Various groups
Websites/Multiple Documents
Description:
A website related to the book of the same title edited by Mandy Sadan."This website contains some materials that are intended to illustrate or to extend some of the chapters in the book. More material will be added as time permits. You will find general information in About the Book; abstracts for each chapter, questions for further research and supporting documentation in Contents; you can Read the Introduction in full and download it; we also encourage ?Thinking about ...? how the issues raised in the book map onto bigger questions about how societies adapt themselves to war-peace transitions, with a particular emphasis on understanding history, experience, aesthetics and culture, and mobilities."
Mandy Sadan
Source/publisher:
Mandy Sadan
Date of entry/update:
2018-01-24
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Individual Documents
Sub-title:
Despite her promise to welcome new voices into the peace process, many fine-grained obstacles to progress remain.
Description:
"In a New Year’s address to the nation on January 1, Myanmar’s State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi promised to take a new approach to long-delayed peace negotiations aimed at ending the country’s tangled web of civil conflicts.
According to a report in The Irrawaddy, Aung San Suu Kyi, whose second five-year term begins in March, announced plans for a “New Peace Architecture,” which would welcome participation by political groups, civil society organizations, and the public.
She said that the aim was to broaden the scope of who had a say in the ongoing talks, with the hope of consolidating inter-ethnic trust and inducing more ethnic armed groups to join the Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement (NCA) in time for the 75th anniversary of Myanmar’s independence in January 2023.
“We recognize the important role of public participation [in the peace process],” Myanmar’s leader said, according to The Irrawaddy. “This depends on how much we can pave the way for all stakeholders to participate.” The NCA was signed in late 2015 between the Myanmar government and eight ethnic rebel organizations, while two more joined in February 2018. But the peace process continues to exclude some of the country’s largest and most prominent armed rebel groups, and since the signing of the NCA, fighting with some of them has reached levels not seen in years..."
Source/publisher:
"The Diplomat" (Japan)
Date of entry/update:
2021-01-08
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Type:
Individual Documents
Category:
Panglong Peace Conference, Armed conflict and peace-building in Burma - theoretical, strategic and general, Various groups, Politics, Government and Governance - Burma/Myanmar - general studies
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"Leaders of ethnic Mon and Karen armed organizations have agreed to cease fighting after holding a meeting on Wednesday to discuss a recent flare-up of clashes in southern Karen State.
Representatives of the New Mon State Party (NMSP) and the Karen National Union/Karen National Liberation Army (KNU/KNLA) agreed to seek solutions to their disputes through dialogue.
“We agreed to stop further clashes. We also agreed to solve problems through dialogue. We are going to explain our agreement to the ground-level forces. Today, we also agreed to live in unity,” Lt-Col M. Seik Chan, the commander of the NMSP’s Battalion 5, told NMG.
According to the lieutenant colonel, leaders from both groups ordered their forces to retreat from the location of the recent clashes.
Fighting between the NMSP and KNU occurred in Balae Donfive village in Payathonsu sub-township on October 17 and 21. Representatives from the KNLA Brigade 6 and NMSP’s headquarters held three meetings and observed the location of the clashes.
“Both sides need to follow our agreement. If we do that, we can avoid further clashes. Both sides have a responsibility,” Lt-Col Saw Shwe Win, commander of the KNLA’s Battalion 16, told NMG..."
Source/publisher:
"Network Media Group" (Thailand)
Date of entry/update:
2019-10-25
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Category:
Peace processes, ceasefires and ceasefire talks (websites, documents, reports and studies), Various groups
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"Clashes broke out between the New Mon State Party (NMSP) and the Karen National Union (KNU) on Thursday morning in two locations in Tanintharyi Region’s Dawei District, according to NMSP sources.
“Clashes broke out in Balae Donfive and the Ye Chaung Hpyar area,” NMSP central committee member Nai Lawi Mon told NMG, adding that the clash in Ye Chaung Hypar was “minor” and that he was still awaiting a field report on the fighting in Balae Donfive.
Padoh Win Khine, a liaison officer in the KNU’s Brigade 4 Myeik-Dawei liaison office, said that a clash occurred in the KNU’s Brigade 6 area, but that he did not know further details.
“It was not a face-to-face clash,” he told NMG, adding that it was possibly in the Ye Chaung Hpyar area. Padoh Win Khine added that other armed groups were active in the area, as well, and may have been involved.
The NMSP alleged that the KNU attacked their base camps in the two locations. At the time of reporting, NMG could not independently confirm how the clashes began..."
