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PEACE Info (August 21, 2017) PEACE Info (August 21, 2017) SSPP/SSA to resign from UNFC UNFC yet to receive SSPP resignation letter Shan State Progress Party submits resignation letter to UNFC Shan State Progressive Party Resigns from UNFC Shan ethnic armed group bids UNFC farewell UWSA-led coalition meets in Pangkham Tatmadaw must change its attitude to ensure fighting stops: TNLA official THE MILITARY’S DEMOCRATIZATION DEBACLE: Tatmadaw not keen to return to the barracks Forum Urges Women’s Involvement in Peace Process Bail denied again for detained journalists Revised Section 66(d) amendment bill sent back to Amyotha Hluttaw Motion to repeal controversial clause in Myanmar telecom law defeated in lower house Kachin Rights Group Urges End to Military-to-Military Ties with Myanmar Army Lawmaker Claims Authorities Complicit in Poppy Growing UNFC တပ္ေပါင္းစုထံ SSPP/SSA ႏႈတ္ထြက္စာတင္ UNFC အဖြဲ႕ဝင္အျဖစ္မွ ႏွုတ္ထြက္စာတင္ေၾကာင္း SSPP/SSA အတည္ျပဳ UNFC မွ ႏုတ္ထြက္ရန္ ရွမ္းလက္နက္ကိုင္အဖြဲ႕ (SSPP) စာတင္ထား UNFC အဖြဲ႕၀င္အျဖစ္မွ ႏႈတ္ထြက္ခြင့္ျပဳရန္ SSPP/ SSA စာတင္ထား SSPP/SSA အဖြဲ႔ UNFC မွ ႏႈတ္ထြက္ခြင့္ေတာင္း ေျမာက္ပိုင္းခုနစ္ဖြဲ႕ အစည္းအေဝးတြင္ မူဝါဒပိုင္း ျပန္လည္ျပင္ဆင္ရန္ အဓိကေဆြးေႏြးေနဟုဆို နာဂ တို႔၏ ေတာင္းဆိုခ်က္ (သို႔) ေျဖရခက္မည့္ပုစာၦ KNU က နယ္ေျမဖြံ႕ၿဖိဳးေရး လိုအပ္ခ်က္မ်ား အစိုးရကို တင္ျပ KIO ဒုဥကၠ႒အား FPNCC နိုင္ငံေရး ေဆြးေႏြးေရး ေကာ္မတီ၏ ဥကၠ႒ ၂ အျဖစ္ ခန႔္အပ္ ဆက္သြယ္ေရးပုဒ္မ ၆၆ (ဃ) အာမခံေပးရန္ လႊတ္ေတာ္ႏွစ္ရပ္ သေဘာတူ တရားလိုျပသက္ေသ ဗိုလ္မႉးျမတ္ေမာ္ေအာင္၏ တရား႐ုံးထြက္ဆိုခ်က္ မရဏ၊ မုသာဝါဒႏွင့္ ဗီဒီယိုတိပ္ စစ္ေဘးေရွာင္ အမ်ိဳးသမီးတို႔၏ တရက္ ၃၀၀ က်ပ္တန္ မီးဖိုေခ်ာင္ စစ္ေရးအေျခအေနအရဆိုၿပီး မုိးေကာင္းၿမိဳ႕နယ္ရွိ ေဒသအခ်ဳိ႕ကို ေကအိုင္ေအက တားျမစ္နယ္ေျမသတ္မွတ္ နမၼတီးစစ္ေဘးေရွာင္မ်ားကို ကူညီမည့္ လိုင္စင္မဲ့ယာဥ္ ေလးစီး ဖမ္းဆီးမႈႏွင့္ပတ္သက္၍ ညိႇႏိႈင္းမႈေျပလည္ စစ္ေရွာင္မ်ားအတြက္ ေထာက္ပံ့ေရးပစၥည္းမ်ား တင္ေဆာင္လာသည့္ လိုင္စင္မဲ႔ကား ၄စီးႏွင့္ ယာဥ္ေမာင္း ၄ ဦးကိုဖမ္းဆီး ဒုကၡသည္ေတြကို ဆန္အိတ္သြားလွဴတဲ့ ၈၈ ၿငိမ္းပြင့္ တားဆီးခံရ စစ္ေဘးေရွာင္မ်ားအတြက္ ၈၈ မ်ဳိးဆက္က လွဴဒါန္းသည့္ ဆန္အိတ္မ်ားတားျမစ္ခံရ လီဆူ စစ္ေရွာင္စခန္းသို႔ လႉဒါန္းရန္သြားသည့္ ၈၈ အဖြဲ႕ ဆန္ကား တားျမစ္ခံရ နမၼတီးေဒသစစ္ေရွာင္တစ္ေထာင္ေက်ာ္ကို ေနရပ္သို႔ျပန္ပို႔ရန္ စီစဥ္ စစ္ေျပး ကခ်င္ကဆုန္႔ရြာသားမ်ား ေနရပ္ျပန္ပို႕မည္ နမၼတီးစစ္ေရွာင္မ်ား ေနရပ္ရင္းျပန္ေတာ့မည္ ဘိန္းစိုက္ပ်ိဳးရန္ လက္နက္ကိုင္အဖြဲ႕မ်ားကို အခြန္ေဆာင္ေနရဟု လႊတ္ေတာ္အမတ္ ေျပာ တပ္နဲ႔ အစိုးရ အေပးအယူ ညီတူညီမွ်ျဖစ္ဖို႔ EU သံုးသပ္အႀကံျပဳ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Page 1 of 65 SSPP/SSA to resign from UNFC Posted By: Sai Aw | on: August 21, 2017 The Shan State Progress Party/Shan State Army (SSPP/SSA) has said that it has decided to withdraw from the United Nationalities Federal Council (UNFC) ethnic alliance. General Pang Fa, the chairman of the Shan State Progress Party/Shan State Army (SSPP/SSA) “We submitted a letter of resignation to the UNFC on August 12,” said SSPP/SSA spokesperson Sai Pong Harn. According to an official from SSPP/SSA, the group approved the decision to resign from the bloc at its recent bi‐annual meeting. News of the Shan army’s resignation was broadcast on the United Wa State Army’s television channel on August 19, when Maj‐Gen Khun Seng, the vice chairman of the SSPP/SSA, spoke at a meeting in Pangsang of the newly formed Federal Political Negotiation