Today marks Union Day, the anniversary of the signature of the Panglong Agreement that was designed to bring together the ethnic groups into the federal Union of Burma. Sixty-three years later, ethnic groups throughout the country are still struggling for equality, federalism, and an end to human rights violations in their communities under the repressive […]
• • •Today, February 12, marks the 63rd anniversary of the Union Day of Burma. To commemorate this important date, Free Burma Campaign Singapore (FBCSG) is issuing a statement with regards to the upcoming 2010 elections. We call upon the regime to respect the voices and choices of the people by carrying out a free and fair […]
• • •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 […]
• • •People in Hong Kong and Burma have been demanding democracy since 1988. Two decades have passed, and we are still denied the right to change the regime through our votes. In Hong Kong, the government is currently conducting a public consultation for election methods to choose the chief executive and Legislative Council with the proposal […]
• • •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 […]
• • •A summary of events inside Burma during the period of November 2009 to January 2010, focusing on the elections, the military, ethnic nationality armies and more. Download the Update
• • •It is almost likely that general elections will take place in fall 2010 in Burma. Many political parties, including NLD, Democratic Party, USDA and ethnic organizations, are looking forward to seeing the electoral law, which will set up the criteria for submitting the candidatures. Democratic leaders have publicly expressed positions closed to the NLD Shwegondaing […]
• • •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 […]
• • •နအဖစစ္အစိုးရ က်င္းပေပးမည္ဆုိသည္႔ ၂၀၁၀ ေရြးေကာက္ပဲြသည္ မက်င္းပမီကပင္ လြပ္လပ္မႈ၊ တရားမွ်တမႈမရွိေၾကာင္းကို ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံေရွ႕ေနမ်ားေကာင္စီမွ သုံးသပ္ထုပ္ျပန္ခ်က္ စာတမ္းတေစာင္ ထုပ္ျပန္လုိက္ပါသည္။ ထုိထုပ္ျပန္ခ်က္တြင္ အမ်ိဳးသားညီလာခံ၊ ဖဲြ႔စည္းအုပ္ခ်ဴပ္ပုံအေျခခံဥပေဒ (မူၾကမ္း) ႏွင့္ လူထုဆႏၵခံယူပဲြတုိ႔အေပၚ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံ ေရွ႕ေနမ်ားေကာင္စီ၏ အျမင္သေဘားထား၊ ၂၀၁၀ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲႏွင့္ဆက္လ်ဥ္း၍ နအဖစစ္အစိုးရ၏ သေဘာထား၊ ေရြးေကာက္ပဲြဥပေဒႏွင္း စပ္လ်ဥ္း ၍ နအဖ ဝန္ၾကီးခ်ဳပ္၏ ေျပာၾကားခ်က္၊ လြပ္လပ္၍ တရားမွ်တေသာ ေရြးေကာက္ပဲြ တရပ္ က်င္းပႏိုင္ရန္ လုိအပ္သည္႔ ဥပေဒအေျခခံလုပ္ထုံးလုပ္နည္းမ်ား၊ နအဖ စစ္အစိုးရႏွင့္ လက္ေအာက္ခံ အဖြဲ႔အစည္းမ်ား၏ လႈပ္ရွားေဆာင္ရြက္ေနမႈမ်ား အစရွိသည့္အခ်က္မ်ား ႏွင့္ သုံးသက္ခ်က္မ်ား ကိုေဖာ္ျပထားပါသည္။ […]
• • •# Today is an important day for the Palaung Nation because it marks 47 years of resistance against the dictatorship of the State Peace and Development Council.
# We appreciate and respect all those Palaung civilians, leaders, and comrades who have given their lives and blood for our struggle during the last 47 years.[…]