Happy New Year from the KNU
Posted on January 2, 2010
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The Karen National Union (KNU) has welcomed the start of 2010 by calling for unity among the Karen people. In a statement from its Central Executive Committee, the KNU warned this was a time when the unity of the Karen people is vital.
They accuse the State Peace and Development Council (SPDC), as Burma’s ruling military junta chooses to be known, of trying to break up the unity of the Karen people.
They said, “In the past 15 years, the SPDC has sown conflicts among the Karen people through perfidious means, causing serious harm and loss, and much grief to the entire Karen people. Disunity of the Karen people has benefited only the adversary of the entire Karen people, the criminal SPDC military dictatorship.”
In 1995, the SPDC helped engineer a split in the KNU, when a group of Buddhist soldiers broke away to form the Democratic Karen Buddhist Army (DKBA), which later signed a ceasefire agreement with the SPDC.
Last year, it was revealed that the KNU and DKBA were engaged in secret talks aimed at reuniting the two groups (see: DKBA and KNU in secret talks).
The SPDC is planning on holding elections this year to establish a new legislature under a constitution it drafted without input from ethnic groups. The KNU has already rejected the elections, saying it “do not represent any kind of progress towards democratization in Burma” (see: KNU dismisses planned elections).
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