According to accepted negotiating practice, no agreement is better than a bad agreement. Nonetheless, many ethnic armed organisations (EAOs) are now agreeing to sign the current Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement (NCA). It is as if – just like Alice in Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – these EAOs have gone down a rabbit hole into a Ceasefire Wonderland created by the Tatmadaw [Burma’s armed forces] […]
Ariana Zarleen / Mizzima | August 3, 2015 Khu Oo Reh is the General Secretary of the ethnic alliance United Nationalities Federal Council (UNFC) and the Vice Chairman of the Karenni National Progressive Party (KNPP). In this exclusive in-depth [...]
Tim Heinemann | July 10, 2015 This is in response to recent assertions about the goodness of “partial peace in Burma”. Nothing could be further from the truth. Reality: The Government of Burma and its supporters are waging an [...]
Roland Watson / Dictator Watch, May 16, 2015 "Stick to your guns" is a well-known English saying. It means that you will not compromise. You will continue to demand what you both need and deserve, and not settle for [...]
In order to be able to realize nationwide ceasefire in practice, by carrying on the good result, I would like to urge and suggest that it is necessary for Myanmar Tatmadaw to cease military offensives nationwide, unconditionally and immediately, and negotiations are held with the respective ethnic armed resistance organizations. […]
Statement by The United Nationalities Federal Council (UNFC), April 7, 2015 1. The United Nationalities Federal Council (UNFC) recognizes the work and effort made by the Nationwide Ceasefire Coordination Team (NCCT) for more than a year. 2. The signing on March 31, 2015 was not the signing of the Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement (NCA) […]
United Nationalities Federal Council (UNFC), March 28, 2015 1. We all know that members of the United Nationalities Federal Council (UNFC), together with fraternal ethnic armed resistance organizations, have been endeavoring by various means, with the specific intent of [...]
Statement by the United Nationalities Federal Council, March 8, 2015 1. The United Nationalities Federal Council strongly condemns the violent attacks, repression, and arrest of students and civilians who demonstrated peacefully for the amendment of the national education law [...]
Press statement by the United Nationalities Federal Council (UNFC), February 21, 2015 The Kokang ethnic is included as one ethnic nationality in the official listing of ethnic nationalities in the Union of Burma. The Kokang Region is delineated as [...]
IKO’s stance on Statement released by KNU on February 16, 2015. No. 4/2015 – February 21, 2015 It is learned that KNU Central Standing Committee convened a meeting in the first week of February in order not to be entrapped by the afore planned political snare of the quasi-military U Thein Sein’s government on February 12 bogus Union Day. […]