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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Locals interrogated on Myitsone bomb blasts

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Thursday, 29 April 2010 21:51 Salai Han Thar San

New Delhi (Mizzima) - Local people from three nearby villages are being interrogated in connection with the serial bomb blasts in Myitsone, Kachin State, by the army unit based in the area.
The local Burmese Army Infantry Battalion 29 (IB 29) summoned villagers and questioned them in connection with the series of blasts in the Asia World company office building at the Myitsone hydropower project site and two nearby villages on April 17.

“People from every house in our village are being questioned. They are being asked whether they knew the bomber or heard the bomb blasts. They called us to Asia World office building and questioned us there,” a woman villager from Tan Paye village near Myitsone, who was interrogated, told Mizzima.

Similarly villagers from Kyein Karan and Lone Karzuap villages are being questioned, it is learnt.

Four bombs exploded in Long Karzuap based Asia World Company’s office building, six miles south of Myitsone dam project, on the morning of April 17. Eight bombs exploded in Tan Paye village and two exploded in Kyein Karan village the same day.

An engineer was injured in the blasts and five heavy duty trucks carrying quarry material and two bulldozers were damaged but no arrests have been made yet.

Since the blasts, curfew has been imposed after 9 p.m. in the villages and many checkpoints erected on the way to Myitsone from Myitkyina, the capital of Kachin State. A villager from Myitsone (Tan Paye) said that all travellers on the road were being questioned and stringent checks made. Myitsone hydropower project, which will be the biggest in Burma with a generating capacity of 3500 MW is being constructed jointly by Asia World Company, junta’s No. 1 Ministry of Industry and China Power Investment Corporation (CPI) since last year.

Over 60 villages upstream of Myitsone dam project site have to be relocated. Since over 20 villages and even Myitkyina are at risk should the dam collapse, local people and environmentalists are demanding a halt to the project.

At least five bomb explosions occurred elsewhere in Burma this month.

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