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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Northern Command imposes travel limits on KIO, troops

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Monday, 06 September 2010 23:52 Mizzima News

New Delhi (Mizzima) – The Burmese Army has imposed travel restrictions on the Kachin Independence Organisation, a source in the ethnic group says.

General staff officer Captain Si Thu from the army’s Northern Command’s headquarters in the Kachin State capital Myitkyina told Kachin Independence Organisation (KIO) liaison officer Major Dee Rum yesterday that KIO central committee members, staff and officers above sub-township level need to report travel plans first to the local unit of the Military Affairs Security, and can travel only after getting the nod from the command’s head office.

The military regime set an ultimatum of last Wednesday for the KIO to bring its armed wing, the Kachin Independence Army (KIA), under junta command within the Burmese Army’s Border Guard Force (BGF) but the KIO had persisted in its refusal to do so.

Dee Rum also passed on the junta’s message that KIO officials and KIA staff were banned from bearing arms and wearing uniform while travelling, a junior officer from KIO general headquarters in Laiza, near the Chinese border, told Mizzima on condition of anonymity.

KIO and KIA staff live with their families in cities including Myitkyina and have to cross these cities and towns to reach Laiza.

Moreover, Si Thu reportedly told Dee Rum on Saturday that security personnel at the KIO liaison office in Myitkyina were also banned from wearing uniforms and that this order had come from Northern Command chief Brigadier General Zeyar Aung, not the Defence Ministry. The KIO had instructed personnel at the office to stay out of uniform from yesterday.

Since the ceasefire agreement reached with the regime in 1994, the KIO has opened a total of 23 liaison offices in Kachin State and northern Shan State including the central representative office in Myitkyina. The regime had let staff wear military uniforms at some of these offices.

KIO has had security personnel in uniform at the central representative office in Sitapu Ward, Myitkyina for more than a decade.

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