I visited an IDP camp

Gum San NSang 

I am always in awed by my people's resiliency to sustain calmness amid being surrounded by Burma army posts and its mortar shells. 

I was very moved when I saw specks of lights from refugee camps along the border in frigid cold condition. As we drove into Laiza, goose bumps were running down my spine when I saw X'mas lights and banners suspending across the streets. 

Next morning, I visited an IDP camp and a small clinic run by Christian missionaires. Despite of it all, people carried on their lives toiling earth on a nearby hill, planting meger vegetables gardens, and collecting firewoods from the riverbank. 

When asked how is the condition of this camp compared to others along the border, the camp coordinator replied, by far the best, because the ones from the north have over a foot of snow.

 This missery was placed upon us simply because we desire to be equally represented or refused to sign a ceasefire which has no code of conducts or monitoring mechanism.

Advocacy ngu ai hpa rai ta? Advocacy ဆိုတာေလးကို တင္ေပးလိုက္ပါတယ္

Maran Jawgun ရဲ႕ Advocacy ဆိုတာေလးကို တင္ေပးလိုက္ပါတယ္။ မရွင္းတာရွိရင္ သူ႕ေမးပါရွင္႕။
Advocacy ဆိုတာ သတင္းအခ်က္အလက္ မွ်ေ၀ေပးျခင္းထက္ ေက်ာ္လြန္ပါတယ္။
Advocacy ဆိုတာ ငါ႕ကို ၀ိုင္းကူၾကပါ ဆိုျပီး ေအာ္တာထက္ ေက်ာ္ပါတယ္။
Advocacy ဆိုတာ ဆႏၵေဖာ္ထုတ္တာထက္ ေက်ာ္လြန္ပါတယ္။

Advocacy ဆိုတာ နစ္နာသူမ်ားကိုယ္စား၊ အမ်ားကိုယ္စား ျပည္သူ႕အသံကို သယ္ေဆာင္လာေပးျခင္း၊ ဆံုးျဖတ္ခ်က္ခ်မႈမ်ားမွာ ပါ၀င္စြက္ဖက္ျခင္းနဲ႕ ေနာင္အခါ အလားတူ ကိစၥမ်ား ထပ္မံ ျဖစ္ပြားမႈ မရွိေအာင္ မူ၀ါဒမ်ား ေျပာင္းလဲျခင္းအထိ ပါ၀င္ႏိုင္ပါတယ္။
Advocacy ဆိုတာ ကိုင္တြယ္ေျဖရွင္းဖို႕ ေရြးခ်ယ္ထားတဲ႕ မူ၀ါဒ သို႕မဟုတ္ ျပသနာတခုခုကို ၀ိုင္း၀န္းကိုင္တြယ္ေျဖရွင္းႏိုင္ဖို႕ ေရတိုေရရွည္ ဗ်ဴ ဟာခ်မွတ္ျခင္း၊ မဟာမိတ္ျပဳျခင္း၊ ေငြ၊ နည္းပညာ၊ သတင္းအခ်က္အလက္မ်ားနဲ႕ လူအပါအ၀င္ အရင္းအျမစ္မ်ား စုေဆာင္းျခင္းေတြျပဳလုပ္ျပီး project cycle တခုလို ေဆာင္ရြက္ျခင္းဘဲ ျဖစ္တယ္။
ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံမွာ မဟာမိတ္မ်ားမ်ားရဖို႕ Activists မ်ားနဲ႕ CSO မ်ား၊ ႏိုင္ငံေရးသမားမ်ား၊ သက္ဆိုင္ရာ ပညာရွင္မ်ား အခ်င္းခ်င္း ကူညီေစာင့္ေရွာက္ဖို႕ ခ်ိတ္ဆက္ထားျခင္း၊ သူ႕ကိစၥမွာ ကိုယ္က ကူညီ ။ ကိုယ္လိုအပ္ရင္ သူ၀ိုင္းကူ လုပ္မွ ရပါတယ္။ ကိုယ္လိုတဲ႕ အခ်ိန္မွာသာ လာဆြဲသံုးလို႕ ရတဲ႕ ကိစၥမ်ိဳး မဟုတ္ပါဘူး။ Alliance ဆိုတာ အတူတကြ ၀ိုင္း၀န္းေဆာင္ရြက္ဖို႕ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။

