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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Indian Home Secretary to visit Burma

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Monday, 18 January 2010 18:08 Salai Pi Pi

New Delhi (Mizzima) - Indian Home Secretary Gopal K. Pillai leaves today for Burma for bilateral secretary level talks commencing on Tuesday in the Burmese capital of Naypyitaw.

G.K Pillai and his Indian delegation will hold talks with a Burmese team led by Deputy Minister for Home Affairs, Brigadier General Phone Swe.

“He will be leaving this evening. He will be there for two days,” an official from the Indian Home Ministry told Mizzima.

Though details of items to be discussed remain unknown, another official from the Joint-Secretary Office within the Indian Home Ministry said it could a continuation of previous matters discussed in secretary level talks.

The last such meeting occurred between Brigadier General Phone Swe’s delegation and then Indian Home Secretary Shri Madhukar Gupta in India’s capital of New Delhi in March, 2008.

The talks covered various issues including security, drug trafficking and border management.

Both countries agreed to strengthen cooperation in areas of security and border management along their common 1,643 km border, known as a porous international crossing and common route for the smuggling of arms, drugs and counterfeit currency.

According to the Indian Home Ministry, the Assam Rifles presently have 31 battalions deployed for counter-insurgency in India’s northeast and 15 more for guarding the Indo-Burmese border.

Recently, it was announced that the Assam Rifles are planning to increase the number of battalions deployed for border security to 26.

Moreover, Indian External Affairs Minister S M Krishna raised the issue of northeast Indian insurgent groups allegedly operating out of Burmese territory on the sidelines of the 12th Ministerial Meeting of the Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC) held in Naypyitaw in December of last year.

New Delhi previously decided on the construction of a border fence in Moreh in India’s northeastern state of Manipur, which shares a border with Sagaing Division and Chin State in northwest Burma.

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