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AAPP’s Statement Regarding the Death of Freelance Journalist Aung Kyaw Naing, aka Par Gyi

The death of well known freelance journalist Aung Kyaw Naing, aka Par Gyi, while in military custody in Kyaikmayaw Township, Mon State, comes as a shocking reminder of how extrajudicial killings, arbitrary detention and torture are still being used against citizens in Burma […]

October 27, 2014  •  By Assistance Association for Political Prisoners - Burma  •  Tags: , , , , , , , , , , ,  •  Read more ➤

BURMA: Killing of Mr. Aung Kyaw Naing

The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a joint programme of the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT), requests your urgent intervention in the following situation in Burma […]

October 27, 2014  •  By Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders  •  Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , ,  •  Read more ➤

Press Release: U.S. Embassy Rangoon’s Ambassador Derek Mitchell’s Visit to Kachin State

Myitkyina – Ambassador Derek Mitchell visited Myitkyina, Kachin State October 25-27. This was Ambassador Mitchell’s third visit to Kachin State as Ambassador; his first visit was in December 2012 and his second visit was in October 2013. During his three day visit, Ambassador Mitchell met with more than 150 members of Kachin society, including religious leaders, local humanitarian workers, cultural historians, students, NGO leaders, political party […]

October 27, 2014  •  By US Embassy Rangoon  •  Tags: , , , , , , ,  •  Read more ➤

ႏိုင္ငံသားတစ္ဦးျဖစ္သူ ကိုပါႀကီး(ခ)ကိုေအာင္ေက်ာ္ႏိုင္ ေသဆံုးခဲ့ရျခင္းအတြက္ ဒီမိုကရက္တစ္ အင္အားစုမ်ား၏ စုေပါင္း သေဘာထား ထုတ္ျပန္ေၾကညာခ်က္

၂၀၁၄ ခုႏွစ္၊ ေအာက္တိုဘာ (၂၃) ရက္ေန႔တြင္ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံစာနယ္ဇင္းေကာင္စီ (ယာယီ)သို႔ တစ္လၾကာ အဖမ္းခံထားရေသာ ကိုပါႀကီး (ခ) ကိုေအာင္ေက်ာ္ႏိုင္ သည္ (၄၊၁ဝ၊၂ဝ၁၄) ရက္ေန႔ ညေန၌ ပစ္ခတ္ခံရ၍
ေသဆံုး သြားေၾကာင္း ကာကြယ္ေရး ဝန္ႀကီးဌာနမွ အေၾကာင္းၾကားလာျခင္းႏွင့္ ပတ္သက္ၿပီး ဒီမိုကရက္တစ္ အင္အားစုမ်ား စုေပါင္း၍ ေအာက္ပါအတိုင္း ထုတ္ျပန္ေၾကညာ လုိက္ပါသည္။ […]

October 26, 2014  •  By ဒီမိုကရက္တစ္ အင္အားစုမ်ား  •  Tags: , , , , ,  •  Read more ➤

ဘိန္းႏံြတြင္းမွ ျပည္သူတို႔၏ ငိုရႈိက္သံမ်ားကို တာ၀န္ရွိသူတိုင္းက ၾကားသိကယ္တင္ႏိုင္ရန္

၂၀၀၅ မတိုင္ခင္တြင္ တိုင္းရင္းသား လက္နက္ကိုင္အဖဲြ႔ (၁၇)ဖဲြ႔ႏွင့္ ႏိုင္ငံေတာ္ အစိုးရအၾကား အပစ္အခတ္ရပ္စဲေရး ရယူခဲ့ ၾကေသာ္လည္း န၀တ၊ နအဖ အစိုးရ သည္ ႏိုင္ငံေရးျပႆနာကို ႏိုင္ငံေရးနည္းျဖင့္ မေျဖရွင္းသည့္အျပင္ ျမန္မာ-တရုတ္ နယ္စပ္ တစ္ေလွ်ာက္တြင္ စီးပြားျဖစ္ ဘိန္းစိုက္ပ်ဳိး ထုတ္လုပ္သည္ကို လွစ္လွ်ဴရႈထား ခဲ့ သျဖင့္ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံ၏ အေထြေထြ အၾကပ္အတည္း ျပႆနာမ်ားကို သက္ဆိုးရွည္ေစ ခဲ့သည္ဟု ယေန႔ ထုတ္ေ၀သည့္ အစီရင္ခံစာတြင္ ေဖာ္ျပထားပါသည္။ […]

October 24, 2014  •  By Pa-O Youth Organization, Action for High Land Society Development  •  Tags: , , ,  •  Read more ➤

Journalist Killed in Military Custody in Burma

Bangkok, October 24, 2014–Burma’s army shot dead freelance reporter Aung Kyaw Naing while the journalist was in military custody, according to news reports. The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns the journalist’s killing, the first in Burma since 2007[…]

October 24, 2014  •  By Committee to Protect Journalists  •  Tags: , , ,  •  Read more ➤