Advocacy link

https://www.mffh.org/mm/files/AFJ_what-is-advocacy.pdf
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advocacy
http://www.ala.org/aasl/advocacy/definitions

Protest against Nov. 19th Unprovoked Attack By Burmese Army,အေမရိကအေျခစိုက္ UN ရံုး,PERMANENT MISSION OF MYANMAR ရံုးေ႐ွ႔၌ တိုင္းရင္းသားမ်ား ဆႏၵျပ

အေမရိကအေျခစိုက္ UN ရံုး,PERMANENT MISSION OF MYANMAR ရံုးေ႐ွ႔၌ တိုင္းရင္းသားမ်ား ဆႏၵျပ
 By Kachin Alliance news
 Kachin, Karen, Chin, Mon, Myanmar, and Rakhine ethnic nationalities from Florida, Tennessee, Michigan, Georgia, Nebraska, New York, Pennsylvania, and Maryland participated in today's protest against Burma Army's unprovoked attack on November 19 that killed 23 cadets and wounded 20 others at KIO Officer Training School ground. Some protesters came from as far as Canada to join today's protest.

About 150 ethnic nationalities from Burma today held a protest in front of United Nation headquarters in New York.
Pounding rains did not deter protesters from demanding UN and international community to speak for the rights of ethnic nationalities and seek justice for those fallen on November 19 at KIO Officer Training Academy.

Yaten USA Mungdan kaw e Kachin Alliance woi let n gun madun nga ai.
. Masha n gun 150 jan ,Canada mung dan na wunpong myusha ni mung sadu shang lawm, Myen mungdan na တိုင္းရင္းသားAmyubawsang ni shang lawm ai lam chye lu ai.
Kashung mung kashung Marang mung bai htu re du hkra ladaw npyaw ai ten rai tim Myu hte mung dan a matu grai shakut let USA na myu sha ni ,ap nawng nga ma ai,

Yawng a KIO/KIA ( music/video/mahkawn )

Post by Hkawnra Maji.

Protest against Nov. 19th Unprovoked Attack By Burmese Army Saturday, December 6th 2014 New York City, U.S.A

Protest against Nov. 19th Unprovoked Attack By Burmese Army
Saturday, December 6th 2014
New York City, U.S.A

Location 1: UNITED NATION HEADQUATERS
 Dag Hammerskold Plaza: E 47th St, New York, NY 10017
12:30 PM Arrival at UN (Dag Hammerskold Plaza)

01:00 PM Welcoming/regulations

Greeting ---------------------------------------- KA President
Kachin National Anthem --------------------- Florida Kachin Community

Guest Speaker ----------Slogans ---------

Honoring  23 fallen cadets & other victims-------- Kachin Alliance
Slogans -----------Guest Speaker

Kachin Patriotic Song?--------------------------------- Indiana Kachin Community

02:15 pm Dismiss to Myanmar Mission, NYC
Location 2: THE PERMANENT MISSION OF MYANMAR TO THE UN
10 East 77th Street  New York, NY 10075

5th Ave. near  E 77th St. on Central park side
02:30 PM Arrival to 5th Avenue  
03:00 pm Welcoming/regulations

Greeting --------------------------------------------------- KA President
Kachin National Anthem -------------------------------- Michigan Kachin Community

Guest Speaker --------------------Slogans (repeat 3 times)-----------------------------

Honoring 23 fallen cadets & other victims--------------- Kachin Alliance
Slogans (repeat 3 times)----------------------------------------------------------------
Guest Speaker 6--------------------------------------------------------------------------

Kachin Patriotic Song?----------------------------------------Georgia Kachin Community
Slogan (repeat 3 times)  ------------------------------------------------------------------

Words of Appreciation --------------------------------------- Kachin Alliance
Organizer (Hpareng)----------------------------------------- Kachin Alliance
Media Spokesperson (Gahtawn)---------------------------- Slg. NSang Gum San
Video/Photo---------------------------------------------------- Slg. Mung Gyit

Parking/Directions (Lam Madun)/ Security (Shim lam) ------Dr. Naw Mai, New York City group
Water & In charge of Properties (Rai Zing) ----------------Philly Group

အေမရိကအေျခစိုက္ UN ရံုးေ႐ွ႔၌ တိုင္းရင္းသားမ်ား ဆႏၵျပ( U N shawng kaw n-gun madun hpang sai. )

Post by Lum Nyoi.

