Weekly Political Events Regarding the Post Election (052/2011)

* ဇန္နဝါရီလ ၂၁ ရက္ေန႕ထုတ္ စစ္အစိုးရသတင္းစာမ်ား၌ ျပည္သူ႕လႊတ္ေတာ္၊ အမ်ဳိးသားလႊတ္ေတာ္၊ တိုင္းေဒသၾကီးႏွင့္ ျပည္နယ္လႊတ္ေတာ္မ်ားအတြက္ စစ္တပ္ကိုယ္စားလွယ္ စုစုေပါင္း ၃၈၈ ဦး၏ အမည္စာရင္းအား ကာကြယ္ေရးဦးစီးခ်ဳပ္က ခန္႕အပ္ေၾကာင္း ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲေကာ္မရွင္ ဥကၠဌမွ လက္မွတ္ထိုးကာ ထုတ္ျပန္ေၾကညာလိုက္သည္။
* တိုင္းရင္းသား ေဒသမ်ား၏ စီးပြားေရး ဖြံ႕ျဖိဳးတိုးတက္မႈကို ေႏွင့္ေႏွးေစသျဖင့္ ႏိုင္ငံတကာက ျမန္မာ စစ္အစိုးရအေပၚ စီးပြားေရးပိတ္ဆို႕ ဒဏ္ခတ္မႈကို ရုတ္သိမ္းေပးရန္ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲဝင္ ရွမ္း၊ ရခိုင္၊ မြန္၊ ခ်င္းႏွင့္ ဖလံု-စေဝၚ စသည့္ တိုင္းရင္းသားပါတီတို႕က ေတာင္းဆိုလိုက္သည္ […]

Widespread Systematically Prepared Advance Voting Determined Winners

This report was produced by Burma International News (BNI) and provides information and comprehensive analysis of Election Day and other related events […]

Election Report, 2010 Myanmar (Burma) – Pre-Election Observations

The report covers a general overview of the election, the UEC, how many political parties are eligible to run, population statistics and eligible voters, political parties contesting in each state and reagions, influential candidates, problems faced by some parties […]

SPDC’s Military Conscription Law

According to the draft, men between the ages of 18 and 45 and women between the ages of 18 and 35 are required to serve the military. The maximum service period could be 2 or 3 years depending on the profession of citizen and requirement of the military, and citizens fail to serve without proper reasons could be sentenced up to 3 years imprisonment […]

Human Rights and Burma Election 2010

လူ႕အခြင့္အရး ကာကြယ္ျမွင့္တင္သူမ်ားကြန္ယက္ (HRDP) မွထုတ္ျပန္လိုက္ေသာ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲေလ့လာသံုးသပ္ေရး အစီရင္ခံစာသည္ ၂၀၁၀ ျမန္မာ့ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲကို ကာလသံုးပိုင္းခြဲကာ စစ္ေဆးသံုးသပ္ထားသည္ […]

Myanmar after the Elections: A Call for Essential Comprehensive Electoral Reform

In the statement, ANFREL provides recommendations regarding structural changes, voter registration, parties and candidates, campaign period, union election commission, media, and advance voting & the counting process […]

Silencing Dissent: The Ongoing Imprisonment of Burma’s Political Activists in the Lead up to the 2010 Elections

This AAPP’s report, Silencing Dissent, documents the ongoing imprisonment of political activists, individuals associated with activists, as well as ordinary civilians peacefully expressing their basic civil and political rights occurred during 2009 and 2010 […]

Burma Briefing No. 6: Aung San Suu Kyi

Aung San Suu Kyi has now spent more than 15 years in detention, most of it under house arrest. According to Burmese law, she must be released from her current period of detention on Saturday 13th November.

World leaders regularly express support for Aung San Suu Kyi and the struggle for human rights and democracy in Burma. However, when it comes to acting on requests from Aung San Suu Kyi for practical international support, they have been less forthcoming.

This briefing provides recommendations for action from the international community, whether or not Aung San Suu Kyi is released on 13th November […]

Burma Briefing No. 5: Burma’s Fake Election and the Post-Election Structure

While the international community has focused primarily on the process of the elections, this briefing analyses not only how the election process is unfair, but also how the military have brought in a new constitution which renders parliament powerless to bring in genuine democratic reform without military consent […]

Burma: A Violent Past to a Brutal Future

This report looks at the history of the junta-backed social organization, the Union Solidarity and Development Association (USDA), and its transformation to the political party, the Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP). It documents how the USDA’s legacy of violence, manipulation, domination, and repression has since been transferred to and continued by the USDP in their election campaigning […]