by Than Htaik Oo Thursday, 31 January 2008 00:00Chiang Mai: The 'Human Rights Education Institute of Burma' (HREIB) today said that it was not true there were no child soldiers in Burma as claimed by the military regime.Today's issue of the state-run 'New Light of Myanmar' says, "expatriates national traitors with negative views in collusion with some foreign media are making groundless accusations that there are child soldiers in Myanmar Tatmadaw (armed forces) with the intention of attacking the nation" and "Tatmadaw systematically recruits...
Saturday, January 31, 2009
Military Junta Continues Crackdown, Political Prisoners Increase: AAPP
by Mizzima News Thursday, 31 January 2008 00:00New Delhi - World body United Nations estimate of 31 deaths and 74 people missing in Burma following the brutal crackdown on monk-led protests in September is far from accurate, an activist group said today.UN Human Rights Expert Paulo Sergio Pinheiro, who visited Burma in November to investigate the brutal crackdown on the monks and people, has found very little to go upon, as he was given limited access to all the places he wanted to visit, according to the Thailand based Assistance Association...
Friday, January 30, 2009
Daw Aung San Suu Kyi meets NLD party leaders
by Mungpi Wednesday, 30 January 2008 00:00New Delhi – Burma's detained pro-democracy leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi on Wednesday was given a rare chance to meet with top leaders of her party – National League for Democracy – according to a party official.U Aung Thein, an official of the NLD, said party leaders including members of the central executive committee along with spokesperson Nyan Win have met the detained party leader at a military guest house in Rangoon.Daw Aung San Suu Kyi was taken this afternoon at approximately 1 p.m. from her lakeside...
Aung San Suu Kyi' Dissatisfied' Over Talks With Junta
by Mungpi Wednesday, 30 January 2008 00:00Noble peace laureate opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi under detention has expressed her dissatisfaction with the current pace of talks for political reforms in Burma, spokesmen of her party the National League for Democracy said on Wednesday.The Burmese democracy icon told her party leaders in no uncertain terms during a rare meeting today, that she is frustrated over the lack of progress on talks for political reforms in the country with the ruling junta. The meetings with the military junta's Liaison...
Thursday, January 29, 2009
Blogger arrested by police: Friends
by Mizzima News Tuesday, 29 January 2008 00:00Chiang Mai, Thailand – Police in the former capital of Burma on Tuesday detained a dissident blogger.Nay Phone Latt (Nay Bone Latt), a writer was picked up by police at a Rangoon internet café, friends told Mizzima. The reason for his detention is not yet clear.In addition to being a blogger, Nay Phone Latt works for a private business company."I am a youth who is crazy about the arts", he wrote as a self introduction in one of his blogs.Police searched houses in Thingyankyun and Thuwanna, where he...
Burma's Government Tightens Its Grip On International Aid Agencies
by Mizzima News Tuesday, 29 January 2008 00:00New Delhi, India – In what seems to be a renewed effort to control the movement of international aid agencies operating in Burma, the Ministry of Home Affairs (MoH) has established new sets of regulations for aid groups.The new instructions, which are supplementary to the existing rules, were told to International Non-governmental Organizations (INGOs) operating in Burma by the Ministry of Home Affairs during a meeting on January 11, 2008, held at Burma's new capital of Naypyitaw, according to the...
Burmese Bloggers Hide From Police
by Nem Davies Tuesday, 29 January 2008 00:00Apprehensive of the relentless crackdown by the Burmese military junta, several Burmese bloggers in Rangoon have gone into hiding. The scare follows the arrest of a Burmese blogger, Nay Phone Latt, earlier in the day.Burmese bloggers in the former capital are alarmed and have been forced to go underground in fear of the authorities taking action against them. Nay Phone Latt (Nay Bone Latt), a blogger as well as a writer, was arrested from an internet cafe in Thingan Kyun Township.A blogger, who requested...
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Nam Khan Residents Forced To Contribute For VIP Tour
by Myo Gyi Monday, 28 January 2008 00:00The Burmese military junta functionaries stop at nothing to fleece people. Authorities are coercing residents in Nam Khan to contribute money at the rate of Kyat 2,000 per household to spend in the inaugural ceremony of Nam Khan suspension bridge across the Shweli River. The ceremony will be attended by SPDC brass from Naypyidaw.The new bridge will be opened on February 12 by SPDC brass. The local authorities collected money from the residents forcibly to spend in welcoming and entertaining the VIPs and...
