested in precursor seizure − Police Make Multimillion Dollar ‘Ice’ Bust in Shan State Border Town − လူထုကို ဖိႏွိပ္တဲ့ အာဏာရွင္စနစ္ ျပန္မေရာက္ေအာင္ ညီညြတ္ၾကဖို႔ သမၼတ တိုက္တြန္း − “ပရမ္းပတာ ဒီမိုကေရစီ” မျဖစ္ဖို႔ လိုဟု တပ္မေတာ္ ေျပာ − ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရးေဆြးေႏြးရန္ ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရးေကာ္မရွင္ႏွင့္ တပ္ကိုယ္စားလွယ္အဖြဲ႕ က်ိဳင္းတုံသို႔ ေရာက္ရွိ − က်ဳိင္းတုံေဆြးေႏြးပြဲ တက္မည့္ ေျမာက္ပုိင္းလက္နက္ကုိင္ေလးဖြဲ႕ မုိင္းလားေဒသသို႔ ေရာက္ရွိ − အစိုးရႏွင့္ ေျမာက္ပိုင္းေလးဖြဲ႕ေဆြးေႏြးပြဲ ရလဒ္အေပၚမူတည္ၿပီး ရက္တိုးမည္ − အပစ္ရပ္ ေစာင့္ၾကည့္ေရး ေကာ္မတီရွိရန္ လိုဟု ေျမာက္ပိုင္း မဟာမိတ္ ေျပာ − ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရးေဆြးေႏြးပြဲအေပၚ ေမွ်ာ္လင့္ခ်က္မ်ား − က်ိဳင္းတံုေဆြးေႏြးပဲြ အလားအလာ − ရခိုင္ျပည္နယ္အတြင္း AA တပ္တည္ရွိမႈကိစၥ ႏွစ္ဖက္လက္ခံမႈရရွိေအာင္ ညိႇႏႈိင္းသင့္ဟု ALP ေျပာၾကား − ကရင္အာဇာနည္ေန႔ကို ဥပေဒႏွင့္အညီ မွ်တစြာေဆာင္ရြက္ရန္ အစဥ္အလာရွိအဖြဲ႔မ်ားပါသည့္ ၁၈ ဖဲြ႔ေျပာ − တိုင္းရင္းသားအခြင့္အေရး အသိအမွတ္ျပဳေလးစားရန္ ကရင္လူငယ္ေဆြးေႏြးပြဲ သေဘာထားထုတ္ျပန္ − ေနာ္အုန္းလွအား အျမန္ဆုံးလႊတ္ေပးေရး UNA ေတာင္းဆို − ခ်င္းျပည္နယ္ ဟားခါးၿမိဳ႕တြင္ တည္ေဆာက္မည့္ ဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္ေအာင္ဆန္းေၾကး႐ုပ္တုႏွင့္ပတ္သက္၍ ကန႔္ကြက္ေၾကာင္း ခ်င္းလူငယ္ကြန္ရက္ သေဘာထားထုတ္ျပန္ − ဟားခါးၿမိဳ႕၌ ဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္႐ုပ္တု စုိက္ထူမည့္အေပၚ ခ်င္းလူငယ္ကြန္ရက္ ကန္႔ကြက္ − ေဖာက္ခြဲေရးပစၥည္းမ်ားႏွင့္အတူ AA အဖြဲ႕၀င္ႏွစ္ဦးကုိဖမ္းဆီးမိမႈသတင္း ေပါက္ၾကားသျဖင့္ စုံစမ္းစစ္ေဆးမႈတြင္ အခက္အခဲရွိဟု မႏၲေလးတိုင္း၀န္ႀကီးခ်ဳပ္ေျပာ − စစ္ကုိင္းတံတား ဗုံးခြဲမည့္သတင္း မဟုတ္မွန္ေၾကာင္း သမၼတ႐ုံးေျပာ Page 1 of 68 − ဘုရားတြင္ TNLA တပ္စြဲ၍ တိုက္ပြဲျဖစ္ရဟု တပ္မေတာ္ ေျပာ − ႏွစ္ဖက္အပစ္ရပ္ေၾကညာထားေသာ္လည္း တပ္မေတာ္ႏွင့္ TNLA နမ့္ဆန္တြင္ တုိက္ပြဲျပင္းထန္ − တိုက္ပြဲမ်ားေၾကာင့္ အေျခအေန ပိုဆိုးလာႏိုင္ဟု ညီေနာင္မဟာမိတ္ ၃ ဖြဲ႕ ထုတ္ျပန္ − ေက်ာက္ေတာ္တြင္ တိုက္ပြဲျဖစ္၍ အရပ္သား ၁ ဦးေသ၊ ၆ ဦး ဒဏ္ရာရ − သၽွမ္းေျမာက္ နမ့္ဆန္ စစ္ေရွာင္ ၁ေထာင္ေက်ာ္ရွိ၊ ၂ဖက္တပ္ စစ္ေရးတင္းမာေနဆဲ − အပစ္ရပ္ေဆြးေႏြးပြဲ က်င္းပရန္တစ္ရက္အလုိအထိ နမ့္ဆန္တြင္ တုိက္ပြဲျဖစ္ေန၊ စစ္ေရွာင္ဦးေရ ၁,၆၀၀ အထိရွိလာ − နမ့္ဆန္ တိုက္ပြဲၾကား ေဒသခံ ၁၀၀၀ ေက်ာ္ တိမ္းေရွာင္ေနရ − အရပ္သားထိခိုက္နစ္နာေစသည့္ ပစ္ခတ္မႈမ်ားကို တအာင္း (ပေလာင္) အမ်ိဳးသားပါတီ ျပင္းထန္စြာကန္႔ကြက္ − မိုင္းပ်ဥ္းၿမိဳ႕နယ္ ေက်းရြာ အုပ္ခ်ဳပ္ေရးမွူးႏွင့္ေဒသခံ အမ်ိဳးသားတဦးကို တပ္မေတာ္က ေခၚယူရိုက္ႏွက္စစ္ေဆး − မင္းျပားၿမိဳ႕နယ္တြင္ တပ္မေတာ္ႏွင့္ ေအေအတို႔ တိုက္ပြဲျပင္းထန္ − ပန္းေျမာင္းတိုက္ပြဲတြင္ တပ္မေတာ္က ေလေၾကာင္းမွ ဗုံးႀကဲတိုက္ခိုက္ − ေက်ာက္ေတာ္ၿမိဳ႕နယ္၌ တိုက္ပြဲျဖစ္ပြားၿပီး အရပ္သား ၁ ဦးေသ၊ ၇ ဦး ဒဏ္ရာရ − ေနရပ္ျပန္သူမ်ားလာသျဖင့္ ျမန္မာ - ထိုင္းနယ္စပ္ ဒုကၡသည္စခန္းမ်ားတြင္ လူဦးေရေလ်ာ့က် − ခ်င္းျပည္နယ္၌ ေရအားလွ်ပ္စစ္ ထုတ္ရန္ တ႐ုတ္ကုမၸဏီ၂ ခု ရင္းႏွီးျမႇုပ္ႏွံမည္ − မူးယစ္ ေဆးဝါးမွ ရရွိေသာေငြ လႊဲေျပာင္းမႈျဖင့္ မႏၲေလးက ေငြလႊဲလုပ္ငန္းသမား ၃ ဦးကို အမႈဖြင့္ − သၽွမ္းေရွ႕ တာခ်ီလိတ္ၿမိဳ႕နယ္ က်ပ္သိန္း ၁ေထာင္ မူးယစ္ ဖမ္းဆီးရမိ − မူးယစ္ကုန္သည္ ထုိင္းႏုိင္ငံသား ၁၃ ဦးကုိ တပ္မေတာ္က မူးယစ္တပ္ဖြဲ႕သုိ႔ လႊဲေျပာင္း ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Page 2 of 68 