Posted in Burma News on Nov 4th, 2010 No Comments »
The Georgia Straight – Aung San Suu Kyi Burma’s voice for democracy
AP – Agency: Myanmar ethnic groups align against regime
AFP – To vote or not to vote? Myanmar youth take to streets
AFP - US fine-tunes outreach as Myanmar votes
AFP - Myanmar’s Internet ‘under attack’ ahead of election
Reuters – For some, [...]
Posted in Burma News on Nov 4th, 2010 No Comments »
Please find attached EBO’s 47th Election Monitor report.
04nov10 EMNo47-04-11-10
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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Euro-Burma Office
Square [...]
Posted in Poems in Burmese on Nov 4th, 2010 No Comments »
04nov10 PDF – _385_Burmese Refugee and SPDC
Ko Ko Aung
Posted in Articles in English on Nov 3rd, 2010 No Comments »
Global Justice CentreWritten by Phyu Phyu Sann, GJC Burma Researcher
I am part of a generation of people from Burma who grew up dreaming of and longing for justice. A generation that continues to be victimized by terrible acts of mass atrocities carried out by our own ruling regime. Extrajudicial killings, torture, and [...]
Posted in WORLD Digest on Nov 3rd, 2010 No Comments »
- Yoon Young-kwan
Yoon Young-kwan, South Korea’s foreign minister in 2003-2004, is currently Professor of International Relations at Seoul National University.
SEOUL – Hubris usually gives birth to disaster. The root cause of [...]
Posted in Burma News on Nov 3rd, 2010 No Comments »
Please find attached EBO’s latest analysis paper No.3/2010 – The 2010 Elections – To Boycott or To Contest.
03nov10 EBOAnalysisPaperNo32010-The2010Elections
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Euro-Burma Office
Square Gutenberg 11/2
1000 Brussels, Belgium
Tel: (32 2) 280 0691 / 280 [...]
Posted in WORLD Digest on Nov 3rd, 2010 No Comments »
- Harold James
Harold James is Professor of History and International Affairs at Princeton University and Marie Curie Professor of History at the European University Institute, Florence. His most recent book is [...]
Posted in WORLD Digest on Nov 3rd, 2010 No Comments »
- Yohei Sasakawa
Yohei Sasakawa, Chairman of The Nippon Foundation, is the World Health Organization’s Goodwill Ambassador for Leprosy Elimination and Japan’s Goodwill Ambassador for the Human Rights of People Affected [...]
Posted in Burma News on Nov 3rd, 2010 1 Comment »
IRIN – MYANMAR: Water worries surface after Cyclone Giri
Reuters - Myanmar storm killed dozens, 81,000 left homeless: U.N.
Reuters – Myanmar junta says will keep power if voters abstain
AP – Myanmar’s ethnic minorities prepare for war
AP – Myanmar cancels voting in more minority areas
AP – UN chief criticized for failing to press [...]
Posted in Documentary Report on Nov 3rd, 2010 No Comments »
Here is report by NDD on how the military regime prepared to entrench its power through roadmap process by building USDA and transforming to USDP.
03nov10 NDD – A Violent Past to a Brutal Future
(Naing Aung)
Secretary General
Forum for Democracy in Burma (FDB)
Central Executive Member
Network for Democracy and Development (NDD)
Phone: 66 81 8837230
Fax: 66 55 546260
E-Mail: [...]
Posted in Burma News on Nov 3rd, 2010 No Comments »
Dear Friends,
Below are the “2010 Election Watch” highlights for Week 34, covering 26 October – 1 November:
Developments
NLD members distributed election boycott leaflets in Rangoon’s Insein and Mingaladon Townships. Riot police in Rangoon’s North Okkalapa Township surrounded “no-vote” campaigners as they attempted to distribute election boycott leaflets.
Around 1,200 people from over 150 villages protested the elections [...]
Posted in Documentary Report on Nov 3rd, 2010 No Comments »
03nov10 BNI Report on Pre-election Situation
Here is report by Burma News International on 2010 election for your information.
(Naing Aung)
Secretary General
Forum for Democracy in Burma (FDB)
Central Executive Member
Network for Democracy and Development (NDD)
Phone: 66 81 8837230
Fax: 66 55 546260
E-Mail: dna_freeburma@yahoo.com
dna.freeburma@gmail.com
Skype: dnaforfreeburma
Website: democraticforumburma.org
Postal Add: P.O Box (142)
Mae Sot Post Office
[...]
Posted in Documentary Report on Nov 3rd, 2010 No Comments »
The ongoing imprisonment of Burma’s political activists in the lead up to the 2010 elections.
03nov10 Silencing Dissent English
03nov10 Silencing Dissent Burmese
Posted in Burma News on Nov 2nd, 2010 No Comments »
Posted in Burma News on Nov 2nd, 2010 No Comments »
Dear Friends,
Please find attached the October 2010 issue of ALTSEAN Burma Bulletin.
The Burma Bulletin is a short month in review of events in Burma, particularly those of interest to the democracy movement and human rights activists.
In the October 2010 issue you will find:
* UN slams election process
* Cyclone Giri strikes Burma
* Health [...]
Posted in Editorials & Op/Eds on Nov 1st, 2010 No Comments »
Paper no. 4129
27-Oct-2010
A Second Panglong Conference and not an Election is the need of the hour in Myanmar
Guest Column by Dr. Tint Swe
(The views expressed are his own)
The general elections around the world in this year comprise 30 in Europe, 26 in Africa, 19 in Asia, 8 in South America, 1 in New Zealand, [...]
Posted in Feature Articles on Nov 1st, 2010 1 Comment »
The general elections around the world in this year comprise of 30 in Europe, 26 in Africa, 19 in Asia, 8 in South America, 1 in New Zealand, and 1 in Australia. In the Electoral Calendar of Maximiliano Herrera Human Rights Links there are total of 509 various forms of elections in a range of [...]
Posted in Feature Articles on Nov 1st, 2010 No Comments »
The Burmese military junta has learned a couple of lessons since they seized the power two decades ago. The soldiers trained by Fascist Japanese army in 1940s are instructed just to fetch water but not excuse of leakage of water bottle. The first task was no more 8888 protest and so far they are successful [...]