ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္က ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံမွာ ဖက္ဒရယ္ ျပည္ေထာင္စု ေပၚေပါက္ေရး၊ ျပည္ေထာင္စုတပ္မေတာ္ ထူေထာင္ေရး အတြက္ UNFC နဲ႔ ပူးေပါင္းေဆာင္ရြက္သြားမယ္လုိ႔ ေျပာပါတယ္

RANGOON — The major alliance of ethnic armed groups in Burma, the United Nationalities Federal Council (UNFC), has opened an office for its “Federal Union Army,” an organization it hopes will pave the way for the involvement of ethnic fighters in the national armed forces.

The office in the Kachin Independence Army (KIA)-controlled border town of Mai Ja Yang has apparently been open for some months. But the existence of the office, named the Federal Union Army (Northern Command) War Office, has only just come to light.

Khun Okkar, joint secretary 2 of the UNFC, told The Irrawaddy on Thursday that a delegation had been working at the office since February, but that the alliance—which comprises 12 ethnic armed groups across Burma—did not publicly announce it so as not to disturb the peace process.

Drawn-out negotiations toward a nationwide ceasefire agreement are ongoing, but new clashes in northern Burma in recent weeks have seen thousands more civilians displaced by violence.

“We opened a war office in the north in February. We let [KIA Chief of Staff] General Gam Shawng lead the northern command. The federal army and our UNFC are twins. Since we formed UNFC [in 2011], we decided to form it, but we kept it low profile.” said Khun Okkar.

He said the UNFC would open two more offices for the organization in Karenni State and either Karen or Mon state.

Khun Okkar said the purpose of the UNFC’s new organization was to prepare troops to be part of an army for all of Burma that would include ethnic soldiers. The proposal for Burma to have a federal army, incorporating ethnic armed groups, has been a key part of ethnic leaders’ proposals for ending decades of civil conflict.

“When there is a federal system in our country, we need to have federal defense army. To do this, we need to form it. This is our preparation. This army will stay under control federal union government,” said Khun Okkar.

He declined to share details of the ethnic armed groups’ vision for how the posited federal army would work. Some have suggested that a federal army would include ethnic units.

“We are working to have nationwide peace agreement. We have to be very careful when we talk about the federal army issue in order not to disturb the peace process,” said Khun Okkar.

At present, nearly all of the country’s major ethnic armed groups have signed bilateral ceasefire agreements with the government, with the exceptions of the KIA, the Ta’ang National Liberation Army and the Shan State Army-North, all of whom have clashed with government troops since attacks on villages were reported over Burmese New Year last month.

The nationwide ceasefire talks have faced significant hurdles, with ethnic leaders complaining that the Burmese military’s demands are too large, and several meetings have failed to produce agreement on a single text for the agreement.

One of army’s demands is that ethnic armed groups must come under its command, and the military appears unsympathetic to calls for an armed forces reflecting a federal system.

Snr-Gen Min Aung Hlaing, the commander-in-chief, has insisted change is not necessary, since ethnic people already participate in the Burma Army. Although all ethnic groups can sign up, the leadership of the army is almost exclusively from the Burman ethnic group.

http://www.irrawaddy.org/burma/burma-ethnic-alliance-sets-federal-army-office.html

ဖက္ဒရယ္ျပည္ေထာင္စုတပ္မေတာ္ရဲ႕ စစ္ရုံးကုိ KIA ထိန္းခ်ဳပ္နယ္ေျမ မုိင္ဂ်ာယန္မွာ ဖြင့္ထားၿပီလုိ႔ သိရပါတယ္။
 

ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ႏွင့္ UNFC ေခါင္းေဆာင္တခ်ဳိ႕ (ဓာတ္ပုံ – ေဂ်ပုိင္ / ဧရာ၀တီ)
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ေဖေဖာ္ဝါရီလ ကတည္းက ရုံးဖြင့့္လွစ္ထားတာျဖစ္ေပမယ့္ ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရးလုပ္ငန္း ထိခုိက္မႈ ရိွမွာ စုိးရိမ္တ့ဲအတြက္ ဒီသတင္းကုိ လွ်ဳိ႕ဝွက္ထားတာျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း တိုင္းရင္းသား လူမ်ိဳးမ်ား  ဖက္ဒရယ္ေကာင္စီ(UNFC) ရဲ႕ တဲြဘက္အတြင္းေရးမွဴး ၂ ခြန္ဥကၠာက ၾကာသပေတးေန႔မွာ ေျပာပါတယ္။

ေျမာက္ပုိင္းစစ္ဌာနခ်ဳပ္နယ္ေျမ စစ္ရုံးကုိ  KIA စစ္ဦးစီးခ်ဳပ္ ဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္ ဂမ္ေရွာင္က ဦးေဆာင္ကြပ္ကဲေနပါတယ္ တ့ဲ။

ဒီလုိ စစ္ရုံး ဖြင့္လွစ္ေရး အစီအစဥ္ကုိ UNFC တည္ေထာင္တ့ဲ လြန္ခ့ဲတ့ဲ သုံးႏွစ္ကတည္းက သေဘာတူခ့ဲတာျဖစ္တယ္၊ ေနာက္ထပ္ စစ္ရုံး ၂ ရုံး ထပ္ဖြင့္ဖုိ႔ အစီအစဥ္ရိွတယ္လုိ႔လည္း သူက ဧရာဝတီသတင္းဌာနကုိ ေျပာပါတယ္ - ကယားျပည္နယ္မွာ တခု၊ မြန္ျပည္နယ္ သုိ႔မဟုတ္ ကရင္ျပည္နယ္မွာ တခု ျဖစ္ပါလိမ့္မယ္။

မူရင္းသတင္း

• Burma Ethnic Alliance Sets Up ‘Federal Army’ Office

http://www.irrawaddy.org/burma/burma-ethnic-alliance-sets-federal-army-office.html

UNFC မွာ တုိင္းရင္းသားလက္နက္ကုိင္အဖဲြ႔ ၁၂ ဖဲြ႔ ပါ၀င္ပါတယ္။

UNFC ေခါင္းေဆာင္ေတြနဲ႔ ႏုိဝင္ဘာလကုန္ပုိင္း ရန္ကုန္မွာ ေတြ႔ဆုံစဥ္ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္က  ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံမွာ ဖက္ဒရယ္ ျပည္ေထာင္စု ေပၚေပါက္ေရး၊  ျပည္ေထာင္စုတပ္မေတာ္ ထူေထာင္ေရး အတြက္  UNFC နဲ႔  ပူးေပါင္းေဆာင္ရြက္သြားမယ္လုိ႔ ေျပာပါတယ္။ 

• ဆက္စပ္ဖတ္စရာတခ်ဳိ႕

အစိုးရႏွင့္ UNFC တို႔၏ အပစ္အခတ္ ရပ္စဲေရး မူၾကမ္း ၈၀ ရာခိုင္ႏႈန္း ကြဲလြဲေန 
 http://burma.irrawaddy.org/news/2013/10/31/50315.html