Weekly Political Events Regarding the SPDC’s Election (039-2010)

ထိုင္း-ျမန္မာ နယ္စပ္အေျခ စိုက္ႏုိင္ငံေရးအဖြဲ႔အစည္းတခုျဖစ္ေသာ Network for Democracy and Development (NDD) သတင္းႏွင္႔သုေတသနဌာနမွ နအဖ၏ လာမည့္ေရြးေကာက္ပဲြႏွင့္ စပ္လ်ဉ္း၍ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံ၏ ႏိုင္ငံေရးအေျခေန အျဖစ္အျပက္္မ်ားကုိ အပတ္စဥ္ ရွာေဖြ စုစည္း ျဖန္႔ေဝလွ်က္ ရွိပါသည္။ ထိုအပတ္စဥ္ မွတ္တမ္းတြင္ နအဖႏွင့္ ၾကံ့ဖြ႔ံ တို႔၏ လႈပ္ရွားမႈ သတင္းအခ်က္အလက္မ်ား အပါအဝင္ ေတာ္လွန္ေရး အဖြဲ႔မ်ား၊ တုိင္းရင္းသားလက္နက္ကုိင္အဖဲြ႔မ်ား၊ လက္နက္ႏွင္႔ ျငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရး လဲလွယ္ထားေသာ အဖဲြ႔မ်ား၊ ႏိုင္ငံတကာ အစိုးရ ႏွင္႔ အစိုးရမဟုတ္ေသာ အဖဲြ႔အစည္းမ်ား၊ ျပန္တြင္းျပည္ပမွ ျပည္သူလူထုတုိ႔၏ လႈပ္ရွားမႈ မ်ားႏွင္႔ သတင္းအခ်က္အလက္မ်ားကိုလည္း ျပည္႔စုံစြာ စုစည္းတင္ၿပထားပါသည္။ […]

Think tank set to support ASEAN rights body

The ASEAN Inter-Governmental Commission on Human Rights (AICHR) finally gets a think tank to help it carry out its duty, with the establishment of the Human Rights Resource Center for ASEAN (HRRCA).

HRRCA chairman Marzuki Darusman said Tuesday the HRRCA was forged to conduct training and research that would support the AICHR’s work […]

Week 32: 2010 Election Watch (12-18 October)

Developments

• SPDC Election Commission Chairman Thein Soe said that no foreign journalists or international monitors would be allowed to observe the upcoming elections.
• SPDC Election Commission Chairman Thein Soe said that 3,071 candidates, including 82 independent candidates, will contest the elections […]

Weekly Political Events Regarding the SPDC’s Election (038-2010)

In this week’s report, you will find:

• A source close to local authorities of Muse District, Northern Shan State, said that setting up poll stations will be completed by 25th October 2010 as the elections nears.
• Daw Bauk Ja, who has been assisting 17 farmers who sued Yuzana construction company for eviction of the farmers from their land without full compensation, said that a court in Phakant District of Kachin State has made a decision to exonerate Yuzana company chairman U Htay Myint from prosecution. U Htay Myint is contesting in the upcoming elections as one of the Union Solidarity and Development Party candidates […]

Week 31: 2010 Election Watch (5-11 October)

Developments

• Youth activists posted signs that urged people to boycott the upcoming elections in 15 Villages across Arakan State.
• Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) organizers told residents of Shweza Village, Maungdaw Township, Arakan State, that if they did not vote for USDP candidates, they could be fined up to 100,000 kyat (about US$1,000) and serve one year in prison […]

Weekly Political Events Regarding the SPDC’s Election (037-2010)

In this week’s report, you will find:

• A Bassein resident said that authorites furiously removed campaign posters illustrated with Daw Aung San Suu Kyi photo and contents say peoples have right not to vote in Bassein’s Boganauk market, Seingone ferry, and Shwetheiloo market.
• A campaign officer of All Mon Region Democracy Party said that their party members were summoned and stopped to carry out elections campaign in the villages by a head of Village Peace and Development Council who was apparently asked by Union Solidarity Development Party given the reason that it is not the time to do so […]

Week 30: 2010 Election Watch (28 September – 4 October)

Developments

• The SPDC Election Commission rejected the Difference and Peace Party’s transcript for its TV and radio campaign message. It also censored the campaign messages of the All Mon Region Democracy Party, the Chin National Party, and the Shan Nationals Democratic Party […]

Former UN Rapporteurs Call on EU to Support a Commission of Inquiry

On October 5th, former UN Special Rapporteurs on human rights in Burma, Paulo Sergio Pinheiro and Yozo Yokota, sent a letter to Catherine Ashton, High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and Vice-President of the European Commission. The letter called on the EU to support the establishment of a commission of inquiry into crimes against humanity and war crimes in Burma […]

Weekly Political Events Regarding the SPDC’s Election (036-2010)

ထိုင္း-ျမန္မာ နယ္စပ္အေျခ စိုက္ႏုိင္ငံေရးအဖြဲ႔အစည္းတခုျဖစ္ေသာ Network for Democracy and Development (NDD) သတင္းႏွင္႔သုေတသနဌာနမွ နအဖ၏ လာမည့္ေရြးေကာက္ပဲြႏွင့္ စပ္လ်ဉ္း၍ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံ၏ ႏိုင္ငံေရးအေျခေန အျဖစ္အျပက္္မ်ားကုိ အပတ္စဥ္ ရွာေဖြ စုစည္း ျဖန္႔ေဝလွ်က္ ရွိပါသည္။ ထိုအပတ္စဥ္ မွတ္တမ္းတြင္ နအဖႏွင့္ ၾကံ့ဖြ႔ံ တို႔၏ လႈပ္ရွားမႈ သတင္းအခ်က္အလက္မ်ား အပါအဝင္ ေတာ္လွန္ေရး အဖြဲ႔မ်ား၊ တုိင္းရင္းသားလက္နက္ကုိင္အဖဲြ႔မ်ား၊ လက္နက္ႏွင္႔ ျငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရး လဲလွယ္ထားေသာ အဖဲြ႔မ်ား၊ ႏိုင္ငံတကာ အစိုးရ ႏွင္႔ အစိုးရမဟုတ္ေသာ အဖဲြ႔အစည္းမ်ား၊ ျပန္တြင္းျပည္ပမွ ျပည္သူလူထုတုိ႔၏ လႈပ္ရွားမႈ မ်ားႏွင္႔ သတင္းအခ်က္အလက္မ်ားကိုလည္း ျပည္႔စုံစြာ စုစည္းတင္ၿပထားပါသည္။ […]

Week 29: 2010 Election Watch (21-27 September)

Developments

• The SPDC Election Commission rejected the transcripts for the TV and radio campaign messages of the Union of Myanmar Federation of National Politics, the 88 Generation Student Youths (Union of Myanmar), and the Democratic Party (Myanmar) […]