PEACE Info (March 29, 2018) − UWSA angered by government’s statement on its NCA stance − Northern Alliance Seeks Continued Support From China in Peace Process Negotiations − Coalition of ethnic armed groups ready to join Panglong summit, awaits invite − If the government officially invited, FPNCC will attend the 21st Century Panglong Conference − Karen Nationals Thahaya Association urges Tatmadaw and KNU to follow NCA on Hpapun issue − RCSS/SSA-S wants negotiation with TNLA once more − Army Brings Case Against Relative of 2 Kachin Villagers Allegedly Killed by Soldiers − Displaced residents in Kyaukme are scared to return home despite fighting stopped − MYANMAR’S REFUGEE AND IDP: Shan dislocation and dispossession after three decades − Burma’s army chief congratulates president-elect − Tough challenges lie ahead for President U Win Myint − Can A New President Pull Myanmar Out of the Quagmire of Conflict? − အစိုးရက ဖိတ္ၾကားပါက ေျမာက္ပိုင္းလက္နက္ကိုင္ ၇ ဖြဲ႔ ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရးညီလာခံ တက္မည္ − ၂၁ရာစု ပင္လုံတတိယအႀကိမ္ အစည္းအေဝးဖိတ္ရင္ FPNCC တက္မယ္ − ေျမာက္ပိုင္းလက္နက္ကိုင္ခုနစ္ဖြဲ႕ ၂၁ ရာစုပင္လံုတတိယအစည္းအေဝး တက္ေရာက္မည္ − တရား၀င္ ဖိတ္ၾကားပါက ၂၁ ပင္လံုသိုု႔ FPNCC အဖြဲ႔စံု တက္ေရာက္မည္ − FPNCC လက္နက္ကိုင္ ၇ဖဲြ႔ ၂၁ရာစု ပင္လံုတတိယ အစည္းအေ၀းဖိတ္ရင္ တက္ဖို႕ဆုံးျဖတ္ − အစိုးရက တရား၀င္ဖိတ္လာပါက၂၁ ပင္လံုတက္မည္ဟု FPNCC ဆို − ေျမာက္ပိုင္း မဟာမိတ္အဖြဲ႕မ်ား ၂၁ ရာစုပင္လုံတက္ရန္ ဆုံးျဖတ္ − ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရးလုပ္ငန္းစဥ္ ေရွ႕ဆက္ႏုိင္ေရး စုိးရိမ္မႈမ်ားေလွ်ာ့ခ်ရန္ RCSS အႀကံေပးတိုက္တြန္း − KNU တြဲဖက္ အေထြေထြအတြင္းေရးမႉး(၂) ပဒိုေစာလွထြန္းႏွင့္ ေတြ႔ဆံုေမးျမန္းျခင္း − RCSS/SSA ႏွင့္ TNLA ေတြ႕ဆုံေရးထပ္မံညႇိႏွိုင္းရဦးမည္ဟု RCSS/SSA ေျပာ − ဖာပြန္ကိစၥ NCA အတိုင္း ထိန္းထိန္းသိမ္းသိမ္း ေဆာင္ရြက္ရန္ ကရင္အမ်ိဳးသားသဟာရအသင္း တုိက္တြန္း − စစ္ေဘးေရွာင္မ်ား အိမ္ျပန္ႏိုုင္ေရး ကူညီေပးရန္ အတိုုင္ပင္ခံအား ေတာင္းဆို − ဖာပြန္ခ႐ိုင္တြင္ လမ္းေဖာက္မည့္အစီအစဥ္ ရပ္တန႔္ေပးရန္ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ထံ အသနားခံလႊာေပးပို႔ − တပ္ရင္းေတြ ျပန္႐ုပ္ဖို႔ ေဒၚစုကို စာတင္ − ဖာပြန္ျဖစ္စဥ္ႏွင့္ပတ္သက္ၿပီး ေက်ာက္ႀကီးၿမိဳ႕တြင္ ျပဳလုပ္မည့္ေဆြးေႏြးပြဲ ရက္ေရြ႔ဆိုင္း − ဖာပြန္ခ႐ုိင္တြင္း စစ္ေရးတင္းမာမႈကိစၥ တပ္မေတာ္ႏွင့္ေကအန္ယူ ေဆြးေႏြးမည့္အစီအစဥ္ ဖ်က္သိမ္း − ဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္မႉးႀကီးမင္းေအာင္လိႈင္ႏွင့္ ေကအန္ယူေခါင္းေဆာင္မ်ားေတြ႔ဆံုေဆြးေႏြးမည္ − သမၼတသစ္ ဦး၀င္းျမင့္အေနျဖင့္ ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရးလုပ္ငန္းစဥ္ အက်ပ္အတည္းကို ေက်ာ္လႊားႏိုင္မည္ဟု ယံုၾကည္ေၾကာင္း PNLO ထုတ္ျပန္ − သမၼတသစ္အေပၚ ေကအိုင္အိုနဲ႔ ေကအန္ယူ ဘယ္လို ျမင္သလဲ − တိုင္းရင္းသားလက္နက္ကိုင္တပ္ဖြဲ႔မ်ားက သမၼတဦး၀င္းျမင့္ကို ဂုဏ္ျပဳႀကိဳဆို − သမၼတ ဦးဝင္းျမင့္ ႏွင့္ တိုင္းရင္းသားတို႔၏ ေမွ်ာ္လင့္ခ်က္မ်ား − သမၼတအသစ္အေပၚ ေျမာက္ပိုင္းအဖဲြ႔ေတြရဲ႕ ေမွ်ာ္လင့္ခ်က္ − ဦးဝင္းျမင့္ သမၼတအျဖစ္ေရြးခ်ယ္ခံရမွု တပ္ခ်ဳပ္ဝမ္းေျမာက္ − သမၼတေရြးခ်ယ္ပြဲတြင္ ဦးဝင္းျမင့္ မဲေပးခဲ့သည့္အေပၚ ဥပေဒႏွင့္ညီမညီ အျငင္းပြားမွုျဖစ္ေပၚ − ဦးဝင္းျမင့္ သမၼတေ႐ြးပြဲမွာ ဆႏၵမဲေပးခြင့္ ရွိသလား − ျမန္မာသမၼတသစ္ ဦး၀င္းျမင့္နဲ႔ လက္တဲြေဆာင္ရြက္ႏိုင္ဖို႔ ႏိုင္ငံတကာ ေမွ်ာ္လင့္ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Page 1 of 60 UWSA angered by government’s statement on its NCA stance Posted By: SHAN | on: March 29, 2018 Lately, there was news from the government that the United Wa State Army (UWSA) and National Democratic Alliance Army (NDAA) or Mongla are now ready to accept the Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement (NCA)-based peace process and were prepared to sign it pending further deliberation. However the UWSA was irked because of the news revealed by U Aung Soe from the government Peace Commission (PC) who said: “Because of China’s help and unofficial discussion with the PC, both (UWSA and NDAA) have accepted the NCA. But to be able to sign more discussions will have to be carried out.” Mongla’s spokesman U Kyi Myint took pains to say: “We are not against the NCA but as it needs a bit more to be comprehensive, we must discuss it further,”according to media reports. The UWSA-led seven-member Federal Political Negotiation Consultative Committee (FPNCC), also known as the Northern Alliance-Burma, also took a similar position, it rejects the NCA-based peace process plan as being unable to resolve the problem of ethnic conflict. On March 16, the UWSA came up with a clarification statement saying that the National Ceasefire (NC) and NCA are two different matters. While it is committed to achieving the NC, it does not mean that it agrees to the NCA, which it has had no hand in its drafting. It’s position, together with the FPNCC members is a ceasefire agreement should come first, followed by political negotiations and eventual political settlement. According to its proposal, “Provincial and Federal Peace Agreement and National- Parliament-level Ceasefire Agreement by and between Republic Government of the Union of Myanmar and All Ethnic revolutionary Armed Forces”, made public during the second 21st Century Panglong Conference which includes details similar to an international armistice agreement complete with demarcation, monitoring arbitration and other mechanism, should lead to earnest political negotiation between the government and the Ethnic Armed Organizations (EAOs) within 90 days, after which the treaty will have no more effect. Regarding its political stance “The General Principles and Specific Proposition of Revolutionary Armed Organizations of all Nationalities upon the Political Negotiation” outlined 15 topics aimed at amendment or redrafting of the Military drawn, 2008 constitution. In a nutshell, it is more on the confederacy system rather than federalism with more decentralization along ethnic lines, suggesting that if an ethnic group has 100,000 it should be accorded an autonomous region; 200,000 autonomous prefecture; and 300,000 national Page 2 of 60 state. It also indicated that the 25% parliamentary seats given to the Tatmadaw should also be allotted to the ethnic nationalities. A chief concern among the powers that be could be the proposition of the ethnic armies’ future. The position paper said: “The Myanmar ethnic issues are extremely complex. It is not easy to achieve the target of one country, one military, it will be a long process, even if all of the ethnic group armies accept the adaptation.” It further explained the problem of the armistice and ethnic equality must be in place first and only after the two mentioned issues are legally resolved and practiced will the ethnic armies issue be ripe for a final settlement. In other words, the demobilization of the ethnic armies prepared for a final battlement. In other words, the demobilization of the ethnic groups won’t come into question some times. Given such circumstances, the