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Karen Solidarity Organization's Sta



KAREN SOLIDARITY ORGANIZATION 
Statement No.1/97

1.	The SLORC?s  military junta today, under a well-planned strategy and    	      
capitalizing on their  military might are systematically committing 
genocide over the         Karen minorities.
	Hence it becomes a historic duty to unite and form an organization to 
counter the in-human acts of the SLORC.  For the very survival and to be 
left in peace, the organization was successfully formed on 31.8.97,  
comprising of patriotic monks, students, workers, farmers and 
intellects.

2.	The aim  of KSO is to promote peace, liberty and equality, uplifting 
the prestige and solidarity of the Karen national.  KSO will strive for 
the benefits of the entire Karen nation, without any discrimination as 
to sex, religion, locality, tribes, class and political organizations.

3.	K.S.O while striving hard for the Karens, will at the same time helps 
or co-operate with the affairs of other ethnic minorities and democratic 
allies.

4.	The affairs of Karen refugees and workers who are displaced into 
Thailand will be emphasized and promptly handled.  At the same time for 
those Karen in Burma, who are displaced or force to relocate from their 
homeland due to military operations will also be similarly handled.

5.	K.S.O has been formed by the following patriots:
  Patronage board
	 1. Saw Ba Soe Gay
	 2. Saw Franklin Thein
	 3. Pah Doh Terence

Central Executive Committee members are
	
	  1. Saw W. Po Ni		President
	
	  2. Mahn R. Ba Zan		Vice-president
	
	  3. Mahn Aung Htay		General Secretary
	
	  4. Mahn Win Kyi		Secretary (1)
	
	  5. Saw Pi Htoo Chit		Secretary (2)
	
	  6. Saw Mu			Head of National Security Department
	
	  7. S? Than Naing		Deputy head of National Security Department
		
	  8. Mahn Awa Phaung	Head of Finance Department
	
	  9. Naw  Paw Ta Su		Deputy Head of Finance Department
	
	10. Saw Tin Maunng Oo	Head of Foreign Affair
	
	11. Saw Khu  Wah		Deputy head of Foreign Affair
	
	12. Mahn Hta Ma Naint	Head of News and Information Department
	
	13. Saw  Kaw Htoo (BJ)	Deputy Head of News and Information 						
Department
	
	14. Saw Po K? Ne		Head of Youth Affair Department
	
	15. Khun Ler Wah		Head of Students Affair Department
	
	16. Saw Clyde			Head of Health Department
	
	17. Saw Lay Kler		Head of Education Department
	
	18. Naw  Pa Mu		Head of Women Affair
	
	19. Saw Aye Htoo Aung	Head of Religious Department
	
	20. Saw Shu Wah		Head of Common Karen language 							Implementation 
and Research Department
	
	21. Saw Thein Paw Di	Head of Karen Arts and Culture Department



6.	K.S.O proudly declare to strive  hard for the Karen.  To bring about 
national reconciliation and solidarity.




	Central Executive Committee
							Karen Solidarity Organization
							     3rd , September 1997.





 KAREN SOLIDARITY ORGANIZATION
Principal  Constitution

I. Aims
		(A). Peace.
		(B). Equality.
		(C). Liberty.
		(D). Uplifting Karen National Dignity.
		(E). Solidarity.

II. Objectives
		(A). In establishing internal peace -
			(1). Nationwide ceasefire.
			(2). All problems will be solved through peaceful negotiations and 			      
not by violence.
			(3). Present national conflicts must be settled by Tri-party 				       
negotiations :
				- All Ethnic Nationalities
				- Democracy forces  
				- (SLORC)State Law and Order Restoration 	Council.

		(B). In establishing equality -
			(1). Complete human rights for everybody in 						      all ethnic 
nationalities.
			(2). Every ethnic nationality in the union 							       shall enjoy 
full national and Democratic Rights.

		(C). In establishing liberty -
			(1). The Karen state must be established.
			(2). The rights and privileges of Self Determination, Judicature 				       
and Laws must be granted.
			(3). The Karen state must is an autonomous state and have self 				       
determination in the Federal Union.
			(4). National armed forces are a must for Karen national security.
			(5). Sovereignty over social, economic and political affairs in the 			       
Karen State.

