Burma: Das 'Panglong Agreement' tritt nach dem Sturz der Junta in Kraft

Burma: Das 'Panglong Agreement' tritt nach dem Sturz der Junta in Kraft

Jonas M. Lanter

Das 'Panglong' – Übereinkommen, welches 1947 unter Aung San, dem Vater von Aung San Suu Kyi und den '30 Kameraden' entworfen wurde, hat neu wieder seine Gültigkeit.

Sollte die Junta weichen haben sich die führenden Personen auf dieses Panglong-Agreement geeinigt.

Die sieben Staaten; der Arakan, Chin, Kachin, Kayah / Karen, Karenni, Mon und Shan State werden von den unterschiedlichsten Ethnien bevölkert und werden von dessen Chairman des 'Ethnic National Councils', Saw Ba Thin Sein, angeführt.

Die sieben Divisionen Burmas sind durch Dr. Sein Win, 'Premier Minister' der Exil-Birmanen und durch führende Mitglieder der 'Nationalen Liga für Demokratie'; sprich 'NLD' vertreten.

Im Exil wird Burma nebst der Junta durch die 'NCGUB'; 'National Coalition of Government of the Union of Burma' vertreten.

Die treibende Kraft nach einem möglichen Sturz der Junta ist die unter Hausarrest stehenden, charismatische Nobelpreisträgerin und Anführerin der 'NLD', Daw Aung San Suu Kyi (Anmerkung: Daw wird bei uns mit einer Lady gleichgesetzt).

Durch diesen Zusammenschluss sind die Bewohner Burmas an dieses Abkommen politisch gebunden.
1995 wurde das Übereinkommen durch den Chairman des 'Ethnic National Councils', Saw Ba Thin Sein wiederbelebt.
So soll ermöglicht werden, dass alle Birmanen und die der 135 unterschiedlichen Ethnien miteinander leben können.

Das Panglong-Übereinkommen umfasst folgende neun (9) Punkte:

'THE PANGLONG AGREEMENT'
1947 / 1995
Panglong,

A conference having been held at Panglong, attended by certain Members of the Ethnic Nationalities Council, all Saohpas and representative of the Shan States, the Kachin Hills and the Chin Hills:

The Members of the conference, believing that freedom will be more speedily achieved by the Shans, the Kachins and the Chins by their immediate co-operation with the Interim Burmese Government:

1. A Representative of the Hill Peoples, selected by the Governor on the recommendation of representatives of the Supreme Council of the United Hill Peoples (SCOUHP, ENC), shall be appointed a Counsellor for Frontier Areas shall be given executive authority by similar means.

2. The said Counsellor shall also be appointed a Member of the Governor's Executive Council, without portfolio, and the subject of Frontier Areas brought within the purview of the Executive Council by Constitutional Convention as in the case of Defence and External Affairs. The Counsellor for Frontier Areas shall be given executive authority by similar means.

3. The said Counsellor shall be assisted by two Deputy Counsellors representing races of which he is not a member. While the two Deputy Counsellors should deal in the first instance with the affairs of their respective areas and the Counsellor with all the remaining parts of the Frontier Areas, they should by Constitutional Convention act on the principle of joint responsibility.

4. While the Counsellor, in his capacity of Member of the Executive Council, will be the only representative of the Frontier Areas on the Council, the Deputy Counsellors shall be entitled to attend meetings of the Council when subjects pertaining to the Frontier Areas are discussed.

5. Though the Governor's Executive Council will be augmented as agreed above, it will not operate in respect of the Frontier Areas in any manner which would deprive any portion of those Areas of the autonomy which it now enjoys in internal administration. Full autonomy in internal administration for the Frontier Areas is accepted in principle.

6. Though the question of demarcating and establishing a separated Kachin State within a Unified Burma is one which must be relegated for decision by the Constituent Assembly, it is agreed that such a State is desirable. As a first step towards this end, the Counsellor for Frontier Areas and the Deputy Counsellors shall be consulted in the administration of such areas in the Myitkyina and the Bhamo Districts as are Part II Scheduled Areas under the Government of Burma Act of 1935.

7. Citizens of the Frontier Areas shall enjoy rights and privileges which are regarded as fundamental in democratic countries.

8. The arrangements accepted in this Agreement are without prejudice to the financial autonomy now vested in the Federated Shan States.

9. The arrangements accepted in this Agreement are without prejudice to the financial assistance which the Kachin Hills and the Union Hills are entitled to receive from the revenues of Burma, and the Exeutive Council will examine with the Frontier Areas Counsellor and Deputy Counsellors the feasibility of adopting for the Kachin Hills and the Chin Hills financial arrangement similar to those between Burma and the Federated Shan States.

6. März 2008