Announcement in Commemorations on 2nd Anniversary of Renewed Fighting
June 9 will mark 2 years of renewed fighting between the Tatmadaw and the Kachin Independence Army in Kachin State. Speaking on behalf of 18 civil society organizations who are coming together to commemorate the anniversary, Khon Ja from the Kachin Peace Network speaks about the importance of this day.
The commemoration events in Yangon on June 9 will include a march, interfaith prayer ceremony, performances, sharing of experiences from an internally displaced person, screening of the documentary film "Hopes Behind War", acknowledgement of media coverage of the conflict and the peace process, and presentation of a collective statement.
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ကခ်င္ျပည္နယ္အတြင္း ျမန္မာစစ္တပ္နဲ႕ ေကအိုင္အိုၾကား စစ္ပြဲေတြျပန္လည္ျဖစ္ပြားလာခဲ့တာ ဇြန္လ ၉ ရက္ေန႕မွာ ႏွစ္, ႏွစ္ျပည့္ျပီျဖစ္တယ္။ စစ္ပြဲႏွစ္ႏွစ္ျပည့္ ႏွစ္ပတ္လည္အခမ္းအနားကို ျပဳလုပ္ၾကတဲ့ လူထုအေျချပဳအဖြဲ႕အစည္းေပါင္း ၁၈ ဖြဲ႕ကိုယ္စား ကခ်င္ျငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရးကြန္ယက္မွ ေဒၚခြန္ဂ်ာက ဒီေန႕ရက္ရဲ႕ အေရးၾကီးပံုကို ေျပာၾကားသြားပါသည္။
ဇြန္လ ၉ ရက္ေန႕ ရန္ကုန္မွာျပဳလုပ္မဲ့ ႏွစ္ပတ္လည္ေန႕အခမ္းအနားမွာ လမ္းေလ်ာက္ခ်ီတက္ျခင္း၊ ဘာသာေပါင္းစံုဆုေတာင္းပြဲ၊ ေဖ်ာ္ေျဖတင္ဆက္မႈ၊ စစ္ပြဲေၾကာင့္ အိုးအိမ္စြန္႕ခြာထြက္ေျပးခဲ့ရသူ တစ္ဦးရဲ႕ မိမိအေတြ႕အၾကံဳကို ျပန္လည္ေဝငွျခင္း၊ စစ္ပြဲေနာက္ကြယ္ေမွ်ာ္လင့္ခ်က္မ်ား (Hopes Behind War) မွတ္တမ္းတင္ဗီဒီယိုကိုျပသျခင္း၊ ပဋိပကၡမ်ားႏွင့္ ျငိမ္ခ်မ္းေရးျဖစ္စဥ္ကို မီဒီယာေတြရဲ႕ ျပန္လည္ေဖာ္ျပမႈအေပၚ အသိအမွတ္ျပဳမွတ္တမ္းတင္ျခင္းႏွင့္ စုေပါင္းထုတ္ျပန္ေၾကညာခ်က္ကို ရွင္းလင္းတင္ျပျခင္းတို႕ကို ျပဳလုပ္သြားမည္ျဖစ္သည္။
Kachin, tribal peoples occupying parts of northeastern Myanmar (Burma) and contiguous areas ofIndia (Arunachal Pradesh and Nagaland) and China (Yunnan). The greatest number of Kachin live in Myanmar (roughly 790,000), but some 150,000 live in China and a few thousand in India. Numbering about 1012,000 in the late 20th century, they speak a variety of languages of the Tibeto-Burman group and are thereby distinguished as Jinghpaw, or Jingpo (Chingpaw [Ching-p’o], Singhpo), Atsi, Maru (Longvo), Lachid, Nung (Rawang), and Lisu .
The traditional Kachin religion is a form of animistic ancestor cult entailing animalsacrifice. As a result of the arrival of American and European missionaries in Burma beginning in the late 19th century, a majority of the Kachin are Christian, mainly Baptist and Roman Catholic. Among the Kachin in India, Buddhism predominates.