Maran Brang Seng
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Born:1930
Place:Hpakant Hpakant Hpakant , is a town in Hpakant Township, Kachin State of the northernmost part of the Union of Myanmar. It is located on the Uyu River 350 km north of Mandalay in the middle of one of the world's most inhospitable and malaria infested jungles, cut off for several months a year during the...
Educated:Rangoon University
KIO Chairman: 1976-1995
Death: August 30, 1995
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Maran Brang Seng, (1930 - August 30, 1995) was a Burmese politician

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 and Chairman of the Kachin Independence Organization (KIO).

Mr Maran Brang Seng

Born in 1930 in Hpakan, Kachin State

Kachin State

Kachin State , is the northernmost state of Burma. It is bordered by China to the north and east; Shan State to the south; and Sagaing Division and India to the west. It lies between north latitude 23° 27' and 28° 25' longitude 96° 0' and 98° 44'. The area of Kachin State is . The capital of the...

, Myanmar

Myanmar

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 (Burma); educated in Kachin Baptist School, Myitkyina; entered Rangoon University in 1952 and obtained a BA and a BEd in 1955. Burma's delegate to the YMCA to Singapore in 1957; headmaster of Myitkyina Baptist school 1957-60 and its principle 1961-63. Went underground with Kachin Independence Organization in 1963. Led the first Kachin rebel delegation to China in 1967. Chairman of KIO since 1975. Made peace with the Communist Party of Burma

Communist Party of Burma

The Communist Party of Burma is the oldest existing political party in Burma. The party is unrecognised by the Burmese authorities, rendering it illegal; so it operates in a clandestine manner, often associating with insurgent armies along the border of People's Republic of China...

 in 1976 and led the delegation of National Democratic Front to the CPB's Panghsang headquarters in March 1986. Left Kachin State in late 1986 to travel abroad. Become vice chairman of Democratic Alliance of Burma on 18 November 1988 and was attached to its headquarter at Manerplaw

Manerplaw

Manerplaw is a city in the Kayin State of Burma and is also the suggested capital of the proposed Kawthoolei state that the Karen people of Burma have been trying to establish since the late 1940s. The headquarters of the Karen National Union were located in Manerplaw until January 1995.The...

 on the Thai-Burma border until KIO made peace with Rangoon in April 1993. Suffered a stroke on 21 October 1993 in Kunming

Kunming

' is the capital and largest city of Yunnan Province in Southwest China. It was known as Yunnan-Fou until the 1920s. A prefecture-level city, it is the political, economic, communications and cultural centre of Yunnan, and is the seat of the provincial government...

, Yunnan

Yunnan

Yunnan is a province of the People's Republic of China, located in the far southwest of the country spanning approximately and with a population of 45.7 million . The capital of the province is Kunming. The province borders Burma, Laos, and Vietnam.Yunnan is situated in a mountainous area, with...

, died on August 8, 1994.

Chronology of Peace-talks
1st Talk:1980 (Shammed)
2nd Talk:1986 (Shammed)
3rd Talk:1988 (Iterrupted by the Democracy Movement).
4th Talk:1994 (Cease-fire agreement was signed, it has been 13 years).

Maran Brang Seng for Kachin People

Maran Brang Seng, the leader among the Kachin people for most of the last thirty years when died on 8 August 1994 at the time he was Chairman of Kachin Independent Organization Central Committee (KIOCC) and president of Kachin Independent Council (KIC), the nation has suffered an irreparable loss and is deprived of a man of great eminence and scholarly persuasion. His commitment in adhering the peace-making process is due.

He has unveiled a vision of Kachin people from the darkness to the light. His service to the nation will be remembered for eminent Freedom Moment. He was one of the Champion of Civil liberties and democratic rights. After all he led his people during turbulence and tragedy in a period that was unmatched in Kachin History.

In 1987, he met Former Prime Ministers, Mr Rajiv Gandhi

Rajiv Gandhi

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 and Mr Chandra Shekhar

Chandra Shekhar

Chandra Shekhar Singh was the eighth Prime Minister of India.-Early years:He was born on 1 July 1927 to a Rajput farming family in Ibrahimpatti - Ballia in eastern Uttar Pradesh. Chandra Shekhar Singh did his Master of Arts at Allahabad University. He was known as a firebrand in student politics...

 in collaboration with Cabinet Secretary

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 through Research and Analysis Wing

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 to get a political support from the neighbouring country but Indian government neglects to their gratitude for Mr Brang Seng's cooperation towards solving North-East problem. It was Brang Seng and his organization who saved North-East India as the part of it - the continent would have been a separate country where Indian troops battled for about two months and lost more than 700 Indian commandos in Operation Leech.

Kachins always had ancient homeland. They have ability to integrate and mutually accommodate, both politically and culturally, is age-old. What post Independence Burma denied them was the political self-determination which they have fully enjoyed through World War II.

Lack of self-determination rights led to block the progress in Kachin State and the call for reform went out. Brang Seng was one of the leaders of such reform. When the army of the Union of Burma, the Union's pressumed protector, turned instead into usurper of citizen's freedom and rights, military engagement became inevitable. .