27 Jan 2011
Dear Karen Nationals,
Officers and Men of the Karen National Armed Forces,
Today, January 31, 2011 is the 62nd Anniversary of the Revolutionary Resistance Day. On this special and dignified day, I would like to greet you by wishing you – all the valiant colleagues in the Karen National Armed Forces and the entire Karen people – to be healthy and cheerful in body and mind.
We the Karen people are a major ethnic nationality living in this country, Burma, and endowed with all the characteristics befitting a nationality. We the Karen people are honest and love truth and peace. However, due to persecution by successive rulers, we have never had a chance to enjoy peace, have to migrate to places all over the world and have to face with all kinds of difficulty and poverty.
We, the Karen people, started the demand for the rights of the Karen people peacefully, during the rule of the AFPFL regime, but the ruling AFPFL regime rejected the demands and started to attack on the KNU Headquarters on January 31, 1949. The Karen people had no choice but to take up arms for resistance and in self-defense. Thus, the Karen People’s Revolutionary Resistance Day came into being.
Today is the day when the Karen revolutionary resistance has been in existence for exactly 62 years. In the 62 years of revolutionary resistance, though we have to bear bitterly the enemy’s violent military offensives and divisive plots against us by various means, our resistance continues to exist until now, because our resistance is true and just. It is also due to the solid morale, genuine faith and unrelenting perseverance and diligence of our revolutionary comrades.
Though we have to continue to resist, since the time of the AFPFL regime up to the present time of military rule of force and terror, we have demanded consistently to resolve peacefully by political means the question of the rights desired by us. However, the successive regimes treat our demands as a game for their political play and always try to eliminate our resistance by various means.
For the strengthening their hold on power, the military dictators ruling the country by force, are about to produce a puppet government by holding a sham election on November 7, 2010. On our part, we will not absolutely accept the illegitimate rule of the people of Burma by the puppet government of the military dictators and struggle on until we achieve our true revolutionary resistance’s aim - the establishment of a democratic federal union.
For achievement of victory of the Karen revolution, it is not only the duty of Karen revolutionaries but also of every Karen. We have to achieve Karen revolution’s victory by establishing the Karen people’s unity through the support and cooperation of the Karen people.
In conclusion, I would like to remind you to struggle on until a democratic federal union guaranteeing the rights and existence of the ethnic nationalities is established, taking lessons from the enemy’s plots of dividing us in the past 62 years for the future march in our revolutionary movement, with political and revolutionary alertness, bearing in mind the Four Principles laid down by our leader Saw Ba U Gyi and hand in hand with our fellow ethnic nationality and democratic forces.
http://www.karennationalunion.net/index.php/burma/news-and-reports/news-stories/presidents-address-on-62nd-anniversary-of-karen-revolutionary-resistance-da
Monday, January 31, 2011
UK Government Funding/Aid Burma Karen
Burma
House of Lords
Written answers and statements, 26 January 2011
Lord Alton of Liverpool (Crossbench)
To ask Her Majesty's Government what funding they provide for cross-border aid into Burma.
Hansard source (Citation: HL Deb, 26 January 2011, c164W)
Baroness Verma (Whip, House of Lords; Conservative)
In 2010 the Department for International Development provided £1,057,000 for cross-border humanitarian assistance to Burma from Thailand and China.
Lord Alton of Liverpool (Crossbench)
To ask Her Majesty's Government what the aid budget for Burma will be for (a) 2011-12, (b) 2012-13, and (c) 2013-14.
Hansard source (Citation: HL Deb, 26 January 2011, c164W)
Baroness Verma (Whip, House of Lords; Conservative)
The future aid budget for Burma is being considered as part of the wider review of the Department for International Development's (DfID's) bilateral programme. The shape of DfID's programme and spending over the next four years will be made known after this review.
http://www.theyworkforyou.com/wrans/?id=2011-01-26a.164.4
With thanks to 'My Society's TheyWorkforYou.com
Burma
Overseas Aid
International Development
26 Jan 2011 : Column 354W
Malcolm Wicks:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what funding was allocated by his Department to (a) the Mao Tao Clinic and (b) Backpack Health Worker teams operating in Burma in the last year for which figures are available. [35614]
Mr Duncan:
The Department for International Development (DFID) provided £119,999 in 2009-10 to the Mao Tao Clinic. We are considering a proposal for additional health aid for displaced people in conflict-affected parts of eastern Burma.
Malcolm Wicks:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development whether his Department has allocated aid to ethnic Karen refugees in response to the current political situation in Karen State, Burma. [35615]
Mr Duncan:
The Department for International Development (DFID) is providing approximately £1.6 million this financial year for food, housing, other supplies and improved access to legal assistance for the 146,000 Burmese refugees living in camps in Thailand. We have not provided additional funding in response to the recent upsurge in fighting in Karen state.
http://services.parliament.uk/hansard/Commons/bydate/20110126/writtenanswers/part018.html
House of Lords
Written answers and statements, 26 January 2011
Lord Alton of Liverpool (Crossbench)
To ask Her Majesty's Government what funding they provide for cross-border aid into Burma.
