KALADAN NEWS

 

Date: February 7, 2005

 

Burmese Ethnic Groups Celebrated Cultural Program in New Delhi

 

New Delhi, Feb.7: Ethnic groups from Burma have celebrated a cultural program under the tile of “Unity in Cultural Diversity” in New Delhi, said Tin Soe, a Rohingya participant at the program.

 

The Human Rights Education Institute of Burma (HREIB) with the collaboration of Burmese Community Resource Center (BCRC) had organized the program in order to bring up better understating among the ethnic groups of Burma and it was celebrated on 5th February 2004 at Maharaja Banquets, Asslat Puri, New Delhi., he further said.

 

 
 
U Aung Myo Myint, the Director of HREIB explained the main object of the program that to understand cultural and system of each other among the ethnic groups and to unite them in respecting the culture of each other in Burma. Mostly, we need to create mutual understanding among ethnic groups to reform democratic and federal state, as it is a country of multi-ethnic, multi-cultural, multi-religious and multi-races society.

 

Regarding the program, there was a controversy among the participants that to learn the reason of organizing this program by HREIB. So, U Myo had come to explain that “Similar programs can build peace among new society as per the article No. 27 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). So, we hold this program for better unity and understanding among each other’s culture, system and behaviors in the country”.

 

The program was celebrated by dancing together with various ethnic groups, wearing their traditional cultural dresses while some ethnic people such as Matupi, Zou, Zomi, Burman, Kuki, Haka, Luchai, Mizo and Rawan showed their traditional dance separately with Pop song. The name of the song was “Love Circle” that gave more and more pleasure to the participants and increased spirits to respect other cultures and systems like dress, language, custom, and etc.

 

Most of the participants were Burmese nationals and some were from 7 sisters of India. It was started at about 12:00 pm and ended at 4:00 pm of the day, initiated by the trainees of the HREIB.

 

According to an official website of SPDC www.myanmartourex.com, Myanmar is popularly known as the Land of Festivals because of the countless religious and cultural festivals that take place all year round.#

 

 

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