New Democrats call for UN commission of inquiry on Burma

Canada should add its support for the establishment of a UN Commission of Inquiry into alleged crimes against humanity and war crimes committed by the military regime in Burma, says New Democrat Leader Jack Layton (Toronto-Danforth).

“Canadians have spoken out against human rights violations in Burma – from political repression and forced displacement of civilians to sexual violence, torture and murder,” said Layton. “Violating human rights has been used systematically and with impunity by the Burmese junta and it’s time to establish a UN Commission of Inquiry” […]

Weekly Political Events Regarding the SPDC’s Election (031-2010)

ယခုအပတ္ NDD ၏သတင္းမွတ္တမ္းတြင္ –

* ျပည္ေထာင္စု ၾက႔ံခုိင္ေရးႏွင့္ဖြ႔ံျဖိဳးေရးပါတီ USDP ကရခုိင္ျပည္နယ္အေနာက္ပိုိင္း ဘူးသီးေတာင္ႏွင့္ေမာင္းေတာ ျမိဳ႔႕နယ္ရွိ ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာမ်ားကို မက္လုံးေပးစည္းရုံးသည္႔အေနျဖင့္ ယာယီႏုိင္ငံသားမွတ္ပုံတင္ အျဖဴေရာင္ကတ္မ်ားအား ေငြက်ပ္ ၂၀၀၀ ျဖင္႔ထုတ္ေပးထားေသာ္လည္းခရီးသြားလာရာ တြင္ လြတ္လပ္မႈမရွိေၾကာင္း ရုိဟင္ဂ်ာအေရးေလ႔လာသူတစ္ဦးကေျပာ[…]

Silence on Burma inquiry raises eyebrows

The US is the latest country to come out in support of a UN investigation into human rights abuses and war crimes.

While a growing number of countries, most recently the United States, have voiced their support for a United Nation commission of inquiry into the human rights abuses in Burma, opposition critics and pro-Burma groups are questioning Canada’s silence […]

Week 24: 2010 Election Watch (17-23 August)

Developments

• The SPDC Election Commission published Notification 91/2010 which requires candidates to seek approval for public speeches seven days in advance.. In addition, candidates cannot give speeches or distribute materials that criticize the constitution, “tarnish” the image of the state or the military, or “harm security. As with earlier regulations on campaign activities, chanting slogans, marching or carrying flags are prohibited as part of candidate rallies […]

Political Defiance Committee Monthly News Commentary – August 2010

The National Council of the Union of Burma (NCUB)’s Political Defiance Committee (PDC) is compiling and commentating on monthly political news. These reports include information on the relationship between NLD and the military junta, the activities of the National League for Democracy (NLD) and domestic opposition forces, the relationship between ethnic groups and the SPDC, the junta’s domestic activities, the socio-economic situation in Burma and the international community’s actions and responses […]

Weekly Political Events Regarding the SPDC’s Election (030-2010)

ယခုအပတ္ NDD ၏သတင္းမွတ္တမ္းတြင္ –

* ျပည္ေထာင္စု ၾကံ့ခုိင္ေရးႏွင့္ ဖြံ႔ၿဖိဳးေရးပါတီ USDP က ရန္ကုန္တုိင္း လွည္းကူးၿမိဳ႕နယ္ ဝါးရုံစြန္းရြာတြင္ ၾသဂုတ္လ ၁၃ ရက္ေန႔တြင္ ေဒသခံျပည္သူမ်ားအား ေငြေခ်း၍ မဲဆြယ္စည္းရုံးရာတြင္ ေက်းရြာအာဏာပိုင္မ်ားက လုိက္လံ ကူညီေပးေနေၾကာင္း ေဒသခံမ်ားကေျပာသည္
* အမ်ိဳးသာဒီမိုကေရစီအဖြဲ႔ခ်ဴပ္ NLDဗဟုိအလုပ္အမႈေဆာင္ အဖြဲ႔ဝင္ ဦးဥာဏ္ဝင္း ဦးေဆာင္ေသာအဖြဲ႕သည္ ၾသဂုတ္လ ၁၆ ရက္ေန႔က ဧရာဝတီတိုင္း ေကာ႔ေသာင္းျမိဳ႕သို႔ေရာက္ရွိကာ NLD အေနျဖင့္ ေရွ႕ဆက္၍ ပိုမိုက်စ္လစ္ခုိင္မာစြာ ရပ္တည္ႏုိင္ရန္အတြက္ ေဒသခံအဖြဲ႔ခ်ဴပ္ အဖြဲ႔ဝင္မ်ားႏွင္႔ ေတြ႔ဆုံေဆြးေႏြးဖလွယ္ခဲ႔ၾကသည္

U.S. supports creation of U.N. commission of inquiry into war crimes in Burma

The Obama administration decided Tuesday to support the creation of a United Nations commission of inquiry into crimes against humanity and war crimes in Burma, a sign of a tougher U.S. policy against a regime long accused of murdering and raping its political foes […]

Week 23: 2010 Election Watch (10-16 August)

Developments

• The SPDC Election Commission set the election date for 7 November and also established a two-week filing period that ends on 30 August for political parties to submit their list of candidates for review and approval.
• The SPDC Election Commission designated constituencies for the National and Regional Parliaments […]

Upholding the Responsibility to Protect in Burma/Myanmar

Introduction

The situation in Burma/Myanmar remains grave. With elections scheduled for 7 November 2010 international attention on the country has increased. Such attention, and any policy action taken, must focus not only on the goal of democratic transition, and concerns about the regimes nuclear collaboration with North Korea, but also on the plight of Burma’s ethnic minorities who continue to suffer atrocities at the hands of the government. These atrocities may rise to the level of crimes against humanity, war crimes and ethnic cleansing – crimes states committed themselves to protect populations from at the 2005 World Summit, as described in the Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect policy brief dated 4 March 2010, “Applying the Responsibility to Protect to Burma/Myanmar[…]

Weekly Political Events Regarding the SPDC’s Election (029/2010)

ယခုအပတ္ NDD ၏သတင္းမွတ္တမ္းတြင္ –

* ျပည္ေထာင္စု ၾကံ့ခုိင္ေရးႏွင့္ဖြံ႔ၿဖိဳးေရးအသင္း USDA တျဖစ္လဲ ျပည္ေထာင္စု ၾက့ံခုိင္ေရးႏွင္႔ဖြံ႔ၿဖိဳးေရး ပါတီ USDP ၏ သတင္းေထာက္လွမ္းေရးအဖြဲ႔က ျပည္တြင္းတက္ၾကြလႈပ္ရွား သူမ်ားကို ႏိွပ္ကြပ္ရန္ အတြက္မ်က္ေျခမျပတ္ ေစာင့္ၾကည္႔ေနသည္ဟု ဇူလုိင္လအတြင္းက ထိုင္း- ျမန္မာ နယ္စပ္သို႔ ထြက္ေျပးတိမ္းေရွာင္လာခဲ႔သည္႔ USDP သတင္းေထာက္လွမ္းေရးအဖြဲ႔ဝင္ ကိုေအာင္ခုိင္ဦးကေျပာၾကာခဲ႔ပါသည္[…]