Lithuanian Foreign Minister Talks to Burma/Myanmar Opposition Leader, Expresses Support for Democratic Forces

On 11 August on the initiative of Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Audronius Ažubalis a phone conversation with Burma/Myanmar opposition leader and Secretary General of the National League for Democracy Aung San Suu Kyi took place. During the conversation A.Ažubalis expressed support for democratic forces of Burma/Myanmar […]

Spirit of Resistance Strong as Activists Attend Large Public Gatherings on Martyrs’ Day

In a stirring reminder of the strength and resilience of pro-democracy and human rights movement in Burma, over 3,000 people marched in a public demonstration led by democracy leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi to commemorate Martyrs’ Day on 19 July in Rangoon.

The day marked the anniversary of the assassination of the independence hero General Aung San and his colleagues in 1947. Burma’s military regime has consistently sought to wipe General Aung San from public memory, not least because of the legacy that his daughter, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, continues to this day.

This year, sparked by Daw Aung San Suu Kyi’s presence, the National League for Democracy (NLD) and other pro democracy and ethnic rights organizations rallied over 3,000 people in a march towards the Martyrs’ Mausoleum, the largest public gathering in the country since the Saffron Revolution in 2007. The democracy leader visited the mausoleum twice; once in the regime organized ceremony, and the second as the leader of the public procession […]

Statement on the 64th Anniversary of Martyr’s Day

Today commemorates the 64th Anniversary of the Martyr’s day of the Union of Burma. The Martyr’s Day is an unforgettable day of mourning for the whole people of the country including the nationalities.

The thugs and the terrorists coveting the state power assassinated Bogyoke Aung San and other national leaders while they were ardently striving for the independence of the country […]

Daw Aung San Suu Kyi Travels Outside Rangoon Despite Regime’s Threats

Today, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi flew to the ancient city of Bagan in Mandalay Division for a personal trip with her son Kim Aris, marking her first time outside of Rangoon since her release from house arrest in November last year. The first of the leader’s planned trips, it came less than a week after the regime issued threats against Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and the National League for Democracy (NLD).

On 28 June, Daw Suu and NLD Chairman U Aung Shwe received a letter from the Ministry of Home Affairs pressuring the party to cease their “unlawful” activities. State-run New Light of Myanmar followed up the letter with a commentary quoting the threatening letter: “If they really want to accept and practice democracy effectively, they are to stop such acts that can harm peace and stability and the rule of law as well as the unity among the people including monks and service personnel.” […]

NLD Letter of Response to Ministry of Home Affairs Regarding the Party’s Legal Status

Burma’s Ministry of Home Affairs recently issued a letter claiming that Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and National League for Democracy’s activities are unlawful. The letter warned the party to stop engaging in activities against the regime. In response, the National League for Democracy (NLD) sent the following letter to the Ministry of Home Affairs. The NLD’s letter, with references to existing laws stated in 2008 Constitution, explains why the NLD is still a legally registered party. The letter also proposes a meeting with the Ministry of Home Affairs to discuss the rule of law in Burma […]

Burma Regime’s Threats to Suu Kyi a Sign of Ban’s Failure

Burma Campaign UK today condemned threats made by Burma’s dictatorship against Aung San Suu Kyi and her party, the National League for Democracy (NLD), and called on UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to abandon his ‘wait and see’ policy on Burma […]

ကခ်င္ျပည္နယ္တြင္ ျဖစ္ေပၚေနေသာ စစ္ပြဲမ်ားအေပၚ အမ်ဳိးသားဒီမိုကေရစီ အဖြဲ႕ခ်ဳပ္၏ ေၾကညာခ်က္

ယခုအခါ တပ္မေတာ္ႏွင့္ ကခ်င္ျပည္နယ္ အေျခစိုက္ KIA အဖြဲ႕တို႕သည္ အျပန္အလွန္ လက္နက္ၾကီးမ်ားျဖင့္ ပစ္ခတ္တိုက္ခိုက္ ၾကသျဖင့္ ထိခိုက္ႏွစ္နာ ဆံုးရႈံးမႈမ်ား၊ ေသေၾကပ်က္စီးမႈမ်ား ျဖစ္ေပၚေနေၾကာင္း လူေပါင္းေသာင္းဂဏန္းခ်ီျပီး အိမ္နီးခ်င္း တရုတ္ႏိုင္ငံသို႕ ထြက္ေျပးေနၾကရေၾကာင္း […]

NLD Statement Regarding Tourism in Burma

National League for Democracy (97/B), West Shwegondaing Road Bahan Township, Rangoon Statement No. 10/05/11 Burma is one of the largest countries in South East Asia and offers a sweeping variety of tourist attractions. Monuments of historical interest are to be found in the ancient cities of Sri Kestra, Pagan, Mrauk-U, Mandalay and Pegu. Much of […]

တရားဥပေဒစိုးမိုးေရးအတြက္ ႏိုင္ငံေတာ္သမၼတ ဦးသိန္းစိန္ထံေပးစာ

ႏိုင္ငံေတာ္ သမၼတ ဦးသိန္းစိန္ထံသို႕ အမ်ဳိးသားဒီမိုကေရစီအဖြဲ႕ခ်ဳပ္ ဒုတိယဥကၠ႒ ဦးတင္ဦးက ၂၀၁၁ ခုႏွစ္၊ ဧျပီလ ၅ ရက္ေန႕တြင္ စာအမွတ္ – ၀၂၈ (စည္း)/၀၄/၁၁ ျဖင့္ေပးပို႕ခဲ့ေသာ စာပါအေၾကာင္းအရာမ်ားကို အမ်ဳိးသားဒီမိုကေရစီ အဖြဲ႕ခ်ဳပ္ ဗဟိုအလုပ္အမႈေဆာင္အဖြဲ႕၏ […]

Burma 2011: Still a Military Dictatorship

Despite the convening of the newly elected Parliament, Burma’s ‘democratically-elected’ regime is nothing more than a disguised version of the military dictatorship that has ruled Burma for the past five decades […]