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             Burma authorities have been rebuilding gallows in prisons throughout the country, giving rise to speculations that the method of executions by hanging is to be reintroduced. It has been suspended since 1983. (DVB)
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          Than Shwe’s deputy, Maung Aye, has effectively taken over the role of running Burma these days_ his mug is everywhere in the Burma media. But a Southeast Asian diplomat says Than Shwe is only giving him enough rope to hang himself.
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It is also widely known that Senior Gen. Than Shwe is going to become the first President after their pro-military constitution is approved. Then he will hand over his Army Leader role to Gen. Shwe Mann, his protégé.Â
            Gen Than Shwe recently told visiting Gen Chaisit Shinawatra, from Thailand, that he would retire soon [...]
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Recently,
             The regime has gone panicked since the possibility of being subject to scrutiny by UN Security Council has been looming. “Do not exploit Myanmar’s affairs through exaggerations,” goes that headline of a newspaper article last week that boasts “unprecedented progress” on the economic and political front under the military leadership. (DVB)
Regime’s Plans,
             It is [...]
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Does the word, Natala (villages) stand for an abbreviation? Na -Ta – La? If so, what does it stand for? Does it mean: “Nair-myay Toh-tet-yay Loak-ngan,” perhaps? (Regional Progress Works)Â or, does it mean
“NINDOH. THAY_GYAH. LEIK-MAE” (YOU, meaning the Arakanese and Rohingya, will all DIE)
They, the enemy, is giving us fair warning. Let [...]
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Ne Win married June Rose Bellami (sp?) aka Yadana Kyet, pardon me, Nat Mae. since Y. Kyet, sorry, Nat Mae is really Burmese with a European touch to her, maybe she does not fully qualify for your list of foreign spouses.Â
Also, there is the Singaporean wife of the son of Khin Nyunt which compelled him [...]
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We have our No. 1 Hero/Martyr who is Ma Ma Suu. She has been able to attract much international attention. We should continue to appeal for help in the name of DASSK. However, We now also need to make a No. 2 Hero/Martyr who should be Su Su Nway. Her name is easier to pronounce, [...]
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There is a possibility that the SPDC may have a screen to sieve out undesirable email entries.
Because Tayza has not penetrated Burma yet, he will be like a new antigen and the SPDC will have no antibodies to suppress him. After a while, SPDC may catch on, and then any further messages will be blocked [...]
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There are critics these days that NLD is more or less defunct and the election victory won by NLD in 1990 is hugely irrelevant now.
                But, anyway, at least in UK, NLD is still very alive and thriving and active.
                Recently, on the 17th anniversary of the military coup by the current SPDC regime, NLD/UK [...]
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Mr. B N said,
                  U.S Dollar is going up, my relatives are so poor and some of my cousins don’t have job. What should we do?
Answer: Please revolt against the military rulers.
Ko B A said,
                 I joined the group today. I am not able to read “Burmese Language Section”. Please advise me [...]
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By: Dr. Chao-tzang Yawnghwe
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                         In this highly personal account, the author, a son of the first President of the Union of Burma, tells of his youth and involvement in the Shan resistance movement. He gives his version of Shan history and explains the complexity of Shan politics covering the issues of autonomy, Shan-Burmese relations, opium, [...]
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Burmese Generals held an election in 1990, the result of which they shamelessly refused to recognize. Now, they are holding a rubber-stamp “National Convention” to draw up a constitution in which military’s authority over civilian affairs will permanently be enshrined. And they also have plans to hold faked referendums and rigged elections.
Read more here…
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SHAN News reported (Reporter: Chai Sayam),
Senior General Than Shwe, whose name means ‘millions of gold’, had personally supervised the unprecedented official sales of gold on the advice that his imminent ouster could be warded off by the action that would set off people far and wide saying ‘(sale of ) millions of gold is [...]
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For the first time, there is every possibility that Burma will be in the agenda of the United Nations Security Council indicating that the Burmese, as a race and nation are unable and unwilling to settle things peaceably among themselves. The Generals` egoism and uncompromising attitude has compelled them to rely on the world body [...]
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Co-operation is the key for the victory of our democratic struggle.
All through the entire 60 years of colonial era, Burmese and ethnic patriots fought deligently for freedom and Independence, but at first those freedom fighters got only utter failures as they fought as individual small groups. As we all know now; they became successful [...]
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Hydropower projects on the Salween are being revived in the face of protests by activist groups from China, Burma and Thailand where the river runs through.
China’s Minister of Water Resources, told the National People’s Congress in March that 4 of the proposed 13 dams will be built first. Thailand and Burma signed a Memorandum [...]
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Burma Digest, in co-ordinated efforts with NLD/UK, is running an online petition to appeal United Nations Security Council to take urgent actions on Burma. Please see www.tayzathuria.org.uk/survey.htm .
So far nearly 500 pro-democracy friends have supported this appeal, you can also support it if you haven’t done so yet.