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Posts Tagged ‘2010 Elections’ (301 found)

အမ်ိဳးသားဒီမိုကေရစီ အဖဲြ႔ခ်ဳပ္ သို႔ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံဒီမိုကရက္တစ္အင္အားစုမွအၾကံျပဳခ်က္

အၾကံျပဳစာထဲတြင္ အမ်ိဳးသားဒီမုိကေရစီအဖြဲ႔ခ်ဳပ္သည္ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံဒီမုိကေရစီတုိက္ပြဲ၏ ေခါင္းေဆာင္ပါတီျဖစ္သည့္ အျပင္ အမ်ိဳးသား ဒီမုိကေရစီအဖြဲ႔ခ်ဳပ္ အဖြဲ႔၀င္မ်ားႏွင့္ သက္ဆုိင္သည့္ ပါတီအဖြဲ႔အစည္းအျဖစ္သက္သက္သာမက ဒီမုိကေရစီအင္အားစု မ်ားႏွင့္ ျပည္သူတရပ္လုံးက ေထာက္ခံ၀န္းရံထားသည့္ ပါတီအျဖစ္ပါ ျပည္တြင္း၊ ျပည္ပ အင္အားစုအားလုံးက ယေန႔ အခ်ိန္အထိ လက္ခံထားေၾကာင္း ၊ နအဖ၏ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲ ဥပေဒမ်ားကို လုိက္နာၿပီး ပါတီမွတ္ပုံတင္ေရးကို စဥ္းစားေဆာင္ရြက္မည္ဆိုလွ်င္ ျဖစ္ေပၚလာမည့္ အက်ိဳးဆက္မ်ားကို ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံဒီမိုကရက္တစ္အင္အားစုမွ သုံးသပ္ခ်က္မ်ား စသည္မ်ားအပါအဝင္ အၾကံျပဳခ်က္ ၇ ခ်က္ကိုလည္းထည္းသြင္းေဖၚျပ ထားပါသည္။[…]

March 21, 2010  •  By Forum for Democracy in Burma  •  Tags: , , , ,  •  Read more ➤

Weekly Political Events Regarding the SPDC’s Election (008-2010)

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.[…]

March 21, 2010  •  By Network For Democracy and Development  •  Tags: , , , ,  •  Read more ➤

Burma’s Movement for Democracy and Ethnic Rights Launches Global Campaign Against 2010 Elections

In response to the military regime’s new election laws, Burma’s movement for democracy and rights of ethnic nationalities launched a global campaign today condemning the upcoming elections as shutting the door to any prospects for genuine democracy and national reconciliation. The Global Campaign Against Burma’s 2010 Military Elections calls on the international community to denounce these elections and refuse to recognize the results […]

March 19, 2010  •  By Ten Alliances  •  Tags: ,  •  Read more ➤

Our Position on Burma’s Military Election Laws

Our coalition of Ten Alliances strongly condemns the regime’s undemocratic election laws released last week and sees them as confirmation that upcoming polls will only serve to legitimize a military selection, and will in no way be genuinely democratic elections. […]

March 19, 2010  •  By Ten Alliances  •  Tags: , ,  •  Read more ➤

Burmese Democracy Activists Protest against the Electoral Laws Announced by the Military Regime

Today, over 200 Burmese democracy activists in India staged a protest rally at Janta Mantar, New Delhi against the undemocratic new electoral laws of the military regime for 2010 elections. On 8th March, the ruling State Peace and Development Council (SPDC) released five sets of new electoral laws to govern the upcoming elections in 2010, and the date is yet to be announced […]

March 17, 2010  •  By Burma Centre Delhi  •  Tags: , ,  •  Read more ➤

Italian Confederation of Workers Trade Union Condemns Junta’s Election Laws

The CISL harshly condemns the Burmese military junta and the unacceptable new election law that prohibits Burmese heroine Aung San Suu Kyi and the over 2,100 other political detainees from becoming candidates or voting in the upcoming elections.

This law is the tragic confirmation of the total lack of credibility of these elections […]

March 17, 2010  •  By Italian Confederation of Workers Trade Union  •  Tags: , ,  •  Read more ➤

Week 1: 2010 Election Watch (9-15 March)

Developments

  • The SPDC enacted five election laws. The SPDC Election Commission Law stated that the junta would handpick the new Election Commission (EC). The junta appointed a 17-member EC. The majority of the members are retired civil servants who served under the junta. The EC chairman Thein Soe is a former Major General who served as a military judge.[…]
  • March 17, 2010  •  By Altsean-Burma  •  Tags: , ,  •  Read more ➤

Letter to Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon

Your Excellency,

We, United Nationalities Alliance (UNA), have the honour to submit this letter of suggestions to help you put appropriate pressure on the State Peace and Development Council (SPDC) which has one‐sidedly promulgated the election laws which are not accordance with the UN’s suggestions. The laws are also against the opinions of international community and the actual desires of the people of Myanmar. […]

March 16, 2010  •  By United Nationalities Alliance  •  Tags: , ,  •  Read more ➤

Philipino activists set three conditions for polls in Burma

Pro-democracy activists in the Philippines, keen to see democracy being ushered into military ruled Burma, have set three conditions for the 2010 elections to be free and fair.

Egoy Bans, spokesperson of Free Burma Coalition-Philippines, a network of Philippino activists for Burma told Mizzima that ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations), the United Nations and the international community must work together to ensure three minimum conditions for Burma […]

March 16, 2010  •  Tags: ,  •  Read more ➤