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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Myanmar govt wants ethnics to agree three-step plan

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Tuesday, 19 February 2013 16:39 Phanida

As the Myanmar government prepares for talks on Wednesday in northern Thailand with the main ethnic bloc United Nationalities Federal Council (UNFC), one of the peace brokers, Nyo Ohn Myint, said that President Thein Sein’s team expects to move the peace process forward in three stages.

The UNFC meets with a Burmese government delegation in Chiang Mai, November 9, 2012.

“Primarily they will discuss framework for starting the peace process, beginning with: addressing ways to advance political dialogue; the division of revenue and resources between the central government and the ethnic states; and how to maintain communication channels for further talks,” he said.

“Union Minister Aung Min said that the government’s peace team will meet with each ethnic group, each armed group, and the ethnic alliance together for rounds of political dialogue,” he told Mizzima.

Nyo Ohn Myint said that the February 20 meeting in Chiang Mai will be attended by 16 representatives of the government’s Peace-Making Committee (PMC), including chief negotiator Aung Min, Immigration Minister Khin Yee, Livestock Minister Ohn Myint and Deputy Attorney General Tun Tun Oo.

An MPC delegation led by Aung Min met for the first time with the UNFC for an informal meeting in Chiang Mai on November 9, 2012. Other scheduled meetings have been suspended due to the ongoing conflict between government forces and the Kachin Independence Organization.
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For more background:

  1. UNFC offers to liaise with Burma govt on Kachin conflict
  2. UNFC proposes ‘six-point ethnic peace roadmap’


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