Invitation to Kachin Demonstration ( Dec .06 .2014 New York)

November 30, 2014 Dear Friends and Colleagues, On Nov 19, 2014, the Burma Army launched a surprise artillery attack on the Military Academy of the Kachin Independence Organization (KIO) near its Laiza headquarters, killing 23 officer cadets and injuring 20 cadets and trainers. The victims of this atrocious attack are from multip le ethnic groups. Read more click on link By Kachin Alliance https://www.facebook.com/pages/Kachin-Alliance/481817461843733?ref=br_tf

UN Rung Hte Myen Kyithkai Rung Shawng Hta Shawa N Gun Madun Na Matu Saw Shaga Ai Lam

November 29, 2014

Hkungga ai,

            America mungdan du Wunpawng amyu sha ni yawng hpang de ndau shabra dat ga ai.

            Lai wa sai Nov 19, 2014 shani hta Wunpawng Mungdan Shanglawt Asuya kawn hpaw da ai Hpyen Du Shalat Jawng, Laiza muk lung de Laiza makau Hka Ya Bum mayan hta shara la nga ai myen hpyen dap kaw nna mara kata yaw shada lam nga nga hte sinat kaba (105 mm) gap bun ai majaw Hpyen Du Shalat Jawng hta hpyen hpaji sharin hkam la nga ai myu tsaw share shagan marai 23 maroi nni hkrat sum mat sai hte, marai 20 jan gaw ningma kap hkra machyi hkrum sai re.

            Ndai lam hte seng nna, mungdan kata hte maigan mungdan shara shagu de du nga ai Jinghpaw Wunpawng amyu sha ni yawng mung Pu-Gang Sin-Machyi let, myen hpyen asuya a akyang lailen hpe ninghkap ai lam laika hte wuhpung wuhpawng law law kaw nna ndau shabra lai wa sai. Ndai zawn rai tengman ai simsa lam hpe  jawm gaw gap nga ai aten hta, myen hpyen asuya kaw nna shabyin dat ai mang hkang gaw shinggyim nauna myit kata, tawt lai gumshem ai lam re majaw anhte amyu sha ni kadai mung tsep kawp ninghkap nga ai re.

Dai majaw anhte amyu sha ni a kraw kata hkam sha nga ai lam hte  myen hpyen asuya a nteng man, masu magaw hkalem ai ladat ni yawng hpe mungkan mungdan law law ni grau nna mu mada chye na lu na matu hte, simsa lam hpe bawngban ai zuphpawng ni hta sakse hku nna shang madat lawm nga ai UN (United Nations) wuhpung ni kaw nna mung lit la hparan lawm ya na matu  America du nga ai Wunpawng amyu sha ni hte myit rum ai hpunau amyu sha (Ethnics) ni hte rau, seng ang ai asuya rung shawng hta myit hkrum mangrum Shawa N-Gun madun let jawm hpyi shawn sa wa na matu kam hpa let saw lajin dat ga ai.

Hkungga let amyu sha lam hta,

Kachin Alliance

Galaw sa wa na mahkyen-

Ninghtoi:  SATURDAY, DECEMBER 6^th, 2014

Shara :    (1) United Nation Headquarters, New York City

Aten:       01:00 – 02:30pm

              (2)Permanent Mission of The Union of Myanmar

                  10 E 77th St, New York, NY 10075

Aten:          03:00pm – 04:30pm

Community Contact:  
(1) Shy. Lahkyen Ja Seng Mai- Tel (215) 359 – 6679
( 2) Dr. Maran Naw Mai- Tel (402) 990- 2553

Media Contact:          
Slg. NSang Gum San- Tel (202)500 - 5076

ဖိတ္ၾကားလႊာ

၂၀၁၄/ႏိုဝင္ဘာ/၁၉ ရက္ေန႔ တြင္ ကခ်င္ျပည္နယ္၊ လိူင္ဇာၿမိဳ႕ ရွိ တိုင္းရင္းသားလက္နက္ကိုင္ 

