Union Minister for Labour, Immigration and Population U Thein Swe told the Amyotha Hluttaw that he refused to relax the provisions of the controversial 1982 Citizenship Law when it came to identifying Kokang residents. The minister said the risk of “false representation or concealment” by those applying for citizenship was too great.
He was responding to a question from U Kyaw Ni Naing (USDP; Shan 11), who had asked about the possibility of relaxing the rules when issuing new identity cards for ethnic Kokang residents.
Kokang was ruled by the Communist Party of Burma for more than 30 years and its ethnic leaders signed a ceasefire agreement with the government in 1989, said U Kyaw Ni Naing. He said that as a Myanmar ethnic group, the people of Kokang should enjoy the same rights as those of other ethnic minorities under the constitution. (Courtesy of mmtimes.com)
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