30 August – 5 September: USDP Dominates Election Candidate Lists

Political parties in Burma submitted their final candidate lists to the Union Election Commission on 30 August. While the Election Commission has until 10 September to formally approve of the candidates, informal reports about the candidate list do not appear promising.[…]

USDP Dominates Election Candidate Lists

Political parties in Burma submitted their final candidate lists to the Union Election Commission on 30 August. While the Election Commission has until 10 September to formally approve of the candidates, informal reports about the candidate list do not appear promising.[…]

Weekly Political Events Regarding the SPDC’s Election (032-2010)

ယခုအပတ္ NDD ၏သတင္းမွတ္တမ္းတြင္ –

* ျပည္ေထာင္စု ၾကံ့ခုိင္ေရးႏွင့္ ဖြံ႔ျဖိဳးေရးပါတီ USDP က ခ်င္းျပည္နယ္ ဖလမ္းျမိဳ႕နယ္တြင္မဲအေရအတြက္ သိရွိလုိသျဖင့္ ပါတီဝင္မ်ားထံမွ ၾကိဳတင္မဲစာရင္းေကာက္ယူမႈမ်ား ျပဳလုပ္ေနသည္ဟု ျမိဳ႕နယ္ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲေကာ္မရွင္အဖြဲ႔ဝင္တစ္ဦးက ေျပာသည္။

ဗဟိုေကာ္မတီ ကခ်င္အထူးေဒသ (၂ ) ေကအိုင္အို ၏ ထုပ္ျပန္ေၾကညာခ်က္

၁။ ေကအိုင္အို၏ ခံယူခ်က္ႏွင့္ ပန္းတိုင္သည္ ႏုိင္ငံေတာ္အတြင္း မွီတင္းေနထိုင္ၾကေသာ ျပည္သူလူထုတြင္ အခ်ဴပ္အျခာ အာဏာတည္၍ ေအးခ်မ္းသာယာျပီးဖြံ႔ျဖိဳးတိုးတက္ေသာ ႏိုင္ငံအျဖစ္တည္ရွိႏုိင္ရန္ ရည္ရြယ္သည္[…]

ASIAN Election Monitoring Organizations question unfair practices in the Burma Electoral process

From it’s position as a regional election observation group which supports the process of democratization through a free and fair electoral process, the Asian Network for Free Elections (ANFREL) considers it important to make its position clear in the larger interest of democracy in Burma. First and foremost, it must be made clear that election observation is possible only if the conditions provided are free and fair and are in sync with the international principles guiding a democratic electoral process.

In this context ANFREL and other election monitoring organizations within the ASEAN and also those that share similar concerns in Asia have called for a review of the election regulations, orders and practices on electoral contests, which pertains to respecting the basic rights of parties, candidates and voters […]

Burma Issues presents ‘Unheard Voices’ – documenting inside voices on the 2010 Elections

[…] In February and March Burma Issues’ video team and Karen Youth Organization went on a trip inside Burma. Armed with video cameras about the upcoming election in 2010 they tried to inform local people of their human rights to a free and fair election. On the course of the trip, the voices of those speaking about the 2010 elections were collected […]

23 – 29 August: The Emperor’s New Clothes?

In the latest of the recent series of resignations in the military, reports emerged on Friday that six top military officials resigned from their military posts, possibly including Senior General Than Shwe and his deputy, General Maung Aye. The reports have yet to be confirmed. However, if accurate, Than Shwe would remain the head of state until the end of the 2011 financial year, at which point he is expected to hand over power to the incoming elected government.[…]

The Emperor’s New Clothes?

In the latest of a series of resignations in the military, reports emerged on Friday that eight top military officials resigned from their military posts, possibly including Senior General Than Shwe and his deputy, General Maung Aye. The reports have yet to be confirmed. However, if accurate, Than Shwe would remain the head of state until the end of the 2011 financial year, at which point he is expected to hand over power to the incoming elected government […]

Weekly Political Events Regarding the SPDC’s Election (031-2010)

ယခုအပတ္ NDD ၏သတင္းမွတ္တမ္းတြင္ –

* ျပည္ေထာင္စု ၾက႔ံခုိင္ေရးႏွင့္ဖြ႔ံျဖိဳးေရးပါတီ USDP ကရခုိင္ျပည္နယ္အေနာက္ပိုိင္း ဘူးသီးေတာင္ႏွင့္ေမာင္းေတာ ျမိဳ႔႕နယ္ရွိ ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာမ်ားကို မက္လုံးေပးစည္းရုံးသည္႔အေနျဖင့္ ယာယီႏုိင္ငံသားမွတ္ပုံတင္ အျဖဴေရာင္ကတ္မ်ားအား ေငြက်ပ္ ၂၀၀၀ ျဖင္႔ထုတ္ေပးထားေသာ္လည္းခရီးသြားလာရာ တြင္ လြတ္လပ္မႈမရွိေၾကာင္း ရုိဟင္ဂ်ာအေရးေလ႔လာသူတစ္ဦးကေျပာ[…]

Weekly Political Events Regarding the SPDC’s Election (030-2010)

ယခုအပတ္ NDD ၏သတင္းမွတ္တမ္းတြင္ –

* ျပည္ေထာင္စု ၾကံ့ခုိင္ေရးႏွင့္ ဖြံ႔ၿဖိဳးေရးပါတီ USDP က ရန္ကုန္တုိင္း လွည္းကူးၿမိဳ႕နယ္ ဝါးရုံစြန္းရြာတြင္ ၾသဂုတ္လ ၁၃ ရက္ေန႔တြင္ ေဒသခံျပည္သူမ်ားအား ေငြေခ်း၍ မဲဆြယ္စည္းရုံးရာတြင္ ေက်းရြာအာဏာပိုင္မ်ားက လုိက္လံ ကူညီေပးေနေၾကာင္း ေဒသခံမ်ားကေျပာသည္
* အမ်ိဳးသာဒီမိုကေရစီအဖြဲ႔ခ်ဴပ္ NLDဗဟုိအလုပ္အမႈေဆာင္ အဖြဲ႔ဝင္ ဦးဥာဏ္ဝင္း ဦးေဆာင္ေသာအဖြဲ႕သည္ ၾသဂုတ္လ ၁၆ ရက္ေန႔က ဧရာဝတီတိုင္း ေကာ႔ေသာင္းျမိဳ႕သို႔ေရာက္ရွိကာ NLD အေနျဖင့္ ေရွ႕ဆက္၍ ပိုမိုက်စ္လစ္ခုိင္မာစြာ ရပ္တည္ႏုိင္ရန္အတြက္ ေဒသခံအဖြဲ႔ခ်ဴပ္ အဖြဲ႔ဝင္မ်ားႏွင္႔ ေတြ႔ဆုံေဆြးေႏြးဖလွယ္ခဲ႔ၾကသည္