အင္အားစုမ်ား သက္ေရာက္ေနသည့္ ကခ်င္လြတ္ေျမာက္ေရး တပ္မေတာ္ (KIA) ဗိုလ္သင္တန္းေက်ာင္း

 ဝင္းအတြင္းသို႔ ျမန္မာတပ္မေတာ္ ဘက္မွ လက္နက္ႀကီးျဖင့္ အေၾကာင္းမရွိအေၾကာင္းရွာ၊ ရန္စက်ဴးေက်ာ္
 ျပစ္ခတ္မူေၾကာင့္ က်ဆံုးခဲ့ ရေသာ ဗိုလ္ေလာင္း 23 ဦး ႏွင့္ ဒါဏ္ရာ ရရွိသူ ၂၀ ဦး ကိစၥ ႏွင့္ ပါတ္သက္ ၍ 
ကမာၻ႔ ကုလသမၼက (UN) မွေန၍ တစ္စံုတစ္ရာ ကန္႔ကြက္/ကာကြယ္ ေျပာဆို ေပးျခင္း မ႐ွိပဲ ေရငံု ႏုတ္ဆိတ္
 ေနျခင္းႏွင့္ ပါတ္သက္၍ ဆႏၵေဖၚထုတ္ျခင္း အစီအစဥ္ ႐ွိပါသျဖင့္ အေမရိကန္ ႏိုင္ငံ တြင္ေရာက္႐ွိ မွီတင္း
 ေနထိုင္လွ်က္ ႐ွိေသာ တိုင္းရင္းသူ/သား မ်ားအား လံုးကို ေအာက္ပါ အစီအစဥ္ အတိုင္း ဖိတ္ၾကား အပ္ပါသည္။

ေနရာ ••• ကုလသမၼက႐ုံးေ႐ွ႕၊          နယူးေယာက္ၿမိဳ႕၊ အေမရိကန္ႏိုင္ငံ

ေနရာ ••• ျမန္မာ သံ႐ုံး ေ႐ွ႕၊ နယူးေယာက္ ၿမိဳ႕၊ အေမရိကန္ႏိုင္ငံ

အခ်ိန္ ••• မြန္းလႊဲ ၁ နာရီ

ရက္စြဲ •••  ၆ ရက္ /  ဒီဇင္ဘာ / ၂၀၁၄ 

Kachins in Myitkyina raise Kachin national flags at half mast, pray and mourn for the fallen cadets from the Kachin Independence Army's Military Academy.

Kachin Soldiers

Kachins in Myitkyina raise Kachin national flags at half mast, pray and mourn for the fallen cadets from the Kachin Independence Army's Military Academy. The Burma Army's 105mm howitzer attack killed 23 cadets from various ethnic armies and wounded 20 others on 19.11.2014.
photo by Kbc Kachin

Kachin CSOs Urge President Obama to Voice Their Concerns

By KLN

• Featured Story

November 11, 2014

Kachin Civil Societies in a letter dated Nov 10 call for US President Obama to support peace process, to call upon Burma President Thein Sein and his ruling party to amend constitution, and to refrain from giving legitimacy and prestige through premature military engagement.

President Obama is due to arrive in Naypyidaw on Thursday to participate in the Ninth East Asia Summit and U.S. – ASEAN Summit. This is his second visit to Burma. President Obama will hold bilateral meetings with President Thein Sein and Opposition leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi during his two-day stay in Burma.

In the letter addressed to President Obama, Kachin Civil Societies said, “Humanitarian assistance is still needed for Kachin IDPs until they can return safely home.” They also reminded that return and resettlement of IDPs should be done only when conditions are met to ensure safety. “Foreign investment policies should support the peace process, not exacerbate the conflict,” the letter mentioned. Kachin Peace Network organized Kachin Civil Societies organizations from around the world to cosign the joint letter.

The ranking members of the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on East Asian and Pacific Affairs, Rubio and Kirk, shared their concerns about Burma’s trajectory in a letter last week. “The Burmese Government has failed to fulfill nearly all commitments to measurably improve Burma’s human rights and nonproliferation practices, made between you and President Thein Sein during your November 2012 visit,” said Rubio and Kirk.

