Statement of Arakan
National Council Calls for the Union of Myanmar Government to Immediate Halt of Wars against the Kachin
People
May 6, 2012
Arakan National Council (ANC)
calls the Union of Myanmar Government to immediately halt the offensive wars
against the Kachin Independent organization (KIO) and its armed wing, Kachin
Independent Army (KIA).
The on-going war intensified by
the government in the Kachin State is an extension of political power vesting
and natural resources controlling. As a result, thousands of Kachin ethnic
people are impetus to become refugees in the neighboring China and causalities
and deaths of hundreds of civilian. The war definitely intersperses the current
cease-fire negotiations with the ethnic nationalities forces.
The history tells us the paradigm
that in 1994 when the KIO entered the cease-fire agreement with the previous
military regime, the Karen National Union (KNU) stronghold, Manaplaw, was
seized by the unwavering military operations in 1995. The current government
increasing its military personals and artillery shelling over the KJO’s
headquarter, Lizar, is similar travesty. Thus, the government’s peace
negotiation with the ethnic forces including KIO and President U Thein Sein’s
far-cry for “everlasting peace” effort is unconvincing.
The “everlasting peace” cannot be
achieved without full recognition of the ethnic nationalities’ innate rights
for equality, self-determination, and fair justice in order of the way they
want to live and sustain.
The longer the wars are going on,
the Kachin people will be suffered more, and the ethnic people, mainly the
Rakhine people, will no longer interested in peace negotiation with the
government.
It is time the government to show
genuine wills to have peace and peaceful co-existence with the ethnic
nationality communities by completely halting the civic wars in the Kachin
State and imposing a nation-wide cease-fire unconditionally.
Central Executive Committee
Arakan National Council
New Delhi
India
Contact Person. Chairman Ven. Ashin Ariawnatha; tel. (66)
900515448.
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