Panglong remembered

Visual Points: No.01 - 2/2007
15 February 2007

Panglong remembered

 
On 12 February, the Panglong Agreement that signifies full autonomy, democracy and human rights for all nationalities in Burma turned 60 years.
 
Whereas the event is celebrated as the Union Day in Burma, the Ethnic Nationalities Council (ENC), has instead brought the Panglong Agreement to the forefront, as a reminder that the said treaty was the basis for the Union, without which it would not have come into being.
 

^{Sao Seng Suk, Advisor to the Ethnic Nationalities Council (ENC), delivers opening speech
 
Shirley Seng, Kachin representative, recounts how the Panglong Agreement came into being} 

 
<sup>Lots of singing and dancing, one of which is the Arakanese with their modernized traditional dance


The Bird dance


Nang Mwe Nguen knocks out the audience with "A place to call home"</sup>