Military officer preaches that new Baptist preachers should support Burma’s junta

Men and women just graduating from training to be Kachin Baptist preachers, in Burma’s northern Kachin State, were preached at themselves yesterday, in an unusual way.

Rev. Dr. Saboi Jum, former KBC's general secretary joined the KTC graduation on March 6. Photo: Kachin News Group.

They were told to preach that church followers should support the military junta’s mission in Kachin State, by the Northern Regional Commander of the junta, preachers said.

Maj-Gen Soe Win visited the 20-day training for all pre-service Baptist preachers at Kachin Theological College (KTC), in Nawng Nang village, 10 miles north of Myitkyina, the capital of Kachin State.

The KTC is hosting the 6th Pre-service Preacher Training of the Kachin Baptist Convention (KBC), which represents over 400,000 followers in military-ruled Burma.

Over 200 pre-service graduate students from different Theological schools in the country, who will serve in the churches under the KBC, began the training April 5.

KIO, Jarit Sin Dap gale na, jahtum nhtoi bai masat hkrum

Wunpawng Mungdan Shanglawt Hpung, KIO hpe Myen hpyendap npu taw ai “Jarit Sin Dap” gale na hte seng nna, “hkap la, n hkap la” asan sha dawdan ya na matu, jahtum nhtoi bai masat ya sai re.


Ndai shata 28 ya shani jahtum tawn nna, Jarit Sin Dap hpe asan sha hkap la n hkap la dawdan ya na matu, Myen gaw KIO hpe dip n-gun jaw nga ai lam, KIO du salang ni hku chye lu ai.

Junta despatches tanks and trucks to Myitkyina

By KNG

.In what seems to be preparations to take on the armed ethnic rebel group the Kachin Independence Organization (KIO) and its armed wing, Burma’s ruling junta yesterday despatched 18 tanks and dozens of military vehicles to the Northern Regional Command Headquarters in Myitkyina, the capital of Kachin State, said local sources.
With war clouds looming in the horizon the fresh batch of tanks and trucks were sent for Burmese troops under the Northern Regional Command. It was transported from Mandalay along the Mandalay-Bhamo-Myitkyina Road, said local sources close to the Burmese Army.

100-strong army convoy in Kachin

By AKT


Around 100 Burmese army trucks have been spotted close to the headquarters of the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) as tension mounts over its refusal to transform into a border militia.


The convoy was seen close to the Laiza Bhamo-to-Myitkyina highway, apparently bound for the Kachin state capital, Myitkyina, a local resident reported. The KIA headquarters are located in nearby Laiza, which sits close to Burma’s northern border with China.

Many Won't Vote Without NLD

RANGOON––In an Irrawaddy survey involving more than 500 people in Rangoon, nearly half said they do not intend to vote in the upcoming election if the main opposition party, the National League for Democracy (NLD), does not contest it.

The Irrawaddy recently asked 520 Rangoon residents, both men and women, between the ages of 20 and 70, if they will vote in the election, even without the participation of Aung San Suu Kyi's NLD. Two hundred and fifty-two persons (48 percent) said they did not want to, while 198 persons (38 percent) said they will vote even if the NLD does not participate. The remaining 70 declined to answer or said they had not yet made up their minds.

Burmese PM May Lead Political Party

         Burmese Prime Minister Gen Thein Sein may leave his current post to head the new political wing of the government-backed Union Solidarity and Development Association (USDA), according to sources in Naypyidaw.


         Although Thein Sein reportedly wants to retire and is having heart problems, inside military sources said Snr Gen Than Shwe asked him to remain and head-up the new political party.

Former Kachin rebel leaders advise KIO to accept BGF

In what is possibly a bid by the Burmese junta to exert pressure, leaders of former Kachin armed groups’ in a letter last week have advised the Kachin Independence Organization (KIO) to accept the regime-proposed Border Guard Force because it cannot take on the Tatmadaw, said KIO officials.

        The joint letter said: “The KIO cannot resist the junta alone and will buy trouble,” a KIO officer in Laiza headquarters in Burma’s northern Kachin State, near the China border told Kachin News Group today.

