The Picture of The Kachinland After Match of Phakant

The Picture of The Kachinland After Match of Phakant
Issue During 27-29 August, 2012.

Dear our political leaders of the present world communities, on behalf of all the
Kachin people, our common people of Myanmar including minorities and all walks of life,
this letter of presentation is being shared to you so that all of those who receive information
through complex media may not be brought into blindfold.
This letter of presentation aims to clear away all such kind of doubt and blindfold
that lead people into political captivity. The present world leaders of the western
communities always like to question this way: while the rest of the insurgent groups of the
minorities in Burma received peaceful negotiation and signed with Thein Sein government,
why should the KIO / KIA continue their fighting against the present government? Kachin
people consider that this question comes from those who do not understand the real situation
of Kachinland.
Therefore, this question cause to think that Thein Sein government is trying to secure
a licence to wipe out the KIO / KIA by using more and more stronger weapon soon or later.
What is the main reason of KIO / KIA for their consistent fighting against the soldiers of
Thein Sein government, should be discussed in the following:—

1. The military leaders of the present government can never be trustworthy
because of their lying mentality.
Kachin people, like other minorities always hope that Thein Sein government will
provide true peaceful negotiation with all insurgent groups. We have had experienced when
leaders of Peace-talk Groups under the leadership of U Than Aung, U Thein Zaw and U
Aung Min as they went around KIO / KIA area; KNU, Shan Insurgent Groups of south and
north areas etc; that although they declared the statement for having acheived peace-talk
negotiation between the two parties, and yet, fighting continue again just only after 5 or 6
months.
Peace talk and negotiation with written document can never be materialized. Because
it is clear that peace-talk and negotiation as based on lip-service of the leaders which never
reaches to decision making of the Parliament.

2. The second point is practicing a genocidal ideology in the process of Peace-talk
agreement.
All the Kachin people are being transparently threatened by genocidal ideology as the
top military leaders themselves explicitly a express about it infront of the Kachin leaders.
This genocidal ideology has been practically exercised as the Kachin rural villages, homes,
farms and all properties were ransacked by the military soldiers. Women are being raped,
men are usually shot and killed. As a result, the Kachins people, having no way out, have to
round-up in secured area as being Internal Displaced Persons inside in the Kachinland and
somewhere inner the sino boarder.
The question of the Kachin people is:-
Why do the leaders of world community try to consider that President Thein Sein is
going to lead Burma towards democracy in a better way?
Do our world leaders understand that President Thein Sein is putting his one step on
genocidal ideology and putting another step on searching for democracy being introduced by
President Barack Obama?
Nowadays Thein Sein government is investing its military effort in Kachinland about
50% for the purpose of annihilating the Kachin people. It is therefore even if democracy is

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acheived to a certain degree, this democracy can never be adopted and conformed in the
socio-political and cultural-religeous context of the Kachin Community.
In this political context, KIO / KIA has no trustworthy on Thein Sein government
and therefore if the military government truly trying to build democracy, Thein Sein should
introduce International Democracy which can also be adopted and conformed in the socio-
political context of the Kachin people.

3. The root causes of Phakant issue.
For the first time a peace talk agreement had been made between the military
government and the KIO / KIA leaders in 1994. During this agreement period, the KIAs
were not disarmed, but they could not use arms either for fighting or even to defend
themselves from being killed. Therefore KIO / KIA became defendless and they lost their
authority in military power. They have to surrender Phakant areas in the hands of joint-
companies being controlled by the military leaders. Many rich people joined in it as share
holders but the KIO / KIA have never been able to participate in Jade project. During that
time the companies were introduced to Phakant along with different kinds of drugs such as
heroin, amphetamine.
There was a time when the KIO / KIA were requesting for donation and all the
companies contributed their donation; but then the military leaders who are being involved in
it suddently stopped all the companies from working.
As a result of this, the whole communities of Phakant became jobless and they lost an
earning life. Anyway, the jobless groups and poor people started working to find jade nearby
suitable area;, consequently, this working groups and poor people extended their working
areas in all other parts of Phakant. As a result, the area of Jade Companies being owned by a
retired army officer had been occupied, by the common people; therefore, when he heard
about this news, he requested some armies who are living in Phakant sending them to his area
to give security. It was a time they confronted face to face with KIA on the way and they
started fighting on 24th. August. This fighting horrified the company owner when he lost his
security and properties. The main cause was that a retired military officer based his company
under the security of the military power.
The policy of KIO / KIA is allowing all ordinary poor people to have opportunity to
work on Jade to earn their life, but the joint companies under the military leaders occupied
the whole area under the tight security with arms. For the sake of the citizens, KIO / KIA
have to drive the soldiers out who serve themselves for the benefit of a handful of the
military dictators.

By:-

Uru River / Phakant
1st. Sept. 2012.