Over 100 ASEAN Legislators Petition for Tough Action on Myanmar’s Regime

The ASEAN Inter-Parliamentary Myanmar Caucus (AIPMC) has today communicated a message from lawmakers in the ASEAN region to ASEAN leaders attending the 16th ASEAN Summit in Hanoi, Vietnam to urgently take tough action on Myanmar’s military regime should its negotiations and engagement to obtain a clear and tangible commitment for a free and fair elections in the country fails.

105 Members of Parliament from Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Cambodia, and Singapore endorsed a petition urging discussion and robust action on the issue of Myanmar.[…]

Parliamentarians Issue Petition to ASEAN Leaders

To ASEAN Leaders attending 16th ASEAN Summit (Hanoi, Vietnam) to take action on the issue of Myanmar should further engagement fail to yield desirable concessions/ results.

On 8 March 2010, the military government of Myanmar published new laws governing the electoral process for the nation’s general elections planned for later this year. Numerous provisions in the laws guarantee that the elections will not be open and inclusive of Myanmar’s diverse population, notably excluding participation of Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, and Myanmar’s leading pro-democracy icon, Aung San Suu Kyi and other political prisoners who form a substantial share of the leadership of non-military-aligned movements and political parties. […]

Week 4: 2010 Elections Watch (30 March-5 April)

Developments

• Two members of the SPDC Election Commission are on the EU blacklist: 1) Deputy Supreme Court Judge Thein Soe, who serves as the Elections Commission Chairman; and 2) Supreme Court Judge Tin Aung Aye. On 31 March, the Election Commission held its fourth meeting in Naypyidaw. State-run newspaper New Light of Myanmar reported on the meeting but did not disclose details on what the Commission discussed. […]
April 7, 2010  •  By Altsean-Burma  •  Tags: 2010 Elections, Altsean-Burma  •  Read more ➤

Monthly Chronology Events March 2010

An extensive monthly chronology of events researched and distributed by the Network for Democracy and Development (NDD), a Burmese political organization based on the Thai-Burma border.

These chronologies include information on the activities of the SPDC and USDA, opposition groups, armed ethnic groups, cease-fire groups, international governments and non-governmental organizations, and civilians inside Burma and along its borders.[…]

Weekly Political Events Regarding the SPDC’s Election (010-2010)

The Network for Democracy and Development (NDD), a Burmese political organization based on the Thai-Burma border, is researching and distributing weekly reports summarizing political events in Burma regarding the SPDC’s Elections. These reports include information on the activities of the SPDC and USDA, opposition groups, armed ethnic groups, cease-fire groups, border guard forces, international governments and non-governmental organizations, and civilians inside Burma.[…]

Statement Regarding NLD’s Non-Participation in Burma’s National Elections

Canadian Friends of Burma would like to express its strong support for the National League for Democracy (NLD)’s decision not to take part in Burma’s elections.

We are calling on the Canadian government to likewise support the NLD’s decision and to condemn the new electoral laws set in place by the military junta earlier this year.[…]

အမ်ိဳးသားဒီမိုကေရစီအဖဲြ႔ခ်ဳပ္၏ ဆုံးျဖတ္ခ်က္ႏွင့္ လုပ္ငန္းစဥ္မ်ားအေပၚ ေထက္ခံဝန္းရံပူးေပါင္း ေဆာင္ရြက္ၾက

ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံဒီမိုကရက္တစ္ အင္အားစုမွ အမ်ဳိးသားဒီမိုကေရစီအဖြဲ႔ ခ်ဳပ္၏ ပါတီမွတ္ပုံမတင္ေရးဆုံးျဖတ္ခ်က္ ကို အျပည့္အဝေထာက္ခံေၾကာင္း ေၾကညာခ်က္ တခုထုတ္ျပန္ လုိက္ပါသည္။ ထုိထုတ္ျပန္ခ်က္ထဲတြင္ ျပည္တြင္းျပည္ပ အင္အားစုမ်ား ႏုိင္ငံတကာမိသားစုမ်ားႏွင့္ လူမ်ဳိးစုံျမန္မာျပည္သူတရပ္လုံး အေနျဖင့္ မိမိတို၏ ေရွ႕ရွိ ပိတ္ဆုိ႔ တားဆီးေနမႈမွန္သမွ်ကို အမ်ိဳးသားဒီမုိကေရစီ အဖဲြ႔ခ်ဳပ္နဲ႔အတူ ေဖာက္ထြက္ေက်ာ္လႊားျပီး မိမိတုိ႔၏ေမွ်ာ္မွန္းခ်က္မ်ား အျပည္႔အဝ အေကာင္အထည္ေဖာ္ ႏိုင္သည္ အထိ လက္တဲြ ဝန္းရံပူးေပါင္းေဆာင္ရြက္ ေပးၾကပါရန္ အေလးအနက္ တိုက္တြန္းပန္ၾကားခ်က္မ်ားလည္းပါဝင္ပါသည္။[…]

Week 3: 2010 Elections Watch (23-29 March)

Developments The NLD announced it would not register as a political party to contest the upcoming elections. NLD spokesman Nyan Win said the party decided not to register because the SPDC election laws were “unfair and unjust.” Burma’s Supreme Court refused to accept the NLD’s legal challenge to the SPDC election laws saying it did […]

Statement Affirming Full Support for Decision of NLD

1. We the Karen National Union (KNU) earnestly and fully support decision of the National League for Democracy (NLD) not to register as a political party under the unjust laws and 2008 constitution of the SPDC military regime and thus to boycott the upcoming elections.

2. The decision of NLD, which is supported by an overwhelming majority of the people of Burma, is the decision of the people […]

Support for the NLD’s Decision to not Register Under Unjust Laws

Yesterday, the National League for Democracy (NLD) decided that it would not register as a political party under the junta’s unjust laws and flawed constitution. One hundred and thirteen Central Committee members from across Burma took the decision unanimously […]