Independent Mon News Agency (IMNA)

August 12, 2003

NMSP Demands for Political Dialogue in its Mon Revolution Day’s Statement

While the New Mon State Party (NMSP) was celebrating the Mon Revolution Day on August 12, the Party also issued a political statement and demands the regime in Rangoon for the political dialogue and political settlement.

NMSP, which agrees ceasefire with the regime, State Peace and Development Council (SPDC), for 8 years, celebrated this armed resistance day with military parades in its General Headquarters, Districts and Townships under its control area.

The NMSP also distributed the Statement among the audiences who attend the occasion with its issued statement, which starts how the people started armed struggle for their liberation because of chauvinism and oppression by the regimes in Rangoon after Burma regained Independence from British.

The statement also includes that the NMSP has constantly demanded for the political dialogue to solve the political problems by means of politics, it also against the violence in solving the political problems, it also try to help the Mon people as much as possible as the Party acknowledged the serious worst situation in every aspects. It also added that the revolution for the liberation of Mon people is historical task and they must struggle until the task is complete.

The President of New Mon State Party, Nai Htin, also sends commentary statement to the Revolution Day with remembrance of the struggle for the rights to self-determination and establishment of federal union in Burma.

The statement also includes how the Mon people involved in the revolution for the liberation with specific explanation to the audiences.

NMSP agreed for ceasefire with the regime in 1995 and has demanded the political dialogue with other ceasefire groups for several years and it also regularly the opinion statement concerning to the political situation in Burma.