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PEACE Info (August 4, 2017) UNFC proposal: 4 out of 8 points to be re-negotiated Interview with UPDJC’s secretary group member Min Kyaw Zayar Oo UNA holds Workshop on Federalism Will the Myanmar Army Wipe Out Ethnic Armed Groups? Burma Army killed, tortured civilians in Ho Pong, says Shan NGO Q&A: United Nations Fact-Finding Mission on Myanmar International aid to Karen IDP camp to end in 60 days Defendants denied bail in high-profile ‘unlawful association’ trial Detained Journalists Denied Bail Rights Group Slams Myanmar's Upper House for Defamation Law Amendment Human rights group criticises amendment to the telecommunications law Merger of three Chin political parties postponed China in talks to sell electricity to Burma amid warming ties The Myanmar Population in The U.S. Growing, College Enrollment Rate Rising ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရးလုပ္ငန္းစဥ္ ျပန္လည္သံုးသပ္ေရး အစိုးရႏွင့္ NCA လက္မွတ္ထိုးရွစ္ဖဲြ႕ ေဆြးေႏြး NCA ေရးထုိးရျခင္း မရွိေသးသည့္အဖြဲ႕မ်ား ပါ၀င္လာရန္ နည္းလမ္းရွာေဖြေရး အပါအ၀င္ ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရး လုပ္ငန္းစဥ္မ်ားအား ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရးေကာ္မရွင္ ကုိယ္စားလွယ္အဖြဲ႕ႏွင့္ NCA ေရးထုိးထားသည့္ ရွစ္ဖြဲ႕၏ ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရး လုပ္ငန္းစဥ္အလုပ္အဖြဲ႕ (PPWT) တို႔ ခ်င္းမုိင္၌ ေတြ႕ဆုံ အပစ္ရပ္အဖြဲ႔မ်ားႏွင့္ေဆြးေႏြးပြဲ တုိးတက္မႈရွိဟု အစုိးရၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရးေကာ္မရွင္ေျပာ ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရးေကာ္မရွင္ႏွင့္ DPN တို႔ ရန္ကုန္ၿမိဳ႕တြင္ တရားဝင္ ေတြ႔ဆံုရန္ သေဘာတူ UNFC တပ္ေပါင္းစု NCA လက္မွတ္ထိုးရန္ နီးစပ္ေနၿပီလား ႏိုင္ငံေရးေဆြးေႏြးမႈ မူေဘာင္ကို ျပင္ဆင္ရန္ လုိအပ္ေၾကာင္း UNA ေျပာ ပုိမုိခက္ခဲလာသည့္ ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရးႏွစ္ေမွ်ာ္မွန္းခ်က္ ျမန္မာ႔ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရးမွာ တ႐ုတ္အေရးပါ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ႏွင့္ တ႐ုတ္နိုင္ငံတကာဆက္ဆံေရးဝန္ႀကီးတို႔ ႏွစ္နိုင္ငံအေရးေဆြးေႏြး KNU ႏွင့္ KNPP ဗဟုိ ေကာ္မတီဝင္တုိ႔ၾကား ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရး ေဖာ္ေဆာင္မႈဆုိင္ရာ ေဆြးေႏြးဖလွယ္ ကဒူးႀကီးေဒသခံ ၂၀၀ ေနရပ္ျပန္နိုင္ေရး RCSS ႏွင့္ PNLO လုံၿခဳံေရး ဆိုင္ရာ သေဘာတူညီမႈ ရယူ ဖမ္းဆီးခံ သတင္းေထာက္ ၃ ဦး အာမခံ ပယ္ခ်ခံရ ပုဒ္မ၁၇(၁)နဲ႔ အဖမ္းခံ သတင္းေထာက္ေတြ အာမခံ မရ တရားစြဲဆိုခံထားရသည့္ သတင္းသမားမ်ား အာမခံရေရး ဆက္ႀကိဳးပမ္းမည္ ဒီမိုကေရစီနိုင္ငံမွာ မီဒီယာဟာ တိတ္ဆိတ္ေနလို႔ မရ စစ္တပ္က ဖမ္းထားတဲ့ ရွမ္းျပည္နယ္ ဟိုပုန္းရြာသားတခ်ိဳ ့ျပန္လြတ္ တခ်ိဳ႕ထိန္းသိမ္းခံေနရဆဲ ရွမ္းေျမာက္ မန္တံုတြင္ ပစ္ခတ္မႈမ်ားျဖစ္ပြားခဲ့ၿပီး စာသင္ေက်ာင္းႏွင့္ ေစ်းဆိုင္မ်ား ပိတ္လိုက္ရ မန္တံုၿမိဳ႕အနီး တုိက္ပြဲျဖစ္၊ စာသင္ေက်ာင္း ႏွင့္ ေစ်းဆိုင္မ်ား အေရးေပၚပိတ္ထား မန္တုံၿမိဳ႕နယ္အတြင္း လက္နက္ႀကီး က်ည္မ်ား က်ေရာက္ မန္တုံမွာ တပ္မေတာ္ ကား ေခ်ာင္းေျမာင္း တိုက္ခံရ ကခ်င္နိုင္ငံေရးပါတီမ်ား ၂၀၁၈ အတြင္း အၿပီးေပါင္းစည္းမည္ နယ္စပ္ပညာေရး လႈပ္ရွားသူ ဦးႏုိင္ႏုိင္ထြန္း ကြယ္လြန္ျခင္း ႀကီးမားေသာ ဆုံး႐ႈံးမႈတစ္ရပ္ျဖစ္ဟု လုပ္ေဖာ္ကုိင္ ဖက္မ်ားေျပာဆုိ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Page 1 of 57 UNFC proposal: 4 out of 8 points to be re‐negotiated Posted By: Sai Khuensai | on: August 04, 2017 Union Peace Commission (PC), on the right, meeting today with the Delegation for Political Negotiation (DPN), on the left, in Chiangmai. (Photo: NMG Today’s informal meeting between