Burmese Regime Continues Brutal Campaign Against Ethnic Civilians

Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW) is concerned by reports that despite the welcome release of Burma’s democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, and a high-level visit by UN Burma envoy Vijay Nambiar, the regime continues to perpetrate grave violations of human rights against ethnic civilians, including military attacks and forced labour [...]

December 1, 2010 | Tags: Christian Solidarity Worldwide, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, Dialogue, Ethnic Nationalities, Fighting, Karen, Refugees, SPDC Army | Read more >>

Election Bulletin: Burma’s Elections Marked by Violence, Intimidation and Ethnic Inequality

“Voters were watched closely while casting votes. It was not free. There will not be change… We were scared and there was nothing we could do”[...]

November 19, 2010 | Tags: Burma Election Tracker, Election Bulletin, Election Report, Ethnic Nationalities, Union Election Commission, Union Solidarity and Development Party | Read more >>

Key Stakeholders Explore the Reality on the Ground of Burma’s Military Elections

Speakers representing central stakeholders in Burma spoke today about how the elections next Sunday will not improve the situation on the ground in Burma. They spoke about the junta-backed Union Solidarity and Development Party’s (USDP) manipulation of the polls, the National League for Democracy’s ongoing efforts for genuine democracy, escalating attacks against ethnic nationalities and the resistance of students and youths against the upcoming elections [...]

November 2, 2010 | Tags: Burma Partnership, Ethnic Nationalities, Resistance, Union Solidarity and Development Association, Union Solidarity and Development Party | Read more >>

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.

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• ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံတြင္ စစ္မွန္သည့္ဒီမိုကေရစီအသြင္ကူးေျပာင္းေရးအတြက္ လုပ္ေဆာင္ရန္ အခ်ိန္မေႏွာင္းေသးေၾကာင္း၊ စစ္အစိုးရအေနျဖင့္ ႏိုင္ငံေရးအက်ဥ္းသားအားလံုးကို ျပန္လႊတ္ေပးျပီး အမ်ဳိးသား ျပန္လည္ရင္ၾကားေစ့ေရးအတြက္ လမ္းဖြင့္ေပးရန္ ကုလသမဂၢ အတြင္းေရးမွဴးခ်ဳပ္ ဘန္ကီမြန္းက ေအာက္တိုဘာ ၂၉ ရက္ေန႕တြင္ ထပ္မံတိုက္တြန္း ေတာင္းဆိုလိုက္သည္။ [...]

October 31, 2010 | Tags: Burmese, Election Laws, Ethnic Nationalities, National Reconciliation, Network for Democracy and Development, Political Prisoners, Weekly Political Events | Read more >>

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။ [...]

October 3, 2010 | Tags: Burmese, Ethnic Nationalities, Network for Democracy and Development, Political Parties, Weekly Political Events | Read more >>

Weekly Political Events Regarding the SPDC’s Election (035-2010)

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* ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲေကာ္မရွင္မွ မဲဆႏၵေပးပိုင္ခြင္႔စာရင္း ထုတ္ျပန္ရာတြင္ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ေနထုိင္ရာ ဗဟန္းၿမိဳ႕နယ္ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲေကာ္မရွင္၏ မဲေပးခြင့္စာရင္းတြင္ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ အမည္ပါဝင္ျခင္းမရွိဟု ရန္ကုန္မွလာသည္႔ AP သတင္းတြင္ ေဖာ္ျပထားသည္။ [...]

September 26, 2010 | Tags: Burmese, Ethnic Nationalities, Network for Democracy and Development, Political Parties, Weekly Political Events | Read more >>

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[...]

September 19, 2010 | Tags: Burmese, Ethnic Nationalities, Network for Democracy and Development, Political Parties, Weekly Political Events | Read more >>

Myanmar deprives ‘millions’ of vote in ethnic areas

Myanmar is scrapping voting in swathes of insurgency-plagued ethnic areas in its first election in two decades — a move criticised as excluding millions from a poll already seen as undemocratic.[...]

September 17, 2010 | Tags: Ethnic Armies, Ethnic Nationalities, Union Election Commission | Read more >>

Weekly Political Events Regarding the SPDC’s Election (031-2010)

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* ျပည္ေထာင္စု ၾက႔ံခုိင္ေရးႏွင့္ဖြ႔ံျဖိဳးေရးပါတီ USDP ကရခုိင္ျပည္နယ္အေနာက္ပိုိင္း ဘူးသီးေတာင္ႏွင့္ေမာင္းေတာ ျမိဳ႔႕နယ္ရွိ ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာမ်ားကို မက္လုံးေပးစည္းရုံးသည္႔အေနျဖင့္ ယာယီႏုိင္ငံသားမွတ္ပုံတင္ အျဖဴေရာင္ကတ္မ်ားအား ေငြက်ပ္ ၂၀၀၀ ျဖင္႔ထုတ္ေပးထားေသာ္လည္းခရီးသြားလာရာ တြင္ လြတ္လပ္မႈမရွိေၾကာင္း ရုိဟင္ဂ်ာအေရးေလ႔လာသူတစ္ဦးကေျပာ[...]

August 29, 2010 | Tags: Burmese, Ethnic Nationalities, Network for Democracy and Development, Political Parties, Weekly Political Events | Read more >>

Weekly Political Events Regarding the SPDC’s Election (030-2010)

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* ျပည္ေထာင္စု ၾကံ့ခုိင္ေရးႏွင့္ ဖြံ႔ၿဖိဳးေရးပါတီ USDP က ရန္ကုန္တုိင္း လွည္းကူးၿမိဳ႕နယ္ ဝါးရုံစြန္းရြာတြင္ ၾသဂုတ္လ ၁၃ ရက္ေန႔တြင္ ေဒသခံျပည္သူမ်ားအား ေငြေခ်း၍ မဲဆြယ္စည္းရုံးရာတြင္ ေက်းရြာအာဏာပိုင္မ်ားက လုိက္လံ ကူညီေပးေနေၾကာင္း ေဒသခံမ်ားကေျပာသည္
* အမ်ိဳးသာဒီမိုကေရစီအဖြဲ႔ခ်ဴပ္ NLDဗဟုိအလုပ္အမႈေဆာင္ အဖြဲ႔ဝင္ ဦးဥာဏ္ဝင္း ဦးေဆာင္ေသာအဖြဲ႕သည္ ၾသဂုတ္လ ၁၆ ရက္ေန႔က ဧရာဝတီတိုင္း ေကာ႔ေသာင္းျမိဳ႕သို႔ေရာက္ရွိကာ NLD အေနျဖင့္ ေရွ႕ဆက္၍ ပိုမိုက်စ္လစ္ခုိင္မာစြာ ရပ္တည္ႏုိင္ရန္အတြက္ ေဒသခံအဖြဲ႔ခ်ဴပ္ အဖြဲ႔ဝင္မ်ားႏွင္႔ ေတြ႔ဆုံေဆြးေႏြးဖလွယ္ခဲ႔ၾကသည္

August 22, 2010 | Tags: Burmese, Ethnic Nationalities, Network for Democracy and Development, Political Parties, Weekly Political Events | Read more >>