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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New Mon State Party, gov’t sign preliminary agreement

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Wednesday, 01 February 2012 19:02 Nyi Thit

Rangoon (Mizzima) – The New Mon State Party (NMSP) peace delegation and the Burmese government agreed to a five-point state-level peace program on Wednesday. 
The NMSP delegation will submit the five-point preliminary agreement to the NMSP central committee and if it its accepted, Mon officials will sign a cease-fire agreement in the third week of February.

The peace talk was held in the Strand Hotel in Mawlamyine in Mon State.

The agreement covers a halt to fighting, the formation of peace delegations to conduct national-level peace talks, the selection of liaison offices, an agreement not to travel with weapons except in designated areas, and to stay in agreed upon control areas.

The 12-member delegation led by NMSP Vice Chairman Nai Rao Sa and the Burmese government delegation was led by Rail Transportation Minister Aung Min, both of whom signed the agreement.

On December 22, after a preliminary meeting between the two sides, the government’s peace team leader, Aung Min, said, “I’m 100 percent satisfied with the meeting because the ethnic people trust us like we trust the ethnic people.”

The government delegation said there were three stages to a lasting peace: first, to stop fighting; second, to hold a political dialogue with all ethnic groups; and third, to put forward the issues in Parliament, and finally to amend the Constitution.

The cease-fire deal is the seventh between Burma's new, nominally civilian government and rebels from 11 ethnic groups.

Mon rebels opened hostilities against the central government starting in the 1940s, along with other ethnic groups in the country’s isolated eastern border area with Thailand and China.

The latest cease-fire comes as the United States and the European Union consider when and if to lift economic sanctions imposed on the former junta after decades of human rights abuses.

The newly elected government signed similar deals with ethnic Karen and Shan leaders in January. Talks are now underway with Kachin rebels. Observers say the pressure is on the government to sign an agreement with the Kachin prior to the April 1 by-election.         

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