Source/publisher:
"Network Media Group" (Thailand)
Date of entry/update:
2019-10-19
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"(ခ့ၣ်အဲၣ်ယူၣ်)ကညီဒီကလုာ်စၢဖှိၣ်ကရၢ မုၢ်တြီၢ်ကီၢ်ရ့ၣ် တၢ်ပၢ ဟီၣ်က၀ီၤ တၢ်လီၢ်တနီၤအပူၤ တနံၣ်အံၤ၂၀၁၉နံၣ်လါယနူၤအါရံၤအပူၤ(KNLA)သုးမုၢ်ဒိၣ်ဒီးကီၢ်ပယီၤသုးမုၢ်ဒိၣ်တဖၣ်အဘၢၣ်စၢၤတၢ်ခးလိာ်သးက့ၤကဲထီၣ်(၂)ဘျီအဂ့ၢ်(KNLA)သုးက့(၅)ၦၤဘၣ်မူဘၣ်ဒါတဖၣ်စံး၀ဲန့ၣ်လီၤႉ
တၢ်ခးလိာ်အသးန့ၣ် ဖဲလါယနူၤအါရံၤ(၅)သီ တဘျီဒီး ဖဲ(၁၃)သီန့ၣ် တဘျီခီဖျိတၢ်ခီပတာ်၀ဲတၢ်ပာ်ပနီၣ်လီၢ်အဃိ တၢ်ခးလိာ်သးကဲထီၣ်အဂ့ၢ်(ခ့ၣ်အဲၣ်ယူၣ်)သုးက့(၅) သုးဂ့ၢ်၀ီခိၣ် သုးခိၣ်ဒိၣ်ဖိ စီၤကျၢၤဒိၣ်စံးဘၣ် ခ့ၣ်အဲးစံၣ်ကညီတၢ်ကစီၣ်န့ၣ်လီၤႉ..."
KIC
Source/publisher:
KIC (Karen Information Center)
Date of publication:
2019-01-24
Date of entry/update:
2019-02-18
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Type:
Individual Documents
Category:
Various groups, Karen National Union (KNU)
Language:
Sgaw Karen
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''When President Thein Sein assumed office in 2011, the international community rushed to assist Myanmar’s democratization and its efforts to resolve the many armed conflicts that have fractured the state for 70 years. Fast-forward to 2019, however, and the giddy excitement of successful elections and ambitious peace negotiations has faded. While millions of aid dollars have been spent on peacebuilding, we face a sobering reality. Conflict is currently increasing in Rakhine and Shan States. The formal peace process is on life support. Where do we go from here? How do we foster dialogue between Myanmar’s warring factions that will lead to a peaceful and functioning state for all?...''
Nicola Williams
Source/publisher:
Asia Foundation
Date of publication:
2019-01-30
Date of entry/update:
2019-02-08
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Type:
Individual Documents
Category:
Peace processes, ceasefires and ceasefire talks (websites, documents, reports and studies), Various groups
Language:
English
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''The Karen National Union (KNU) has denied allegations by the Myanmar military that it is extorting money from civilians, and rejected the Army’s characterization of clashes between it and government troops as an effort to expand its area of control. Separately, the Kachin Independence Organization (KIO) issued its own rebuttal of the military’s recent claims against EAOs, saying it did not accept the terms of the military’s four-month truce.
The Myanmar military (or Tatmadaw) included its complaints against the KNU in a statement released Friday in which it accused ethnic armed organizations (EAOs) of burdening the public by continuing to recruit and extort civilians and expand their territories. In addition to the KNU, it mentioned all of the EAOs based in northeast Myanmar, including the Kachin Independence Army (KIA), Ta’ang Nationalities Liberation Army, Arakan Army, Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army, Shan State Progressive Party/Shan State Army North, Restoration Council of Shan State/Shan State Army South and Pa-Oh National Liberation Organization. It accused them of destabilizing the region and violating the terms of the truce...''
Nyein Nyein
Source/publisher:
The Irrawaddy
Date of publication:
2019-01-28
Date of entry/update:
2019-01-28
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Type:
Individual Documents
Category:
Peace processes, ceasefires and ceasefire talks (websites, documents, reports and studies), Armed conflict in Karen State - general articles and reports, Various groups
Language:
English
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Description:
CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATIONS:
"...This report provides evidence that the Burma Army is committing war crimes ? in
particular torture, shelling of civilian targets, and enslavement of civilians as porters
and human shields -- on a widespread, systematic scale during its ongoing offensives
in Ta?ang areas of northern Shan State.
