Announcement from Overseas National Students’ Organization of Burma

Today is the 66th birthday of Nobel peace laureate Daw Aung San Suu Kyi who had been under house arrest for more than fifteen years in total but is now thankfully free.

We had our own rights and movements even though Burma was under control of British colonial system for more than 100 years but since the military junta involved and took the power briefly in 1959 and then completely in 1962 the country has completely lost all meaning of human rights and democracy.

Daw Aung San Suu Kyi led the way and put the country on to international stage by following non violent Gandhian format and helped Burma towards becoming a democratic country. But she has been kept under house arrest for most of the past two decades […]

Burma Democratic Concern (BDC) Celebrates Daw Aung San Suu Kyi’s Birthday

Burma’s democracy leader, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi was born on 19 June 1945 from the parents General Aung San, Burma’s independence hero and Daw Khin Kyi. Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, the world’s renowned Nobel Peace Prize Laureate turns 66th on 19 June 2011 as the very first time ever as the free person after several years of house arrest. We salute her courage. She really is the icon of the Burmese people’s struggle for freedom and non-violent movement. She gives us hope, confidence and faith in our aspiration for democracy […]

အမ်ဳိးသားဒီမိုကေရစီအဖြဲ႕ခ်ဳပ္ ေခါင္းေဆာင္ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္၏ (၆၆) ႏွစ္ေျမာက္ေမြးေန႕

ဇြန္လ ၁၉ ရက္ေန႕သည္ အမ်ဳိးသားဒီမိုကေရစီအဖြဲ႕ခ်ဳပ္ အေထြေထြအတြင္းေရးမွဴး ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္၏ ေမြးေန႕ ျဖစ္ပါသည္။ ထိုေန႕ကိုပင္ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံ အမ်ဳိးသမီးမ်ားေန႕ဟု အမ်ဳိးသားဒီမိုကေရစီ အဖြဲ႕ခ်ဳပ္က သတ္မွတ္ခဲ့သည္။ ဤသို႕ သတ္မွတ္ရျခင္းမွာ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္သည္ […]

Canada Sends Best Wishes to Aung San Suu Kyi on Her Birthday

John Baird, Canada’s Foreign Affairs Minister, today issued the following statement on the occasion of Burmese pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s birthday:

“I would like to extend my heartfelt best wishes to Daw Aung San Suu Kyi in celebration of her 66th birthday. This is the first time in several years that she has been able to celebrate her birthday while not confined to prison or house arrest […]

Celebrating Daw Aung San Suu Kyi’s 66th Birthday

ASEAN Inter-Parliamentary Myanmar Caucus-AIPMC Teleconference with Daw Aung San Suu Kyi

For the first time the AIPMC has engaged with Daw Aung San Suu Kyi through teleconference which was held simultaneously in Jakarta and Bangkok . AIPMC MPs who presented were MP Eva Kusuma Sundari from Indonesia, the current president of the AIPMC, and the former president, MP Kraisak Choonhavan from Thailand […]

AIPMC calls for urgent peace talks in Myanmar and real action by ASEAN

The ASEAN Inter-Parliamentary Myanmar Caucus – AIPMC strongly condemns the decision by the Myanmar government to dispatch heavily armed troops into Kachin State and the concomitant outbreak of fighting, which brings an end to seventeen years of ceasefire between the government and the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) […]

Burma’s Political Prisoners

On the visit of Bo Kyi, former political prisoner and Joint-Secretary of the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners-Burma to Brussels, the above organisations appeal to the European Union and Member States to strengthen their call to the Burmese authorities to immediately and unconditionally […]

Czechs have celebrated Aung San Suu Kyi’s birthday and call for the release of the Burmese political prisoners

On Friday 17th June 2011 several dozen supporters of the Burmese dissident and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi gathered on a bank of the river Vltava in Prague to commemorate her 66th birthday […]

Daw Aung San Suu Kyi is celebrating her 66th birthday alone

Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, the leader of the democratic opposition in Burma will celebrate her 66th birthday on June 19. We, the undersigned NGOs, are greatly delighted that, unlike in most of the past twenty years, Suu Kyi will celebrate this birthday freely, without being under house-arrest […]

Kachin women denouncing offensive by the Burmese Army and atrocities against Kachin people

We, the Kachin Women’s Association Thailand (KWAT), strongly denounce the Burmese military’s offensives against the Kachin Independence Army (KIA), and atrocities against civilians including rape, murder and abduction of young men. The Burmese military attack to a KIA post in Eastern Kachin State on the 9th June 2011 and subsequent fighting has driven thousands of civilians out of their homes into the Kachin- China border areas […]