Weekly Political Events Regarding the SPDC’s Election (021-2010)

In this week’s political events, you will find

• According to a resident, U Aung Than Htay, the Village Peace and Development Council (VPDC), and U Kyaw Myint, the Clerk of VPDC, in Kyigyi Village Tract, Ingapu Township, Irrawaddy Division, threatened residents that they would be arrested and questioned if they did not support and vote for Union Solidarity and Development Party in the elections

ယခုအပတ္ NDD ၏သတင္းမွတ္တမ္းတြင္-

• စစ္အစိုးရမွ ျပဳလုပ္မည္႔ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲတြင္ ျပည္ေထာင္စုၾက႔ံခုိင္ေရးႏွင့္ဖြ႔ံၿဖိဳးေရးပါတီ USDP ကိုမေထာက္ခံပါက ဖမ္းဆီးစစ္ေဆးမႈမ်ားျပဳလုပ္မည္ျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း ဧရာဝတီတုိင္း၊ အဂၤပူၿမိဳ႕နယ္ က်ီးၾကီးအုပ္စု ဥကၠဌ ဦးေအာင္သန္းေဌး ႏွင့္ ရယက စာေရး ဦးေက်ာ္ျမင့္တို႔က ၿခိမ္းေျခာက္ေျပာဆိုခဲ႔သည္ဟု ေဒသခံတစ္ဦးက ေျပာသည္။
June 20, 2010  •  By Network for Democracy and Development  •  Tags: 2010 Elections, Burmese, Election Laws, Ethnic Nationalities, Network for Democracy and Development, Political Parties, Weekly Political Events  •  Read more ➤

Aung San Suu Kyi: a fragile heroine and a great symbol

On Friday 18th June 2010 several dozens of supporters of the Burmese dissident and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi gathered in the center of Prague to commemorate her birthday and to condemn her house arrest lasting for the past fifteen years. The organizers of the event, People in Need organization, created a graffiti picture of Suu Kyi on a wall in the city center and invited the public to come and leave a birthday message on the wall […]

CSW Renews Calls for UN Inquiry into Burma’s Crimes Against Humanity on Aung San Suu Kyi’s 65th Birthday

Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW) is marking the 65th birthday of Burma’s democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi by renewing its call for the establishment of a United Nations Commission of Inquiry, to investigate crimes against humanity and war crimes in Burma. CSW is also calling for a universal arms embargo on the regime […]

Week 14: 2010 Election Watch (8-14 June)

Developments

• The SPDC Election Commission approved the registration of the junta-backed Union Solidarity and Development Party. To date, the Election Commission has granted final approval to 32 parties to participate in the polls […]
June 16, 2010  •  By Altsean-Burma  •  Tags: Altsean-Burma, Union Election Commission, Union Solidarity and Development Association, Union Solidarity and Development Party, United States  •  Read more ➤

Weekly Political Events Regarding the SPDC’s Election (020-2010)

The Network for Democracy and Development (NDD), a Burmese political organization based on the Thai-Burma border, is researching and distributing weekly reports summarizing political events in Burma regarding the SPDC’s Elections. These reports include information on the activities of the SPDC and USDA, opposition groups, armed ethnic groups, cease-fire groups, border guard forces, international governments and non-governmental organizations, and civilians inside Burma.[…]

Three More Villages Being Shifted from Myitsone Dam Site

The Burmese military junta in its relentless effort to continue with the Irrawaddy Myitsone dam project in Northern Burma, Kachin State is forcing three more villages to relocate from the site […]

Human Rights Council holds General debate on Human Rights situations that require the Council’s attention

Thank you, Mr. President. The United States appreciates the opportunity to bring to the Council’s attention the following country specific situations:
• In Burma, the grim human rights situation documented for us in March by Special Rapporteur Ojea Quintana remains grim.[…]

Week 13: 2010 Election Watch (1-7 June)

Developments

• On 6 June, the deadline passed for new parties to file registration papers to participate in the elections. Before the deadline, a total of 42 parties – 37 new parties and five existing parties – had filed registration applications […]

Protests in UK Over Forced Relocation on Irrawaddy Dam Site

Kachins and activists in solidarity today staged a demonstration outside the Burmese Embassy in London demanding a halt to the forced relocation of villagers living near the Irrawaddy dam project in Kachin State […]

Weekly Political Events Regarding the SPDC’s Election (019-2010)

The Network for Democracy and Development (NDD), a Burmese political organization based on the Thai-Burma border, is researching and distributing weekly reports summarizing political events in Burma regarding the SPDC’s Elections. These reports include information on the activities of the SPDC and USDA, opposition groups, armed ethnic groups, cease-fire groups, border guard forces, international governments […]