National Convention Lung n’na Akyu Kade Lu na Kun?

The Kachin Post

May 17, 2004—Dai ni gaw Myen Hyen Atsuya woi awn na galaw ai National Convention hpe galaw hpang wa sai ninghtoi rai nga ai. Anhte Jinghpaw Wunpawng myusha hte seng ai Wunpawng Mungdan Shanglawt Hpung KIO, New Democratic Army-Kachin NDA-K hte Kachin Defense Army KDA na dat kasa 5 hpra gaw n’dai poi hta mysha ni a ahkaw ahkang lu na matu lung bawng ban na re lam chye lu ai.

Maga mi hku na bai yu dat yang, n’dai lang na National Convention gaw 1993 ning hta galaw hpang n’na 1996 ning hta jahkring kau ra ai hpe bai galaw ai sha rai nga ai. Grau n’na, n’dai lang hta 1993 na poi hta pi shang lawm lu ai 1990 ning ra lata poi hta ra lata hkrum da ai Rapdaw Salang law malawng n shang lawm ai rai nga ai. Ngut n’na 1990 ning ra lata poi hta aging agang dang da ai National League for Democray hte Myusha pati hpawng chyawm United Nationalities League ni mung shanhte hpyi shawn ai lam ni lu na n re chye ai majaw shang lawm na matu daw dan da nga ai.

N’dai zawn rai ai poi hta anhte KIO, NDA-K hte KDA dat kasa ni hku n’na, tinang a myusha hte Myen mung nga myusha ni a Mung masa ahkaw ahkang hpe kade daram lu hkra bawng ban jahkrup lu na ngu ai gaw grai myit yu shara rai nga ai. Lai wa sai bat 2 ya hta gap hkat jahkring myusha hpung 6, KIO mung lawm, gaw Myen Hpyen du ni a National Convention matu masat da ai tara n’kau mi gaw democracy lai ladat hte ninghtan shai ai re majaw bai garam dawm kau na matu tang shawn da ai rai nga ai. Dai lam hpe Myen Hkring Mang Daju Gen Khin Nyut gaw nau n ra sharawng ai lam chye lu ai.

Dai hpe yu yang Myen Hpyen du ni hku n’na Myen mungdan a ahkaw ahkang hpe matut n’na naw tek jum da mayu ai gaw asan sha rai nga ai. N’dai poi awng dang na, n dang na gaw poi saw shaga ai ni hte poi de sa du shang lawm ni hta sha lit nga na rai nga ai. Raitim poi hte seng n’na, shiga na ai daram hku nga yang, poi de sa du ai ni hku n’na bawng ban daw dan lu na lam n nga ai hpe mu lu ai. Hpa majaw nga yang Myen Hpyen du ni n’dai poi hpe galaw ai gaw shanhte shara galoi mung grin nga na matu ginsup ai poi langai sha rai nga ai.

Dai zawn rai ai Natioinal Convetion hta anhte Jinghpaw Wunpawng myusha ni hte Myen mung nga myusha yawng ra sharawng ai mung masa ahkaw ahkang ni lu la na ngu ai gaw dai poi de sa du lung ai ni grau chye na re ai. Grau n’na n’dai zawn rai Tara n lang ai Myen Hpyen du ni hpe gaw gara hku kam lu na i? Bum nga myusha ni hpe hkum tsun, shanhte Myen myusha ni hpe pi kam ai hku roi rip nga ai ni jaw ai ga sadi gaw grin na n re.

Moi 1947 ning hta anhte a ningbaw langai rai nga ai Sama Duwa Sin Wa Naw gaw dai aten na Myen ningbaw ni hpe nau wa mi kam shut kau ai majaw ya dai ni anhte n’dai hku hkam sha ra nga ai hpe gaw yawng dum na shadu ai. Dai shaloi na Myen ningbaw ni pi ya na Myen Hpyen du ni hta gaw grau n’na mai kam ai ni rai ga ai. Ya dai ni na ten hta mung KIO, NDA-K hte KDA dat kasa ni mung anhte Jinghpaw Wunpawng myusha yawng a shawng lam na akyu hpe yu let, labau a mara n’dum n byin na matu, gadai Myen wa hpe mung hkrit tsang ai lam n nga ai sha teng man ai lam hpe gwi gwi daw dan na a ten rai nga sai.

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Sama Duwa Sin Wa Naw a Myen ni hpe kade kam hpa ai lam hpe dai ten na Shi Laika The New Times of Burma hta March 12, 1947 ninghtoi hte ka da ai shiga hpe yawng myit yu lu a matu lawu na hte maren ka shabra dat ga ai.

We Have Complete Faith In Burmese—Sin Wa Naw

The Hon. U Ba Choe, Member for Information, announced at a press conference yesterday that Sin Wa Naw, Duwa (Chief) of Sama State, in the Myitkyina District, had been nominated as one of the two Deputy Councilors for the Frontier Areas. The Duwa was member of the Jinghpaw whose territory extended over Myitkyina and Bhamo, he added.

Speaking to newspapermen later, Sin Wa Naw blamed “clever British manipulation” as the cause of keeping the Burmese plains from associating with the peoples of the hill. British officers working in the frontier area telling the hill peoples that it was to their advantage to keep away from the Burmese.

The Jinghpaw Chief spoke bitterly of the British attitude towards the hill peoples whom, to suit their own ends, they described as “uncivilized and unfit”, but he added, “We were neither so uncivilized no so unfit as not to become soldiers and used in battle when it suited in the British purpose.”

When the Second World War broke out, Sin Wa Naw declared, the British came to us full of promises. We rallied to their cause, fought shoulder to shoulder with them against the Japanese—not only our men but our women as well—but to what end? We desire constitutional advancement; Instead we were offered a status dating back to the times of Queen Victoria.

The Jinghpaw Chief stated categorically the hill peoples bore no grudge against the British. “Let them recognized our right, let them draw up friendly alliance with us, and in their time of trouble we: hill people will be ready and willing to fight for them till the extinction of our race,” he declared passionately.

He continued; “The Burmese are the parent race. Under the circumstances the hill peoples have a natural keenness to merge with the Burmese. Therefore it was a happy occasion for us when the AFPLF set about trying to bring the hill peoples and the Burmese together.”

The British had always represented to the hill peoples, Sin Wa Naw said, that without British protection the hill peoples would be attacked by Burmese, Indian and Chinese. He asked “if the British were really to mindful of our interests why did they not provide us with schools, with hospitals, with our material needs? Why have to try to stop us from merging with the Burmese?”

“We peoples of the hills now declare our intention of entering the fight for freedom with the Burmese. We demand for ourselves the same rights and privileges the British have promised to give the Burmese.”

He added: “If our freedom is withheld from us, we are prepared to fight for it. There are many Jinghpaws on the Yunnan side of the border who are willing to lend us the fullest aid in our fight.”

Concluding Sin Wa Naw said, he envisaged a united Burma within a year’s time, with a separate Jinghpaw State represented in the Constituent Assembly. “We have complete faith in Burmese people,” he emphasized.