The fact that the crimes are being committed with complete impunity, not only by
locally based battalions, but increasingly by battalions deployed under combat
divisions deployed from central Burma, indicates clearly that the crimes are being
authorized from the central command.
TWO is gravely concerned that the Burma Army, which remains exempt from
civilian oversight under the current constitution, is not only continuing its
offensives in the ethnic areas in defiance of the ?peace process”, but is also
systematically committing war crimes against the ethnic peoples in flagrant
violation of international humanitarian law.
It is urgently needed for the National League for Democracy (NLD) to act to curb
the military?s power, its criminal practices and impunity. Simply sharing power
with the Burma Army under the current government will only maintain the
military status quo, perpetuating the war and condemning the ethnic peoples to
untold ongoing suffering..."
Source/publisher:
Ta?ang Women?s Organization (TWO)
Date of publication:
2016-06-28
Date of entry/update:
2016-06-29
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Type:
Individual Documents
Category:
Various groups, Torture and ill-treatment: reports of incidents in Burma, International Justice and Burma
Language:
English
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Description:
"Tar Aik Bong is a leader of the Ta?ang (Palaung) people, one of Burma?s ethnic nationalities that continues a daily struggle for survival in largely inaccessible areas in northern Shan State. He joined the Ta?ang liberation movement in 1987, and currently serves as Chairman of Palaung State Liberation Front (PSLF) and Head of the military commission of Ta?ang National Liberation Army (TNLA). TNLA is one of the few ethnic armies that continues to fight against the Burma army and vows not to lay down arms until equal rights and a lasting political solution is achieved. TNLA fights to ?obtain freedom for all Ta?ang nationals from oppression, to form Ta?ang autonomous regions that guarantee democracy and human rights, to oppose and fight against dictatorship and any form of racial discrimination, to attain national equality and self-determination and to establish a genuine Federal Union that guarantees Ta?ang autonomy and to eliminate cultivation, production, sale and use of narcotics.”
Tar Aik Bong is also a member of the ethnic alliance United Nationalities Federal Council (UNFC) council and Foreign Affairs Department. In an exclusive interview with Burma Link, Tar Aik Bong talks about the causes and current situation of the Ta?ang conflict, the role of the UNFC, and the brutal tactics that the Burmese military uses against Ta?ang civilians in order to cut the opposition movement. Tar Aik Bong also discusses the Burmese military?s instrumental role in the epidemic drug usage in Ta?ang areas, and TNLA?s plan to eradicate the drugs."
Source/publisher:
Burma Link
Date of publication:
2014-11-11
Date of entry/update:
2016-03-18
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Type:
Individual Documents
Category:
Various groups, Non-Ceasefire Groups, Armed conflict in Shan State - general articles, Drugs and conflict, Shan State, Dialogue/reform/transition in Burma/Myanmar - analyses and statements
Language:
English
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Listening to Voices: Myanmar Foot Soldiers Speak - မြန်မာ့ခြေလျှင်တင်သားများ ဖွင့်ဟပြောဆိုသံများအား နားထောင်ခြင်း.....စာတမ်းအကျဉ်းချုပ်: "ဤပုံနှိပ်ထုတ်ေ