Consultative Committee (FPNCC) which comprises: UWSA; the Kachin Independence Organization (KIO); the Myanmar Nationalities Democratic Alliance Army (MNDAA); the National Democratic Alliance Army (NDAA); the Ta’ang National Liberation Army (TNLA); the Arakan Army (AA); and the SSPP/SSA. The FPNCC had previously been known as the Northern Alliance. Several members have been in regular armed conflict with Burmese government forces in northern Shan State in recent times. The loss of the SSPP/SSA is the latest in a series of withdrawals from the UNFC, an ethnic bloc which was formed in 2011, originally comprising 12 ethnic armed organizations: Karenni National Progressive Party (KNPP); New Mon State Party (NMSP); SSPP/SSA; Arakan National Council/Arakan Army (ANC); Lahu Democratic Union (LDU); KIO; Wa National Organisation (WNO); TNLA; MNDAA; Chin National Front (CNF); Karen National Union (KNU); and Pa‐O National Organization (PNO). In 2015, five of its members – CNF, KNU, PNO, TNLA and MNDAA – were suspended; and then more recently, four members announced their resignations from the bloc: KIO, WNO, TNLA and MNDAA. Now, bereft of the SSPP/SSA, only four of the original UNFC members remain: KNPP, NMSP, LDU and ANC. Both the UNFC and FPNCC have remained outside the government’s ongoing peace process; neither bloc has embraced the Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement (NCA), an accord which specifically excluded several Northern Alliance members. Page 2 of 65 Recently, many Burma observers have noted the apparent shifting sands between the country’s two major ethnic alliances, with the UNFC apparently waning as the Northern Alliance grows in strength and influence. Headed by the most powerful ethnic army in the country, the 20,000‐strong UWSA, the FPNCC considers Beijing a close confidant. http://english.panglong.org/2017/08/21/ssppssa‐to‐resign‐from‐unfc/ ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ UNFC yet to receive SSPP resignation letter By Chan Thar | Monday, 21 August 2017 The spokesperson from United Nationalities Federal Council denied it has received the official resignation letter of the Shan State Progress Party/Shan State Army (SSPP/SSA), to allow it to leave the umbrella organisation. In a meeting of Federal Political Negotiation and Consultative Committee (FPNCC) which was comprised of China‐Myanmar border based ethnic armed groups, SSPP vice chair major general Sao Khun Sai said his group has submitted a notification letter to UNFC . The meeting, led by UWSA, was held at Pangkham on Saturday. “I have announced here that we had already sent on August 12 a letter to UNFC chairman Naing Han Thar asking permission to resign from UNFC,” said SSPP vice president Sao Khun Sai. Although The Myanmar Times contacted FPNCC and SSPP, their representatives replied that they could not answer because the matter was under discussion. PSLF/TNLA vice‐chair Tar Joke Jar confirmed to the online news portal Irrawaddy on August 20 that SSPP has resigned from UNFC. “We have still not received it as of today,” UNFC spokesperson U Twan Zaw told The Myanmar Times on Aug 20. The news that SSPP would leave UNFC has been circulating since the establishment of FPNCC. The FPNCC is comprised of the United Wa State