Hansard source (Citation: HL Deb, 26 January 2011, c164W)
Baroness Verma (Whip, House of Lords; Conservative)
In 2010 the Department for International Development provided £1,057,000 for cross-border humanitarian assistance to Burma from Thailand and China.
Lord Alton of Liverpool (Crossbench)
To ask Her Majesty's Government what the aid budget for Burma will be for (a) 2011-12, (b) 2012-13, and (c) 2013-14.
Hansard source (Citation: HL Deb, 26 January 2011, c164W)
Baroness Verma (Whip, House of Lords; Conservative)
The future aid budget for Burma is being considered as part of the wider review of the Department for International Development's (DfID's) bilateral programme. The shape of DfID's programme and spending over the next four years will be made known after this review.
http://www.theyworkforyou.com/wrans/?id=2011-01-26a.164.4
With thanks to 'My Society's TheyWorkforYou.com
Burma
Overseas Aid
International Development
26 Jan 2011 : Column 354W
Malcolm Wicks:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what funding was allocated by his Department to (a) the Mao Tao Clinic and (b) Backpack Health Worker teams operating in Burma in the last year for which figures are available. [35614]
Mr Duncan:
The Department for International Development (DFID) provided £119,999 in 2009-10 to the Mao Tao Clinic. We are considering a proposal for additional health aid for displaced people in conflict-affected parts of eastern Burma.
Malcolm Wicks:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development whether his Department has allocated aid to ethnic Karen refugees in response to the current political situation in Karen State, Burma. [35615]
Mr Duncan:
The Department for International Development (DFID) is providing approximately £1.6 million this financial year for food, housing, other supplies and improved access to legal assistance for the 146,000 Burmese refugees living in camps in Thailand. We have not provided additional funding in response to the recent upsurge in fighting in Karen state.
http://services.parliament.uk/hansard/Commons/bydate/20110126/writtenanswers/part018.html
Wednesday, January 26, 2011
The Karen in UK Team (KUK)
Supports the Submissions to the:
10th Session of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) Myanmar Burma
By the:
International Centre for Transitional Justice
http://www.ictj.org/en/news/features/3989.html)
Karen Human Rights Group
http://www.burmalibrary.org/show.php?cat=2619)
Amnesty International
http://www.burmalibrary.org/show.php?cat=2619)
European Centre for Law and Justice
http://www.burmalibrary.org/show.php?cat=2619)
Unrepresented Nations and People’s Organization
http://www.burmalibrary.org/show.php?cat=2619)
The Alternative Asean Network on Burma
& the International Federation for Human Rights
http://www.burmalibrary.org/show.php?cat=2619)
The KUK requests that the massacres and rapes of the Karen people during and immediately after the 2nd World War to the present, be accounted and placed on record.
The KUK supports the Special Rapporteur Professor Tomás Ojea Quintana in his statement, that the UN considers establishing a Commission of Inquiry into war crimes and crimes against humanity committed by the SPDC.
The KUK recommends that the Peace Keepers be sent to Karen State immediately to prevent further crimes against humanity with its appalling pain and suffering, as this ethnic group has been targeted and tortured over the longest time.
Madeleine Blu
Karen in UK Team (KUK)
Karensofburmakuk@gmail.com
Supports the Submissions to the:
10th Session of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) Myanmar Burma
By the:
International Centre for Transitional Justice
http://www.ictj.org/en/news/features/3989.html)
Karen Human Rights Group
http://www.burmalibrary.org/show.php?cat=2619)
Amnesty International
http://www.burmalibrary.org/show.php?cat=2619)
European Centre for Law and Justice
http://www.burmalibrary.org/show.php?cat=2619)
Unrepresented Nations and People’s Organization
http://www.burmalibrary.org/show.php?cat=2619)
The Alternative Asean Network on Burma
& the International Federation for Human Rights
http://www.burmalibrary.org/show.php?cat=2619)
The KUK requests that the massacres and rapes of the Karen people during and immediately after the 2nd World War to the present, be accounted and placed on record.
The KUK supports the Special Rapporteur Professor Tomás Ojea Quintana in his statement, that the UN considers establishing a Commission of Inquiry into war crimes and crimes against humanity committed by the SPDC.
The KUK recommends that the Peace Keepers be sent to Karen State immediately to prevent further crimes against humanity with its appalling pain and suffering, as this ethnic group has been targeted and tortured over the longest time.
Madeleine Blu
Karen in UK Team (KUK)
Karensofburmakuk@gmail.com
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