Burmese Regime Continues Brutal Campaign Against Ethnic Civilians

Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW) is concerned by reports that despite the welcome release of Burma’s democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, and a high-level visit by UN Burma envoy Vijay Nambiar, the regime continues to perpetrate grave violations of human rights against ethnic civilians, including military attacks and forced labour […]

Burma’s Elections Marked by Violence, Intimidation and Ethnic Inequality

Burma’s November elections took place in an environment marred by widespread violence and intimidation as the regime sought to exploit the pervasive climate of fear in Burma to ensure complete control over the electoral process. Intimidation and threats were carried out in the lead up to the elections, in order to ensure a lack of a viable political opposition and to guarantee ‘popular support’ for regime-backed parties. These threats proved to be largely successful, and when they were not, the regime often followed up the threats with repercussions. Such election related human rights violations took place across the country, but were noticeably worse in ethnic areas, highlighting the regime’s long-standing policy of ethnic discrimination and persecution. This disregard for ethnic rights has translated in heightened tension between ethnic communities and the central regime, and an associated risk of increased armed conflict in ethnic areas.[…]

More Steps Needed for Genuine Democracy and Reconciliation in Burma

The Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development (FORUM-ASIA) celebrates with the rest of the world the return to freedom of Aung San Suu Kyi, with the end of her house arrest on 13 November. Aung San Suu Kyi is an important symbol not only to the people of Burma, but to all Asians struggling for democracy through peaceful means against military and authoritarian rule. Her steadfastness in struggle, despite the military regime’s attempts to silence and imprison her for 15 of the past 21 years, has been nothing less than inspirational for human rights defenders across the region […]

Kuki National Organisation Felicitates Release of Aung San Suu Kyi

The Kuki National Organisation welcomes the release of Daw Aung san Suu Kyi by the Military Junta of Myanmar (Burma). KNO sincerely hopes this is an event that will herald genuine National reconciliation and democracy in Burma and mark a new beginning which will usher in peace and prosperity to all its citizens, including the Kuki people […]

Key Stakeholders Explore the Reality on the Ground of Burma’s Military Elections

Speakers representing central stakeholders in Burma spoke today about how the elections next Sunday will not improve the situation on the ground in Burma. They spoke about the junta-backed Union Solidarity and Development Party’s (USDP) manipulation of the polls, the National League for Democracy’s ongoing efforts for genuine democracy, escalating attacks against ethnic nationalities and the resistance of students and youths against the upcoming elections […]

Weekly Political Events Regarding the SPDC’s Election (040-2010)

In this week’s report, you will find:

• UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon demanded the SPDC regime again on October 29 to free all political prisoners and open the way to national reconciliation, saying that it was not late yet to carry out genuine democratization in Burma.

• Local authorities and SPDC army joined hands to extort money through Naungpein village tract headmen on the pretext of polling-station construction and military outpost fencing, local residents reported.

ယခုအပတ္ NDD ၏သတင္းမွတ္တမ္းတြင္ –

• ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံတြင္ စစ္မွန္သည့္ဒီမိုကေရစီအသြင္ကူးေျပာင္းေရးအတြက္ လုပ္ေဆာင္ရန္ အခ်ိန္မေႏွာင္းေသးေၾကာင္း၊ စစ္အစိုးရအေနျဖင့္ ႏိုင္ငံေရးအက်ဥ္းသားအားလံုးကို ျပန္လႊတ္ေပးျပီး အမ်ဳိးသား ျပန္လည္ရင္ၾကားေစ့ေရးအတြက္ လမ္းဖြင့္ေပးရန္ ကုလသမဂၢ အတြင္းေရးမွဴးခ်ဳပ္ ဘန္ကီမြန္းက ေအာက္တိုဘာ ၂၉ ရက္ေန႕တြင္ ထပ္မံတိုက္တြန္း ေတာင္းဆိုလိုက္သည္။ […]

Weekly Political Events Regarding the SPDC’s Election (035-2010)

ယခုအပတ္ NDD ၏သတင္းမွတ္တမ္းတြင္ –

* ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲေကာ္မရွင္မွ မဲဆႏၵေပးပိုင္ခြင္႔စာရင္း ထုတ္ျပန္ရာတြင္ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ေနထုိင္ရာ ဗဟန္းၿမိဳ႕နယ္ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲေကာ္မရွင္၏ မဲေပးခြင့္စာရင္းတြင္ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ အမည္ပါဝင္ျခင္းမရွိဟု ရန္ကုန္မွလာသည္႔ AP သတင္းတြင္ ေဖာ္ျပထားသည္။ […]

Weekly Political Events Regarding the SPDC’s Election (034-2010)

ယခုအပတ္ NDD ၏သတင္းမွတ္တမ္းတြင္ –

* ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲ အၿပီးတြင္ နအဖကာကြယ္ေရးဝန္ၾကီးဌာန လက္ေအာက္ရွိ ျမဝတီစာေပႏွင့္ ပုံႏွိတ္ထုတ္ေဝေရး လုပ္ငန္းမွ ျမဝတီသတင္းစာ အပါအဝင္ ေန႔စဥ္ထုတ္သတင္းစာ ၃ေစာင္ခန္႔ထုတ္ေဝရန္ စီစဥ္ေနေၾကာင္း ျပည္တြင္းသတင္းဂ်ာနယ္အသိုင္းအဝန္းမွဆိုသည္
* ကရင္ျပည္နယ္ ေျမာက္ပိုင္း၊ ေညာင္ေလးပင္ခရုိင္၊ ေက်ာက္ၾကီးၿမိဳ႕နယ္ မေထာကုန္းေက်းရြာ အနီးတြင္ ကရင္အမိ်ဴးသာ လြတ္ေျမာက္ေရးတပ္မေတာ္ KNLA တပ္ရင္း (၉) ႏွင့္ နအဖစစ္ ကြပ္ကဲေရးဌာနခ်ဴပ္ စကခ (၁၆)မွ ေျခလ်င္ တပ္ရင္း ခလရ (၂၄၂)တို႔ တိုက္ပြဲဲျဖစ္ပါြးခဲ႔ရာ နအဖဘက္မွ ထိခုိက္ေသဆုံးမႈရွိေသာေၾကာင့္ ေဒသခံရြာသား ၂၆ ဦးကို ဖမ္းဆီးႏိွပ္စက္ေနေၾကာင္း ေဒသခံတစ္ဦးကေျပာသည္ […]

Myanmar deprives ‘millions’ of vote in ethnic areas

Myanmar is scrapping voting in swathes of insurgency-plagued ethnic areas in its first election in two decades — a move criticised as excluding millions from a poll already seen as undemocratic.[…]

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။