Army, Kachin Independence Organization, Shan State Progress Party, Kokang or Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army, Mong La or National Democratic Alliance Army, Ta’ang National Liberation Army and Arakan Army. http://www.mmtimes.com/index.php/national‐news/27349‐unfc‐yet‐to‐receive‐sspp‐ resignation‐letter.html ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Page 3 of 65 Shan State Progress Party submits resignation letter to UNFC August 21, 2017 | Written by N.M.G Another ethnic armed organization has resigned from the United Nationalities Federal Council – an ethnic umbrella organization – amid ongoing negotiations over signing the ceasefire. The Shan State Progress Party/Shan State Army – North (SSPP/SSA) reportedly submitted its resignation letter on August 12, becoming the third ethnic armed organization to leave the grouping since April. The UNFC, a bloc of the ethnic armed groups that have not signed the nationwide ceasefire agreement (NCA), has dwindled to just four members. The SSPP/SSA’s vice chair, Major General Sao Khun Hseng, announced the resignation during an August 18‐20 summit in Pangkham, the headquarters of the United Wa State Army (UWSA). “I want to announce that we submitted a letter to the UNFC’s chairman Nai Hong Sar on August 12, 2017 to allow us to resign from the UNFC,” he said. The UNFC is now left with just the Karenni National Progressive Party (KNPP), the New Mon State Party (NMSP), the Lahu Democratic Union (LDU) and the Arakan National Council (ANC). In addition to membership in the UNFC, the SSPP/SSA is part of the seven‐member Federal Political Negotiation Consultative Committee (FPNCC) led by the UWSA. The FPNCC also includes the Kachin Independence Army (KIA), which left the UNFC earlier this year. The UNFC is currently negotiating with the government’s Peace Commission over preconditions before signing the nationwide ceasefire agreement (NCA). Both sides have agreed on four out of the eight points. The FPNCC by contrast has rejected the NCA, and has declared intentions to forge its own path to peace. The SSPP/SSA has been a member of the UNFC since the grouping was established with 11 members in 2011. http://bnionline.net/news/network‐media‐group/item/3398‐shan‐state‐progressive‐party‐ submits‐resignation‐letter‐to‐unfc.html ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Page 4 of 65 Shan State Progressive Party Resigns from UNFC By Nyein Nyein 21 August 2017 An SSPP/SSA soldier at the frontline. / Kyaw Kha / The Irrawaddy CHIANG MAI, Thailand — The Shan State Progressive Party/Shan State Army‐North (SSPP/SSA‐N) sent a resignation letter to the ethnic alliance the United Nationalities Federal Council (UNFC), which would leave the bloc with only four organizations. The SSPP vice chairman Maj‐Gen Sao Khun Sai confirmed this during a meeting of the ethnic armed bloc the Federal Political Negotiation Consultative Committee (FPNCC) – led by the United Wa State Army – in Panghsang, the capital of the Wa self‐administrative region in northeastern Myanmar. In a brief video released the weekend of the meeting, the SSPP vice chairman said the resignation letter was submitted to the bloc’s chairman Nai Hong Sar on August 12.
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