Colonialism and ethnic conflict in Burma - SAI LATT

Introduction

Former US President Jimmy Carter traveled to Myanmar in early April. In addition to meeting government officials during his trip, Carter also met ethnic leaders with whom he discussed the country’s long running civil war. Carter plans to open a branch of the Carter Center in Myanmar in order to study ethnic conflict and monitor the country’s political transformation. During Carter’s meetings, ethnic leaders, as usual, suggested that federalism and self-determination are the solutions to the country’s problems. But are they?

Since Thein Sein took office in 2011, there have been endless conferences, closed door meetings, academic talks, “civil society” seminars and a steady stream of publications devoted to “peace building”. Several new organizations dedicated to peace have also been formed with the support of the European Union and Norway. The government’s peace delegation headed by Minister Aung Min has been busy negotiating with various armed ethnic groups. “Peace” has become the buzzword for international donors and diplomats focusing on Myanmar.

Pang Long Agreement: Making it Simple - S.H.A.N

S.H.A.N
Feb 07, '12

Many times, I have been asked by young people what the Panglong Agreement is all about. They’ve heard and sung The Promises of Panglong, a song written by Sai Kham Lake, many a time. But when they read the text, they have never been able to make head or tail of it.

Naturally, I have always tried to comply with their request the best I can. But the requests continue each and every year.

So I hope the Agreement Made Easy here will serve as a quick reference for the younger generation, instead of myself, whose Anicca (Impermanence) is becoming more and more certain as the clock ticks by.

PANG LONG AGREEMENT (Burmese and English)

(ျပည္ေထာင္စုု စတင္ေမြးဖြားေပးခဲ့တဲ့ ပင္လုုံစာခ်ုဳပ္ကိုု အဂၤလိပ္နဲ့ ျမန္မာလိုု ယွဥ္ ဖတ္လိုုသူမ်ားအတြက္ တင္ထားတာပါ။ ပင္လုုံစာခ်ဳပ္ကိုု အဂၤလိပ္လိုု အတိုုခ်ဳံး ရွင္းထားတဲ့ The Pang Long Agreement: Making it simple  ဖတ္လိုုက ဤ ေနရာကိုုနွိပ္ပါ)

● ပင္လံုစာခ်ဳပ္

A conference having been held at Panglong, attended by certain Members of the Executive Council of the Governor of Burma, all Saohpas and representatives of the Shan States, the Kachin Hills and the Chin Hills, the members of the conference, believing that freedom will be more speedily achieved by the Shans, the Kachins and the Chins by their immediate co-operation with the Interim Burmese Government, have accordingly, and without dissentients, agreed as follows:

ျမန္မာျပည္ဘုရင္ခံ၏ အမႈေဆာင္ေကာင္စီမွ ဝန္ၾကီးအခ်ဳိ႕ႏွင့္ ေစာ္ဘြားအားလံုးအျပင္ ရွမ္းျပည္၊ ကခ်င္ေတာင္တန္းေဒသမ်ားႏွင့္ ခ်င္းေတာင္တန္းေဒသမ်ားမွ ကိုယ္စားလွယ္မ်ား တက္ေရာက္ၾကေသာ ပင္လံုတြင္ က်င္းပသည့္ အစည္းအေဝး၌ ၾကားျဖတ္ျမန္မာအစိုးရႏွင့္ ခ်က္ခ်င္းပူးေပါင္းလိုက္ျခင္းအားျဖင့္ ရွမ္း၊ ကခ်င္ႏွင့္ ခ်င္းတို႕သည္လြတ္လပ္ေရးကို ပိုမိုလ်င္ျမန္စြာ ရရွိလိမ့္မည္ဟု အစည္းအေဝးတက္ေရာက္သူအဖြဲ႕ဝင္တို႕က ယံုၾကည္ၾကသည့္အတိုင္း တညီတညြတ္တည္းေအာက္ပါအတိုင္းသေဘာတူညီၾကသည္ -