Invitation: Public Event: 9th June 2013- Call for Peace on 2nd Anniversary of Resumed War in Kachin

[Rody Dim]

ခင္မင္ေလးစားရပါေသာ တုိင္းရင္းသားညီအစ္ကုိေမာင္ႏွမမ်ား ရွင့္/ခင္ဗ်ာ



ျငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရးကို လိုလား၍ ၾကိဳးစားေနၾကေသာလူမႈအဖြဲ႕အစည္းမ်ားႏွင့္
ကြန္ယက္မ်ားမွ - ကခ်င္ေဒသ တစ္ေက်ာ့ျပန္စစ္ ႏွစ္ႏွစ္ျပည္႔ ေသာ ၂၀၁၃ ခုႏွစ္၊
ဇြန္လ ၉ ရက္ေန႔တြင္ ျငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရးကို ဖိတ္ေခၚေသာအားျဖင့္ စစ္ပြဲကာလအတြင္း
အသက္စြန္႔သြားခဲ႕ၾကေသာ ႏွစ္ဖက္စစ္သည္မ်ားႏွင့္ အျပစ္မဲ့ျပည္သူမ်ားအား ရည္စူး၍
သံဃာေတာ္မ်ားအား ဆြမ္းကပ္ျခင္း၊ အမွ်ေပးေ၀ျခင္း အခမ္းအနားကို ပူးတြဲပါ
ဖိတ္စာအတိုင္း က်င္းပမည္ ျဖစ္ပါ၍ မပ်က္မကြက္ ၾကြေရာက္ေပးၾကပါရန္ ေလးစားစြာ
ဖိတ္ၾကားအပ္ပါသည္။



Media Advisory

4 June 2013

*Civil Society in Rangoon to Mark 2nd Anniversary of *

*Armed Conflict in Kachin State*

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*(Yangon, Myanmar)* On 9 June, 18 civil society organizations will
commemorate the 2nd anniversary of renewed fighting between the Tatmadaw
and the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) in Kachin State. The outbreak of
fighting two years ago broke a 17-year ceasefire agreement between the two
sides.



While there have been several peace talks and a tentative agreement was
reached last week between the Union Peace Working Committee and the KIA,
these are not yet enough to bring real peace. Ongoing militarization and
conflict in Kachin State pose a serious risk to the security and wellbeing
of the people. On this occasion, 18 groups have come together to jointly
organize events to commemorate those who have lost their lives in the armed
conflict, those who continue to struggle to survive and those who work for
lasting peace.



A march will be undertaken, starting at Independence Monument in
Mahabandoola Park and ending at ZawTanarYaMa Monastery. Wreathes will be
gathered along the way to be laid in memory of the dead at an interfaith
prayer ceremony. There will also be 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.



*What: March and gathering of wreathes*

*Where:* Starting at Independence Monument, Mahabandoola Park, Kyauktada
Township

*When: *9:00am



*What: Interfaith prayer ceremony and commemoration event*

*Where:* ZawTanarYaMa Monastery, Thit Taw Street (Forrest Street), Alone
Township

*When: *12:00pm



*For more information, please contact:*

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*Jaw Gun (Kachin Peace Network):
hpawa...@gmail.com<https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/h/gquc1wlkbbdm/?&v=b&cs=wh&to=hpawa...@gmail.com>or
0973140728
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*May Sabe Phyu (Kachin Women Peace Network):
kwpn...@gmail.com<https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/h/gquc1wlkbbdm/?&v=b&cs=wh&to=kwpn...@gmail.com>or
09421170783
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In Peace,



Kachin Peace Network