Week 18: 2010 Election Watch (6-12 July)

Developments

• Union Solidarity Development Party officials requested that village headmen in Mudon Township, Mon State, recruit 40 to 50 villagers in each village to join the party […]
July 14, 2010  •  By Altsean-Burma  •  Tags: Altsean-Burma, Difference and Peace Party, Kachin State Progressive Party, Khami National Development Party, National Democratic Force, Union Election Commission, Union Solidarity and Development Party  •  Read more ➤

Weekly Political Events Regarding the SPDC’s Election (024-2010)

In this week’s report you will find:

* According to a village peace and development council official, even though authorities have been providing national IDs for residents in Gwa Township, Arakan State, there are many local people who cannot afford the cost and the time to wait. Gwa Immigration Department, in two groups, has been providing national IDs for any resident who are over 18 years of age with 1000 kyat service fee for each person.

ယခုအပတ္ NDD ၏သတင္းမွတ္တမ္းတြင္ –

• ရခုိင္ျပည္နယ္၊ ဂြျမိဳ႕နယ္၌ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲတြင္ မဲေပးႏုိင္ရန္အတြက္ အာဏာပိုင္မ်ားက ႏုိင္ငံသားစိစ္ေရးကဒ္ျပား ျပဳလုပ္ေပးေနေသာ္လည္း စရိတ္မတတ္ႏုိင္သူ ေဒသခံအမ်ားအျပား ရွိေနေၾကာင္း ေက်းရြာ ရယက လူၾကီးတစ္ဦးကေျပာသည္။

Week 17: 2010 Election Watch (29 June-5 July)

Developments

• The Difference and Peace Party said that it may decide not to compete in the elections because of the SPDC Censorship Board’s media restrictions […]

NDD Monthly Chronology Events June – 2010

An extensive monthly chronology of events researched and distributed by the Network for Democracy and Development (NDD), a Burmese political organization based on the Thai-Burma border[…]

Weekly Political Events Regarding the SPDC’s Election (023-2010)

ယခုအပတ္ NDD ၏သတင္းမွတ္တမ္းတြင္ –

* အမ်ိဳးသားဒီမိုကေရစီအင္အားစု NDF မွေရြးေကာက္ပြဲ ဝင္ေရာက္ယွဥ္ၿပိဳင္ရာတြင္ အသုံးျပဳရန္အတြက္ တင္ျပထားေသာ ပါတီတံဆိပ္သည္ ခေမာက္ပုံပါေနသျဖင္႔ အမ်ိဳးသားဒီမိုကေရစီအဖြဲ႕ခ်ဴပ္ NLD ကတရားဝင္ကန္႔ကြက္ သြားမည္းျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း အဖြဲ႕ခ်ဴပ္ ဒု- ဥကၠဌ ဦးတင္ဦးက ေျပာသည္။
* နအဖစစ္အစိုးရ ျပန္ၾကားေရးဝန္ၾကီးဌာန လက္ေအာက္ခံ စာေပစိစစ္ေရးႏွင္႔ မွတ္ပုံတင္ဌာနက ျပည္တြင္းထုတ္ဂ်ာနယ္မ်ားတြင္ ႏုိင္ငံေရးပါတီမ်ား၏ လႈပ္ရွားမႈသတင္း၊ အင္တာဗ်ဴးမ်ားကို စိစစ္ျဖတ္ေတာက္မႈမ်ား ပိုမိုဆိုးရြာလာေနသည္႔အေပၚ မတူကြဲျပားျခင္းႏွင္႔ ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရးပါတီက အာဏာပိုင္မ်ားမွ ေလွ်ာ႔ေပါ့ေပးရန္ေတာင္းဆိုလုိက္သည္[…]

Week 16: 2010 Election Watch (22-28 June)

Developments

• The SPDC Election Commission issued Directive 2/2010, which imposes severe restrictions on the political parties’ freedom of expression, assembly, and movement […]

Weekly Political Events Regarding the SPDC’s Election (022-2010)

In this week’s political events, you will find:

* A resident from Putao stated that USDP has been providing 5,000 kyat each to every local resident who would vote for USDP in the elections in Putao District, which is the northernmost district of Burma. The USDP launched that particular campaign in some villages in Machyangbaw Township from 10 to 25 May.

ယခုအပတ္ NDD ၏သတင္းမွတ္တမ္းတြင္-

* ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံ ေျမာက္ပိုင္းအစြန္ရွိ ပူတာအုိခရုိင္တြင္ ျပည္ေထာင္စု ၾက႔ံခုိင္ေရးႏွင့္ ဖြ႔ံၿဖိဳးေရးပါတီ(USDP) မွေရြးေကာက္ပြဲတြင္ ၄င္းတို႔ပါတီအား မဲထည္႔ရန္အတြက္ ေဒသခံျပည္သူမ်ားကို တစ္ဦးလွ်င္ က်ပ္ေငြ ၅၀၀၀ ေပး၍ စည္းရုံးေနသည္ဟု ေဒသခံတစ္ဦးကေျပာသည္[…]

Week 15: 2010 Election Watch (15-21 June)

Developments

• Political parties continued to voice concerns over the prohibitive costs imposed by the SPDC election laws. The Union Democratic Party released a statement that urged the SPDC to subsidize the 500,000 kyat (US$500) candidate registration fee, saying such a high fee prevents candidates from standing for election. In addition, the Union Democratic Party and the Democratic Party (Myanmar) said they could not publish election-related material because of financial constraints […]

Aung San Suu Kyi’s birthday marked in Singapore

We are gathered here today in Speaker’s Corner, Singapore, to mark the 65th birthday of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, one that she regrettably still spends in house arrest.

It is especially significant for people in Singapore to continue to advocate on behalf of her and the Burmese people, because the government of Singapore would rather support and prop up the military regime […]

Weekly Political Events Regarding the SPDC’s Election (021-2010)

In this week’s political events, you will find

• According to a resident, U Aung Than Htay, the Village Peace and Development Council (VPDC), and U Kyaw Myint, the Clerk of VPDC, in Kyigyi Village Tract, Ingapu Township, Irrawaddy Division, threatened residents that they would be arrested and questioned if they did not support and vote for Union Solidarity and Development Party in the elections

ယခုအပတ္ NDD ၏သတင္းမွတ္တမ္းတြင္-

• စစ္အစိုးရမွ ျပဳလုပ္မည္႔ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲတြင္ ျပည္ေထာင္စုၾက႔ံခုိင္ေရးႏွင့္ဖြ႔ံၿဖိဳးေရးပါတီ USDP ကိုမေထာက္ခံပါက ဖမ္းဆီးစစ္ေဆးမႈမ်ားျပဳလုပ္မည္ျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း ဧရာဝတီတုိင္း၊ အဂၤပူၿမိဳ႕နယ္ က်ီးၾကီးအုပ္စု ဥကၠဌ ဦးေအာင္သန္းေဌး ႏွင့္ ရယက စာေရး ဦးေက်ာ္ျမင့္တို႔က ၿခိမ္းေျခာက္ေျပာဆိုခဲ႔သည္ဟု ေဒသခံတစ္ဦးက ေျပာသည္။
June 20, 2010  •  By Network for Democracy and Development  •  Tags: 2010 Elections, Burmese, Election Laws, Ethnic Nationalities, Network for Democracy and Development, Political Parties, Weekly Political Events  •  Read more ➤