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 meets junta’s liaison minister

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Friday, 15 January 2010 20:51 Mizzima News

New Delhi (Mizzima) - Detained Burmese pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Friday, for the first time in 2010, met with government liaison minister Aung Kyi at her house, according to party leaders.

Ohn Kyaing, a member of the National League for Democracy’s Central Executive Committee (CEC), said, “I heard that Daw Suu met with U Aung Kyi but I do not have any detailed information.”

Similarly, Khin Maung Swe, a NLD spokesperson, told Mizzima on Friday that he had also heard of the meeting through sources but did not have detailed information of what the two discussed.

“We heard that the meeting was for about 25 minutes at her home,” Khin Maung Swe added.

Pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi last met with Aung Kyi in December.

Than Shwe appointed the liaison minister as an interlocutor between himself and Aung San Suu Kyi in 2007, following the visit of then United Nations Special Envoy to Burma, Ibrahim Gambari, on the heels of September’s Saffron Revolution.

Friday’s meeting came a day after the NLD announced its decision to expand its CEC from 11 members to 20, a move seen by some observers as a kind of preparation for a political tug-of-war leading up to and following this year’s scheduled general election.

“If the meeting today is correct, I think it is a good step for the New Year. We are hoping that it will be a positive meeting,” Ohn Kyaing iterated, adding that they welcome such meetings and hope the process will continue.

Burma’s present military rulers, in power for the past two decades, have announced they are set to hold a general election in 2010, but have yet to specify any dates.

The NLD, meanwhile, say they will participate in the election only if the junta agrees to first amend the 2008 constitution, release all political prisoners and permit international monitoring of the polls.

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