Saturday, January 24, 2009
80 Armed Policemen Disperse Five NLD Members
by Htein Lin Thursday, 24 January 2008 00:00New Delhi : About 80 armed Burmese policemen stopped five NLD members in of the Rakhine State, Taungkok NLD from going to their township NLD Vice-Chairman's home this morning.Ko Than Lwin, Ko Moe Nay Soe and three other NLD members on Wednesday morning left a teashop in Chaungauk ward and were heading for the residence of township NLD Vice-Chairman. Suddenly about 80 armed policemen armed with batons, guns and shields blocked their way on U Uttama Street and ordered them to disperse."Five of us [on...
Burmese Opposition MP Loses Eyesight In Prison
by Than Htike Oo Thursday, 24 January 2008 00:00Than Lwin, a Member of Parliament has lost sight in one of his eyes at the detention camp in Mandalay, a family member said. He was elected in the last general election in 1990 from Mattaya Township in central Burma.Daw Khin Thi, wife of Than Lwin, arrested in June 2007 and detained at Ohbo prison in Mandalay, said she found her husband loosing sight in one of his eyes when authorities on Wednesday permitted her to meet him."Right now he is no longer complaining of pain in the eye. But he said his...
Thursday, January 22, 2009
ILO's Intervention - The Only Hope Of Release For Detained Labour Activists
by Mizzima News Tuesday, 22 January 2008 00:00The intervention of the International Labour Organization (ILO) seems to be the only hope for the family members of six labour rights activists, who have been sentenced to long term imprisonment, by the authorities.The family of the labour rights activists, who were arrested on May Day for organizing labour rights discussions at the American Centre in Rangoon, said they had appealed to the ILO to intervene in the case and secure their release.One of the relatives of the detained activists said, "They...
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
Financial Matters Dominate British PM's Visit To New Delhi
by Mizzima News Monday, 21 January 2008 00:00Less than four months after the Burmese junta violently suppressed protests on the streets of Burma, the question of Burma appears only in the background of talks between British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and leaders of India.While stating that he intends to raise the subject of Burma with Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in private talks, Brown's message on his inaugural visit to the sub-continent as Prime Minister makes clear that his administration's chief concern in bilateral relations is...
Junta-Backed New Publications Flood Market In Mandalay
by Maung Dee Monday, 21 January 2008 00:00New Delhi : The Burmese military is countering the media with the media. Local journalists in Burma's ancient capital city of Mandalay said the authorities have given printing and publishing permits to several private weekly journals.The latest among the series of new publications is 'Pan Thitsar' weekly journal, which began publishing its first issue on Friday, a local journalist, who request anonymity, told Mizzima.The new private journals including the Shwe Mandalay, Upper Myanmar, Mandalay Times,...
Saturday, January 17, 2009
Myanmar Telecom Blocks Bloggers
by Mizzima News Thursday, 17 January 2008 00:00In a bid to stop the flow of information outside Burma one of the most popular blog sites www.blogger.com has been banned by the Myanmar Post and Telecomm Ministry as of Thursday morning, according to bloggers in the former capital.In the wake of 'Saffron Revolution', another Internet Service Provider 'Bagan Teleport' has blocked this blog website. And now the remaining ISP under the MPT has blocked this website which bars computers in Burma from accessing the blogs.Both the ISPs are under the control...
Burmese Economic Reform Requires Political Change: Expert
by Mizzima News Thursday, 17 January 2008 00:00Only a change in the political system will usher in economic reforms because the economy is in the vice like grip of the Burmese military, said a Burmese economic expert.According to the Heritage Foundation and Wall Street Journal's economic freedom listing, Burma, which has been ruled by successive military governments for decades, is ranked near the bottom.In the 2008 index of economic freedom, which is based on the assessment of 10 areas of the economy, Burma is listed as the 153rd country that...
Taungkok Demonstrations Abandoned For Fear Of Violent Backlash
by Htein Lin Thursday, 17 January 2008 00:00New Delhi: Hundreds of demonstrators from Taungkok, Rakhine State had to abandon their demonstration planned for today due to fears of violent repression by the local authorities.The police, riot police, fire brigade members, USDA members and the militia Swanahshin armed with batons, shields and catapults, assembled near the gate of the historical shrine of Phaungdaw Oo pagoda. Meanwhile over 200 people including 10 monks were gathered near the Myoma market downtown to stage demonstrations. They had...
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