NATIONAL UNITED PARTY OF ARAKAN
GENERAL HEADQUARTERS, ARAKAN
RECOGNITION AND SUPPORT ON DECLARATION OF SHAN STATES
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(Forwarded by Narinjara News)
We, the members of the
Central Committee of NUPA and the senior Commanders of Arakan
Army, held a meeting from 2 to 8 of May 2005 and unanimously agreed to
recognize and support in principle on the declaration of Shan States
independence by the Shan elders on
The newly merged Union of
Burma on
After unilateral abolition of
this Agreement and the Union Constitution, General Ne
Win imposed the Intra-state Imperialism in March 1962 and the non-Burman
co-federalist nations were subjugated into Internal Colonies. On the other
word, there was no more existence of the Panglong
Agreement and Union Constitution, and all the non-Burman co-federalists had
right to declare independence or self-determination and sovereignty of their
own. (Here, the Arakan and the Mon were included
inside the Burma Empire as occupied territories. After declaration of the UNO
on De-colonization in 1960s, the colonies like us, conceived in the womb of 3rd
World newly independent countries like Union of Burma, underrated to
Un-represented or Hidden Colonies. Both hidden and internal colonies are
naturally the members of 4th World countries of un-represented nations and
peoples.)
If any nation is compelled to
integrate, that federal/union will run into an alternative sense, Empire i.e.
pseudo-federal or pseudo-union in which self-determination of the component
nations and equality among them are totally lost and one nation captures
domination by which it profits from the land and labour of dominated nations the
essence of colonialism. In genuine federation, the political problems, coming
out, are and will be solved by broad democratic ways and means but in
pseudo-federal/union, a kind of modernizing empire like today Burma empire, the
armed suppression is the only way of solution and there a new style of
colonialism.
Under these circumstances,
the peoples in such pseudo-federal/union states are still discriminated against
because of their race, sex, language, religion and other attributes. They are
still suffering from direct aggression of hidden colonialism and intra-state
imperialism, in which the political domination, economic exploitation, racial
discrimination, cultural assimilation, persistent denial of human rights and
military oppression are prevailing.
Beyond that, the “Burmese
official nationalism”, “creation of economic centers to Burma proper” and the
“colonial assimilation or Burmanizing policy” of the
consecutive ruling Burmese Governments, both civilian and military juntas, are
the extra-ordinary characteristics of hidden colonialism and intra-state
imperialism, which make more complicate to be solved. And this ethnic cleansing
policy has been dragging the oppressed colonies to the terminal of national
extinction and loss of homeland ahead. Time passed over half century. Who could
give guarantee for our national security and territorial integrity? Day
by day our future is deteriorating and uncertain.
Such type of
pseudo-federal/union cannot exist and maintain peace and unity on the basis of
questionable loyalties of its nationals. To eliminate such type of
federal/union we should and could replace with a genuine one, in which the
right of component nations to self-determination, both internal and external,
and full equality among them shall be definitely guaranteed first to have
complete confidence and brotherly unity. Otherwise, the complete separation of
a group or more from existing pseudo-federal/union may perhaps be unavoidable
in situation involving unilateral imposition of unrepresentative regimes and
persistent denial of internal self-determination.
There will still be room for
the creation of new state in this de-colonized era by exercising secessionist
right of self-determination of the oppressed peoples under certain
circumstances like today 5th Burma Empire. On the other hand, adherence to the
territorial integrity of a state will be a fair solution with alteration of
most feasible federal system, now the Ethnic Nationalities Council is going on
to establish through the Tri-partite Dialog arranged by UNO since 1994.
The Central Committee
National United Party of Arakan
Arakan