KCA - UK မွ ေကအဲန္ယူ ဥကၠဌ ေစာမူတူးေစးဖုိး ႏွင့္ အေထြေထြအတြင္းေရးမွဴ း ပဒုိကြယ္ထူး၀င္း ထံသုိ ့ေပးပုိ ့ေသာစာ

letter to KNU.pdf

Cameron Should Demand Thein Sein Withdraw Soldiers From Ethnic States

 

Human rights training for Burmese Army won’t work

 

The Karen Community Association UK ( KCA UK ) today calls on Prime Minister David Cameron to press President Thein Sein to withdraw his soldiers from ethnic states to demonstrate he is genuine about wanting peace and improving human rights.

 

Despite a ceasefire agreement being reached between Thein Sein Government and the Karen National Union (KNU) in January 2012, human rights violations including force labour, arbitrary arrest, detention and land confiscation continue in Karen State . In addition to this, despite the ceasefire, Thein Sein is increasing, not decreasing the number of soldiers in Karen State .

 

“We know from our experience that we cannot trust the Burmese Army”, said Htoo Ku Hsa Say, Chairperson of KCA UK . “As long as they are in our land, our people will not feel safe. Therefore, we call on the British Government to ask President Thein Sein to order his troops to remove from our home land, so that trust can be built and those who have lived in fear for decades can start to rebuild their lives without being overlooked by those they feared.”

 

The British government says it wants to help the peace process in Burma . The best way to ensure peace and human rights in Karen State and other ethnic states is for the Burmese Army to withdraw.

 

If President Thein Sein is genuine about reform in Burma , he must agree to remove his soldiers from Karen State , declare a nationwide ceasefire and start political dialogue with the Burma ethnic alliance, United Nationalities Federal Council (UNFC) as soon as possible. 

 

“As someone who has had to run for my life from the Burmese Army, I can tell Cameron he is wrong to think a few sessions in a classroom stop the Burmese Army committing abuses,” said Htoo Ku Hsa Say. “Human rights abuses are not committed by a few rogue soldiers, they are government policy.”

 

We believe it is right to engage with the Burmese Government as long as the engagement is to promote further reform. However, it is too soon to welcome President Thein Sein as a genuine reformer, a leader of a free nation and trade partner.

 

For more information contact Htoo Ku Hsa Say on +44 7940522425

Thein Sein’s Europe Visit Undermines Prospects for Genuine Reform in Burma

Media release by European Karen Network

1 March 2013

 

 

Karen communities across Europe express concern over President Thein Sein visiting European countries and call on European governments to reconsider their foreign policy in light of ongoing serious human rights abuses in Burma .  

 

The European Karen Network strongly believes that European government should not be welcoming President Thein Sein while serious human rights abuses continues to be committed by his government, including ongoing attacks against ethnic civilians, sexual violence, obstruction of aid, torture, forced labour, and executions.

 

In a letter to the government of Norway , Karen Community Norway wrote; “We were deeply disappointed to see the shifting of your government’s policy, from prioritizing the promotion of human rights and democracy to prioritizing the promotion of trade and investment.  The recent visit by Thein Sein to Norway undermines prospects for genuine reform and an end to human rights abuses, as your government is no longer sufficiently pressuring the Burmese government to make these reforms.”

 

It is too big a reward and it is too soon to give Thein Sein red-carpet treatment in Europe, as Burma is not yet a democratic country. It remains ruled by a military-backed government, which continues to attack ethnic civilians and refuses to repeal the repressive laws.  For many decades, our Karen people have been under attack by the Burmese Army. We know from our firsthand experience how the government in Burma continues to violate international laws. In a letter to the government of Finland , the Karen Community Finland wrote; “Thein Sein’s government continues to violate international laws by keeping hundreds of political prisoners in jail, torturing innocent civilians, obstructing humanitarian aid in ethnic areas, and committing sexual violence by the Burmese Army including rape and gang-rape against ethnic women.”

 

“Two years after becoming President, Thein Sein still hasn’t begun political dialogue to resolve problems in Burma ”, said Tah Eh Shee, board member of the European Karen Network. “The ceasefire in Karen State hasn’t yet brought peace and stopped the Burmese Army committing human rights abuses. This is because a ceasefire alone without a political settlement cannot bring genuine peace.”

