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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Mon National Defense Army reunites with New Mon State Party

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Wednesday, 12 January 2011 13:42

Sangkhlaburi (Mizzima)––The Mon National Defense Army (MNDA), a breakaway faction of the New Mon State Party (NMSP), has rejoined the NMSP, according to NMSP officers.

More than 30 MNDA troops, carrying their weapons, including rocket propelled grenades, 60 mm mortars, AK 47s, and 9mm pistols, rejoined their former comrades in early January, the NMSP said in a press conference on Tuesday on the Thai-Burmese border.

In early January 2009, 100 troops led by Major Kyalunhtaw separated from the NMSP.

The soldiers are being accepted back as ‘former colleagues’, said NMSP central executive committee member Naing Tala Nyi in the press conference. The MNDA troops will be re-appointed in the Mon National Liberation Army, the military wing of the NMSP.

The MNDA is based in Ye Township in Mon State.

‘On September 1, 2010, we heard that the cease-fire agreement between the junta and the NMSP was broken. So, we reviewed the situation and decided to rejoin with our parent-party’, said MNDA leader Major Kyalunhtaw said. The NMSP has rejected the junta’s Border Guard Force plan.

Since the cease-fire agreement was broken, the NMSP has been working to reinforce its army, according to sources close to the party.

In 1958, Prime Minister U Nu’s government tried to make peace overtures to the Mon People’s Front and invited the group to talk in Parliament. More than 1,000 troops of the Mon People’s Front laid down their arms and returned to the legal fold. But, Nai Shwe Kyin, a central executive committee member of the Mon People’s Front did not accept the offer and formed the New Mon State Party on July 20, 1958.

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