Kachin Alliance, a network of Kachin communities and organizations in US, also expressed similar concerns. “Although we applaud the Burmese government for some progressive actions it has taken, we must denounce its inactivity or unwillingness to curb the violence being committed against unarmed civilians in the Kachin area and other parts of the country,” said in a letter dated Nov 7.

Gum San Nsang, the president of Kachin Alliance said, “We see this trip as a chance to strengthen the relationship with Government of Burma and also reinforce the administration’s commitment to national reconciliation and democratic transition process.” He continued, “I’d like to say to President Obama to use calibrated approach when utilizing sanctions and aids to incentivize national reconciliation.”

Gum San said he told Deputy National Security Advisor Ben Rhodes and Assistant Secretary of State Tom Malinowski in Kachin Alliance’s meetings with US officials that if Government of Burma has genuine intention to resolve the longest civil war in the world, it would invite diverse international observers including US to current ceasefire talks. “Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement without addressing code of conducts and joint monitoring mechanism is not an international norm. Our Kachin public is bearing the brunt of protracted civil war, but we are determined to wait until equitable arrangement come into fruition,” said Gum San.

A delegation of over 50 Kachin chieftains or Duwas led by Pangmu Duwa Lahpai Zau Tu and DIS Maran Robbin in 1924,

A delegation of over 50 Kachin chieftains or Duwas led by Pangmu Duwa Lahpai Zau Tu and DIS Maran Robbin in 1924, to petition the British Governor in Rangoon for an autonomous Kachin region. It is said they were rudely rebuffed by the Governor.
၁၉၂၄ ခုႏွစ္ တြင္ "ပန္မွႈ" ဒူ၀ါ ေဇာ္တူး ႏွင္႔ ဆရာ မရန္ရိုဘင္ တို႔ ဦးေဆာင္ကာ ကခ်င္ ဒူ၀ါမ်ား၊ ရန္ကုန္ တြင္ ျဗိတိလွ် အစိုးရထံ ကိုယ္ပိုင္ ျပည္နယ္ သြားေရာက္ ေတာင္းခံ ခဲ႔ စဥ္မွတ္တမ္း ဓါတ္ပံု။(၁၉၂၄)
1924 hta Pangmu Duwa Rev. Zau Tu hte Sara Maran Robin woi awn ai Jinghpaw Duwa ni British Governor wa kaw mungdaw sa hpyi ai shaloi na sumla
(photo-Nang-Kai Lahpai)

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Kachin Alliance's 2014 National Conference begins in Arlington TX ( Photo news )

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Over 20 Kachin community-based organizations across US participated in two-day conference.

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The second day of KA's National Conference.. 

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Kachin alliance USA hpawng kaba galaw ai lam

at 8/31/2014 07:29:00 PM

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Kachin Alliance's hpawng hpe Ya ten American mung dan hta bawng ban hpawng galaw nga ai hku re.

Hpawng hta sadu shang lawm ai ni gaw,,

American mung dan state shagu na dat kasa gawng malai ni hte American mung dan hta nga ai uhpung u hpawng ni yawng a dat kasa myit su ni yawng mung sadu shang lawm ai hku re.

USA mung dan hta ya na zawn myu u hpung hkum hkra shang lawm bawng ban sawa ai gaw No.1 lang re ai lam mung chye lu ai.

Matut nna Wunpong myu sha ni yawng shang lawm mai ai Kachin alliance re lam chye lu ga ai.

Gaw da tara hte yaw shada ai lam,Myu sha ni gara hku rawt galu kaba sa wa na lam matut bawng ban nga ai lam,Matut nna yawng a matu akyu nga ai u hpung u hpawng,yawng a gawng malai  tai wa lu u ga ..matu kyu hpyi myit dum,Hpaji jaw ya na matu shana dat nngai law...

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Kachin Alliance's 2014 National Conference begins in Arlington TX on Aug 30, 2014

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EC members and Representatives of KA's network organizations engaged in discussions on Advocacy works and constitution.

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After the first day..

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Meetings continue in the evening..

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States and Organizations' representatives approve KA's constitution during the conference..

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