Weekly Political Events Regarding the Post Election (070/2011)

* ျမန္မာ-အေမရိကန္ ႏွစ္ႏိုင္ငံဆက္ဆံေရး တိုးတက္ေကာင္းမြန္ေစရန္အတြက္ “Burma” ဆိုသည့္ ေခၚအေဝၚအစား ႏိုင္ငံ၏ တရားဝင္နာမည္ျဖစ္သည့္ “Myanmar” ကို သံုးစြဲမႈမ်ဳိးကအစ ယံုၾကည္မႈ တည္ေဆာက္ရန္ လိုေၾကာင္း ျမန္မာဘက္က ေျပာဆိုခဲ့ေၾကာင္း အစိုးရထုတ္ျပန္ခ်က္ကို ကိုးကား၍ ျပည္တြင္းထုတ္ ျမန္မာတိုင္းမ္ ဂ်ာနယ္က ေရးသားေဖာ္ျပထားသည္။

* ဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္မွဴးၾကီး သန္းေရႊအနားယူသြားျပီဟု ျပည္ေထာင္စု ၾကံ့ခိုင္ေရးႏွင့္ ဖြံ႕ျဖိဳးေရးပါတီ (ၾကံ့ဖြံ႕ပါတီ) မွ အေထြေထြ အတြင္းေရးမွဴး ဦးေဌးဦးက ျပည္တြင္းမီဒီယာအခ်ဳိ႕ကို ေျပာဆိုခဲ့ေသာ္လည္း အစိုးရသစ္အဖြဲ႕ကို ေနာက္ကြယ္မွ ဆက္လက္ၾကိဳးကိုင္ေနဆဲျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း စစ္ဘက္ အသိုင္းအဝန္းက ေျပာသည္။

KNU Statement on the Use of Karen Civilians for Forced Labor and as Human Shield by Burma Army

Though the leading members of the Burma government have shed their military uniforms for a civilian image and rule, treatment of the ethnic civilians by the Burma Army troops is the same as it has been under the military rule. As before, the Burma Army troops continue to perpetrate widespread […]

Chevron Withers Under Criticism from Communities Suffering Human Rights and Environmental Harms

Yesterday at Chevron’s annual shareholder meeting, 22 indigenous, First Nation, and other impacted community members and supporters who had traveled to the company’s headquarters from locations around the globe and across the state confronted CEO John Watson with the brutal human and environmental abuses caused by the oil giants operations […]

Statement of the Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in Myanmar

This is the final day of my mission to Thailand which began on 16 May 2011. I visited Chiang Mai, Mae Hong Son and Bangkok this time in my efforts to gather information about the situation inside Myanmar where I have not been able to visit. This information is important for preparation of my next report to the UN General Assembly later this year […]

Weekly Political Events Regarding the Post Election (069/2011)

*အစိုးရသစ္တက္ျပီးေနာက္ အင္တာနက္ဆိုင္မ်ားတြင္ လိုက္နာရမည့္ စည္းကမ္းခ်က္အသစ္မ်ားအျဖစ္ ယူအက္စ္ဘီ သံုးစြဲခြင့္မျပဳရန္ အပါအဝင္ အခ်က္ ၁၂ ခ်က္ကို ျပီးခဲ့သည့္ဧျပီလလအတြင္း ျမန္မာ့ဆက္သြယ္ေရး႒ာနက စာတိုက္မွတဆင့္ ေပးပို႕ခဲ့သည္ဟု ရန္ကုန္မွ အင္တာနက္ဆိုင္ပိုင္ရွင္တစ္ဦးက ေျပာသည္။
*သမၼတဦးသိန္းစိန္၏ လြတ္ျငိမ္းခ်မ္းသာခြင့္ အမိန္႕ေၾကာင့္ ႏိုင္ငံေရးအက်ဥ္းသား ၂၀၀၀ ေက်ာ္ထဲမွ ၅၀ နီးပါသာ လႊတ္ေျမာက္လာခဲ့သည့္အတြက္ အမ်ဳိးသားဒီမိုကေရစီအဖြဲ႕ခ်ဳပ္ NLD ပါတီအေနျဖင့္ ႏိုင္ငံေရးအက်ဥ္းသား လြတ္ေျမာက္ေရး လႈပ္ရွားမႈမ်ားကို အရွိန္ျမွင့္ေဆာင္ရြက္သြားမည္ဟု NLD ေခါင္းေဆာင္ ဟံသာဝတီ ဦးဝင္းတင္က ေျပာသည္။

