Weekly Political Events Regarding the Post Election (073/2011)

* ကခ်င္လြတ္ေျမာက္ေရးတပ္မေတာ္ (KIA) ႏွင့္ အစိုးရ တပ္မ်ားသည္ ဇြန္လ ၁၀ ရက္ေန႕မွ ၁၂ ရက္ေန႕ ညေနပိုင္းအထိ လက္နက္ၾကီးမ်ားျဖင့္ အျပန္အလွန္ ဆက္လက္ပစ္ခတ္ေနသျဖင့္ ေဒသခံျပည္သူ ၂၀၀၀ နီးပါးခန္႕ တရုတ္ႏိုင္ငံဘက္သို႕ ထြက္ေျပးေနၾကျပီး အဆိုပါေဒသရွိ တာပိန္ျမစ္ ေရကာတာႏွင့္ ျမစ္ဆံုေရကာတာစီမံကိန္းတြင္ လာေရာက္အလုပ္လုပ္ေနေသာ တရုတ္ႏိုင္ငံသားမ်ားလည္း ထြက္ေျပးတိမ္းေရွာင္ေနၾကသည္။

* တိုင္းရင္းသားလက္နက္ကိုင္ အင္အားစုမ်ားအေပၚ ထိုးစစ္ဆင္ေနျခင္းကို ခ်က္ခ်င္း ရပ္တန္႕ေပးရန္ႏွင့္ တႏိုင္ငံလံုးအတိုင္းအတာအရ အပစ္အခတ္ရပ္စဲျပီး ျငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရး ေဆြးေႏြးပြဲမ်ား ျပဳလုပ္ရန္ အစိုးရသစ္ကို ထိုင္း-ျမန္မာ နယ္စပ္အေျခစိုက္ တိုင္းရင္းသား လူမ်ဳိးမ်ားေကာင္စီ ENC က ၎၏ (၆) ၾကိမ္ေျမာက္ ညီလာခံအျပီးတြင္ ေၾကညာခ်က္ ထုတ္ျပန္ ေတာင္းဆိုလိုက္သည္ […]

First Press Release of the ASEAN Commission on the Promotion and Protection of the Rights of Women and Children

The ASEAN Commission on the Promotion and Protection of the Rights of Women and Children (ACWC) was inaugurated on 7 April 2010 in Ha Noi, Viet Nam, in the occasion of the 16th ASEAN Summit. The establishment of the ACWC is aimed at, among others, promoting the well-being, development and participation of women and children in ASEAN […]

Energy-hungry China winces as civil war unfolds in Burma

Heavy fighting over the past week close to Burma’s northern border will concern Beijing, who told visiting Burmese President Thein Sein last month that stability along the volatile frontier must be made a priority of the new government. Hundreds of millions of dollars in overland trade passes through several official crossings along the border each year; millions more is smuggled by timber merchants, drug mules and human trafficking rackets. The value of maintaining the unimpeded flow of trade is crucial to both Burma and China’s developing southern Yunnan province […]

Hydropower Dams Fuelling Conflict in Burma

Recent fighting near the Dapein and Shweli hydropower dams in northern Burma shows how the buildup of Burma Army troops to secure deeply unpopular Chinese dam projects is fuelling conflict.

Fighting broke out between the Burma Army and the Kachin Independence Organization (KIO) last week at the Dapein No. 1 and 2 dams, which are being constructed by China’s state-owned Datang Company […]

Burmese Army Kills Civilian in Mortar Attack on Village

A Burmese Army attack on a civilian village in Karen State, Burma, has killed one civilian and injured two others, including a seven year old boy. By deliberately targeting civilians in the attacks, Thein Sein’s regime has broken international law […]

Weekly Political Events Regarding the Post Election (072/2011)

* မေကြးတိုင္း အေခ်ာသတ္လုပ္ငန္းမ်ားအတြက္ ေဒသခံေက်းရြာသားမ်ားကို တရက္လ်င္ ေငြ ၂၀၀၀ က်ပ္ေပးျပီး ေန႕စားအလုပ္သမားမ်ားအျဖစ္ စတင္ေခၚယူခိုင္းေစေနသည္ဟု ေဒသခံတဦးက ေျပာသည္။

* ႏိုင္ငံေရးအက်ဥ္းသားမ်ားအားလံုး ျခြင္းခ်က္မရွိ ျပန္လည္လြတ္ေျမာက္ေရး ဆုေတာင္းပြဲတခုကို ရန္ကုန္တိုင္း မရမ္းကုန္းျမိဳ႕နယ္ က်ဳိက္ဝိုင္းဘုရားတြင္ ဇြန္လ ၅ ရက္ေန႕ နံနက္ပိုင္း ၁၁ နာရီတြင္ ျမိဳ႕နယ္ အခ်ဳိ႕မွ အမ်ဳိးသားဒီမိုကေရစိအဖြဲ႕ခ်ဳပ္ NLD ပါတီဝင္မ်ားႏွင့္ တက္ၾကြလႈပ္ရွားသူမ်ား စုစုေပါင္း ၄၀ ေက်ာ္ခန္႕က ျပဳလုပ္ခဲ့ၾကသည္ဟု ေျမာက္ဒဂံုျမိဳ႕နယ္မွ NLD အဖြဲ႕ဝင္ ေဒၚခင္ဝင္းခိုင္က ေျပာသည္။

