Kachin State Government briefed on peace and stability of the state at Town Hall of Myitkyina on Sunday (28 August), according to the government-owned New Light of Myanmar newspaper.
Kachin State Chief Minister La John Ngan Hsai addressed the briefing which was attended by the State Chief Justice, the State Hluttaw Deputy Speaker, State ministers, the State Advocate- General, the State Auditor-General, members of social organizations, officials and locals.
"Col Than Aung , Negotiation Team leader for Kachin State Peace and Stability and State Minister for Security and Border Affairs, explained works for peace and stability of the state, negotiation with KIO (Kachin Group) and current developments. But, the newspaper did not mention any progress with the negotiation talks."State Social Affairs Minister Daw Bauk Jar explained on rural folks who fled to urban areas at refugee camps where they are provided with food, shelter, health care and education.
"The chief minister, State ministers, the State advocate-general, the head of State Land Records Department and the secretary of State government then replied to questions of reporters. The chief minister called for collaborative efforts for all-round development of Kachin State, stability, eternal peace and ceasefire, the New Light of Myanmar said. But, he also could not tell about the policy and procedure of peacemaking process."
Ahead of Sunday briefing, a powerful TNT bomb planted by Burmese military agents in Myitkyina, in Kachin State, Northern Burma, was removed on Thursday (Aug. 25) before it exploded, referring local witnesses the Kachin News Group said.
A piece of wire and TNT mine was put on the main electrical transformer near the Kachin Baptist Church, Quarter Administrative Office and Quarter Market, which is usually crowded vicinity, local residents said.
The Quarter Administrative Office confirmed to the Kachin News Group the mine was removed by a bomb squad from the Burmese Army’s Northern Regional Command, based in Myitkyina on Thursday.
The Myitkyina Police Station No. 1 declined to answer questions from the Kachin News Group concerning the incident and suggested people can go and ask questions at the police station, not by phone.
The five-month old Burmese government keeps denying the KIO is a political armed group and officially labeled it as an insurgent, at its first press conference in Naypyidaw. During its first press conference on August 12th, the new government denounced the 10 ethnic armed groups and members of the United Nationalities Federal Council (UNFC) – Kachin, Karen, Karenni, Chin, Mon, Shan, Wa, Laho, Palong and Pa-O – as “insurgents.”
"The government’s ceasefire offer was rejected because it did not include country-wide political dialogue but only talks with each individual ethnic armed group, according to Salang Kaba Lar Nan, Joint General Secretary-2 of the KIO."
Lar Nan told the Kachin News Group, “The peace offer announcement lacks political dialogue. The government wants to have talks using the military-centered 2008 Constitution. We ethnic armed groups will not talk under the 2008 Constitution.”
Repeatedly, the new government has offered the bilateral talk guiding principle to ethnic armed groups, which failed to solve political problems in the past six decades. So far, peace talks have unsuccessful since the KIO desires to solve the country’s political problems based on the 1947 Panglong Agreement. However the government has decided to discuss along the lines of the 2008 constitution.
In such a situation, the ongoing war in the Kachin State in Burma seems to be uninterrupted because both government and the Kachin Independence Organization hold different political principles.
Most people inside and outside of Burma desire a nationwide ceasefire for the war produces not only several casualties on both sides but also more and more refugees and IDPs flows out along the Sino-Burma border.
Peace-loving people believe that both government and KIO should not be too inflexible if they really wanted to reconstruct a peaceful and prosperous country in the ASEAN Community.
Source : http://asiancorrespondent.com/author/uzinlinn/
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