 

We would like to go back home in Burma . However, there is no concrete sign so far that Thein Sein is committing to a genuine peace that will guarantee safety and security for our people to return home.  We, the Karen ethnic of Burma , are struggling for the establishment of a federal democratic Burma that guarantees equal rights and self-determination for our people and for all the people in Burma , to create a real and lasting peace in the country.

 

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ကခ်င္အေရး ၿဗီတိသွ်ပါလီမန္တြင္ အဆိုတင္သြင္း

Early day motion 909

WAR IN KACHIN STATE, BURMA

• Session: 2012-13
• Date tabled: 14.01.2013
• Primary sponsor: Vaz, Valerie
• Sponsors:
  • Bottomley, Peter
  • Bruce, Fiona
  • Russell, Bob

That this House condemns the Burma Army's military offensive against the ethnic Kachin; expresses grave concern over the recent use of aerial bombardment in the offensive; notes with serious concern the significant escalation in the conflict, including a major increase in Burma Army troops and use of landmines on the frontlines; further condemns the continuing use of rape as a weapon of war; expresses serious concern about the displacement of over 100,000 people and the humanitarian crisis developing as a result of restrictions imposed by the government of Burma on international aid to the affected areas; calls on the government of Burma to stop attacks immediately and to engage in a meaningful political dialogue with the Kachin Independence Organisation to establish a peace process; further calls on the Government to respond to the urgent humanitarian needs arising from the conflict by increasing humanitarian assistance to internally-displaced people in Kachin State via local community organisations on the ground; and further calls on the Government to work within the EU to halt relaxation of economic sanctions and new trade and investments in Burma if there is not an immediate cessation of attacks.

European Karen Network condolences on the death of Padoh Saw David Taw

 by European Karen Network on Wednesday, 17 October 2012 at 13:23 ·

 1 European Karen Network sends its condolences to the family of Padoh Saw David Taw, a prominent Karen leader of the Karen National Union (KNU), who passed away on 14th October2012 in Rangoon. Padoh Saw David Taw was born in Rangoon on 10 March, 1948. He graduated from Rangoon University with a Bachelors of Art in history. He joined the struggle to free his people since he was young, and later became Executive Committee member of the KNU, carrying out important work for the Karen resistance. He was a leading member of the KNU’s delegation that negotiated the-ceasefire agreement with the Burmese government earlier this year in January 2012.

 European Karen Network is saddened by the loss of a great leader. He was a fearless and impressive leader, which earns him respect as one of the leading ethnic politicians in a modern Burma. He was hard working, and he dedicated his whole life in the struggle for freedom for his people and a federal democratic Burma. He had made a significant contribution to the current developments in the country. 

European Karen Network sends heartfelt sympathy to his family and the Karen National Union. Padoh Saw David Taw will be remembered for his love and the work that he had done for his people. … End…

KNU ကရင္အမ်ိဴးသားအစည္းအရုံး အေထြေထြအတြင္းေရးမွဴး ေနာ္စီဖုိးရာစိန္၏ ကရင္လူထုသို႔ ေပးပို႔ေသာစာ

KNU GS_ Open Letter To Karen society

Statement from European Karen Network

Statement from European Karen Network

Friday 20^th July 2012

 

Karen in Europe call for increased refugee aid and political solution in Burma

 

The third general meeting of European Karen Network ( EKN ) was successfully held in Sweden from 13 – 14 July 2012. More than 100 people from various Karen communities across Europe , including women and youths participated in the meeting.

 

Various issues were discussed including; problems facing different Karen Communities in Europe, how to build stronger cooperation within European Karen communities, the recent reforms in Burma, the peace process between the Burmese government and the Karen National Union, the human rights situation in Kachin and Arakan State, to raise a stronger voice for other suffering ethnic people in Burma, and to continue lobbying European governments. 

 

European Karen Network welcomes the cease-fire agreement between Burmese Government and the Karen National Union. For many decades, the Karen people have been struggling for peace and rights to self-determination. The Burmese governments use violence against our people. Based on our past experience and as victims of human rights violations committed by the Burmese Army, we are very cautious about the situation in Karen and other ethnic areas. The Burmese Army has broken a 17-year-old ceasefire agreement in Kachin State , committing human rights abuses such as raping, torturing, looting, pottering, killing, and shooting on sight.

 

Requests
1. EKN calls on the Burmese government to engage in dialogue with the Karen National Union for lasting political solutions that can guarantees the safety and security of the Karen people. We believe that a ceasefire alone without political solution will not bring genuine peace for our Karen people.
2. EKN is deeply concerned about the exiting and proposed development projects in Karen areas. We want economic development that will benefit local people and ensure the protection of the environment.
3. EKN also calls on European governments to increase humanitarian aid especially refugee aid and cross-border humanitarian assistance for internally displaced people along the border areas. 