Naypyitaw’s Peace Commission delegation and the United Nationalities Federal Council (UNFC)’s Delegation for Political Negotiation (DPN) will continue to seek agreement on 4 of the latter’s 8 point proposal, according to Khu Oo Reh, the UNFC’s secretary general and head of the DPN. “We may say that 4 other points have been agreed in principle,” he says. The said points are: Point#1 Joint announcement of nationwide ceasefire Point#2 Establishment of a Federal Democratic Union Point#3 Participation in all levels of political dialogues Point#8 Implementation of development projects in accordance with the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) procedures However, 4 other points still need to be discussed for both common understanding and agreement, he adds. They are: Point#4 Laws including the Union Constitution to be drafted based upon decisions reached at the 21st Century Panglong Point#5 Prior agreement must be reached on Military Code of Conduct (CoC) and ceasefire monitoring terms of references (ToR) Point#6 Formation of an independent monitoring committee which shall include international representatives acceptable to both sides Point#7 Formation of an independent mechanism to facilitate resolutions for disputes “We are not pressing for acceptance of our demands,” he explains, “only for joint endeavor to reach common agreements on them.” Page 2 of 57 On 3 March, both sides had declared that “agreement in principle” had been reached on all the 8 points. “But we now have to re‐negotiate them again, as the Tatmadaw representatives informed us later that they had not taken part in the agreement on 3 March.” On the government’s side, (Lt‐Gen retired) Khin Zaw Oo said, “It’s time we reached agreement. We’ve been negotiating on the same proposal for 14 months already.” http://english.panglong.org/2017/08/04/unfc‐proposal‐4‐out‐of‐8‐points‐to‐be‐re‐ negotiated/ ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Interview with UPDJC’s secretary group member Min Kyaw Zayar Oo monnews 01 July 2017 | Reported by: Mi Paing Non Min Kyaw Zayar Oo is a central executive committee member of the Mon National Party, and is a secretary member of the Union Peace Dialogue Joint Committee’s (UPDJC) political party faction. Mon News Agency reporter Mi Paing Non met with Min Kyaw Zayar Oo in Mawlamyine. Min Kyaw Zayar Oo (Photo: MNA) Q: Can you talk about the challenges that the UPDJC has faced while trying to convene the national‐level political dialogues? A: Yes, there are many challenges… For example, the UPDJC’s guidelines include holding nationality‐based [national‐level political dialogues]. But the [nationwide ceasefire agreement] hasn’t been signed yet in Mon State, for example. So that means that Mon State is unable to hold a national‐ level political dialogue. And how about the Bamar people in the areas where the ceasefire has been signed? The Bamar people don’t have ethnic armed groups. We have many technicalities like this. Q: What about the challenges at UPDJC meetings? A: In the past, the State Counsellor has only attended the meetings between 10am to noon. She only comes for two or three hours so we have to line up all the information in order for her to make important decisions. She gives us time to explain the meaning of some points. Then after the secretary group