		(D). In uplifting Karen National Dignity -
			(1). To carry out and extend traditional Karen culture.
			(2). To establish a Karen National School system, an arts and 				       
culture museum and a historical military museum.

		(E). In establishing Solidarity -
			(1). Karen National convention or congress must be held.
			(2). To draw up a Karen National constitution.
			(3). For national reconciliation and solidarity participation of 				       
Karen people from urban, rural, overseas, above and under 			       
ground political organizations.

III. K.S.O?s foes are :-
		(a). Exploitionist systems
		(b). Slavery systems
		(c). Narrow and superior minded racism.
		(d). Authoritarian and party-egoism.
		(e). SLORC military junta, which has elements of all the above.


IV. K.S.O?s friends are :-
		(1). In Karen Society :
			(a). Karen manual workers
			(b). Karen farmers
			(c). Karen Youth, Students, Women, Clerical and Secretarial 				      
staffs, Traders and Businessman, Artists, Technicians and 				      
Intellectuals, etc..
			(d). Karen Social, Political and Religious organizations.
			(e). Overseas Karens
		(2). Brotherly Ethnic Nationalities in Burma :
			(a). Workers
			(b). Farmers
			(c). Youth, Students, Women, Clerical and Secretarial staffs, 				       
Traders and Businessman, Artists, Technicians and 					        
Intellectuals, etc..
			(d). Democratic forces and anti Slorc multi-party organizations.
		(3). Overseas friends are :
			(a). International Labour Organizations
			(b). International students, Youth, Women Organization and 				      
Democracy forces. etc...
			(c). Non-Governmental Organizations and all sympathetic nations 			      
to the Karen cause.

V. Urgent tasks to be done are :-
			(a). Nationwide ceasefire.
			(b). Tri-parties negotiation after ceasefire.
			(c). K.S.O must be nation wide.
			(d). Karen national convention must be carried out.
			(e). Karen national reconciliation must be carried out urgently.
			(f). Common Language and literature for Karen must be created.
				 
 			(g). Rescue and protection measure must be carried out 					       
immediately for Karen refugees in Thailand.
			(h). Public Relations Department, to be established and 					      
implemented for Karen National reconciliation and Solidarity.
			(i). K.S.O?s journals must be published and 	issued.

VI. K.S.O?s Center Committee Structures
	
Patronage board.
	- Buddhist Concern	 : -1.
					 : -2.
					 : -3.
	- Christian Concern	 : -1.
					 : -2.
					 : -3.
	-Karen Patriots		 : -1. Saw Ba Soe Gay
					 : -2. Saw Franklin Thein
					 : -3. Pah Doh Terence


Central Executive Committee:-

* president:							Saw W. Po Ni
  vice-president:						Mahn R. Ba Zan

* General Secretary:					Mahn Aung Htay
  Joint Secretary (i)					          Mahn Win Kyi
  Joint Secretary (ii)				          Saw Pi Htoo Chit

* National Security Department Head:			Saw Mu
  Deputy head: 						S? Than Naing

* Head of Finance Department:				Mahn Awa Phaung
  Deputy head:						Naw  Paw Ta Su

* Head of Foreign affair:					Saw Tin Maung Oo
  Deputy head:						Saw Khu  Wah

* Head of News and Information Department:	Mahn Hta Ma Naint
  Deputy head:						Saw  Kaw Htoo (B.J)

* Head of health Department:				Saw Clyde 

* Head of Education Department:			Saw Lay Kler

* Head of Religious Department:			Saw Aye Htoo Aung

* Head of Youth Department:				Saw Po K? Ne

* Head of Women Affair Department:			Naw  Pa Mu

* Head of Common Karen Language Implementation and Research:											
Saw Shu Wah

* Head of Karen Arts and Culture Department:	Thein Paw Di

* Head of Student Affair Department:			Khun Ler Wah


Note:	: Central committee shall be expended whenever required.


VII. K.S.O?s Three National Duties
	(1). To initiate Karen National Convention.
	(2). To uplift Karen National Prestige, Liberty and Equality.
	(3). To initiate Karen National reconciliation and Solidarity.



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