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Royce, Engel, Salmon, Sherman, Chabot, Crowley Condemn Arrests in Burma
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Today, Rep. Ed Royce (CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee; Rep. Eliot L. Engel (NY), the Committee’s ranking member; Reps. Matt Salmon (AZ) and Brad Sherman (CA), the chair and ranking member of the Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific; Rep. Steve Chabot (OH) former chair of the Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific; and Rep. Joe Crowley (NY), Democratic Caucus Vice-Chairman; made the following statement condemning recent arrests in Burma and the threats to freedom of expression in that country […]
• • •ျမန္မာ့တပ္မေတာ္စစ္ေၾကာင္း၏ ႏိုင္ထက္စီးနင္းထုိးေဖာက္တိုက္ခုိက္ေနမႈအေပၚ SSPP/SSA၏ သေဘာထားထုတ္ျပန္ခ်က္
သေဘာထားေၾကညာခ်က္ ျမန္မာဘာသာကို ဤေနရာတြင္ ေဒါင္းလုပ္ရယူႏိုင္ပါသည္။
• • •ကမာၻ႔ဒီမိုကေရစီ လူငယ္မ်ားေန႔အထိမ္းအမွတ္ ထုတ္ျပန္ေၾကညာခ်က္
ယေန႔သည္ ကမာၻ႔ဒီမိုကေရစီလူငယ္မ်ားေန႔ ျဖစ္ပါသည္။ ေက်ာင္းသားလူငယ္ မ်ား၏ ဒီမုိကရက္တစ္ အေတြးအေခၚပိုင္းဆုိင္ရာဗဟုသုတမ်ား၊ လူငယ္အစုအဖြဲ႔မ်ား အခ်င္းခ်င္း ပူးေပါင္းလုပ္ေဆာင္မႈမ်ားကို တုိးျမင့္လာေစရန္ႏွင့္ ခက္ခဲေသာ နိုင္ငံေရး အေျခအေနမ်ားကို ရင္ဆိုင္ေျဖရွင္းၿပီး တိုးတက္ဖြံ႔ၿဖိဳးလာေစရန္ ႏုိင္ငံတကာ စုစည္း ညီညြတ္မႈ ကြန္ယက္မ်ားမွ ေပၚေပါက္လာရျခင္း ျဖစ္ပါသည္[…]
• • •AAPP Demand the Release of Social Media Activists
The Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (AAPP) call for the immediate and unconditional release of Patrick Kum Jaa Lee and Chaw Sandi Tun who have been arrested and detained for mocking the Military on Facebook […]
• • •Human Rights Watch: Activists Charged for Mocking Military Online
(New York) – Burmese authorities should immediately release two people arrested this week for posting images on social media mocking the military, Human Rights Watch said today. The arrests took place in the run-up to the November 8, 2015 elections, with the military firmly in charge behind the scenes […]
• • •ASEAN parliamentarians warn of looming regional crisis resulting from systematic discrimination in Myanmar’s Rakhine State
BANGKOK, 16 October 2015 – Increasingly marginalized and desperate, Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar’s Rakhine State are being forced to flee in ever-greater numbers, exacerbating a regional crisis that ASEAN leaders are woefully ill prepared to cope with, ASEAN Parliamentarians for Human Rights (APHR) warned today […]
• • •Vice Chair Crowley Extremely Concerned About Burmese Government’s Arrest of Peaceful Activists
(Queens, NY) – Today, Rep. Joe Crowley (D-Queens, the Bronx), Vice Chair of the Democratic Caucus and a leader in the House of Representatives on Burma, released the following statement in response to the Burmese government’s arrest and charging of two peaceful activists for peacefully exercising their freedom of speech […]
• • •Disenfranchisement and Desperation in Myanmar’s Rakhine State: Drivers of a Regional Crisis
Political exclusion is exacerbating the already intense sense of desperation among Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar’s Rakhine State, and driving a regional crisis that ASEAN leaders are ill prepared to confront. Unless serious steps are taken to address the situation of deprivation and despair in Rakhine State, many Rohingya will have no other option but to flee in search of asylum elsewhere […]
Statement by Kawthoolei Armed Forces on signing NCA
Our First Karen President in history never signed to be a part of Burma, or a part of a Union to gain the Independence of Burma from the British. (Neither did the Arakan, Mon or Karenni) […]
• • •Statement by John Kirby, Spokesperson: Singing of the Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement in Burma
The United States commends all sides for their ongoing efforts to bring an end to the longest running civil conflict in the world. The signing of the text of the Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement ( NCA) by the government and eight ethnic armed groups is a critical first step in a long process of building a sustainable and just peace in Burma. We recognize that some groups were not able to sign today, and we understand and respect their concerns. We welcome their commitment to continue discussions within their communities and with the government about the necessary conditions for signing at a future date, and we urge the government to engage constructively in a dialogue with these groups to pursue a more inclusive peace […]
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