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Burma has released a number of its high-profile dissidents following an announcement on state TV that there would be a presidential pardon for 651 prisoners.
Among those freed are veterans of the 1988 student protest movement Min Ko Naing and Nilar Thein and senior political representative of the Shan, U Khun Tun Oo. Former Prime Minister Khin Nyunt has also been freed from house arrest.
It is not known how many political prisoners remain in Burma’s jails but it is hoped that the current amnesty will result in all of them being released.
National League for Democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi is reported to have greeted the latest releases as a ‘positive sign.’
However, Sithu Zeya – a freed journalist who worked on exiled broadcaster Democratic Voice of Burma – was cautious in his response to getting out of prison. “I have been released with a rope around my neck,” he said, in reference to the fact that charges against him have not been dropped.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-16540871Burma has released a number of its high-profile dissidents following an announcement... more
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Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi has confirmed that she will run for a seat in her country’s new parliament.
Her entry into a by-election scheduled for April will be the first time the National League for Democracy has participated in Burma’s new political structure after it was formally registered as a party in December 2011.
An NLD party spokesman told the New York Times that Suu Kyi would stand for one of 48 seats that have become vacant since November 2010 after the appointment of members to cabinet roles.
Suu Kyi's announcement to run for parliament comes just a week after the Burmese government approved the NLD’s participation in elections following its removal from the list due to the party’s boycott of the general election.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/11/world/asia/aung-san-suu-kyi-will-run-for-myanmar-parliament.html?ref=global-homeBurmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi has confirmed that she will run for a seat... more
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Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi has told the BBC that she expects her country to hold democratic elections in her lifetime.
When questioned by the interviewer, Suu Kyi said: “I think there will be full democratic election in my lifetime. But then, of course, I don’t know how long I’m going to live. But if I live out a normal life span.”
Suu Kyi – who has spent 15 of the past 21 years under house arrest because of her political activity – made the comment in an exclusive interview with the BBC ahead of a meeting with William Hague.
She also talked about Burma’s political prisoners, saying they must all be freed, even if the government refused to admit the existence of up to 1,000 journalists, dissidents and monks who were involved in protests in 2007.
Though Suu Kyi officially registered the National League for Democracy as a political party in December 2011, she says she does not know when democratic elections will be held and whether she would run in them.
Speaking about Burma’s progress, Suu Kyi said: "I don’t think it’s as fast as a lot of us would like it to be. But on the other hand I don’t think it’s too slow."
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-16421610Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi has told the BBC that she expects her... more
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Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy party has decided to register to take part in elections in Burma.
The decision, which had been widely anticipated, signals the pro-democracy party's confidence in recent political reforms by the military-aligned government, which took power after the country's previous military rulers upheld a promise to hold elections in November 2010 and relinquish power.
The US president, Barack Obama, said he saw "flickers of progress" in Burma and would dispatch Hillary Clinton, the secretary of state, to explore new ties.
He said the recent release of political prisoners, the relaxing of media restrictions and signs of legislative change were "the most important steps toward reform in Burma that we've seen in years".
Obama, in Indonesia for the Association of South-East Asian Nations summit, said he had spoken to Aung San Suu Kyi for the first time and she had told him she supported more US engagement with Burma.
Many western governments have expressed doubts that Burma's government is committed to democratic change.
The NLD refused to register for the elections last year because of a government-imposed ban on members who had served time in prison, which would have prevented Aung San Suu Kyi and other senior figures from running. The restriction was lifted this year.
Senior members of the party met on Friday and agreed it was time to re-enter national politics. "Personally, I am for re-registration," Aung San Suu Kyi said in her speech to the delegates.
Any party that registers itself is required to run for at least three seats in the still unscheduled byelections for the 48 vacant seats in parliament, and Aung San Suu Kyi said she was in favour of contesting all 48 seats. The legislature comprises 224 members in the upper house and 440 members in the lower.
A statement said the NLD had "unanimiously decided to re-register as a political party … and will run in the elections". It will be the first electoral test of the NLD's popularity, and that of Aung San Suu Kyi, in more than two decades.