 

“European Governments and the international community focus too much on the small positive changes in central Burma and prematurely reduce pressure against the dictatorship while human rights situation in ethnic areas is getting worse.” said Naw Tah Eh Shee, board member of European Karen Network and executive member of Karen Community Norway . “We have been suffering human rights abuses for decades. It is very disappointing that the EU and the rest of the international community fail to pay proper attention to what is happening in ethnic areas. They have been easily fooled by the Burmese government promising reform without yet delivering. EU and international governments should not ignore and neglect the on-going human rights situation in ethnic areas. “

 

The European Karen Network was set up in July 2009 with the aim to raise awareness about the situation of the Karen people of Burma , and Burma as a whole. We are the voice in Europe of the Karen struggle for freedom. We pressure European governments and the rest of the international community to do more to bring about democratic change in Burma .

 

For more information please contact:

European Time
Naw Tah Eh Shee ( Norway ): +47 94824532
Naw A Nge Ma ( Sweden ) + 46 761189263
Mary Hla ( UK ): +44 7853287330

 

ကရင္တိုင္းရင္းသားမ်ားအဖြဲ႔ ယူေက မွ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုႀကည္သို႔အိပ္ဖြင္႔ေပးစာ

open letter to Aung San Suu Kyi-revise

Statement on the current peace process and implementation of mega-development projects in Karen areas of Burma

Karen People’s Forum
Papun District, Karen Stat
June 11, 2012

Statement on the current peace process and implementation of mega-development projects in Karen areas of Burma

From June 5-7, 2012, over sixty people, including local democratically-elected development committee leaders, representing about 7,000 villagers from 23 villages in two townships, met at the Karen State-Thai border to discuss the current peace negotiation process between the Karen National Union (KNU) and the government.  The purpose of the forum, facilitated by Karen civil society, was to allow input by Karen farmers and other community-based groups into the current peace process and publicly share this with all relevant stakeholders.  These groups have been taking responsibility for local development work for the last fifteen years and therefore had strong concerns about the impact of the government’s current development policies in their areas. 

The villagers discussed the above subjects at the forum and came up with the following recommendations:

Current peace process

1)      The peace process must be genuine, transparent and sustainable.

2)      The government must withdraw all its troops based in villages and in areas where villagers carry out their livelihoods, so that villagers can have freedom to re-establish their livelihoods.

3)      Land mines in Karen State must be removed.

4)      All forms of forced labor and arbitrary taxation must be stopped. There must be constitutional guarantees that people can own their land and farm freely.

5)      Internally displaced persons must not be pressured to return to their homes while Burmese troops remain in their areas, and landmines have not been removed;

6)      Any plans for return and rehabilitation of internally displaced persons must be drawn up together with local Karen community-based organizations, and must guarantee the security of villagers; special provisions must be made for the protection and welfare of women and children.

Mega-development projects

1)      During the peace negotiation process, large-scale economic investment must be suspended

2)      Political negotiations between the Karen National Union (KNU) and the government must address the issue of local ownership of resources

3)      In order for mega-development projects to proceed, there must be legal safeguards and policies which guarantee the following:

·         The people must have full access to all relevant information and facts about planned projects.

·         Before projects start, there must be transparent, independent environmental and social impact assessments which include the impacts on women and children.

·         Local villagers must participate freely in decision-making around any development projects. These projects must not harm our culture and lands, and must ensure that our ancestral natural heritage is preserved.  

·         If the projects have any destructive impacts, the affected people must receive fair compensation according to agreed upon rates. There must also be complaint mechanisms for affected people.

Humanitarian aid

1)      Humanitarian funds and programs must support and build upon existing community development programs operated by villagers and community based organizations.

