A decision on the thorny Border Guard Force issue will be taken by Burma’s ethnic Kachin armed group at a central committee meeting, in early March said the group’s sources.
KIA held largest ceremony on 49th anniversary of Kachin Revolution Day on Feb. 5 in N'gumla, the 1st Brigade command in northern Kachin State, northern Burma.
The Kachin Independence Organization (KIO) will hold its central committee meeting in Laiza Headquarters in Kachin State near the China border in early March. The meeting will thrash out and decide whether the KIO will accept the BGF, said officials from the headquarters.
The KIO central committee has 30 members.
Tomorrow is the deadline set by the military junta for the last remaining Kachin armed group to come out clearly whether it will accept the Burmese Army-controlled BGF or reject it, according to KIO officials.
The impasse over the BGF is yet to be resolved between the junta and KIO, though both sides met on transforming the Kachin Independence Army (KIA), the military-wing of KIO at least 10 times since April last year.
The KIO has rejected the junta’s BGF proposal because it cannot disband the KIA as long as the political imbroglio continues between it and the junta.
On the Kachin’s armed struggle day on February 5, the KIO Chairman Lanyaw Zawng Hra’s anniversary speech recalled that the Panglong Agreement, the fundamental charter for establishing a union between Burman majority and ethnic minorities’ leaders should be revived for building a genuine union of Burma.
However, a KIO statement released on the 16th anniversary of the ceasefire agreement with the junta on February 24, encouraged all people in Kachin State to cast votes for the KIO-backed Kachin State Progressive Party (KSPP) in the general elections this year.
The KSPP is yet to register as an official political party but it has begun campaigning around Kachin State since early last year.
Since just a day is left for the KIO to give the go ahead or reject transforming its armed-wing to the BGF, the KIA has sounded a military alert to all its battalions and brigades in Kachin State and Northeast Shan State in the event of a military offensive by the Burmese Army, said KIA officers in Laiza.
The junta has ordered all army divisions and battalions in Kachin State and Shan State on February 15 to be prepared for combat. However, there is no major military movement on the frontlines near KIO territory in the two states, said local Burmese military observers.
Source :http://kachinnews.com/News/KIO-to-thrash-out-BGF-issue-at-central-committee-meet.html
KIA held largest ceremony on 49th anniversary of Kachin Revolution Day on Feb. 5 in N'gumla, the 1st Brigade command in northern Kachin State, northern Burma.
The Kachin Independence Organization (KIO) will hold its central committee meeting in Laiza Headquarters in Kachin State near the China border in early March. The meeting will thrash out and decide whether the KIO will accept the BGF, said officials from the headquarters.
The KIO central committee has 30 members.
Tomorrow is the deadline set by the military junta for the last remaining Kachin armed group to come out clearly whether it will accept the Burmese Army-controlled BGF or reject it, according to KIO officials.
The impasse over the BGF is yet to be resolved between the junta and KIO, though both sides met on transforming the Kachin Independence Army (KIA), the military-wing of KIO at least 10 times since April last year.
The KIO has rejected the junta’s BGF proposal because it cannot disband the KIA as long as the political imbroglio continues between it and the junta.
On the Kachin’s armed struggle day on February 5, the KIO Chairman Lanyaw Zawng Hra’s anniversary speech recalled that the Panglong Agreement, the fundamental charter for establishing a union between Burman majority and ethnic minorities’ leaders should be revived for building a genuine union of Burma.
However, a KIO statement released on the 16th anniversary of the ceasefire agreement with the junta on February 24, encouraged all people in Kachin State to cast votes for the KIO-backed Kachin State Progressive Party (KSPP) in the general elections this year.
The KSPP is yet to register as an official political party but it has begun campaigning around Kachin State since early last year.
Since just a day is left for the KIO to give the go ahead or reject transforming its armed-wing to the BGF, the KIA has sounded a military alert to all its battalions and brigades in Kachin State and Northeast Shan State in the event of a military offensive by the Burmese Army, said KIA officers in Laiza.
The junta has ordered all army divisions and battalions in Kachin State and Shan State on February 15 to be prepared for combat. However, there is no major military movement on the frontlines near KIO territory in the two states, said local Burmese military observers.
Source :http://kachinnews.com/News/KIO-to-thrash-out-BGF-issue-at-central-committee-meet.html
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