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Posts Tagged ‘ASEAN’
It’s time ASEAN and the UN step up to the task: Investigate abuses, reject election and support Aung San Suu Kyi, urges AIPMC
The release of Aung San Suu Kyi offers new hope for Myanmar. But her release does not solve any of the fundamental problems in the country. The world must continue to work for the freedom of the people of Myanmar.
Another 2,200 political prisoners remain behind bars. Last week’s election reignited ethnic tensions and triggered fresh fighting along the Thai-Myanmar border. Any return to fighting increases the risk of fresh human rights abuses primarily targeting the country’s ethnic nationalities and of new waves of refugees being forced to leave their homes for safety [...]
| |Week 35: 2010 Election Watch (2-8 November)
Developments
Widespread evidence of electoral fraud, irregularities, threats, harassment, and lack of independent monitoring characterized Election Day and the days leading up to it [...]
| |TACDB Expresses Its Severe Disappointment in ASEAN and Implores It to Re-Examine Its Approach to Burma’s Junta
The Thai Action Committee for Democracy in Burma (TACDB) wishes to express its extreme disappointment in the Association of South East Asian Nations’s (ASEAN) embrace of the severely flawed election in Burma. By doing so, ASEAN’s Secretary General Surin Pitsuwan and the members of ASEAN have put the priorities of the Burma Junta above those of the people of Burma. Their willingness to accept the results so quickly reveals badly misinterpretation of democracy [...]
| |Sham Election in Burma Must be Rejected
Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development (FORUM-ASIA) denounces the statement of Vietnam, the current ASEAN Chair, welcoming the election in Burma as “a significant step forward in the implementation of the 7-point Roadmap for Democracy”[...]
| |Week 29: 2010 Election Watch (21-27 September)
Developments
- The SPDC Election Commission rejected the transcripts for the TV and radio campaign messages of the Union of Myanmar Federation of National Politics, the 88 Generation Student Youths (Union of Myanmar), and the Democratic Party (Myanmar) [...]
Junta designed poll date ‘to keep Suu Kyi at bay’
The Burmese junta’s choice of November 7 for its elections is designed to marginalise Aung San Suu Kyi and denotes a deliberate attack against the opposition; her National League for Democracy party, Western governments and international rights groups said yesterday[...]
| |Week 20: 2010 Election Watch (20-26 July)
Developments
- The Union Solidarity and Development Party gave the Unity and Democracy Party of Kachin State 50 million kyat (US$52,814) as a start-up election fund [...]
Burmese FM ‘to run for parliament’
Burma’s foreign minister Nyan Win will run for parliament in elections later this year, he reportedly told the ASEAN chief at a summit in Hanoi yesterday[...]
| |Suu Kyi ‘can run if freed’: Burma FM
Burma opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi will be free to run in elections this year once she is released from house arrest, Burma’s foreign minister has reportedly said[...]
| |ျမန္မာေရြးေကာက္ပြဲ လြတ္လပ္ၿပီး တရားမွ်တဖုိ႔ အာဆီယံ တုိက္တြန္း
အခုက်င္းပေနတဲ့ အာဆီယံ အေရွ႕ေတာင္အာရွ ႏိုင္ငံမ်ားအသင္း ႏိုင္ငံျခားေရး ၀န္ႀကီးမ်ား အစည္းအေ၀းအတြင္း လာမယ့္ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံ ေရြးေကာက္ပဲြကို လြတ္လပ္မွ်တတဲ့ ေရြးေကာက္ပဲြျဖစ္ဖို႔ တြန္းအားေပး ေျပာဆိုမႈေတြ ရိွေနပါတယ္။ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံအေပၚ အျပဳသေဘာေဆာင္ ခ်ဥ္းကပ္ဆက္ဆံမယ္ ဆိုတဲ့ အာဆီယံရဲ႕ မူသေဘာအတိုင္း တိုးတိုးတိတ္တိတ္ ေဖ်ာင္းဖ် ေျပာဆိုဖြယ္ ရိွတယ္လို႔လည္း ေလ့လာသူေတြက ခန္႔မွန္းပါတယ္။ အျပည့္အစုံကုိ ကိုသားၫြန္႔ဦးက တင္ျပေပးထားပါတယ္[...]
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