The NLD won a 1990 election by a landslide, but the military refused to cede power and, for the following two decades, suppressed the party's activities and put many of its members in prison.Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy party has decided to register to... more
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EU မဟာမင္းႀကီးနဲ႔ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ ေဆြးေႏြး
2011-09-10
ဥေရာပသမဂၢ EU ရဲ႕ လူသားခ်င္း စာနာေထာက္ထားမႈဆိုင္ရာ မဟာမင္းႀကီးနဲ႔ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္တို႔ ဒီကေန႔ မနက္ပိုင္းက သီးျခား ေတြ႔ဆံုေဆြးေႏြးခဲ့တယ္လို႔ သိရပါတယ္။
AFP
ျမန္မာ့ ဒီမုိကေရစီေခါင္းေဆာင္ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ကို ဥေရာပသမဂၢ EU ၏ လူသားခ်င္း စာနာေထာက္ထားမႈဆိုင္ရာ မဟာမင္းႀကီး Kristalina Georgieva (ဝဲမွ ဒုတိယ) ၂ဝ၁၁ ခုႏွစ္ စက္တင္ဘာလ ၁ဝ ရက္ေန႔က ေနအိမ္တြင္ သြားေရာက္ေတြ႔ဆံုစဥ္။ (Photo: AFP)
မဟာမင္းႀကီး Ms Karistalina Georgia ခရစၥတလီးနား ေဂ်ာ္ဂ်ီယာနဲ႔အဖြဲ႔ဟာ ဒီကေန႔မနက္ ၉ နာရီက ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ကို ေနအိမ္မွာ လာေရာက္ေတြ႔ဆံုတာ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္နဲ႔ မိနစ္ ၄ဝ ၾကာ သီးျခား ေဆြးေႏြးခဲ့တယ္လို႔ NLD ဗဟို အလုပ္အမႈေဆာင္ အဖြဲ႔ဝင္ ဦးဟံသာျမင့္က ေျပာပါတယ္။
“က်န္တဲ့လူေတြနဲ႔ ႏႈတ္ဆက္တာေလာက္ပဲ ရွိတယ္။ အလႅာပ သလႅာပ သေဘာပါပဲ။ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းၾကည္ နဲ႔ကေတာ့ မိနစ္ ၄ဝ ေလာက္ၾကာေအာင္ ေျပာပါတယ္။ က်န္တဲ့လူေတြနဲ႔ ၁ဝ မိနစ္ေလာက္ စကားေျပာ၊ ဓာတ္ပံုရုိက္ၿပီး ထြက္သြားၾကတာ။ ေရွ႕မွာရွိတဲ့ သတင္းေထာက္ေတြကိုလည္း ေလယာဥ္ပ်ံ မမီမွာစိုးလုိ႔ပါ ဆိုၿပီး ဘာမွ ေျပာမသြားဘူး။ အဲဒီေတာ့ က်ေနာ္တုိ႔ဘက္ကလည္း ဘာမွ မထုတ္ျပန္ပါဘူး”
EU မဟာမင္းႀကီးနဲ႔ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ ဘာေတြ ေဆြးေႏြးသလဲဆိုတာ အတိအက် မသိရေပမယ့္ လူသားခ်င္း စာနာေထာက္ထားတဲ့ အကူအညီ ေပးေရးကိစၥေတြနဲ႔ ပတ္သက္ႏိုင္တယ္လို႔ သိရပါတယ္။ မဟာမင္းႀကီးနဲ႔အတူ ဥေရာပသမဂၢ သံအမတ္ႀကီးနဲ႔ တျခား အရာရွိေတြလည္း လိုက္ပါလာတယ္လို႔ သိရပါတယ္။
