Category: Opinions and Commentary

12 February 2011: Every year on February 12 we observe Union Day to commemorate the birth of the Union of Burma through the historic Panglong Agreement. The agreement was signed by legitimate representatives of independent pre-colonial self-governing nations such as the Chin, Kachin, Shan, and Burma states proper, on February 12, 1947 at Panglong, Shan State. The genuine spirit of the Panglong Agreement was and is a mutual recognition of political equality and ethno-cultural diversity based on language, ethnicity, culture, and territory irrespective of the sizable disproportion in population.

Editorial – 1 February 2011: In the November 2010 elections in Burma, the junta-backed Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) secured only seven out of the 18 contestable Chin State Parliamentary seats, many of them through rigged advance voting procedures, notably in Tedim and Tonzang Townships.

Editorial – 1 February 2011: In the November 2010 elections in Burma, the junta-backed Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) secured only seven seats out of the 18 contestable Chin State Parliamentary seats, many of them through rigged advance voting procedures, notably in Tedim and Tonzang Townships.

23 January 2010: [Note: With the Burmese Parliaments to be convened in a week time for the first time after the elections, Chinland Guardian is pleased to present the following excerpt of Lian’s acceptance speech during the award ceremony held at at the Norwegian School of Theology in Oslo, Norway.