Kayin People's Party

This post contains an introduction summary of the Kayin People's Party extracted from The Voice Weekly, August 16 - 22, 2010, p. 26. The Voice Weekly is running a series of introduction summaries (such as this one) on the various registered political parties in Myanmar.

Vocabulary:

သဏ္ဌာန် ။ form
အခရာ ။ main; principle
ရပ် ။ station
အလျဉ်းသင့် ။ [အလျဉ်သင့်] be opportune, appropriate
ထူးခြား ။ special
ပြန်လည်စည်းလုံညီညွတ်ရေး ။ reconciliation
ကူးပြောင်း ။ transition
ကိုညီ ။ to correspond
ညှိနှိုင်း ။ to coordinate
ကွပ်ကဲ ။ to control, manage, supervise, administer
ညွှန်ကြားရေးမှူးချုပ် ။ director general
ဦးဆောင်ညွှန်ကြားရေးမှူး ။ managing director
စစ်မှုထမ်းဟောင်း ။ former (retired) armed forces personnel
ဦးနှောက် ။ brain
အာရုံကြော ။ nerve
နယ်လည့် ။ to go on tour
သင့် ။ to strike
သမဝါယမ ။ Myanmar government (military) owened cooperative sales outlets
ဗိုလ်မှု ။ major
ဗိုလ်မှုကြီး ။ colonel
ဗိုလ်မှုချုပ် ။ brigadier

Translation:

While the Union Election Commission has started party registrations in order [for political parties] to participate in the 2010 election, for the new Myanmar political form that will newly emerge it is very important for the people [of the country] who are the principle [component of the political system] to be able to use with benefit the valuable voting ballot. Therefore, in order to be able to know the situation of parties and party leaders for the people’s correct decision, for getting the correct person and the correct place within the three parliaments that will emerge anew, for the people to being able to decide which party and which person should be voted for, etc. The Voice Weekly will open a party introduction section and present appropriate introductions of parties which have been granted registration.

Kayin People’s Party (KPP)

Flag
• An image of a yellow frog drum against a white, red and blue background

Type [of political party]
• A party that will contest for representation across the whole union

Party ideology
• The ideology has six special ideological sections. The political ideology is [to conduct] national reconciliation and to effect a transition to a democratic system appropriate to the country of Myanmar. The section on the armed forces is that the armed forces is to be included and carry out an essential role in the defence of the country and with a good and generous mind must help the people’s authority step-by-step in the transition.

U Saw Htun Aung Myint (Chairperson)
• Political experience
• Supervisory coordinator (strategic military naval vessel regiment) with the rank of deputy colonel in the navy; director general [in the] lead department [of the] shipping delivery directorate; managing director of domestic deliveries; central committee member of the Myanmar Retired Armed Forces Personnel Association

Professor Doctor Saw Simon Tha (Deputy Director - 1)
• Political experience
• After retiring in 2002 from duty as academic department director in the Yangon People’s Hospital brain and nerve surgical transplant department, he has been doing social work in establishing ‘Kwe Ka Baw Special Clinic’ and ‘Kwe Ka Baw Touring Clinic Association’; and in the Irrawaddy Delta in 2008 when Cyclone Nargis struck he did clinical and rescue work.

U Saw Aye Ko (Deputy Chairperson – 2)
• Political experince
• Held responsibility up to the rank of Director General in the Myanmar government sales cooperative with the rank of Colonel (Deputy Regional Commander) in the Armed Forces (Army) and retired in 1992

U Saw Say Wa (General Seceratary)
• Political experience:
• Held responsibility from 1964 to 1989 in the Armed Forces (Army) up to the rank of major; held responsibility from 1990 to 2006 from the rank of deputy police chief to the rank of police chief and retired with the rank of deputy supervisor (M.T.L.); held responsibility from 2007 to 2010 as the chairperson of the anti-narcotics team - Bago Division (East)

Address, phone number
• 117, White Tiger (1) Road, Shwepyetha Township, Yangon Division. 09-5180164