China’s Myanmar Strategy: Elections, Ethnic Politics and Economics

As Myanmar approaches its first elections in two decades, China’s primary concerns are the security and stability of its south-western border and protecting its strategic and economic interests in the country […]

Election Commission Wipes Away Opposition

On 14 September, the Union Election Commission (EC) officially announced the dissolution of the National League for Democracy and nine other political parties. The NLD and five other political parties – the Union Pao National Organization, the Shan Nationalities League for Democracy Party, the Shan State Kokang Democratic Party, and the Wa National Development Party – were dissolved because they failed to re-register under section 25 of the junta’s Political Parties’ Registration Law. An additional five political parties were banned because they failed to meet the minimum candidate requirements.

State-run media that carried the news of the dissolutions also accused the NLD of “attempting to mislead the people into misunderstanding the law” […]

13-19 September: Election Commission Wipes Away Opposition

On 14 September, the Union Election Commission (EC) officially announced the dissolution of the National League for Democracy and nine other political parties. The NLD and five other political parties – the Union Pao National Organization, the Shan Nationalities League for Democracy Party, the Shan State Kokang Democratic Party, and the Wa National Development Party – were dissolved because they failed to re-register under section 25 of the junta’s Political Parties’ Registration Law. An additional five political parties were banned because they failed to meet the minimum candidate requirements.

State-run media that carried the news of the dissolutions also accused the NLD of “attempting to mislead the people into misunderstanding the law” […]

It Is AICHR’s Turn to Move Forward to Promote and Protect Human Rights in Southeast Asia

On the issue of Burma, we remain deeply concerned that AICHR has stayed silent on the ongoing widespread and systematic violations of human rights that constitute crimes against humanity and war crimes, as defined by international law. These violations include torture, extrajudicial killings, sexual violence, forced labour and the recruitment of child soldiers, and are committed in a pervasive culture of impunity […]

Honoring Win Maw Oo and Commemoration of the Gallantry Heroes

Burmese protest against the “2010 Military Selection”

Today, 19th September is the 22nd death anniversary of Ms Win Maw Oo and gallantry heroes of Burma in their defiance against the brutal military regime. We, democracy activists of Burma, commemorate today as “Win Maw Oo Day” by honoring her exemplary courage […]

Weekly Political Events Regarding the SPDC’s Election (034-2010)

ယခုအပတ္ NDD ၏သတင္းမွတ္တမ္းတြင္ –

* ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲ အၿပီးတြင္ နအဖကာကြယ္ေရးဝန္ၾကီးဌာန လက္ေအာက္ရွိ ျမဝတီစာေပႏွင့္ ပုံႏွိတ္ထုတ္ေဝေရး လုပ္ငန္းမွ ျမဝတီသတင္းစာ အပါအဝင္ ေန႔စဥ္ထုတ္သတင္းစာ ၃ေစာင္ခန္႔ထုတ္ေဝရန္ စီစဥ္ေနေၾကာင္း ျပည္တြင္းသတင္းဂ်ာနယ္အသိုင္းအဝန္းမွဆိုသည္
* ကရင္ျပည္နယ္ ေျမာက္ပိုင္း၊ ေညာင္ေလးပင္ခရုိင္၊ ေက်ာက္ၾကီးၿမိဳ႕နယ္ မေထာကုန္းေက်းရြာ အနီးတြင္ ကရင္အမိ်ဴးသာ လြတ္ေျမာက္ေရးတပ္မေတာ္ KNLA တပ္ရင္း (၉) ႏွင့္ နအဖစစ္ ကြပ္ကဲေရးဌာနခ်ဴပ္ စကခ (၁၆)မွ ေျခလ်င္ တပ္ရင္း ခလရ (၂၄၂)တို႔ တိုက္ပြဲဲျဖစ္ပါြးခဲ႔ရာ နအဖဘက္မွ ထိခုိက္ေသဆုံးမႈရွိေသာေၾကာင့္ ေဒသခံရြာသား ၂၆ ဦးကို ဖမ္းဆီးႏိွပ္စက္ေနေၾကာင္း ေဒသခံတစ္ဦးကေျပာသည္ […]

Myanmar deprives ‘millions’ of vote in ethnic areas

Myanmar is scrapping voting in swathes of insurgency-plagued ethnic areas in its first election in two decades — a move criticised as excluding millions from a poll already seen as undemocratic.[…]

Canada Concerned by Dissolution of Political Parties in Burma

“Canada is disappointed that Burma’s military regime has reached a new low in its failure to live up to its democratic promises. The dissolution of the NLD and nine other political parties further illustrates the regime’s systematic disregard for the basic principles of democracy […]

Indiana University expert: Don’t pin hopes on Burma’s upcoming elections

The international community will be making a mistake if it focuses on encouraging Burma’s military government to hold “free and fair” elections in November, says an Indiana University law professor who has advised the Asian nation’s ethnic opposition groups.

Marching for Peace/Opposing the Elections in Burma on the International Day of Peace

Following successful gatherings in Mae Sot, The Best Friend Education Project will be holding the inaugural “Walk for Peace” in Chiang Mai on Tuesday 21 September 2010, the International Day of Peace. All members of the Burmese and international community are welcome to join […]