Posted in Burma News on Oct 21st, 2010 No Comments »
Please find attached EBO’s 45th Election Monitor report.
21oct10 EMNo45-20-10-10
All previous Election Monitors as well as other information on this year’s elections can be found on EBO’s Elections Page.
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Posted in Articles in Burmese on Oct 21st, 2010 No Comments »
21oct10 Luminary Magazine 4of9
Posted in WORLD Digest on Oct 21st, 2010 No Comments »
- Janusz Onyszkiewicz
Janusz Onyszkiewicz, a former Polish Minister of Defense, is a Chairman of the Council of Euro-Atlantic Association.
WARSAW – Remember the Partnership and Cooperation Agreement (PCA), aimed at enshrining “commonly-shared values” [...]
Posted in WORLD Digest on Oct 21st, 2010 No Comments »
- Anders Fogh Rasmussen
Anders Fogh Rasmussen is Secretary General of NATO.
BRUSSELS – When I gave my first public speech as Secretary General of NATO just over a year ago, I focused on [...]
Posted in Burma News on Oct 21st, 2010 No Comments »
Dear Friends,
Below are the “2010 Election Watch” highlights for Week 32, covering 12-18 October:
Developments
SPDC Election Commission Chairman Thein Soe said that no foreign journalists or international monitors would be allowed to observe the upcoming elections.
SPDC Election Commission Chairman Thein Soe said that 3,071 candidates, including [...]
Posted in Campaigns & posters on Oct 21st, 2010 No Comments »
Posted in Poems in Burmese on Oct 21st, 2010 No Comments »
21oct10 PDF_373_Only Who Stand on the Truth Will Win
Ko Ko Aung
Posted in Campaigns & posters on Oct 21st, 2010 No Comments »
NO VOTE! REJECT MILITARY DICTATORSHIPS’ SHAM ELECTIONS & SAY NO TO MILITARY DICTATORSHIP RULE IN BURMA
Please join us on Friday, October 29, 2010
from 1:00-3:00 pm
in front of the U.N. (1st Ave, Between 42nd and 43rd Streets, NY 10017)
to show your support and solidarity with the people of Burma!
****
Organized by Burma’s Democratic Forces, New York
Posted in Old Misellaneous on Oct 21st, 2010 No Comments »
Myanmar court will hear appeal of Aung San Suu Kyi
AP
YANGON, Myanmar -Myanmar’s highest court has agreed to hear a final appeal to release opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi from house arrest, her lawyer said Thursday, pressing forward with the case despite her scheduled release in less than a month.
“We believe that Daw Aung San [...]
Posted in Burma News on Oct 20th, 2010 No Comments »
Asian Tribune – Failure to investigate crimes against humanity in Burma will embolden the Generals,” says UN Rapporteur
AFP – Myanmar bars foreign monitors, media for election
AFP – ‘Health emergency’ in Myanmar’s ethnic east: report
AFP – Myanmar’s Suu Kyi wants to use Twitter after release
AFP – UN chief to visit China and [...]
Posted in Burma News on Oct 20th, 2010 No Comments »
Dear Friends,
Below are the “2010 Election Watch” highlights for Week 32, covering 12-18 October:
Developments
SPDC Election Commission Chairman Thein Soe said that no foreign journalists or international monitors would be allowed to observe the upcoming elections.
SPDC Election Commission Chairman Thein Soe said that 3,071 candidates, including 82 independent candidates, will contest the elections.
Civil servants said that [...]
Posted in WORLD Digest on Oct 19th, 2010 No Comments »
- Ejaz Ghani
Ejaz Ghani is Economic Adviser on South Asia Poverty Reduction and Economic Management at the World Bank and editor of The Poor Half Billion in South Asia – What is Holding [...]
Posted in Campaigns & posters on Oct 19th, 2010 No Comments »
For Immediate Release
19 October 2010
“FAILURE TO INVESTIGATE CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY IN BURMA WILL EMBOLDEN THE GENERALS,” SAYS UN RAPPORTEUR
The UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Burma, Tomas Ojea Quintana, has said the international community has a responsibility to investigate crimes against humanity in Burma, in his latest report to the [...]
Posted in Documentary Report on Oct 19th, 2010 1 Comment »
FBR REPORT:
Nyaunglebin District, Western Karen State 14 October, 2010
KEY DEVELOPMENTS
Burma Army Soldiers Kill One Villager, Wound 11-Year Old Boy
Capture and extortion by Burma Army soldiers
Denial of medical care
Over 310 villagers forced to build camps and clear Burma Army road
Map showing area of report (click on map for larger [...]
Posted in Feature Articles on Oct 19th, 2010 No Comments »
by Nava Thakuria, Guwahati
Looking at Burma’s forthcoming General Election from India
The general election in Burma (Myanmar), scheduled on November 7, 2010, will be a much sought after affair for the international media, as most of the western countries have expressed resentment at the progress of the polls that were expected [...]
Posted in Old Misellaneous on Oct 18th, 2010 No Comments »
Foreign media barred from covering Myanmar vote
AP
NAYPYITAW, Myanmar -Foreign journalists will not be allowed into Myanmar to cover the military-ruled country’s first election in 20 years, election officials said Monday, issuing the latest restriction for an election widely criticized as a sham.
The Election Commission said there was no need to grant visas for foreign reporters [...]
Posted in Campaigns & posters on Oct 18th, 2010 No Comments »
International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH)
Burma Lawyers’ Council (BLC)
PRESS RELEASE
Burma
Accountability for serious crimes essential to sustainable
peace and national reconciliation in Burma
http://www.fidh.org/IMG/pdf/FIDH_BLC_Burma_seminar_final_internet.pdf
Paris-Bangkok, 18 October 2010. Ahead of the general elections on November 7 in Burma, the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and the Burma Lawyers’ Council (BLC) are publishing the main interventions of [...]
Posted in Campaigns & posters on Oct 18th, 2010 No Comments »
Embargoed until 11:00am Bangkok time, October 19, 2010
Women and children bear brunt of health crisis in eastern Burma
A new report released today reveals that the health of populations in conflict-affected areas of eastern Burma, particularly women and children, is amongst the worst in the world, a result of official disinvestment in health, protracted conflict [...]