According to the existing EU Common Position, all high-ranking Burmese government and military officials are banned from traveling to Europe, but the European Union is trying to find a way to allow participation of Burmese ministers and high-ranking military officials in the various ASEM/ARF meetings to be held in Europe in 2006.
It seems that the [...]

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According to the Common Regulation (EC) No.667/2005 of 28 April 2005, the Commission of the European Communities renews its common position of the restrictive measures in respect of Burma/Myanmar for one year. These measures include banning all high-ranking Burmese Regime officials from traveling to Europe. However, the European Union is trying to find a way [...]

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Dear Your Honours,
We all thank the EU for the strong stand against the Burmese Government. But recently, we are sad to see the signs of policy shift of EU against Burmese Junta and their ministers. We understand that all the politics are fluid and constantly changing; today’s enemy become friend tomorrow. And EU politics depend [...]

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The Forum of Burmese in Europe (FBE), which    represents a net work of Burmese people across Europe and is advocating for democracy, social justice and human rights in Burma, has expressed their deep concern regarding the softening of European Union’s common position in Burma.
We, the Forum of Burmese in Europe (FBE), noted with deep concern [...]

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[All Ethnic International Open University]

AEIOU Programme is an attempt to give tertiary education to the talented and eligible but oppressed, persecuted and marginalized youths of Southeast Asia, particularly those suffering under the political conditions of Burma. In the numerous refugee camps, the education stop after high school and AEIOU endeavors [...]

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“We can not be separated in interest or divided in purpose. We stand together until the end. ———We do not wish to injure her or to block in anyway her legitimate influence or power. We do not wish to fight her either with arms or with hostile arrangements of trade if she is willing to [...]

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Dear Nan,
I am praying every day for you and your family. Although I am still anxiously waiting for your reply to my valentine letter, I am elated because many of your elder relatives sent letters to my friend Dr Tayza. This shows that they all care for the future of our [...]

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Burmese generals are “the grandsons� of the Fascist Japanese of the Second World-War .They have firm faith that

political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.
Tell a lie 1000 times, then it becomes the truth�.

They uphold the great Burman Chauvinism to wage a genocidal war on all ethnic nationalities. They use bullets, bayonets, jails, [...]

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Dear Burma Digest,
Your articles in previous issues taking a holistic view of refugees and migrants from Burma, has sent me looking for the papers given to the thousands of Displaced persons in Europe after the 1st World War. A Norwegian diplomat had suggested that temporary papers could help sort out some of the confusion and [...]

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Our government is our parents. But for Burma, our parents do not behave like human parents. They want to eat their own children for their survival.
The problem is our government Junta has no heart. Far worse than normal selfish people.
They want to destroy our country.
They are really our country’s destroyers. They have no sympathy.
Junta never [...]

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Unexpectedly, on the occasion of the 59th anniversary Union Day, Aung San Suu Kyi’s NLD (National Leaque for Democracy) “intends to recognize� the SPDC junta as “legal transitional government� to convene the people’s convention together with NLD, the landslide election winner, in accordance with the principles of 1990 multi-parties general elections. Aung San Suu Kyi [...]

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General Soe Win, who has previously visited China as the head of a trade delegation but not on an official state visit as prime minister, will meet President Hu Jintao and Premier Wen Jiabao in his four-day trip. Bilateral trade was worth $1.32bn in 2005. About three-quarters of Chinese imports from Burma, worth $274m, were [...]

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Message on the 59th Anniversary of Shan National Day
 
   It is interesting to note that the linkage and emergence of the modern Shan State, its national day and the formation of the Union of Burma are so intertwined; it is almost impossible to discuss the making of this historical formation separately.
   The date 7th February 1947 is [...]

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In 1941, when General Aung San and the Burma Independence Army prepared to reenter Burma, they first had to land in Bangkok and then go to the Thai border and cross into Burma.   
Likewise, today, the Road to Burma Liberation can also be through Bangkok.  At the present time, PM Thaksin is under seige from [...]

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[Interview carried out by Raluca Enescu]
Harn Yawnghwe is the youngest son of Sao Shwe Thaike, the last ruler of the ancient kingdom of Yawnghwe.
Harn escaped to Thailand in 1963 at the age of fifteen, after the Burmese military seized power, killed his brother and arrested his father, who died in prison. He was granted political [...]

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This week Burmese language articles are as followed:

Panglong Spirit for Democracy – Editorial: Zay Ya
Tears of Mother – Poem: Khin Ma Ma Myo
Burma’s Case on Capitol Hill – Translated article: Lwin Aung soe
Bye Bye Mya Nandar – Naration: Shwe Bo Thar’s True Story about Burmese Embassies’ Extortions

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Soa Hso Kham Pha is the eldest son of the late Saopha-loong, Soa Shwe Thaike, who was the first President of the Independent Burma. When Burma fell under military dictatorship, Soa Shwe Thaike was put into jai by the military regime, and later died in jail under suspicious circumstances.
Last year Soa Hso Kham Pha, [...]

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A study of the Indian geological reports made by Drs Cogging and Sondhi in 1993 reveals Northern Shan States as incredible mining potential…As for Southern Shan’s remarkable resources, they can be studied from the reports made by a G.V. Hovson (Shanland’s Grievances, by Htoon Myint of Taunggyi, )

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