Burma Update: NLD Will Not Register; Daw Aung San Suu Kyi’s Six-Point Message

Burma’s largest political party, National League for Democracy (NLD) this afternoon decided not to register with the Election Commission for its continued existence in view of the unjust and unfair election laws recently promulgated by the military junta, chief spokesman of the NLD U Nyan Win told newsmen […]

NLD Reject Burma Elections – UN Must Restart Dialogue Efforts

As the National League for Democracy (NLD) announced that elections laws are so unjust that it will not register as a party to be able to take part, Burma Campaign UK today called on UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to stop trying to persuade Burma’s generals to reform elections designed to maintain military rule. Instead the United Nations should renew efforts to force Burma’s generals to enter into dialogue with the NLD and genuine ethnic representatives […]

Indonesian Foreign Minister’s Trip Should Promote Rights

Indonesia’s foreign minister should stress to Burma’s military government that drastic reforms are needed if the elections this year are to be credible, Human Rights Watch said in a letter today to Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa, who is visiting Burma on March 30 […]

Weekly Political Events Regarding the SPDC’s Election (009-2010)

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.[…]

G8 Summit should tackle Burma rights crisis

Members of the Group of Eight (G8) industrialized nations should put Burma on the agenda of the G8 Summit in Toronto in June, Human Rights Watch said in a letter to foreign ministers of G8 countries today. The foreign ministers of G8 countries are meeting March 29 and 30, 2010, in Gatineau, Quebec to discuss major issues affecting international security and finalize the summit’s agenda.[…]

အေမရိကန္ ျပည္္ေထာင္စုကယ္လီဖိုးနီယီယား ျပည္နယ္ ေလာ့စ္အိန္ဂ်လိစ္ ျမိဳ႕ေန ျမန္မာ မဲဆႏၵရွင္ မိသားစုမုမုမ်ား၏ အမ်ိဳးသားဒီမိုိုကေရစီ အဖ႔ဲြ႔ဲြခ်ဳပ္ ၂၀၁၀ ျပည့္ေရြးေကာက္ပဲြ ၀င္္ေရး / မ၀င္္ေရးအေပၚ သေဘာထား

၁။ ျပည္ပေရာက္ ျမန္မာမိသားစုမ်ားသည္ ၁၉၉၀ ျပည္႔ႏွစ္ ေရြးေကာက္ပဲြတြင္အမ်ိဳးသားဒီမိုကေရစီ အဖြဲ႔ခ်ဳပ္ အႏိုင္ရရွိေရးအတြက္ အင္တိုက္အားတိုက္ ဆႏၵျပဳခဲ႔ေသာ မဲဆႏၵရွင္မ်ား ျဖစ္ၾကပါသည္။ ထိုမဲဆႏၵရွင္မ်ားသည္ ယခု ၂၀၁၀ အထိ အဖြဲ႕ခ ်ဳပ္ကိုအစဥ္တစိုက္ ၀န္းရံေနၾကသည္။

၂။ ျပည္တြင္း ျပည္ပ အဖြဲ႔အစည္းအသီးသီးက တခဲနက္ ေထာက္ခံထားေသာ ေရႊဂုံတိုင္ ေၾကျငာခ်က္ပါ အခ်က္အလက္မ်ားကို အဖြဲ႔ခ်ဳပ္အေနႏွင္႔ ခၽြင္းခ်က္မရွိ လိုက္နာ က်င္႔သုံးသင္႔သည္ဟု ယုံၾကည္သည္။[…]

အေမရိကန္ျပည္ေထာင္စု၊ ကယ္လီဖိုးနီးယားျပည္နယ္ ဆန္ဖရန္စစၥကို ေဘးဧရိယာ ျမန္မာျပည္သားမ်ား၏ အမ်ဳိးသားဒီမိုကေရစီအဖြဲ႔ခ်ဳပ္အေပၚ သေဘာထား

အေမရိကန္ျပည္ေထာင္စု ဆန္ဖရန္စစၥကို ေဘးဧရိယာတြင္ ေရာက္ရွိေနေသာ မိမိတို႔သည္ ၁၉၉၀ ျပည့္ႏွစ္ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲ၌ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ ဦးေဆာင္ေသာ အမ်ိဳးသားဒီမိုကေရစီအဖြဲ႔ခ်ဳပ္ကို ေထာက္ခံဆႏၵမဲ ေပးခဲ့ၾကသူမ်ား ျဖစ္ပါသည္။ ယေန႔ထိတိုင္လည္း ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ ဦးေဆာင္ေသာ အမ်ိဳးသားဒီမိုကေရစီအဖြဲ႔ခ်ဳပ္ကို ေထာက္ခံအားေပး ၀န္းရံလ်က္ရွိပါသည္။[…]

15 More Parties to Register

Fifteen parties have confirmed that they will register for this year’s election.

The parties will join two other political organizations—the Union of Myanmar Federation of National Politics (formerly known as the Union of Myanmar National Political Force) and the 88 Generation Student Youths (Union of Myanmar)—that registered on Monday to contest the election. […]

Week 2: 2010 Election Watch (16-22 March)

Developments

• The SPDC Election Commission issued the Political Parties Registration Bylaws. According to the Bylaws, political parties will have to pay 300,000 kyat (US$300) to register while each candidate will be charged 500,000 kyat (US$500). Each candidate will have a 10 million kyat (US$10,000) limit for campaign expenditures. […]
March 24, 2010  •  By Altsean-Burma  •  Tags: 2010 Elections, Altsean-Burma, Election Laws  •  Read more ➤

The Role of Political Prisoners in the National Reconciliation Process

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

For decades, the people of Burma have been striving for peace, democracy and the full realization of their human rights. Recognizing this goal, political parties like the National League for Democracy (NLD) and ethnic nationality groups have attempted to engage in a process of national reconciliation, but the ruling military regime (known as the State Peace and Development Council, SPDC) has resisted this at every turn. At its heart, ‘national reconciliation’ is resolution of the conflicts brought about by the struggle for democracy, human rights, equality, and self-determination that have been ongoing since independence. Burma’s 2,100 plus political prisoners represent that struggle, yet the SPDC continues to deny their existence.[…]