Reconciliation Key to Developing Myanmar’s Democracy, President Says By Nan Lwin | 16 September 2019 Myanmar State Counselor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi (right) and President U Win Myint (left) enter the Parliament building in Naypyitaw to attend an event marking International Democracy Day 2019 on Sunday. / Htet Naing Zaw / The Irrawaddy YANGON—President U Win Myint on Sunday urged all citizens to understand that “democracy in Myanmar is still in the fledgling stage”, adding that in order to strengthen democratic practices, national differences should be resolved through negotiations built on the basic foundations of tolerance, patience and forgiveness. At an event to celebrate International Democracy Day 2019 in the capital Naypyitaw, President U Win Myint emphasized that racial problems and disagreements are the major obstacles to the development of democracy in countries that lack it or in which it is in the fledgling stage. Amid the country’s ongoing struggle to sign ceasefire agreements with ethnic armed groups, he stressed that broader participation by ethnic people is very important for effective democratization, peacebuilding and developing a democratic federal republic. “Absolute trust in democracy should be developed with national reconciliation by avoiding hate speech and by overcoming animosity,” he said. This year’s theme for International Democracy Day was “Participation”. The event was attended by Myanmar State Counselor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, Union ministers, lawmakers, government officials, ambassadors, and representatives of political parties and international organizations. In his 12-minute speech, U Win Myint asked people to help maintain and foster democracy in Myanmar. He also assured ethnic groups in Myanmar that the government is striving to bring about a democratic federal republic to restore democracy and federal rights. U Win Myint said, “Reciprocally, the practices of a federal system will strengthen the country’s democracy. Fundamental democratic norms and federal principles must not be neglected. These principles ensure equal rights and self-rule for ethnic people, and help them live in unity.” Last month, clashes escalated between the military and three of the four Northern Alliance (NA) members in many townships in northern Shan State, forcing thousands of villagers to flee their homes. The government’s Peace Commission and representatives of the NA met in Page 3 of 68 late August in Kengtung, eastern Shan State. While both sides have agreed to meet in Kengtung again next week, the fighting continues in northern Shan State. The President said, “The right solution will be found when every stakeholder brings an open mind and a fair opinion.” In his speech, he did not forget to mention the National League for Democracy (NLD) government’s effort to amend the 2008 military-drafted Constitution, even though the effort has drawn strong objections from military