ဝ
မှုသည်
တိုင်းရင်းသား
လက်နက်ကိုင်အဖွဲ့
(
၆
)
ခုမှ
ခြေလျင်တပ်သားများ၏
စကား
သံများအား
ဖွင့်လှစ်ထုတ်ဖော်
ပြီး
၊
မြန်မာ့ငြိမ်းချမ်းရေးလုပ်ငန်းစဉ်
နှင့်ထိုသူတို့၏
အနာဂါတ်
ဆိုင်ရာလိုအပ်ချက်များ၊
ကြောင့်ကြမှုများ
နှင့်စိန်ခေါ်မှုအခက်အခဲများ
အား
မီးမောင်းထိုးပြသခြင်းဖြစ်သည်။
1
ဤစီမံကိန်းသည်
နားထောင်ခြင်းနည်းပညာ
/
ဥပဒေဿကိုအသုံးပြု၍
၊ ြ
မန်မာနိုင်ငံလုံးဆိုင်ရာ
ကျောင်းသားများ
ဒီမိုကရက်တစ်
တပ်ဦး
(ABSDF)
၊
ချင်းအမျိုးသားတပ်ဦး
(CNF)
၊
ကချင်လွတ်မြောက်ရေးအဖွဲ့အစည်း
(KIO)
၊
ကရင်အမျိုးသားအစည်းအရုံး
(KNU)
၊
ကရင်နီအ
မျိုးသားတိုးတက်ရေးပါတီ
(KNPP)
နှင့်
မွန်ပြည်သစ်ပါတီ
(
NMSP)
တို့မှခြေလျင်တပ်သား
၁၀၀
တို့ဖြင့်နားထောင်ခြင်းစကားစမည်
ဝ
ိုင်းများ
စီစဉ်ပြုလုပ်ခဲ့သည်။
ထိုစကား
ဝ
ိုင်းများမှ
အဓိကအကြောင်းအရာခေါင်းစဉ်များ
နှင့်
အများလက်ခံေ
သာ
အကြောင်းအရာတို့အား
ဖော်ထုတ်ခဲ့ကြပြီး
၊
အောက်တွ
င်ပါ
ဝ
င်မည့်အခန်းများတွင်
အသေးစိတ်ဖော်ပြမည်ဖြစ်သည်။
ငြိမ်းချမ်းရေးနှင့်
ပဋိပက္ခအရေးလေ့လာမှုစင်တာ
(
CPCS
)
သည်
မြန်မာပြည်
ပဋိပက္ခအတွင်းပါ
ဝ
င်သော
လက်နက်ကိုင်အဖွဲ့များနှင့်
၎င်းအဖွဲ့များမှပုဂ္ဂိုလ်များအကြား
မတူကွဲပြားသော
စကား
သံ
တို့အား
အသိအမှတ်ပြု
လျက်ရှိပါသည်။
နားထောင်ခြင်းန
ည်းပညာ
သည်
လူပုဂ္ဂိုလ်များ၏အကြံဉာဏ်များအကြား
၊
အများလက်ခံ
သောအကြောင်းအရာများသာမက
၊
ကွဲပြားခြားနားသောအကြောင်းအရာများအား
ရှာဖွေဖော်ထုတ်လျက်ရှိပါသည်။
ဤနည်းပညာကိုအသုံးပြုကာ
NSAG
များမှအကြံဉာဏ်များအား
စုဆောင်းခြင်းအားဖြင့်
အဖွဲ့များအကြားရှိ
အများလက်ခံေ
သာအကြောင်းအရာများ
နှင့်
ကွဲပြားခြားနားချက်များအား
မီးမောင်းထိုးပြသနိုင်ခွင့်ရရှိခဲ့ပြီး
၊
ထိုအကြောင်းအရာများအား
ဤစာအုပ်၏ေ
နာက်ဆုံး အခန်း
ရှိ
အဖွဲ့များ
ဖွင့်ဟပြောြ
ကား
ချက်
အကျဉ်းချုပ်
များ၌
အသေးစိတ်ဖော်ပြထားပါသည်။..."
Source/publisher:
Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies (CPCS)
Date of publication:
2014-03-31
Date of entry/update:
2015-09-27
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Type:
Individual Documents
Category:
Peace processes, ceasefires and ceasefire talks (websites, documents, reports and studies), Various groups, Mon New State Party (MNSP), Kachin Independence Organization (KIO)
Language:
Burmese (မြန်မာဘာသာ)
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Description:
"Soldiers explained that mutual respect between all parties is
needed for the peace process to be successful. Mutual respect was
often mentioned in relation to the need for adherence to ceasefire
agreements, reports of breaches to ceasefire agreements and
concerns about the sincerity of the peace process.
Generally, foot soldiers identified the need for all parties to respect
the terms and conditions of agreements equally. Soldiers expressed a
desire to create stronger links between what is discussed and agreed
upon in peace/ceasefire agreements and implementation. Specific
points of contention included soldiers carrying arms outside of their
demarcated territory when agreements restricted this movement.
Soldiers voiced a need for Tatmadaw soldiers to ask permission before
entering their territory. One KNU soldier expressed: ?Tatmadaw
soldiers bring arms when they come into our regions. Don?t we have
the right to hold arms? We follow the rules”..."
Source/publisher:
Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies (CPCS)
Date of publication:
2014-03-31
Date of entry/update:
2015-09-27
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Type:
Individual Documents
Category:
Peace processes, ceasefires and ceasefire talks (websites, documents, reports and studies), Mon New State Party (MNSP), Various groups, Kachin Independence Organization (KIO), Karen National Union (KNU)
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