(An archive scenario on some of the Kachin historical eventful collections) Among the five KIO Heads, Chairman Maran Brang Seng was one of them who took long successive years of his leadership terms since he was nominated with the proposal of meeting held under KIO central committee between January 15 – February 5, 1976 as […]
Category: Peace Process
Maran Brang Seng and KIO’s Peace Efforts I
(An archive scenario on some of the Kachin historical eventful collections) Maran Brang Seng, on one of the occasions leading Lute Band group, cheerfully welcome visiting General Aung San to the Myitkyina, Kachinland in November 1946. General Aung San was in town to campaign the ethnic Kachin elders in the events pertaining to the forthcoming “Panglong […]
Pondering the Future of Burma’s Peace Process
This year’s February 12th Union Day has come and gone, significantly without the signing of the Nationwide Ceasefire Accord (NCA) that President Thein Sein had so hoped for as his presidential legacy. Instead, a face-saver Union Day pledge of sorts was signed by a “coalition of the willing” – 50 political parties and 4 ethnic […]
Memoirs of Kachin Peace Efforts (1994)
Ceasefire (1994) After a decade or so, the light of peace, shimmered first initiated again in 1963, then in 1972 and again in 1980 respectively, was enlightened again in October 18, 1990 at Pangsai, a sleepy border town of Sino – Myanmar, Northern Shan state. The peace – talk between KIO and NWT was able […]
Memoirs of Kachin Peace Efforts (1963-1981)
First Attempts (1963) The military leader, General New Win’s Revolutionary Council (RC) seized the state power on 02 March 1962 and claimed to crush the insurgencies within two years in the entire country. In fact, his conventional ways of handling the ethnic insurgencies had little impact or effectiveness. Soon after realizing that it was not […]
Battles Rage in Ethnic Lands as Ceasefire Talks Stall
By KLN Friday, September 26, 2014 A Burmese army’s artillery unit on Friday fired several rounds of mortar shells on KIA position at Dumbau Bum and surrounding area beginning 9 am, said a local source. Dumbau Bum is located in KIA’s 15th Battalion area in southern Kachin State. Burmese government troops then climbed up Dumbau […]