**天安门母亲批评习近平未实行政治改革**
“天安门母亲”批评中国国家主席习近平没有实行政治改革，并说他使中国“大踏步地退回到毛式正统”。
总部在纽约的人权组织“中国人权”星期五在其网站上登出天安门母亲的一封公开信。天安门母亲要求中国领导层开始对话，重新评价1989年的六四事件，当时数以千计的抗议者死于北京天安门广场的镇压。
天安门母亲多次敦促中国当局公布所有六四事件死难者的名单，并对死者亲属予以赔偿。
这封公开信说，目前中国社会有“一种弥漫着的绝望感”，并说近年来的中国领导人都不是真正的改革者，习近平也不是。
China's Tiananmen Mothers Denounce Lack of Reforms
A group of families has denounced Chinese President Xi Jinping for failing to launch political reforms, saying he is taking China "backwards towards Maoist orthodoxy."
In an open letter published Friday on the Internet site of the New York-based group, Human Rights in China, the Tiananmen Mothers activist group demanded that the Chinese leadership open a dialogue and reassess the June 4,1989, crackdown at Tiananmen Square in Beijing that killed up to 3,000 protesters.
The group has repeatedly called for China to publish a full list of the names of those who died, and to compensate relatives.
The latest letter says Chinese society is "permeated with a general sense of despair" and that none of China's recent leaders has been a real reformer, including Xi Jinping who was installed as president this year.
**缅政府与叛军达成停火协议**
缅甸政府和克钦族叛军初步达成停火协议，这场历经两年的战火导致将近10万人流离失所。
经过3天会谈后，双方于星期四达成这项协议，决定停止战斗，并就克钦人要求更多政治权利和更大自主权问题举行进一步会谈。
会谈在缅甸北部举行，联合国、中国政府和缅甸少数民族都派出代表列席会议。一位中国外交官对美国之音说，中国应双方的邀请，为谈判提供了帮助。
这项7点协议规定停止战斗，举行政治对话，并设立联合监督委员会。双方还同意开始致力于重新安置流离失所的人们。
美国驻仰光使馆星期五发表声明对和谈表示欢迎。
自缅甸总统吴登盛的政府于2011年执政以来，卡钦族是缅甸唯一一个没有签署停战协议的主要少数民族。
Burma, Kachin Reach Tentative Cease-Fire
Burma's government and ethnic Kachin rebels have reached a tentative cease-fire aimed at ending two years of fighting that has displaced nearly 100,000 people.
Under the agreement, reached Thursday after three days of talks, fighting will stop and further talks will be held on Kachin demands for more political rights and greater autonomy.
The talks, in northern Burma, were monitored by representatives of the United Nations, Chinese government and Burmese ethnic minorities. Chinese diplomat Lu Zhi told VOA's Burmese service that China had assisted the negotiations at the request of both sides.
“天安门母亲”批评中国国家主席习近平没有实行政治改革，并说他使中国“大踏步地退回到毛式正统”。
总部在纽约的人权组织“中国人权”星期五在其网站上登出天安门母亲的一封公开信。天安门母亲要求中国领导层开始对话，重新评价1989年的六四事件，当时数以千计的抗议者死于北京天安门广场的镇压。
天安门母亲多次敦促中国当局公布所有六四事件死难者的名单，并对死者亲属予以赔偿。
这封公开信说，目前中国社会有“一种弥漫着的绝望感”，并说近年来的中国领导人都不是真正的改革者，习近平也不是。
China's Tiananmen Mothers Denounce Lack of Reforms
A group of families has denounced Chinese President Xi Jinping for failing to launch political reforms, saying he is taking China "backwards towards Maoist orthodoxy."
In an open letter published Friday on the Internet site of the New York-based group, Human Rights in China, the Tiananmen Mothers activist group demanded that the Chinese leadership open a dialogue and reassess the June 4,1989, crackdown at Tiananmen Square in Beijing that killed up to 3,000 protesters.
The group has repeatedly called for China to publish a full list of the names of those who died, and to compensate relatives.
The latest letter says Chinese society is "permeated with a general sense of despair" and that none of China's recent leaders has been a real reformer, including Xi Jinping who was installed as president this year.
**缅政府与叛军达成停火协议**
缅甸政府和克钦族叛军初步达成停火协议，这场历经两年的战火导致将近10万人流离失所。
经过3天会谈后，双方于星期四达成这项协议，决定停止战斗，并就克钦人要求更多政治权利和更大自主权问题举行进一步会谈。
会谈在缅甸北部举行，联合国、中国政府和缅甸少数民族都派出代表列席会议。一位中国外交官对美国之音说，中国应双方的邀请，为谈判提供了帮助。
这项7点协议规定停止战斗，举行政治对话，并设立联合监督委员会。双方还同意开始致力于重新安置流离失所的人们。
美国驻仰光使馆星期五发表声明对和谈表示欢迎。
自缅甸总统吴登盛的政府于2011年执政以来，卡钦族是缅甸唯一一个没有签署停战协议的主要少数民族。
Burma, Kachin Reach Tentative Cease-Fire
Burma's government and ethnic Kachin rebels have reached a tentative cease-fire aimed at ending two years of fighting that has displaced nearly 100,000 people.
Under the agreement, reached Thursday after three days of talks, fighting will stop and further talks will be held on Kachin demands for more political rights and greater autonomy.
The talks, in northern Burma, were monitored by representatives of the United Nations, Chinese government and Burmese ethnic minorities. Chinese diplomat Lu Zhi told VOA's Burmese service that China had assisted the negotiations at the request of both sides.
