Archive for 'Feature Articles'

by Htun Gyaw
18Mar10 Analyzing the 2010 Election (Burmese)

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2010 and My View

by Htun Gyaw
18Mar10 2010 and My View

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18Mar10 Burma’s political, economic, health and education

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Zaw Naing Wynn
Australia, u4097123@alumni.anu.edu.au 18 March 2010
The military dictators have announced most anticipated election laws.  Now it looks more certain that elections will be held in 2010 according to the terms and conditions carefully dictated by the regime.
The time has arrived for all Burmese oppositions to decide.  It will be the crucial time that will [...]

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National Interests

by Khin Ma Ma Myo
25Feb10 National Interests by Khin Ma Ma Myo

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NLD Vice Chairman U Tin Oo was released from house arrest but releasing him from house arrest does not mean progress toward democracy and it is a progress toward positive change.  But his college Daw Aung San Suu Kyi is still under house arrest that she never committed a single crime.
On 30 May, 2003 leaders [...]

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12Feb10 Current Labor strike in Hlaing Tharyar Rangoon Burma

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01Feb10 The Use of Democracy as and Adj

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Kanbawza Win
Sanskrit says that: ‘Education leads to liberation’ – Liberation from ignorance which shrouds the mind, Liberation from superstitions, which paralyze efforts, liberation from prejudice, which blind the vision of truth”. However successive military regime believes that universities are the birth place of dissent against autocratic rule. And so since the military coup in [...]

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More or less every day, there are reports of peoples’ defiance in Burma. On Friday three more Burmese have to be added to the list. They are guilty of leaking the State secrets.
“State” is the favorite terminology of the regime and it stands for the regime. Whatever the mandatory public works is done it [...]

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By Ethan Bourne
Burma is a country ruled by successive generals who were not elected by the Burmese.  Burma’s generals often quote the selected laws from the constitution when they want to protect their actions of arbitrary arrests, imprisonment and many other human rights violations. Whenever the term of house arrest for Aung San Suu Kyi, [...]

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To answer the frequently asked query of is democracy possible in Burma is yes. But what democracy is the following question. The officially dubbed “disciplined democracy” is coming soon if everything goes smoothly. Thesaurus plainly tells that disciplined means restricted or closely controlled.
For external observers, an election can be seen as a routine and standard [...]

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A Burmese Perspective
Kanbawza Win
It seems that President Barack Obama’s first trip to Asia has signaled a turning point in relations between a weakened American eagle and the fiery Chinese Dragon that senses its time has come to ignore on human rights and restrict it to economics only. In other words business overrules the [...]

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Kanbawza Win
“The Washington Post” of the 7th instant decries, “Results of US-Burma Meeting is Unclear.” How can it be clear when the two sides, the Burmese Junta and the American representatives Kurt Campbell, Assistant Secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific affairs, together with Scot Marciel, Deputy Assistant Secretary witted against each other [...]

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Passing a resolution on Burma in an international forum is an annual routine practice which can embarrasses the ruling military junta but as that cannot make a change in the country it is not impressed by the severely oppressed people of Burma. There have been over 30 resolutions already passed by unanimously and later by [...]

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Burma and Sri Lanka has some shared facts such as colonialism, Theravada Buddhism, Non-allied Movement, and protracted armed resistance by minority.
Apart from that Than Shwe’s trip to Venerable Island is not significant like General Aung San’s visit to Kandy to sign an agreement with Lord Mountbatten in September 1945.
His visit is somewhat noteworthy. Burmese military [...]

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by: Htun Aung Gyaw
The ruling Junta SLORC/SPDC has no legitimacy and credibility after it lost the election in 1990.  Burma’s last election on May 27, 1990 turned out a huge victory for the opposition political party National League for Democracy (NLD), which won 82% of the parliamentary seats.  The junta has no legitimacy to rule [...]

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