အာသံအဖြဲ႔ကို ႏွင္ထုတ္မွာမဟုတ္လို႔ နာဂအဖြဲ႔ ေျပာ
မူးယစ္ေဆးဝါး က်ပ္ သိန္း ၄ ေထာင္ေက်ာ္ဖိုး တာခ်ီလိတ္ၿမိဳ႕မွာ ဖမ္းမိ
2011-09-10
တာခ်ီလိတ္ၿမိဳ႕ အေရွ႕ေျမာက္ဘက္ မိုင္ ၃ဝ အကြာမွာ ရွိတဲ့ ေဟြ႔ေလလန္ ပူးေပါင္းဂိတ္မွာ စက္တင္ဘာလ ၈ ရက္ေန႔ ည ၈ နာရီက ဆယ္ဘီးကား တစီးေပၚကေန က်ပ္ေငြ သိန္း ၄ ေထာင္ေက်ာ္ တန္ဖိုးရွိတဲ့ ‘ယာဘ’ ေခၚ စိတ္ႂကြေဆးျပား တေသာင္းခြဲခန္႔ ဖမ္းဆီးရမိခဲ့တယ္လို႔ သိရပါတယ္။
တာခ်ီလိတ္ၿမိဳ႕နယ္ ရဲစခန္းကို အာအက္ဖ္ေအက ဆက္သြယ္ေမးျမန္းရာမွာ တာဝန္က် ရဲအရာရွိက ဒီသတင္း ဟုတ္မွန္ေၾကာင္း အတည္ျပဳ ေျပာဆိုပါတယ္။ ရဲစခန္းတာဝန္မွဴး ဒု-ရဲအုပ္ ထြန္းထြန္းဦးက …
“ေလာေလာဆယ္ေတာ့ ေရတြက္မရေသးဘူး ခင္ဗ်။ အျပား အေရအတြက္ကို ခန္႔မွန္းလို႔ မရေသးသလို ေငြေၾကးလည္း ခန္႔မွန္းလို႔ မရေသးပါဘူး”
ေရႊႀတိဂံနယ္ေျမ လာအိုနယ္စပ္၊ မဲေခါင္ျမစ္အနီးက မုိင္းဖုန္းေက်းရြာအုပ္စု ပါခုတ္ ေက်းရြာဘက္ကေန တာခ်ီလိတ္ဘက္ကို ကားေမာင္းႏွင္လာခ်ိန္မွာ အခုလို ဖမ္းဆီးမိခဲ့တာပါ။
ဒီ မူးယစ္ေဆးဝါးေတြဟာ တာခ်ီလိတ္ၿမိဳ႕ ဆန္စိုင္းရပ္ကြက္က အိုက္ေဆာင္ ေနအိမ္ကို ပို႔ေဆာင္ဖို႔ျဖစ္တယ္ ဆိုတဲ့အတြက္ တာခ်ီလိတ္ၿမိဳ႕က မူးယစ္အဖြဲ႔နဲ႔ အတူ ခမရ (၃၃၁) တပ္ဖြဲ႔ဝင္ေတြက ည ၉ နာရီေလာက္မွာ အိုက္ေဆာင္ ေနအိမ္ကို ဝင္ေရာက္ ရွာေဖြခဲ့ခ်ိန္မွာ ကားဂိုေဒါင္တြင္းက က်ပ္ေငြ သံုးကုေဋေက်ာ္ တန္ဖိုးရွိတဲ့ ‘ယာဘ’ မူးယစ္ေဆးျပားေတြ၊ ဘိန္းျဖဴေတြအျပင္ မူးယစ္ေဆးဝါး ေဖာ္စပ္တဲ့ ဓာတုေဆးေတြ ဖမ္းဆီးရမိခဲ့တယ္လို႔ အာဏာပိုင္နဲ႔ နီးစပ္တဲ့ အမည္မေဖာ္လိုသူတဦးက ေျပာပါတယ္။
ဒါ့ျပင္ ကားဂုိေဒါင္အတြင္းက အမ်ိဳးအမည္မသိ ေသနတ္ ၂ လက္နဲ႔ က်ည္ဆံေတြအျပင္ ထိုင္းဘတ္ေငြ သိန္း ၂ ရာေက်ာ္ သိမ္းဆည္းရမိခဲ့ၿပီး လိုင္စင္မဲ့ကား ၈ စီးနဲ႔ ေမာ္ေတာ္ဆိုင္ကယ္ ၁ဝ စီးပါ ဖမ္းမိခဲ့တယ္လို႔ သိရပါတယ္။
