Timely Report Documents the Transformation of Burma’s Military Regime’s Paramilitary Organization to Political Party

The Network for Democracy and Development (NDD) released a report today entitled, “Burma: A Violent Past to a Brutal Future; The Transformation of a Paramilitary Organization into a Political Party.” The report looks at the history of the junta-backed social organization, the Union Solidarity and Development Association (USDA), and its transformation to the political party, the Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP).

The report’s release comes in the final week before the first elections in Burma in 20 years, polls that have been widely criticized as being not free or fair […]

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 (039-2010)

ထိုင္း-ျမန္မာ နယ္စပ္အေျခ စိုက္ႏုိင္ငံေရးအဖြဲ႔အစည္းတခုျဖစ္ေသာ Network for Democracy and Development (NDD) သတင္းႏွင္႔သုေတသနဌာနမွ နအဖ၏ လာမည့္ေရြးေကာက္ပဲြႏွင့္ စပ္လ်ဉ္း၍ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံ၏ ႏိုင္ငံေရးအေျခေန အျဖစ္အျပက္္မ်ားကုိ အပတ္စဥ္ ရွာေဖြ စုစည္း ျဖန္႔ေဝလွ်က္ ရွိပါသည္။ ထိုအပတ္စဥ္ မွတ္တမ္းတြင္ နအဖႏွင့္ ၾကံ့ဖြ႔ံ တို႔၏ လႈပ္ရွားမႈ သတင္းအခ်က္အလက္မ်ား အပါအဝင္ ေတာ္လွန္ေရး အဖြဲ႔မ်ား၊ တုိင္းရင္းသားလက္နက္ကုိင္အဖဲြ႔မ်ား၊ လက္နက္ႏွင္႔ ျငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရး လဲလွယ္ထားေသာ အဖဲြ႔မ်ား၊ ႏိုင္ငံတကာ အစိုးရ ႏွင္႔ အစိုးရမဟုတ္ေသာ အဖဲြ႔အစည္းမ်ား၊ ျပန္တြင္းျပည္ပမွ ျပည္သူလူထုတုိ႔၏ လႈပ္ရွားမႈ မ်ားႏွင္႔ သတင္းအခ်က္အလက္မ်ားကိုလည္း ျပည္႔စုံစြာ စုစည္းတင္ၿပထားပါသည္။ […]

Weekly Political Events Regarding the SPDC’s Election (038-2010)

In this week’s report, you will find:

• A source close to local authorities of Muse District, Northern Shan State, said that setting up poll stations will be completed by 25th October 2010 as the elections nears.
• Daw Bauk Ja, who has been assisting 17 farmers who sued Yuzana construction company for eviction of the farmers from their land without full compensation, said that a court in Phakant District of Kachin State has made a decision to exonerate Yuzana company chairman U Htay Myint from prosecution. U Htay Myint is contesting in the upcoming elections as one of the Union Solidarity and Development Party candidates […]

Weekly Political Events Regarding the SPDC’s Election (037-2010)

In this week’s report, you will find:

• A Bassein resident said that authorites furiously removed campaign posters illustrated with Daw Aung San Suu Kyi photo and contents say peoples have right not to vote in Bassein’s Boganauk market, Seingone ferry, and Shwetheiloo market.
• A campaign officer of All Mon Region Democracy Party said that their party members were summoned and stopped to carry out elections campaign in the villages by a head of Village Peace and Development Council who was apparently asked by Union Solidarity Development Party given the reason that it is not the time to do so […]

Weekly Political Events Regarding the SPDC’s Election (036-2010)

ထိုင္း-ျမန္မာ နယ္စပ္အေျခ စိုက္ႏုိင္ငံေရးအဖြဲ႔အစည္းတခုျဖစ္ေသာ Network for Democracy and Development (NDD) သတင္းႏွင္႔သုေတသနဌာနမွ နအဖ၏ လာမည့္ေရြးေကာက္ပဲြႏွင့္ စပ္လ်ဉ္း၍ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံ၏ ႏိုင္ငံေရးအေျခေန အျဖစ္အျပက္္မ်ားကုိ အပတ္စဥ္ ရွာေဖြ စုစည္း ျဖန္႔ေဝလွ်က္ ရွိပါသည္။ ထိုအပတ္စဥ္ မွတ္တမ္းတြင္ နအဖႏွင့္ ၾကံ့ဖြ႔ံ တို႔၏ လႈပ္ရွားမႈ သတင္းအခ်က္အလက္မ်ား အပါအဝင္ ေတာ္လွန္ေရး အဖြဲ႔မ်ား၊ တုိင္းရင္းသားလက္နက္ကုိင္အဖဲြ႔မ်ား၊ လက္နက္ႏွင္႔ ျငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရး လဲလွယ္ထားေသာ အဖဲြ႔မ်ား၊ ႏိုင္ငံတကာ အစိုးရ ႏွင္႔ အစိုးရမဟုတ္ေသာ အဖဲြ႔အစည္းမ်ား၊ ျပန္တြင္းျပည္ပမွ ျပည္သူလူထုတုိ႔၏ လႈပ္ရွားမႈ မ်ားႏွင္႔ သတင္းအခ်က္အလက္မ်ားကိုလည္း ျပည္႔စုံစြာ စုစည္းတင္ၿပထားပါသည္။ […]

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 […]

Weekly Political Events Regarding the SPDC’s Election (033-2010)

ယခုအပတ္ NDD ၏သတင္းမွတ္တမ္းတြင္ –

* ျပည္ေထာင္စု ၾကံ့ခုိင္ေရးႏွင့္ဖံြ႕ျဖိဳးေရးပါတီ USDP ႏွင့္ တိုင္းရင္းသားစည္းလုံးညီညြတ္ေရးပါတီ NUP တုိ႔သည္ မဲဆႏၵနယ္အမ်ားစုတြင္ အဓိကျပိဳင္ဘက္မ်ားျဖစ္လာေၾကာင္း ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲဝင္မည္႔ႏိုင္ငံေရး သမားမ်ားႏွင့္ ႏိုင္ငံေရးေလ႔လာသုံးသပ္သူမ်ားကေျပာသည္။ […]

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။