PC’s eagerness to shed positive light might be seen as propaganda, which the Wa and the FPNCC see as eroding its alternative approach to the government endorsed NCA-based peace negotiation process and thus its political credibility among its members and all EAOs as a whole. http://english.panglong.org/2018/03/29/uwsa-angered-by-governments-statement-on-its- nca-stance/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Northern Alliance Seeks Continued Support From China in Peace Process Negotiations By Nyein Nyein | 29 March 2018 FPNCC meeting in March 2018. / FPNCC CHIANG MAI, Thailand — The northeastern-based ethnic alliance the Federal Political Negotiation and Consultative Committee (FPNCC) seeks further support from China in Myanmar’s peace process, according to a statement it released on Wednesday. The FPNCC stated that China’s positive involvement in Myanmar’s peace process has become more important and cannot be averted. The alliance will join the upcoming third session of the 21st Panglong peace conference in Naypyitaw – tentatively slated for May – only when it is formally invited, the FPNCC said. It is unclear whether non-signatories to the Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement (NCA) will be invited to participate in the Union peace conference and in what capacity. “If the FPNCC receives a formal invitation, all member groups will attend together,” read the statement, released after a three-day FPNCC standing committee meeting in Panghsang, the capital of the Wa self-administrated region, held from March 26 to 28. Page 3 of 60 This is the same stance it has held since the alliance’s first standing committee meeting in August. The bloc members, led by the United Wa State Army (UWSA), joined the second session of the peace conference in May last year, after China intervened. In the statement, the alliance asked for China’s help to ensure its security, citing safety concerns for ethnic armed groups that are in ongoing clashes with the Myanmar Army, “If we cannot be assured security, how can we move forward with discussions,” Nyi Rang, a liaison officer for the United Wa State Party, told The Irrawaddy via message. He added that the groups would not attend if invited individually, as they stood firmly in their stance to attend as a bloc. The bloc called for the halt of the Myanmar military’s offensives against its allies, including the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) in Kachin State; the Ta’ang National Liberation Army (TNLA) and the Kokang’s Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army (MNDAA) in Shan State, and the Arakan Army (AA). It welcomed the newly-elected President U Win Myint and said it “hoped that peace in Myanmar would be promptly implemented under the leadership of the new president.” Seeking official Chinese intervention in negotiations, the FPNCC showed interest in further collaboration for peace. Observers of that the peace process expect that it could proceed smoothly with continuous Chinese mediation between the Myanmar government and ethnic armed groups, as well an easing on restrictions that exclude the TNLA, AA and MNDAA. China’s efforts to bring all the groups based along its borders into the peace process could boost its international image, said Maung Maung Soe, a political and ethnic affairs analyst.