President Aquino Should Lead Move to Probe Burma

By Patrick Pierce

President Benigno Aquino III, whose father fought and died at the hands of Ferdinand Marcos’ military dictatorship and whose late mother was the leader and inspiration of the People Power uprising that re-established civilian rule and political freedom for Filipinos, should know what the people of neighboring Burma are going through. Despite recent elections and the release of Aung San Suu Kyi from house arrest, Burma’s military still controls political life.

Former military officers have formed the post-election government. Parliament is dominated by the military-backed Union Solidarity and Development Party. A quarter of legislators consist of active military officers. The military and those who led the dictatorship remain unaccountable to any independent civilian authority and continue to commit massive violations of civil and political as well as economic and social human rights with impunity […]

ျမန္မာ့အေရး ေကာ္မရွင္ဖြဲ႕စုံစမ္းဖို႔ UPR မွာလူ႔အခြင့္အေရးအဖြဲ႕ေတြ ေတာင္းဆုိ

UPR လုပ္ငန္းစဥ္လို႔ ေခၚတဲ့ ကုလသမဂၢ လူ႕အခြင့္အေရး ေကာင္စီရဲ႕ ႏိုင္ငံအလိုက္ လူ႕အခြင့္အေရး အေျခအေန ပံုမွန္သံုးသပ္မႈ ေဆြးေႏြးပဲြမွာ ဒီကေန႔ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံကိစၥကို ေဆြးေႏြးပါတယ္။ ပါ၀င္ေဆြးေႏြးခဲ့ၾကတဲ့ လူမႈ လူ႕အဖဲြ႕အစည္းေတြကေတာ့ လက္ရိွ UPR လုပ္ငန္းစဥ္ဟာ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံက လူ႕အခြင့္အေရး အေျခအေနဆိုးေတြကို ဟန္႔တားႏိုင္ဖို႔ ထိေရာက္မႈ မရိွဘူးလို႔ သံုးသပ္ၿပီး ျမန္မာ့အေရးအတြက္ ကုလသမဂၢ စံုစမ္းစစ္ေဆးေရး ေကာ္မရွင္တရပ္ ဖဲြ႕ေရးကိုသာ တညီတည္း ေတာင္းဆိုခဲ့ၾကပါတယ္ […]

The Collapse of Tea Market, Plunges Tea Farmers into Crisis

Ta’ang (Palaung) Working Group has revealed and released a briefing paper on the huge economic crisis that Ta’ang people are facing in 2011 due to the decline of tea prices and the collapse of the tea market […]

Weekly Political Events Regarding the Post Election (071/2011)

* ႏိုင္ငံေတာ္သမၼတ ဦးသိန္းစန္၏ တရုတ္ႏိုင္ငံ ခ်စၾ္ကည္ေရး ခရီးစဥ္အတြင္း ႏွစ္ႏိုင္ငံ အက်ဳိးတူ ကိစၥရပ္မ်ားႏွင့္ ပက္သက္၍ အျပန္အလွန္ ေဆြးေႏြးခဲ့ၾကျပီး တရုတ္-ျမန္မာ ဘက္စံု မဟာဗ်ဴဟာေျမာက္ ပူးေပါင္းေဆာင္ရြက္မႈ မိတ္ဖက္ႏိုင္ငံမ်ားအျဖစ္ (Comprehensive Strategic Cooperative Partnership) ထူေထာင္ရန္ သေဘာတူညီခဲ့ကာ ပူးတြဲေၾကညာခ်က္ ထုတ္ျပန္ခဲ့သည္။

* ဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္ေစာလားဘြယ္၏ တိုးတက္ေသာဗဒၶဘာသာ ကရင္အမ်ဳိးသားတပ္မေတာ DKBA အဖြဲ႕ႏွင့္ တျခားလက္နက္ကိုင္ ေတာ္လွန္ေရးအဖြဲ႕မ်ား ပူးေပါင္း၍ လႈိင္းဘြဲ႕ျမိဳ႕နယ္ သံလြင္ျမစ္အနီးရွိ DKBA ဌာနခ်ဳပ္ကို လြန္ခဲ့သည့္ ေမ၂၄ ရက္ေန႕မွ စတင္ကာ ျပန္လည္သိမ္းပိုက္လိုက္သည္ဟု DKBA အဖြဲ႕မွ ဗိုလ္မွဴးေက်ာ္သက္က ေျပာသည္။ […]