 Contacts:

Saw Htoo Klei
Phone: 0861912165

 

ရခိုင္ျပည္တြင္း အဓိကရုဏ္းမ်ားအေပၚ ယူေကရွိ အဖြဲ႕အစည္းအသီးသီး၏ သေဘာထားထုတ္ျပန္ခ်က္

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ရခိုင္ျပည္တြင္း အဓိကရုဏ္းမ်ားအေပၚ ယူေကရွိ အဖြဲ႕အစည္းအသီးသီး၏ သေဘာထားထုတ္ျပန္ခ်က္

မိမိတို႔တိုင္းျပည္သည္ လူမ်ိဳးေပါင္းစုံ ဘာသာေပါင္းစုံ ယဥ္ေက်းမႈေပါင္းစုံျဖင့္ ဖြဲ႕စည္းထားေသာ ျပည္ေထာင္ စုႏိုင္ငံေတာ္ၾကီးျဖစ္ ၍ ႏွစ္ေပါင္းမ်ားစြာ ေအးအတူပူအမွ် ယွဥ္တြဲေနထိုင္လာၾကသည္။

ရန္းျဗဲကၽႊန္း မုဒိမ္းမႈသည္လည္းေကာင္း ေတာင္ကုတ္ လူသတ္ပြဲသည္လည္းေကာင္း လူမဆန္ေသာ ရာဇဝတ္မႈမ်ားျဖစ္္ သျဖင့္ ျပင္းထန္စြာ ရွဳ႕ံခ်သည္။

ထိုျဖစ္ရပ္မ်ားသည္ ယေန႔ကဲ့သို႔ ႏိုင္ငံေတာ္သမၼတၾကီးႏွင့္ လူထုေခါင္းေဆာင္ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္တို႔ ဦးေဆာင္ညွိႏႈိင္းျပီး မိမိတို႔တိုင္းျပည္ႏွင့္လူမ်ိဳးအတြက္ အမွန္တကယ္လိုအပ္ေနေသာ ဒီမိုကေရစီ လမ္းေၾကာင္းသို႔ ဦးတည္ခ်ီတက္ေနခ်ိန္တြင္ မလိုလားအပ္ေသာ ႏိုင္ ငံေရး လွည့္ ကြက္မ်ားျဖစ္ေပ ၚလွ်က္   ေနာက္ေၾကာင္းျပန္လွည့္ႏိုင္စရာ ျဖစ္ရပ္မ်ားအျဖစ္ လြန္စြာစိုးရိမ္ ပူပန္မိၾကသည္။

ထိုျဖစ္ရပ္မ်ားသည္ လူမ်ိဳးေရး ဘာသာေရးႏွင့္ မသက္ဆိုင္ဘဲ အလြန္လက္မခံႏိုင္ေသာ ရာဇဝတ္မႈ မ်ားသာ ျဖစ္သည့္ အေလွ်ာက္ သက္ဆိုင္ရာ တာဝန္ရွိသူမ်ားမွ ထိေရာက္ျမန္ဆန္စြာ အေရးယူေျဖရွင္းေပး ပါရန္ အာဏာပိုင္အဖြဲ႕အစည္း အား ေလး နက္စြာတိုက္တြန္းပါသည္။

လူမ်ိဳးေရး ဘာသာေရး အဓိကရုဏ္းမ်ား ႏိုင္ငံတစ္ဝွမ္းတြင္ ဆက္လက္မၾကီးထြားလာေစရန္ ႏိုင္ငံေရး လူမႈေရး ဘာသာေရး နယ္ပယ္အသီးသီးမွ ေခါင္းေဆာင္မ်ားအေနျဖင့္ တစ္ဖက္ႏွင့္တစ္ဖက္ နားလည္မႈမ်ား ရရွိလာေစရန္ အထူးၾကီးၾကပ္စီမံ၍ အေရးတယူေဆာင္ရြက္ၾကပါရန္ ေမတၱာရပ္ခံ ပန္ၾကားအပ္ပါသည္။

ေန႔စြဲ။ ဇြန္ ၅၊ ၂၀၁၂။

ပါဝင္ေသာအဖြဲ႔ အစည္းမ်ား

1. International Burmese Monks Organization 

2. NLD LA,UK

3. Women of Burma, UK

4. Arakan Community

5. Burma Democratic Concern

6. Chin Community, UK

7. Kachin Nation Organization

8. Karenni Community

9. Burmese Democratic Movement Association

10. Oversea Shan Association

11. Arakan Rohingya National Organization

12. Burmese Rohingya Organization, UK

13. Burmese MuslimAssociation

KCA Sheffield General Meeting and Election 2012

KCA Sheffield General Meeting and Election

KNU press release on meeting with Daw Aung San Suu Kyi

KNU press release on meeting with Daw Aung Sun Suu Kyi

ကလိုထူးေဘာ ကရင္အစည္းအရုံး ထုတ္ၿပန္ခ်က္

KKO statement-001

ျမန္မာအစိုးရႏွင္႔ ဒုတိယအႀကိမ္ေျမာက္ အပစ္အခတ္ရပ္ဆိုင္းေရး ဆက္လက္ေဆြးေႏြးရန္ ေကအဲန္ယူထြက္ခြြါ

