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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Demonstrations around the world remember “8888” protests

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Monday, 08 August 2011 23:35

Chiang Mai (Mizzima) – From Manila to Bangkok to London, demonstrators rallied to remember Burma’s roar of protest in 1988 before it was crushed in a wave of killings.

Exiled Burmese and supporters came together to remember the 23rd anniversary of the August 8, 1988 uprising—known as “8888”—against the military government of General Ne Win and to continue a call for full democracy and respect for human rights in Burma.

In Manila, which experienced its own “People’s Power” uprising in 1986, demonstrators rallied outside the Department of Foreign Affairs, erecting mocked barbed wire to symbolize the continuing repression in Burma, according to media reports. Unlike Filipinos’ successful ousting of the Marcos regime, however, Rangoon saw repression and the deaths of an estimated 3,000 protestors.

Together with pro-democracy groups around the world, the protestors expressed support for the ongoing international campaign to establish a United Nations-led Commission of Inquiry to investigate Burma's crimes against humanity. They also denounced the military regime’s continued political repression and gross human rights abuses despite having a new Parliament after Burma's controversial elections in 2010.

In Bangkok and New Delhi, protestors marked the day with demonstrations and denouncements of continued human rights abuse and the detention of political prisoners, according to media reports.

In London, about 100 people demonstrated outside the German embassy in protest against the German government’s opposition to a proposal for a UN Commission of Inquiry, according to the Burma Campaign UK.

“The German government is protecting rapists and war criminals in Burma,” said Zoya Phan of the Burma Campaign UK. “A UN Inquiry could help reduce abuses in Burma, but Germany opposes it because it puts business before human rights.  The price is likely to be paid by ethnic minority women being raped, and by political prisoners still in jail.”

The campaign reported that actions also took place in Germany and at German Embassies in Austria, Canada, Czech Republic, France, Ireland and Norway.

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