Statement By 20 Members Of The European Burma Network On The Crisis In Shan State

On 13th March 2011 the dictatorship in Burma broke a 22 year long ceasefire agreement with the Shan State Army – North. 3,500 Burmese Army soldiers took part in a military offensive in north-central Shan State, an area with a population of 100,000 […]

ASEAN Stands Up to Burma?

Thein Sein has had a tough start to the presidency in Burma. But denying Burma the ASEAN chair would have to be only the start of increased pressure. Burma’s hard-line new dictator, President Thein Sein, has suffered a series of setbacks in his attempts to persuade the international community that there has been real change in Burma […]

Open Letter to China on Mali Nmai Confluence Dam Project

I, hereby present to your most honorable Chairman of Republic of China our humble request. I am serving as the Chairman of Kachin Independence Organization. On behalf of the Kachin Independence Organization (KIO) and the Kachin Ethnic people inhabiting in the Union of Myanmar, I submit this open letter to you […]

Weekly Political Events Regarding the Post Election (068/2011)

* ျပည္လမ္းေပၚရွိ ျပည္သူ႕လႊတ္ေတာ္ အေဆာက္အအံုတြင္ ေမ ၉ ရက္ေန႕က က်င္းပေသာ ရန္ကုန္တိုင္းေဒသၾကီး အစိုးရအဖြဲ႕ႏွင့္ မီဒီယာမ်ား ပထမဆံုးအၾကိမ္ ေတြ႕ဆံုပြဲကို ႏိုင္ငံေတာ္ႏွင့္ အစုိးရကို မထိခိုက္လွ်င္ လြတ္လပ္စြာ ေရးသားႏိုင္ျပီး သတင္းစိစစ္ေရးက အဆံုးအျဖတ္ ေပးလိမ့္မည္ျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း ဝန္ၾကီး ဦးဉာဏ္ထြန္းဦးက ေျပာသည္။

* သွ်မ္းျပည္ေတာင္ပိုင္း မိုင္းကိုင္ျမိဳ႕နယ္ ဖယ္ခံုအေျခစိုက္ စကခ ၇ လက္ေအာက္ခံ ခမရ ၄၂၂ တပ္ရင္းက တပ္ရင္းမႉး ဒု-ဗိုလ္မႉးၾကီး သန္းထိုက္ေဝ ဦးေဆာင္ေသာအဖြဲ႕ စီးလာေသာ ေထာ္လာဂ်ီအား သွ်မ္းျပည္တပ္မေတာ္ RCSS/SSA က ေမ ၉ ရက္ေန႕ညေန ၃ နာရီက ခ်ံဴခိုတိုက္ခိုက္ခဲ့ရာ ဗိုလ္မႉးၾကီး သန္းထုိက္ေဝႏွင့္ ေထာ္လာဂ်ီေမာင္းသမား အပါအဝင္ ၁၁ ဦးက်ဆံုး၊ ၁၅ ေယာက္ ဒဏ္ရာရျပီး ေသနတ္ ၁၅ လက္ သိမ္းဆည္းရမိသည္ဟု သွ်မ္းျပည္တပ္မေတာ္ ေတာင္ပိုင္းမွ အရာရွိတစ္ဥိးက ေျပာသည္။

100 Days of Burma’s Parliament: Strengthening the Status Quo

The 11th of May marks one hundred days since the convening of Burma’s Parliament on 31 January. The laws governing the proceedings of the first parliamentary session in 22 years gagged MPs and restrict civilian access to the Parliament. Many MPs complained about being subjected to detention-like living conditions. The regime also barred domestic journalists and foreign correspondents from covering the session […]