holds the meeting, the members have to explain the information and decisions to their own groups. We have to call a meeting with 23 political parties to explain the reasons why these points have come up. The [ethnic armed organizations] also hold their own meetings. But for the government, I don’t know whether they have time or not [to explain to their juniors]. Page 3 of 57 Q: Among the 37 points in the Union Accord of the 21st‐Century Panglong Conference, which points are the most difficult ones for your group? A: These 37 points are very general. More specific policies will have to emerge under these points. For example, one of the points states that regions/states must be established, but policies need to be drafted to describe how the states and regions should be established. Q: How far has the peace process reached? A: Some people believe there has been development in the peace process. Compared to the past, there has been development, but I would describe it as a shift. We don’t know when [the peace process] will end or how long the process will take. At the first conference held during U Thein Sein’s administration, the duration has forecast at three to five years. The existing [National League for Democracy‐led] government only has three years left in its term now so it won’t be able to start a new path for the peace process. It can only follow the existing path. This NCA [nationwide ceasefire agreement] is the only path. So, we need to do our best to amend it as best as we can. http://monnews.org/2017/08/01/interview‐with‐updjcs‐secretary‐group‐member‐min‐ kyaw‐zayar‐oo/ ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ UNA holds Workshop on Federalism Submitted by Eleven on Fri, 08/04/2017 UNA’s Workshop on Federalism being held in Yangon, yesterday The United Nationalities Alliance (UNA) opened a two‐day workshop on Federalism at Inya Lake Hotel, Yangon, on Friday. It was jointly organised by Democracy Reporting International (DRI), Myanmar Institute for Democracy (MID) and Hanns Seidel Foundation (HSF). Mann Htein Win Sein, vice‐chairman of Kayen National Party, made an opening speech. Later, Sai Kyaw Nyunt, secretary of political parties of the Union Peace Dialogue Joint Committee (UPDJC) reported on the Myanmar peace process. “The workshop aims for a federal system. We discussed about opinions concerning federalism among the UNA members. Four international experts were invited by the DRI and Hanns Seidel Foundation and they will be participating in the group discussion. Page 4 of 57 “In the past, the HSF had held the workshops twice. One was held in Taunggyi, Shan State and another was in the Mawlamyaing, Mon State, attended by the EAOs, political parties and CSOs. “At present, the workshop is held separately in Yangon because it was concerned with the UNA. The MID is now in alliance with the UNA. We discussed matters on political issues, constitutional amendment and opinions about the election. As for the UNA, they held the meetings on the federalism,” said Myo Min Zaw, a member of Board of Director from MID. Power sharing, rules and regulations of constitution amendment at the federal system and review on the constitution among the federal countries will be discussed at the group discussion.

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