KNU Leaves to Continue Talks on Ceasefires with the Burmese Government

Karen People Worldwide Call for Genuine Peace and a Federal Union of Burma

5 March 2012

 

Representatives from Karen organizations worldwide today call for genuine peace throughout Burma and for national reconciliation towards the establishment of a federal union. They also appealed to the international community, especially the European Union and the United States , to maintain pressure on the Burmese Government until there is tangible political change for the Karen and for all the people of Burma .

 

Today’s appeals were the result of a four-day conference organized by the Karen National Unity Committee from 27 February to 1 March in Kawtholei, Karen State . The conference was attended by 167 Karen participants, including community and religious leaders, as well as representatives from women, youth and other Karen ethnic organizations from inside Burma and around the world.

 

“We welcome the peace initiative of the Karen National Union (KNU),” said K'nyaw Paw, Executive Member of Karen Women’s Organization and Presidium Board Member of Women's League of Burma. “We are collectively calling on the Burmese Government to genuinely commit to a ceasefire with the KNU, stop military operation in Karen areas, start political negotiation, and guarantee ethnic rights for the Karen people and for all the people of Burma .”

 

Participants of the conference also expressed their support for the KNU in working with other ethnic and democratic alliances including United Nationalities Federal Council for the establishment of a federal democratic Burma . 

 

“We acknowledge that there have been some political changes in the central parts of Burma ,” said Zoya Phan, Chair of the European Karen Network and Advisor of the Karen Community Association UK. “However, the situation in Karen areas has not improved and the rights and protection of the Karen have not been guaranteed. These are critical issues that must be addressed in order to achieve lasting peace in our communities, and for there to be significant political reforms in Burma .”

 

“As Karen overseas, we pledged to do all we can to support the ceasefire negotiations between the KNU and the Burmese Government,” said Saw Kenneth Moe, Vice-Chairperson of the Karen National Fellowship–Korea. “Karen people around the world have pledged to work in unity and we hope the international community will stand with us by pressuring the Burmese Government to work sincerely for peace and national reconciliation in our country. International governments could also play a concrete role as observers to make sure the process is transparent.”

 

The conference also stressed that development projects, many of which are already underway in Karen areas, must take into account the local people’s rights to participation in decision-making, right to land ownership and well being of future generations. The Burmese Government’s economic policies must be based on the long-term benefit of the people, especially local communities.

 

For more information, please contact:

 

Zoya Phan: +66811002857 / +447738630139

K'nyaw Paw: +66810295503

Saw Kenneth Moe: +66896448764 / +821087147019

Invitation for Emergency Karen Worldwide Conference

Dear Karen nationals at home and abroad,

We would like to invite you to attend Karen Worldwide Conference which will be held from 27^th February- 1^st March 2012 in our motherland of Kawthoolei.

This conference will be held six weeks after the initial ceasefire agreement between the Karen National Union and Thein Sein Government, to analyse the current situation of the Karen people, to come together as a nation in support of the KNU for further talks towards a genuine political solution for the Karen people and Burma .

Given the fact that there have been some developments inside Burma , this is such a crucial time for our nation. Therefore, it is extremely important that the voices from different Karen communities and backgrounds around the world are included in any further political negotiations.

We appreciate this is a short notice, but we really hope that you can participate with us at this crucial time. Your opinions and contributions are very important to us. However, if you can not make it in person, please feel free to send your opinions to karen_unity@yahoo.com by Wednesday 23^rd February 2012.

Please see the attached documents for more logistic information for the conference and contact Naw Hsa Moo at 081-7408119

We look forward to seeing you all.

Best wishes,

Karen Unity Seminar Committee

Karen Youth In UK-KYUK ၏သေဘာထားထုတ္ျပန္ခ်က္

letter_to_KNU-01

Statement from Karen Communities Worldwide

12th January 2012

Today, coinciding with ceasefire negotiations between Burma ’s military backed government and the Karen National Union (KNU), we are holding traditional peace ceremonies outside Burmese Embassies around the world, and at other venues.

The traditional peace ceremonies are being held to call on the military-backed government to not only to agree a ceasefire, but also engage in dialogue to solve the political problems behind the conflict.

