Posted in Articles in English on Feb 28th, 2011 No Comments »
Why Did Burma’s Leader Appear on TV in Women’s Clothes?
By Robert Horn / Bangkok Thursday, Feb. 24, 2011
General Than Shwe of Burma, the dour and taciturn leader of one of the world’s most repressive military regimes, isn’t known for his feminine side. His contempt for pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi is [...]
Posted in Articles in English on Feb 13th, 2011 No Comments »
Pang-Long Treaty has reached 64th Anniversary, But no Ethnic Equal Rights as yet
By Zin Linn
Burma’s sixty-four year-long Historic Panglong Agreement has been ignored by the Burmese military regime so far. The said agreement has been disregarded by the generals as they rule the country highhandedly. The Panglong Agreement was signed on Feb. 12, 1947, between [...]
Posted in Articles in English on Feb 3rd, 2011 1 Comment »
Burma: A Presidential Election or A Theatrical Show?
Thu, 2011-02-03 05:07
By – Zin Linn
Prearranged by the Burma or Myanmar’s military junta, the first regular session of the Peoples Parliament (Pyithu Hluttaw) was convened at the Pyithu Hluttaw Building on Naypyitaw Monday.
Burma’s new parliament elected two military men as speakers of the Upper and Lower Houses on [...]
Posted in Articles in English on Jan 6th, 2011 3 Comments »
By Nehginpao Kipgen Jan 5, 2011 http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/content/view/48713/
On Jan. 4,
Burma (also known as Myanmar) celebrated its 63rd Independence Day. It was on this day in 1948, the Union of Burma was granted independence by the British. Over six decades have passed since independence, but still unresolved is the crux of the conflicts [...]
Posted in Articles in English on Jan 2nd, 2011 No Comments »
By Nehginpao Kipgen January 02, 2011 http://www.thejakartaglobe.com/opinion/interethnic-agreement-in-burma-long-overdue/414612
On Tuesday, Burma will celebrate its 63rd independence day. It was on this day in 1948, the Union of Burma was granted independence by the British. Over six decades have passed since independence, but the crux of the conflicts within the country still remains unresolved.
The 2011 [...]
Posted in Articles in English on Dec 15th, 2010 1 Comment »
As in the film bearing the same title, three individuals, each of a different character, all wanting the same thing, but each having their own method of obtaining it. Burma is the reward for today’s bounty hunters, with a subtle but somewhat, dastardly, conniving attachment, stretching back many years, possibly [...]
Posted in Articles in English on Nov 28th, 2010 No Comments »
BY TAKESHI FUJITANI CORRESPONDENT
2010/11/26
Aung San Suu Kyi (Asahi Shimbun file photo)
BANGKOK–Burmese pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi said both her own movement and the country’s military junta would have to compromise in any effort to build a democratic Myanmar (Burma).
Aung San Suu Kyi made her comments in a telephone interview with The Asahi Shimbun on [...]
Posted in Articles in English on Nov 24th, 2010 No Comments »
David Scott Mathieson, 24 November 2010
About the author: David Scott Mathieson is senior researcher in the Asia division of Human Rights Watch, specialising in Burma
The traces of optimism that had surrounded Burma’s first notionally democratic experience for two decades vanish on closer inspection of the outcome, says David Scott Mathieson in Chiang Mai.
The release of [...]
Posted in Articles in English on Nov 19th, 2010 No Comments »
http://sightmagazine.com.au/stories/feature/burma15.11.10.php
18th November, 2010
BENEDICT ROGERS
From time to time, Burma hits the world headlines. It did so in September 2007, when Buddhist monks courageously led peaceful protests against the country’s brutal military regime, and faced a bloody crackdown. The following year, when Cyclone Nargis struck and the regime initially rejected international aid and [...]
Posted in Articles in English on Nov 17th, 2010 No Comments »
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/opinion/lets-not-miss-this-mandela-moment/story-e6frg6zo-1225954606832
Let’s not miss this Mandela moment
By Benedict Rogers and Joseph Loconte
NOW Aung San Suu Kyi is free, world leaders must fight for real democracy.
FOR years, the international community and human rights activists have campaigned for the freedom of Aung San Suu Kyi, Burma’s democracy leader and Nobel laureate. Watching her [...]
Posted in Articles in English on Nov 16th, 2010 No Comments »
Dear Friends,
Altsean-Burma has released a briefer titled “Before and after the elections: The crimes continue.”
In the 48 hours after the SPDC’s rigged elections, over 25,000 civilians fled to Thailand after fighting broke out between the SPDC Army and a breakaway faction of the Democratic Karen Buddhist Army along a 150km stretch of the Thai-Burmese border. [...]
Posted in Articles in English on Nov 16th, 2010 No Comments »
Dear Friends,
Altsean-Burma has released a briefer titled “Quotable Daw Suu.”
After her release from seven years under house arrest, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi has spoken on a wide range of issues concerning the past, present, and future of Burma.
The briefer contains a summary of the statements she made in the 48 hours [...]
Posted in Articles in English on Nov 16th, 2010 No Comments »
Min Khin Kyaw : 16-Nov-10
Well, now it’s time to think somewhat normally. Forget the military awhile and whoever controlling it. It’s time of civilian government and hopefully a new beginning. That is it’s time to start spending all income in the national reconstruction from being ruin to some dignified state. And [...]
Posted in Articles in English on Nov 15th, 2010 2 Comments »
By Nehginpao Kipgen November 15, 2010 http://www.bt.com.bn/opinion/2010/11/15/challenges-ahead-suu-kyi
AS a political scientist and someone who closely follows the Burmese (Myanmar’s) political developments, I had little doubt about the certainty of the release of Aung San Suu Kyi on November 13, 2010, upon the expiry of the term of her house arrest.
Given the nature of [...]
Posted in Articles in English on Nov 15th, 2010 No Comments »
The words of the leaders are always powerful. Aung San Suu Kyi, Burmese democratic leader, represents the power of powerless. Powerful and Valuable words can be found in her writings, i.e. Freedom from Fear (1991, 1995), Letters from Burma (1997). On the anniversary of her 61st Birthday, I would like [...]
Posted in Articles in English on Nov 14th, 2010 No Comments »
Sun, 2010-11-14 04:33 — editor : Bangkok, 14 November, (Asiantribune.com):
National League For Democracy, the political outfit led by Aung San Suu Kyi has urged the Myanmar’s military regime to guarantee her safety and grant her full freedom of movement, expression, association and Assembly.
The Central Committee of the National League For Democracy (NLD) has also urged [...]
Posted in Articles in English on Nov 12th, 2010 1 Comment »
“In the grand discovery of modern times, the system of representation, the solution of all the difficulties, both speculative and practical, will perhaps be found. If it cannot, we seem to be forced upon the extraordinary conclusion, that good Government is impossible.” – Utilitarian Philosopher James Mill (1).
Representation as a Political [...]
Posted in Articles in English on Nov 10th, 2010 No Comments »
Sham Election in Burma Must be Rejected
Wednesday, 10 November 2010 11:56 Forum-Asia
(10 November 2010, Bangkok) Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development (FORUM-ASIA) denounces the statement of Vietnam, the current ASEAN Chair, welcoming the election in Burma as “a significant step forward in the [...]