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PEACE Info (July 21, 2017) PEACE Info (July 21, 2017) Peace Commission and DPN to meet in August Burmese military not following terms of NCA, says Gen Yawk Serk TNLA accused of misconduct in northern Shan State’s Hsenwi Hundreds of villagers forced to flee in Hseni Township Army blocks Hpakant road More than 2,000 Locals Protest Cement Factory in Mon State ၿငိမ္းအၾကံေပးအဖြဲ႔နဲ႔ UNFC ၾကား ကတိျပဳေရး လက္မွတ္ထိုးဖို႔ကိစၥ သေဘာထားကြဲျပား အပစ္ရပ္ပူးတဲြေစာင့္ၾကည့္ေရးေကာ္မတီတြင္ ႏုိင္ငံတကာပါ၀င္မႈ ေတာင္းဆိုခ်က္ UNFC ျပင္ဆင္အဆိုျပဳ ရွမ္းျပည္ ညီညႊတ္ေရးေကာ္မတီအစည္းအေ၀းကို ဟန္႔တားမႈ အန္စီေအလမ္းေၾကာင္းႏွင့္ လြဲေခ်ာ္ေန အေမရိကန္သံအမတ္ႏွင့္ ေကအဲန္ယူတို႔ ဖြံ႔ၿဖိဳးေရး၊ ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရးကိစၥ ေတြ႔ဆံုေဆြးေႏြး ဖမ္းဆီးခံ သတင္းသမားမ်ားကို ျပန္လႊတ္ေပးရန္ အာဆီယံ နိုင္ငံေရးသမားမ်ား ေတာင္းဆို ရန္ဟီးလီႏွင့္ ဥပေဒၾကမ္းေကာ္မတီ ေတြ႕ဆံုစဥ္ ပုဒ္မ ၆၆(ဃ) အေၾကာင္း အဓိကေဆြးေႏြးခဲ့ဟုဆုိ လူထု အသံနားေထာင္ရန္ NLD အစိုးရအား မြန္ေဒသခံမ်ား ေတာင္းဆို ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Page 1 of 20 Peace Commission and DPN to meet in August July 21, 2017 | Published in Mon News Agency Caption: Nai Aung Ma Nge, U Hla Maung Shwe, and U Min Zaw Oo meet for informal talks in Chiang Mai, Thailand. (Photo ‐ NMG) The government’s Peace Commission will meet next month with negotiators from an umbrella organization representing ethnic armed groups that have not yet signed the ceasefire in the hopes of swaying additional signatories to join the nationwide accord. No armed groups have inked the nationwide ceasefire agreement (NCA) since the eight initial groups joined the pact in 2015 undere previous administration. The National League for Democracy‐led government has anxiously courted the United Nationalities Federal Council ‐ a bloc of non‐signatories ‐ attempting to bring more groups into the fold. Nai Aung Ma Nge, deputy leader of the Delegation for Political Negotiation under the UNFC, informally met with Peace Commission members in Chiang Mai, Thailand this week to set the stage for the forthcoming official talks. “We were able to negotiate the date for the official meeting during [our July 20] informal meeting. We will confirm the actual date when the meeting draws nearer. It will be held inside the country,” said Nai Aung Ma Nge. “Informal meetings are very helpful to both sides in searching for ways to sign an agreement. It’s not easy to amend [the agreement] after it has been signed,” he added. In an interview with the Mon News Agency, U Hla Maung Shwe from the government's Peace Commission, said the nationwide ceasefire agreement will be signed if upcoming discussions run smoothly. Each of the UNFC members will need to sign the agreement individually. “We need to find a solution to sign the NCA by quickly overcoming the eight‐point [proposal]. Respective leaders will then be to make their own decision after they meet,” said U Hla Maung Shwe. The government has agreed in principle to the UNFC’s proposal, which lays out preconditions for signing the NCA. The proposal, which ends with signing the NCA if all the terms are met, includes the Tatmadaw and government declaring a bilateral ceasefire, building a federal Union based on the Panglong Spirit and agreeing on the composition if a tripartite dialogue between the government ‐ including the Hluttaw and the Tatmadaw ‐ the ethnic armed groups, and the Page 2 of 20 political parties. The UNFC has also called for establishing a new constitution and incorporating international representatives in tasks carried out by a Joint Ceasefire Monitoring Committee. The UNFC has said it will follow the peace course set by the NCA, even as an alliance of other ethnic armed groups led by the powerful United Wa State Army announced the need for a new process, and initially rejected the NCA. Two members of the UNFC, I cling notably the Kachin Independence Army, resigned earlier this year. Disagreements over the NCA were believed to have contributed to the fracture. http://bnionline.net/news/mon‐state/item/3270‐peace‐commission‐and‐dpn‐to‐meet‐in‐ august.html ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Burmese military not following terms of NCA, says Gen Yawk Serk Posted By: Sai Aw | on: July 21, 2017 Gen Yawd Serk of the Restoration Council of Shan State/Shan State Army (RCSS/SSA) says the Burmese military was not following the terms of the Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement (NCA) when Brig‐Gen Khin Zaw, the Burmese military attaché in Bangkok, on Wednesday banned a meeting of the Committee of Shan State Unity (CSSU) that was due to take place for three days starting yesterday in Chiang Mai. The ban was apparently due to the fact that a non‐ signatory to the NCA, the Shan State Progress Party/Shan State Army, or SSPP, had been invited. The Burmese brigadier‐general said that the RCSS/SSA “infringed” Burma’s election law and endangered the peace process by