The current ceasefire talks are the sixth time in the past 63 years that official talks have taken place. There have also been many informal discussions. Past negotiations have failed because the Burmese government has always effectively demanded surrender, and has refused to seriously discuss the political problems which are the cause of the conflict.

As Karen refugees we know it is not safe to return to our homeland without a political solution that ensures there will be peace and where our rights and culture will be protected. We have seen how human rights abuses have continued in other areas of Burma where there are ceasefires, and how the dictatorship used the ceasefires to extend its control and try to weaken the ethnic political parties which defended the people. A ceasefire alone tackles the symptoms, not the causes. There must also be political dialogue for a permanent political solution.

The military backed government says it wants to talk peace but it is still attacking Karen villages, still executing unarmed villagers, and has recently jailed Mahn Nyein Maung, a senior KNU leader.

We will be making the following requests:

• A nationwide ceasefire

• Dialogue for a political solution which guarantees ethnic rights and culture.

• Stop attacking Karen and all ethnic people

• Stop military actions in ethnic areas

• Stop human rights violations

• Free all political prisoners, including Mahn Nyein Maung

All Karen want peace, but not peace at the price of surrender that leaves us defenceless against human rights abuses and oppression.

There must be a political solution which guarantees ethnic rights and protects ethnic culture. There must be a political solution where the people of Burma can live peacefully side by side, different but equal.

For more information:

Zoya Phan +447738630139 ( UK )

Mahn Denis Saw Htoo +60197778303 ( Malaysia )

Saw Lat Thein +66816204486 ( Thailand )

Mahn Thaung Tin +1315368 4315 ( USA )

Saw Lwin Oo +614123 44009 ( Australia )

Background:

More than a hundred-thousand Karen live in refugee camps on the Thailand-Burma border, and tens of thousands more have been resettled around the world by the United Nations. We have fled attacks and human rights abuses by the Burmese Army. The KNU first took up arms to defend the people in 1949. The conflict is now thought to be the world’s longest running civil war.

Previous official ceasefire discussions took place in April 1949, February 1960, August 1963, December 1995, Dec 2003 – May 2005 (7 meetings in total from 2003-2005). In Jan 2004 a gentleman’s agreement on a ceasefire was agreed between General Bo Mya and General Khin Nyut. It was violated by the Burmese Army and ended when Khin Nyut was arrested in Oct 2004. The Karen National Union has made hundreds of calls for ceasefire negotiations in the past 63 years, almost all of which were completely ignored. The KNU has also implemented two unilateral one-day ceasefires on the UN Day of Peace, but the Burmese Army ignored all calls to join the ceasefire.

Karen community in London will hold a tradition peace ceremony

Dear friends,

We would like to invite you to participate in our Karen tradition peace ceremony that will take place outside the Burmese Embassy in London on 12th January 2012 at 12 noon, to call on the military-backed Burmese government to stop attacking ethnic people, stop their military actions, stop human rights violation and declare nationwide ceasefire to start political dialogue with ethnic resistance groups.

On this global day of action, the Karen community around the world will hold this traditional peace ceremony. By holding our traditional peace ceremony, we show that we are peace loving people and we are longing for peace. We want the negotiation between our Karen (KNU) leaders and military backed Thein Sein Government that will take place on 12 January to lead to political dialogue so that we can have genuine peace for all the Karen and other ethnic nationalities and everyone living in Burma.

Time: 12:00 – 13:00
Date: 12 January 2012
Place: Outside Burmese Embassy
Address: 19A Charles Street London W1J 5DX
Near Green Park Station

We are not doing any slogans but you are welcome to bring some placards. The placards should be:

• Declare Nationwide Ceasefire
• We want a political solution which guarantees ethnic rights and culture
• Stop attacking ethnic people
• Stop military actions in ethnic areas
• Stop human rights violation
• Release Mahn Nyein Maung (Mahn Nyein Maung is a KNU leader, sentenced to 17 years in prison on a charge of "unlawful association")
• Release all political prisoners

Lets us come together as one, to show Thein Sein government that we are ready for peace and ask them if they are. If they are, they will end the attacks against ethnic people, they will end their military actions in the ethnic areas, they will stop human rights violations, and they will declare nationwide ceasefire and start political dialogue with ethnic armed resistance groups.

Thank you and see you on Thursday at 12:00 noon

INVITATION TO KAREN NEW YEAR CELEBRATION

INVITATION TO KAREN NEW YEAR CELEBRATION