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Press Release of MRC conference
- Subject: Press Release of MRC conference
- From: Honsawatoi@xxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 04 Jan 1998 23:50:00
Press Release
The Fourth anniversary of Monland Restoration Council conference
successfully held on December 26 & 27 in Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. There
about 50 Mon people in the United States attended the conference. In the
conference, we discussed broadly about Mon people current situation in Burma
and the future plan of MRC. A committee -- Mon Culture and Literature
committee was also formed in this conference. The aim of this committee is
to promote Mon culture and literature in the U.S.A and Burma.
Since MRC Executive Committee members are two years-terms, we don't have
election for five EC members in this conference. These five EC members are
still unchanged. The five EC members are as following:
1. Nai Pon Nya Mon (Pon Nya) Chairman Indiana-Purdue
University,
Fort
Wayne,
Indiana
2. Nai Karak Lavi Vice Chairman
Philadelphia
3. Nai Ong Mon Secretary General Drexel
University,
Philadelphia.
4. Nai Janoi Marn Joint secretary Hudson
Valley
College,
Albany, New
York.
5. Nai Bannya Seike Mon Treasurer
Indiana-Purdue University, Fort Wayne,
Indiana.
Background and aims of Monland Restoration Council
Monland Restoration Council was formed in the United States in 1993. Its
members include Mon students, politicians and Buddhist monks and activists
of 1988 uprising who are now living in the United States. Our goals are:
To work to end civil war in Burma and to struggle for the establishment of a
genuine democratic federal union of Burma that guarantees autonomy,
equality, and ethnic nationalities' rights to self-determination.
To strive to defend the Mon ethnicity by protecting and promoting Mon
culture, customs, language, and literature, which have long been disappearing
under the ethnocide and culture genocide policies of military dictatorship of
Burma.
To provide humanitarian assistance to people who become refugees along the
Thai-Burma border after escaping human rights violations and political
persecution in Burma.
To work for peace and struggle against human rights violations in Burma.
Monland Restoration Council
213 Comberland Ave.
Fort Wayne, IN 46805
USA
Tel/Fax: 1-219- 471-3961