appointees in Parliament and lawmakers from the military-backed Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP). U Win Myint said the norms of democracy and basic human rights should be enshrined in the charter by creating, amending and withdrawing constitutional provisions and laws. “It is very important to filter out destructive acts during the process of democratization. Moreover, practices that value democracy and human rights should be included in this process,” he added. State Counselor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi’s speech for International Democracy Day urged Myanmar people to help democracy thrive, and to balance self-interest with the public interest while doing so. “If we really value democracy and wish to see it flourish, we must strike a balance between self-interest and public interest. More and more countries and institutions are accepting democracy through the belief that majority actions are more effective for [achieving the] majority interest,” she said. “Some people think that democracy is just for self-gain. A person always thinking about self- gain is one who fails to appreciate [democracy’s] value,” she said. She said she hopes that all citizens are willing to serve democracy, adding that having the wisdom to know how to apply one’s individual capability is of vital importance. At the event, June Kunugi, the UNICEF representative to Myanmar, read out a message sent by the UN Secretary General. Also present were military lawmakers and representatives of the NLD, Wa Democratic Party (WDP), National Unity Party (NUP), Kokang Democracy and Unity Party (KDUP), Kachin State People’s Party (KSPP), Lisu National Development Party (LNDP), Pa-O National Organization (PNO), Zomi Congress for Democracy (ZCD), Ta’ang (Palaung) National Party (TNP), Shan Nationalities Democratic Party (SNDP), Arakan National Party (ANP) and USDP. Myanmar has held events to mark International Democracy Day in Naypyitaw since 2011. https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/reconciliation-key-to-developing-myanmars- democracy-president-says.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Page 4 of 68 Myanmar Military MP Echoes Dictator, Suggests Current Democracy ‘Chaotic’ By Htet Naing Zaw | 16 September 2019 Lieutenant Colonel Kyaw Moe Aung speaks at the International Day of Democracy. NAYPYITAW—In an address to an event marking the International Day of Democracy in Naypyitaw on Sunday, a military appointee to the Lower House of Parliament implied that the country’s current democracy is “chaotic.” “Myanmar’s democracy must be a disciplined one,” said Lieutenant Colonel Kyaw Moe Aung in his address. “It must be a regulated democracy [practiced in accordance with] legal provisions and procedures. If it is not a disciplined democracy, and if one stretches the laws as one pleases, [democracy] can be chaotic,” he told the members of the press.
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