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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USDP signboards vandalised with red paint in Pegu town

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Friday, 15 October 2010 23:08 Salai Tun

New Delhi (Mizzima) – Signboards belonging to Burma’s main junta-backed political party were vandalised with red paint in Pegu Division on Thursday morning, forcing party members to scrape them clean, witnesses said.

About 10 Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) signboards in Thayarwaddy Township, 60 miles (97 kilometres) north of Rangoon, including one on the house of USDP candidate Tin Soe, one at the bus stop near Alelgone Pagoda and another on the District Peace and Development Council’s offices were painted red.

Obscene language covered some of the signs, a witness said.

The Township Police Force and USDP members have made enquiries about the case, but no arrests had been made.

The USDP, another junta-backed group – the National Unity Party – and the Democratic Party (Myanmar) will contest in Thayarwaddy constituency in the forthcoming election.

Burma’s ruling junta backs the USDP, which was transformed from the now-defunct ultra-nationalist Union Solidarity and Development Association (USDA), notorious for its bloody attacks on opposition and democratic forces including pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi and her entourage in Depayin, northern Burma in 2003.

At least 5,000 USDA members gathered in a co-ordinated attack and beat to death more than 70 National League for Democracy supporters during Suu Kyi’s roadshow around the country in May of that year. Suu Kyu aided by bodyguards managed to elude the attackers but was arrested soon after the massacre.

USDA members also aided the bloody suppression of the “Saffron Revolution”, so named as it was led by monks protesting against up to 66 per cent fuel price rises in 2007. The protests expanded but were brutally suppressed by the Burmese Army.

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