Press Release: Human Rights Violations in Burma’s 2010 Elections

The Network for Human Rights Documentation – Burma (ND-Burma) launches its post-election report, “Human Rights Violations in Burma’s 2010 Elections” online. The findings of this report demonstrate the elections-related human rights violations committed by the regime and its proxies during and just after the Election Day [...]

၂၀၁၀ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲ၏ မသမာမႈမ်ားကို ေဖာ္ထုတ္စုစည္းတင္ျပထားသည့္ အစီရင္ခံစာဆိုင္ရာ သတင္းထုတ္ျပန္ခ်က္

၂၀၁၀ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲ၏ မသမာမႈမ်ားကို ေဖာ္ထုတ္ဖြင့္ခ် စုစည္းတင္ျပထားေသာ အစီရင္ခံစာတေစာင္ကို “မတရားဆံုး မတရားမႈမ်ား” အမည္ျဖင့္ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံဒီမိုကရက္တစ္အင္အားစုမ်ားမွ ယေန႕ေန႕စြဲျဖင့္ ထုတ္ျပန္လိုက္ပါသည္။
ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံဒီမိုကရက္တစ္အင္အားစုအေနျဖင့္ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲအၾကိဳကာလအတြင္း နအဖစစ္အစိုးရႏွင့္ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲေကာ္မရွင္တို႕၏ ညစ္ပတ္မႈမ်ားႏွင့္ မေလ်ာ္ဩဇာသံုးမႈမ်ားကိုလည္း ၂၀၁၀ ခုႏွစ္၊ ႏိုဝင္ဘာ (၁) ရက္ေန႕က “ေကာက္က်စ္မႈအဖံုဖံု ညစ္နည္းစံု” အမည္ျဖင့္ အစီရင္ခံစာတေစာင္ ထုတ္ျပန္ခဲ့ျပီးျဖစ္ပါသည္ [...]

The Burma Fund UN Office Releases Comprehensive Election Report Documenting Widespread Political Repression and Human Rights Abuses

A report released by the Burma Fund UN Office for the opening of Burma’s first Parliament, documents the widespread political repression and human rights abuses marring the electoral process in the country’s first elections in more than 20 years. It shows that none of the fundamental requirements for free and fair elections exist in Burma, and instead of heralding in positive change, the elections brought about a deepening of Burma’s human rights crisis [..]

Review on the Flawed Election

[...] A review of the 2010 elections and the flawed results by 10 activist organizations inside Burma. The organizations conclude that the military system will continue to prevail in Burma because the post-election parliament will be dominated by the military and the junta-backed USDP. They propose tasks for the incoming parliament, pledge to continue to improve their coordination and cooperation to work in unity, and express their support for Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, the National League for Democracy and the Committee Representing People Parliament [...]

Myanmar after the Elections: A Call for Essential Comprehensive Electoral Reform

In the statement, ANFREKL provides recommendations regarding structural changes, voter registration, parties and candidates, campaign period, union election commission, media, and advance voting & the counting process [...]

Suu Kyi ‘ready for talks’ to resolve Burma’s problems

Burma’s pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi has told the BBC she is ready for talks with all groups to achieve national reconciliation[...]

Burma Border Clash Sends Thousands to Thailand After Election

Clashes between Burma’s army and a rebel ethnic group sent thousands fleeing across the border into Thailand a day after the country’s first elections in 20 years that excluded political prisoners and certain minorities.

Members of the Democratic Karen Buddhist Army, one of more than 30 ethnic armies based inside Burma, stormed the border crossing of Myawaddy yesterday during the election. As many as 5,000 people are staying in temporary camps set up by the Thai army after rebels threatened to set fire to the town, said Khin Ohmar, coordinator of the Burma Partnership, an umbrella organization of civil-society groups [...]

Ethnic Strife Hits Burma Border

Clashes between ethnic Karen rebels and Burmese government troops roiled an important border town and spurred an estimated 15,000 to flee to Thailand Monday, a day after the country’s first elections in two decades[...]

Burma protesters confront UN leader in Bangkok

Several dozen refugees and migrant workers from Burma defied threats of arrest and deportation to confront UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon during his brief visit to the Thai capital yesterday [...]

Khin Omar from the campaign group Burma Partnership told Mizzima that Ban’s performance on the Burma file was dreadful: “It is long past time for Ban Ki-moon to stop expressing concern and actually do something” [...]

Still Time to Make Election Inclusive, Says Ban

In a further plea for a “transparent and credible” election in Burma, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said in Bangkok on Tuesday: “It is not too late, even now, to make this election more inclusive” [...]

Khin Ohmar of the Burma Partnership told The Irrawaddy that the secretary-general’s words came too late to have any impact on the election.

“These are just the same soft words that have been spoken many times before,” she said. “The regime sees that these words mean nothing, as no action is ever taken.”