Mizzima awarded global JTI certificate for reliable news on Myanmar

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Mizzima Mizzima, one of Myanmar ’s most prominent news outlets and a press freedom advocate, obtained the Journalism Trust Initiative ( JTI ) certification from global audit firm Bureau Veritas , JTI says in a press statement 5 January.  Operating in clandestine mode within Myanmar and supported by an exiled team, Mizzima strives to fulfil its role as reliable source of news and information for the Myanmar public. “Your Journalism Trust Initiative certification affirms what audiences already know: that principled, transparent journalism matters. Congratulations on this achievement and on your continued contribution to informing citizens about Myanmar,” says Benjamin Sabbah , director of Journalism Trust Initiative “Myanmar’s ongoing conflict has created an intensely contested media landscape, where mis- and disinformation are increasingly deployed to reinforce state propaganda and the prevailing “official” narrative. Although Mizzima is already regarded as one of the most trusted ...
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Aung San Suu Kyi’s health deteriorates: party official

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by Solomon
Monday, 11 May 2009 21:55

New Delhi (Mizzima) - Burma’s detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Monday received emergency medical attention for an undisclosed illness by her doctor’s assistant, her party official said.

Nyan Win, spokesperson of the National League for Democracy, on Monday told Mizzima that party leader and Noble Peace Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi was revisited in an emergency by Pyone Moe Ei, assistant to Dr. Tin Myo Win.

“Pyone Moe Ei was allowed to meet Aung San Suu Kyi now [on Monday] in an emergency,” Nyan Win said.

Nyan Win said, party leader Aung San Suu Kyi was suffering from dehydration, low blood pressure and, “She is not well and not healthy now. It seems she really needs to be taken good care of.”

Aung San Suu Kyi, who has been kept under house arrest for more than 12 of the past 19 years, was allowed to meet her family doctor Tin Myo Win every first Thursday of each month, for a regular medical check-up.

But on Thursday, May 7, Dr. Tin Myo Win was not allowed to meet her though he had waited for over three hours. He was later taken by the police for interrogation from his residence after he came back from Aung San Suu Kyi’s house, family members said.

On Friday, authorities instead summoned Pyone Moe Ei, and took her to Aung San Suu Kyi. The assistant reportedly put the opposition leader on intravenous drip.

“No one informed us, we don’t know where he [Tin Myo Win] is and why he was detained We are now preparing to find out,” a relative of Tin Myo Win told Mizzima on Monday.

The family member said, on Friday, May 8, a man, not in uniform, came to their house and asked for some of the doctor’s clothes.

“But he did not say anything,” said the relative.

Tin Myo Win and Aung San Suu Kyi’s lawyer Kyi Win are the only two people who are allowed to meet the detained Burmese democracy icon, besides her two party members – mother and daughter – who live with her and take care of her.

But on Wednesday last week, Burma’s official mouthpiece, the New Light of Myanmar, reported that an American citizen was caught while swimming back across the Innya Lake from Aung San Suu Kyi’s home, where he had stayed for two nights.

Identified as John William Yeattaw by the newspaper, he reportedly swam across the Innya Lake and entered Aung San Suu Kyi’s house on May 3, and stayed till May 5.

The paper said authorities are still conducting investigations. The swimmer was arrested on early morning of May 6.

The US embassy in Rangoon said, they have forwarded request to the Burmese authorities to allow a meeting with the swimmer but has not received any response as yet.

They refused to make further comments on the matter.

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