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.
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. .
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