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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Suu Kyi’s UN press conference

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Monday, 24 September 2012 12:47 Mizzima News   

In a joint press conference on Friday at the UN in New York City, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and Aung San Suu Kyi spoke after private talks focused on how Burma can move forward in democratic reforms.

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and Aung San Suu Kyi, chairperson and general secretary of the National League for Democracy of Burma, speak to journalists following their meeting in New York City. Photo: UN

Suu Kyi said she did not recognize much of the UN complex since she worked there in the 1960s after graduating from Oxford University.

Asked about the round-the-clock media coverage of her US tour, and the possibility of sapping coverage from Burma’s President Thein Sein who will speak to the UN General Assembly on Thursday, she said: “I don’t think we should think about this in terms of personalities. I think we should think about it as a common goal. If we all want to achieve genuine democracy for Burma, we have to learn to work together and not think about our impact as personalities, either in our country or in the world at large.”

She said she could not discuss the details of her meeting with President Barrack Obama at the White House last week, but she considered it a good meeting.

“And I am happy that sanctions are now being lifted because as I have been saying – rather ad nauseum – it is time now that the Burmese people took responsibility for their democratization of the country. I am very, very appreciative of what the US Congress has done for many years to support our movement, but now we have to try to work on our own, of course, with the continuing support and help of friends," she said.

Regarding peace in Burma and elsewhere in the world, she said: “I think peace begins in the hearts of people. So, if we want peace, we’ve got to remove hatred. There can be no peace with hatred. Only without hatred can we achieve peace. So, if you want peace, you’ve got to try to do your best, in every way possible, to remove hatred from the hearts of human beings.

While in New York City, she also spoke to members of the Burmese community (see video) and to  gatherings at Queen’s College and Columbia University.

She told members of the Burmese community: “Dissidents can’t be dissidents forever; we are dissidents because we don’t want to be dissidents.”

“I lived in Manhattan for more than three years, and I loved this city at a time when people thought it terrible,” she said of a period that began in the late 1960s.

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