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[…]

Energy Giants ‘Fund Burma’s Nuclear Drive’

Burma’s military rulers are using gas revenue from US and French energy giants Chevron and Total to fund an illegal bid to build nuclear weapons, human rights monitors said in a report on Monday.

Burma’s Yadana gas pipeline, run by the two companies along with Thai firm PTTEP, made billions of dollars for the military leaders, the Paris-based group EarthRights International said, citing data from the firms […]

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[…]

New Webpage About Crimes Against Humanity in Burma

The US Campaign for Burma has launched a new feature page, “Stop Burma’s Crimes against Humanity“, on their website.

The webpage is an important source of information regarding crimes against humanity in Burma and the international campaign. […]

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 […]

New Report On Crimes Against Humanity Against Rohingyas Strengthens Case For UN Inquiry

The Burma Campaign UK today welcomed a new report – Crimes against Humanity in Western Burma: The Situation of the Rohingyas – published by the Irish Centre for Human Rights […]

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 […]