NLD Members Will Continue 'Democratic Struggle'

NLD Members Will Continue 'Democratic Struggle'

Ninggawn Hting Ram Manau Poi Kaba Hkyen shajin ai lam hta ngut kre wa.

Ninggawn Hting Ram Manau Poi Kaba Hkyen shajin ai lam hta ngut kre wa.

Elections ‘may hinder’ aid to Burma

     By FRANCIS WADE

         Concerns have arisen over the possibility that overseas aid flows into Burma may be increasingly restricted this year as the junta looks to limit the number of foreigners in the country in the run-up to elections.

            Although much of the international community has quietly voiced a desire to increase aid to Burma, currently one of the lowest recipients of aid in Southeast Asia as a result of sanctions, this may not be altogether welcomed by the junta.

Uncertain Future for NLD in Wake of Election Decision

By WAI MOE



Senior leaders of the National League for Democracy (NLD), Burma's main opposition party, will meet next Monday for their first meeting since deciding earlier this week not to register for this year's planned election—a move that could spell the end for the party that has led the country's democracy movement for the past 22 years.


Since the decision was reached at a meeting of party delegates from around the country on Monday, Burmese and foreign observers alike have been wondering how the NLD plans to proceed. So far, however, it has given no indication of what its next move might be.

Junta Turns Attention Back to the Jungle

]By WAI MOE

           Following a month of relative quiet at the Sino-Burmese border while the military regime focused on election laws and the political situation in the country, attention turns once again to the border guard force (BGF) issue and the regime's attempts to bring the ethnic cease-fire groups under its command.

           Naypyidaw's chief negotiator with the ethnic groups, Lt-Gen Ye Myint, is scheduled to meet on Thursday with an ethnic Wa delegation in Tangyan, a town in Shan State close to Wa territory, to discuss the military government's BGF proposal, according to sources close to the Wa.

Bhamo Baptists’ conference plagued by electricity shortage

          Shortage of electricity plagued several thousands of Baptist followers at the Kachin Baptist Convention’s 36th quadrennial general mass conference in Bhamo, the second largest city in Burma’s northern Kachin State, participants said.

         During the five-day conference concluded yesterday, over 20,000 guest participants from Kachin State and the rest of Burma relied on candle light at night because of lack of electricity, said participants from Myitkyina, the capital of Kachin State.

Hkalup hpungshawa ni, tinang ra ai ningbaw lata

Myen mung kata, J.W sha ni hta masha jahpan law dik, Hkalup Hkristan hpungmasha ni gaw, tinang ra ai ningbaw hpe, ralata la lu sai re.

               Mani du hkra, nhtoi manga ya tup galaw, 36 lang na JHZ, J.W Hkalup Hpungshawa Zuphpawng hta, Rev. Dr. Hkalam Sam Sun hpe JHZ a tsaw dik, amumadu kaba n’nan hku nna, Hkalup shawa ralata shagrin dat sai re.

Rev. Dr. Hkalam Sam Sun, KBC amumadu n'nan.

Ndai gaw, amumadu shara a matu J.W Hkalup Hpung Ginjaw (KBC) a EC kawn lata tang ai masha 2 hpe hpungshawa ni n lata ai sha, shawa kawn ading tawk tang shawn ai Sara Sam Sun hpe mahtang lata ai lam, rai nga ai.

Manghkang Ran Hpaji (Conflict Resolution) hte Mali Zup Madim

Tsawra ai Wunpawng myu sha ni e, anhte ginra hta ya ten hkyak hkyak byin nga ai manghkang law law ni hta Mali Zup Madim manghkang mung lawm nga ai. Ndai manghkang gaw yu yang kaji ai zawn raitim manu mana kaba ai manghkang langai re ngu mu mada lu ai. Ndai madim a majaw Wunpawng myu sha ni hta hkrat sum na lam law law nga ai. Ntsa lam hku tsun ga nga yang:-


1) Labau shang shara mat mat na.