S.H.A.N : RESOLUTION OF THE GENERAL

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S.H.A.N : RESOLUTION OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF 
                 THE UNREPRESENTED NATIONS AND PEOPLES ORGANIZATION
September 07,1997

FIFTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
Fifth Session
Otepää, 15-19 July 1997
General Assembly Resolution

                                      RESOLUTION ON THE MILITARY OCCUPATION
                                         AND COLONIZATION OF THE SHAN
STATES
                                           BY THE BURMESE MILITARY REGIME

The General Assembly,

RECOGNISING the Shan people's right to self-determination as evidenced by
the historic Panglong Agreement signed in 1947;

CONCERNED that the Burmese occupation forces have perpetrated continuous
on-going gross and systematic violations of human rights and fundamental
freedoms which threaten the cultural distinctiveness and national identity
and deliberate policy of displacement of 100,000 families or more, still in
process, in central Shan States;

CONCERNED that rampant destruction of forests, and ruthless exploitation
and pillage of natural resources will lead to imbalance of nature,
ecological disaster and environmental degradation;

THEREFORE,

STRONGLY CONDEMNS the continued brutal military occupation and colonization
of the Shan States by the Burmese military government.

CALLS upon the Burmese regime to respect fully the fundamental human
rights, freedoms and the right to self-determination of the Shan people,
and to begin unconditional negotiations with the people of the Shan States
and the organizations that represent them to facilitate political
settlement and the question of Shan sovereignty.

URGES the Burmese military regime to halt immediately its policies of
population transfer, forced relocation and ethnic cleansing or genocide in
the Shan States.

APPEALS to the international community to take immediate and urgent steps
in pressuring the Burmese regime to halt its destruction and degradation of
the natural environment.

REQUESTS the General Secretary of the UNPO to organize a fact-finding human
rights mission to the Shan States, or otherwise to assist the Shan people
in their quest for self-determination and nation-statehood before the
international Court of Justice.

VOWS to continue its support for the Shan people.

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