Weekly Political Events Regarding the SPDC’s Election (005/2010)

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 […]

Singapore ‘disappointed’ at Myanmar court ruling on Suu Kyi

Singapore said Friday it was disappointed that Myanmar’s Supreme Court had rejected an appeal by democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi against her extended house arrest. “It is of course very disappointing that her appeal did not succeed,” the foreign ministry said in a statement. Singapore said a dialogue between Myanmar authorities, Suu Kyi and […]

USDA Promises Big Spending in Rangoon

By Aung Thet Wine The pro-junta Union Solidarity and Development Association (USDA) will spend more than 12 billion kyat (US $12 million) this year to implement public utilities and services in Rangoon, according to Rangoon mayor Brig-Gen Aung Thein Lin. Aung Thein Lin told local media at the Rangoon Municipal Office headquarters on Feb. 16 […]

Burma Plans Crackdown on Monks as Election Nears

By Andrew Buncombe The military authorities in Burma are planning a crackdown on the country’s Buddhist monks to “discipline” them ahead of forthcoming elections. State media reported over the weekend that the senior abbot who heads a government-controlled committee of senior monks is to call a meeting to outline new regulations. While monks are not […]

Burma’s Kachin Army Prepares to Fight Civil War

By Alastair Leithead The sharp sound of loading and unloading weapons and the barked orders of the sergeant-major cut through the mountains of northern Burma as the young cadets are put through their morning drills. Their discipline is good, their uniforms smart and there is little doubting their sense of purpose or patriotism towards the […]

ျပည္ေထာင္စုျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံအမ်ိဳးသားညြန္႕ေပါင္းအစိုးရမွ ၆၂ ႏွစ္ေျမာက္ ခ်င္းအမ်ိဳးသားေန႕သို႕ ေပးပို႕သည့္ ဂုဏ္ျပဳသ၀ဏ္လႊာ

၂၀၁၀ ခုႏွစ္ ေဖေဖၚ၀ါရီလ (၂၀)ရက္ေန႕သည္ မဂၤလာအေပါင္းႏွင့္ ျပည့္စုံေသာ (၆၂)ႏွစ္ေျမာက္ “ခ်င္းအမ်ိဳးသားေန႕”ျဖစ္ေပသည္။ ခ်င္းအမ်ိဳးသားမ်ား၏ ဤသမိုင္း၀င္ ေန႕ျမတ္တြင္ ခ်င္းအမ်ိဳးသားေခါင္းေဆာင္မ်ား၊ ခ်င္းေတာ္လွန္ေရးရဲေဘာ္မ်ားႏွင့္တကြ ခ်င္းတိုင္းရင္းသား ျပည္သူ တရပ္လုံး ကိုယ္စိတ္ႏွစ္ျဖာ က်န္းမာ ခ်မ္းသာၾကေစေၾကာင္းႏွင့္ ခ်င္းအမ်ိဳးသားတို႕၏ “ကိုယ့္ၾကမၼာ ကိုယ္ဖန္တီးခြင့္ႀကိဳးပမ္းမႈ” အျမန္ဆုံး ေအာင္ျမင္ပါေစေၾကာင္း ေလးနက္စြာ ဆုေတာင္းေမတၲာပို႕သ အပ္ပါသည္။ ျဗိတိသွ်နယ္ခ်ဲ႕သမား၏ က်ဴးေက်ာ္စစ္ (၃)ႀကိမ္ျပဳၿပီးေနာက္၊ အျခားတိုင္းရင္းသားမ်ား နည္းတူ၊ ခ်င္းတိုင္းရင္းသားတို႕လည္း နယ္ခ်ဲ႕ လက္ေအာက္ က်ေရာက္ခဲ့ရသည္။ ဦး၀မ္းသူေမာင္ အစရွိေသာ ပညာတတ္ ခ်င္းလူငယ္မ်ား၏ ဦးေဆာင္မႈျဖင့္ ၁၉၃၃ ခုႏွစ္တြင္ “ခ်င္းအမ်ိဳးသား မ်ား စည္းလုံးညီညြတ္ေရးအဖြဲ႕” ကို ဖြဲ႕၍ “ဒို႕ဗမာအစည္းအရုံး” ႏွင့္ ဆက္သြယ္ကာ၊ နယ္ခ်ဲ႕ေတာ္လွန္ေရးတြင္ ေရွ႕တန္းမွ ပါ၀င္ခဲ့ၾကသည္။ ဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္ေအာင္ဆန္းအပါအ၀င္ […]

Weekly Political Events Regarding the SPDC’s Election (004/2010)

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 […]

56 groups issue open letter demanding justice for workers on strike in Burma

Fifty-six groups issued an open letter to Dr. Surin Pitsuwan, Secretary General of ASEAN, calling on the regional body and its member countries to closely monitor the current situation at the Hlaing Tharyar industrial zone in Rangoon, and ensure that workers’ rights are recognized and respected. The letter also calls on ASEAN and ASEAN member […]

Myanmar urged to end repression of ethnic minorities before elections

Myanmar’s government must halt its repression of ethnic minority activists before forthcoming national and local elections, Amnesty International warned in a major report released on Tuesday. The 58-page report, The Repression of ethnic minority activists in Myanmar, draws on accounts from more than 700 activists from the seven largest ethnic minorities, including the Rakhine, Shan, […]

The Repression of Ethnic Minority Activists

Myanmar urged to end repression of ethnic minorities before elections

Myanmar’s government must halt its repression of ethnic minority activists before forthcoming national and local elections, Amnesty International warned in a major report released on Tuesday.

The 58-page report, The Repression of ethnic minority activists in Myanmar, draws on accounts from more than 700 activists from the seven largest ethnic minorities […]