inviting the SSPP. “I have my doubts [about the Tatmadaw’s sincerity] when they accuse us of endangering the peace process,” Gen Yawd Serk said today at a press conference in the northern Thai capital. “If this is the case, they should contact our office. “The military attaché says that the meeting was to include a non‐NCA signatory group. This group is the SSPP. However, it should be noted that the SSPP regularly attends meetings within the UNFC [United Nationalities Federal Council, a coalition of ethnic armed groups who declined to sign the NCA with the government in October 2015]. “So how can this be hindering the peace process if the UNFC regularly meets with the Tatmadaw and the government?” He added: “Their accusation is unreasonable. We were not planning an underground meeting. It was announced officially. I just don’t understand how this [ban] can happen.” Page 3 of 20 “This letter [ordering the ban on the meeting] was sent directly from the Burmese military. But when we asked the government, they said they didn’t know anything about it.” The CSSU meeting was slated to be held on July 20‐22 in Chiang Mai. Members were to review the recent round of the Union Peace Conference, dubbed the 21st Century Panglong Conference. The members said the meeting was intended to improve future peace talks by ensuring there was a common understanding of the five issues under discussion: political affairs; security matters; economic affairs; social issues; and land and natural resource management. RCSS/SSA leader Yawd Serk said that the Burmese military attaché has overstepped the terms and conditions of the NCA. “This act affects good will,” said Gen Yawd Serk. “We are sincere about establishing a peaceful union. That’s why we are working on the terms of the NCA.” On March 4, 2016, Shan Herald reported that a CSSU meeting in Yangon was also called off after intervention by local government officials. The CSSU comprises: Shan political parties; Shan armed groups; and Shan community‐based organizations, including the Shan State Joint Action Committee (SSJAC), which itself includes the Shan Nationalities League for Democracy (SNLD), the Shan Nationalities Democratic Party (SNDP), the SSPP, the RCSS, the Seng Kiao People’s Militia, the New Generation Group (Shan State), Shan Youth Association, Shan Nationality Organization‐Thailand. Gen Yawd Serk is the current head of the CSSU. Statement of the Committee for Shan State Unity (CSSU) 20 July, 2017 Members of the CSSU, which includes Shan political parties, armed organizations, and domestic and international civil society organizations, had planned to hold a meeting in Thailand on July 20, 2017. The intention was to review the proceedings of the recently held 3rd Union Peace Conference in order to improve results in future peace conferences by ensuring that there is a common understanding of the five issues under discussion – 1. Political Affairs, 2. Security Matters, 3. Economic Affairs, 4. Social Issues, and 5. Land and Natural Resources Management However, on July 19, 2017, the Thai 3rd Regional Army informed the organizers that the Myanmar Military Attaché in Bangkok had requested the Thai Government to prevent the CSSU meeting from taking place. It was claimed that the CSSU was obstructing the Myanmar peace process and that the membership of the CSSU includes a non‐signatory to the Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement. Taking into consideration the interests of the Thai Government and the long‐term interests of the peace process, the CSSU decided that:The CSSU meeting planned for 20‐22 July 2017 will not take place; Page 4 of 20 1. In order to build peace, the Government (of Myanmar) needs to be broadminded, and if there are any doubts, clarification should be requested; 2. The planned CSSU meeting was going to discuss the five issues agreed in the NCA. Therefore the conference was not in any way obstructing the peace process; 3. The CSSU was established in 2013 to facilitate peacebuilding in order to establish a federal democratic union. We will continue to work to achieve our objective.Committee for Shan State UnityContacts: 4. Sao Borng Khur (+66 2896 0970) 5. Sai Nyunt Lwin (+95 7324 1587) 6. Sai Boe Aung (+95 4100 1654) By Shan Herald Agency for News (SHAN) http://english.panglong.org/2017/07/21/burmese‐military‐not‐following‐terms‐of‐nca‐says‐ gen‐yawk‐serk/ ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ TNLA accused of misconduct in northern Shan State’s Hsenwi By NANG MYA NADI / DVB | 21 July 2017 Civilians who fled villages outside Hsenwi town this week are staying at monasteries in the town. Soldiers from the Ta’ang National Liberation Army (TNLA) stand accused of abducting a man in the Hsenwi Township village of Kham Tain on Wednesday evening, releasing him only after a local abbot paid more than 2 million kyats (US$1,460) to the ethnic armed group.
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