Calling for Pinlong Conference

By Htun Aung Kyaw

 

The 22nd foundation day of Zomi National Congress was held on October 22, 2010 in Kalay town, Upper Burma. Ethnic nationalities and Burmese pro democracy leaders called for a second Pinlon conference by signing a declaration called “Kalay Myo Declaration.” It was signed by Kachin, Shan, Chin, Mon, and NLD leaders.

The main purpose of the declaration is to stop the coming civil war, which has been burning Burma inside out since it gained independence from Britain in 1948.

After Burma gained independence from Britain, the new government, which was led by Prime Minister U Nu, faced challenge from communist, socialist, and ethnic nationalities. Civil war broke out and communist and ethnic insurgencies spread throughout the country for decades and still exist today.

Panglong conference:A blue-print for future Burmas nation building

 

26 October 2010, Chinland Guardian:

On October 24, 2010, a historically and politically significant statement calling for the second Panglong Conference was jointly issued during the 22nd anniversary of the Zomi National Congress by veteran politicians and leaders of the mainstream democratic opposition parties operating inside Burma: the National League For Democracy (NLD), Shan Nationalities League for Democracy (SNLD), Karen National Congress (KNC), Mon National League for Democracy (MNLD), and United Nationalities League for Democracy (UNLD).

By calling for and undertaking this historic gathering of people of all political and ethnic backgrounds, these brave and visionary leaders of Burma’s democratic oppositions have once again underscored a very critical point absolutely essential to the formation of a common and stable Union of Burma – acknowledging the fact that the restoration of a mere democracy replacing the military government is not a solution, they commit once again to the establishment of a federal form of government, a political system considered to be the most suitable system for a multi-ethnic Burma. As the word ‘Panglong Conference’ has a political significance behind the founding of the Union of Burma, I would like to reflect on the first Panglong Conference and its subsequent political implications.

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၂၀၀၈ ခုႏွစ္ အေမရိကန္သမၼတေရြးေကာက္ပြဲကာလတံုးက တရုတ္ေထာက္လွမ္းေရးေတြဟာ ဘရက္အိုဘားမားနဲ႔ ဂြ်န္မကိန္း တို႔ရဲ႕ပါတီ႒ာနခ်ဳပ္မွာရိွတဲ့ ကြန္ၿပဴတာထဲက အခ်က္အလက္ေတြကို ဆိုင္ဘာအတတ္ပညာနဲ႔ဝင္ေရာက္ခိုးယူခဲ့ႀကတယ္။

ဒါေပမဲ့ အေမရိကန္ၿပည္ေထာင္စုကလည္း အခ်ိန္မွီ သိရိွသြားတဲ့အတြက္ တရုတ္ေထာက္လွမ္းေရးေတြရဲ႕ လုပ္ရပ္ေတြ ဟာ ကိုးယို႔ကားရားနဲ႔ အဆံုးသတ္သြားခဲ့တယ္။

ZOMI (ZO PEOPLE) AND ZO-LAND

Location:

The Zomi inhabited area occupies the South District of Manipur and Cachar District in the North, Western Bank of the Chindwin River and the west bank in the middle part of Irrawaddy River in the East, to the Bay of Bengal in the South and Chittagong Hill Tracts in the west. The whole areas of Zoland lying between Lat.( ) and ( ) North, and Long. ( ) and ( ) East.

Area:
Zomi inhabited area under their respective present administration units is: -

1. The Chin State 35,601.92 sq.km.
2. In Arakan State 9,000.00 sq.km. (Approximately)
3. In Sagaing Division 65,000.00 sq.km. (Approximately)
4. In Magwe Division 18,000.00 sq.km. (Approximately)
5. The Chittagong Hill Tracts 17,397.75 sq.km.
6. In Manipur State 7,883.00 sq.km.
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Total Zomi Inhabited Areas 152,882.00 sq.km.

Chin National Party ah Chairman a sem Pu Zo Zam in Myanmar Television tungtawn pan a 2010 kitelna a ding a mau party tawh kisai a thu genna hi.


Tua ban ah CNP party i ngimna te hih anuai ah zong kisim thei hi.

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