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Press Release of MRC conference



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