တဆက္တည္းမွာပဲ မိုင္းဖုန္းေက်းရြာအုပ္စုအတြင္းမွာ ေနထိုင္တဲ့ အိုက္ေဆာင္ရဲ႕ ညီျဖစ္သူေနအိမ္မွာလည္း ေသနတ္တလက္နဲ႔ က်ပ္သိန္း ၄ ရာေက်ာ္ တန္ဖိုးရွိတဲ့ စိတ္ႂကြေဆးျပားေတြ ဖမ္းဆီးရမိခဲ့သလို အိုက္ေဆာင္ ဆိုသူ စိုက္ပ်ိဳးထားတဲ့ ေရာ္ဘာျခံခင္းထဲမွာ ဘိန္းျဖဴ ၄ဝ ကီလိုဂရမ္ခန္႔နဲ႔ အသံတိတ္ကိရိယာ တပ္ဆင္ထားတဲ့ လက္နက္ ၃ လက္၊ က်ည္ဆံေတြနဲ႔ မူးယစ္ေဆးဝါး ထုတ္လုပ္တဲ့ စက္ပစၥည္းေတြပါ သိမ္းဆည္း ရရွိခဲ့တယ္လုိ႔ သိရပါတယ္။
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ဇူလိႈင္လ ၅ ရက္၊ ၂၀၁၁ တုန္းက ေအာင္ေသာင္းတို႔အဖြဲ႔ ၀ေခါင္းေဆာင္ေတြနဲ႔ လာေတြ႔ေတာ့ ၀ေခါင္းေဆာင္ေတြက နယ္ျခားေစာင့္တပ္ဖြဲ႔လုပ္ဖို႔ လာတာဆိုရင္မေတြ႔ခ်င္ဘူးလို႔ ေျပာလႊတ္လိုက္တယ္။ အခု စစ္အုပ္စုကိုယ္စားလွယ္အဖြဲ႔ ထပ္လႊတ္တယ္။ ဒါက အရင္အစိုးရတုန္းက ေပၚလစီပါ အခု နယ္ျခားတပ္ မလုပ္ခိုင္းေတာ့ပါဘူးလို႔ ေလခ်ဳိေသြးတယ္။ ဒီေတာ့ ၀ေခါင္းေဆာင္ေတြက သူတို႔ကို ၀နယ္ထဲကို လာခြင့္ေပးလိုက္တယ္။
စစ္အုပ္စုအဖြဲ႔က ရွမ္းျပည္နယ္အစုိးရ နယ္စပ္ေရးရာ၀န္ႀကီး ဗုိလ္မွဴးႀကီး ေအာင္သူက ဦးေဆာင္ကာ UWSA ဗဟုိေကာ္မ တီ၀င္ ဦးေက်ာက္ကြမ္းအမ္း၊ မုိင္းလားဖက္က ဒုဥကၠ႒ ဦးစံေပ့ တို႔က ကိုယ္စားျပဳၿပီး လက္မွတ္ထိုးၾကတယ္။ စက္တင္ ဘာ ၆ ရက္၊ ၂၀၁၁ ခုနစ္ က်ိဳင္းတံုမွာ လုပ္တာပါ။
ပဏာမသေဘာတူညီခ်က္ ၄ ခ်က္ လုပ္တယ္ဆိုတယ္။ ပညာရိွဆိုတာ ေျပးၾကည့္တာထက္ ေတြးၾကည့္ရံုနဲ႔ ရတယ္ဆိုသ လို နအဖ က ဝသပ ကို လုိက္ေလ်ာခဲ့ရတဲ့ အခ်က္ ၄ ခ်က္ရဲ႕ အႏွစ္သာရေတြက …
၁- ၀ တပ္ဖြဲ႔ အေနႏွင့္ နယ္ျခားေစာင္တပ္ဖြဲ႔ လုပ္ေဆာင္ရန္မလို။
၂- တရုပ္ျပည္ႏွင့္ တိုက္ရိုက္ဆက္ဆံႏိုိင္ေသာ္လည္း တျခားႏိုင္ငံေတြနဲ႔ ဆက္ဆံလ်င္ အစိုးရႏွင့္ တိုင္ပင္ညႇိႏႈိင္ေဆာင္ ရြက္ရန္။
၃- ပဋိပကၡျဖစ္ႏုိင္စရာေတြကို ႏွစ္ဖက္စလံုးက ထိမ္းသိမ္းမယ္။ (ကခ်င္၊ ရွမ္းေတြကို လက္နက္ မကူညီရ)
၄- ၀ ျပည္နယ္ဖြံ႔ၿဖိဳးေရးအတြက္ လိုအပ္ေသာ နည္းပညာႏွင့္ ပညာရွင္မ်ားကို ႏိုင္ငံေတာ္က ကူညီေပးမယ္။ (အကူညီ လိုရင္ေျပာပါ။ ႏိုင္ငံေတာ္ကို အရွက္မခြဲပါႏွင့္) ဆိုတာေတြေပါ့ဗ်ာ။
ဝသပ နဲ႔ စစ္အစိုးရ သေဘာတူညီခ်က္ကိုၾကည့္ရင္ ဝသပ ဖက္က ႏိုင္ငံေရးအျမတ္ ေတာ္ေတာ္ ရလိုက္တာေပါ့။ ၀ ကုိ နယ္ျခားေစာင့္တပ္ဖြဲ႔ မလုပ္ခိုင္းေတာ့ဘူး။ ဘာေၾကာင့္ ကခ်င္၊ ေမာင္ခ်စ္သူအဖြဲ႔၊ ရွမ္းနဲ႔ မြန္ေတြကို နယ္ျခားေစာင့္တပ္ဖြဲ႔ လုပ္ခိုင္းေနပါ သလဲ။ ၀ တပ္ကို ျမန္မာစစ္တပ္ေခါင္းေဆာင္ေတြ ေၾကာက္တယ္ဆိုတာ ေသခ်ာေနၿပီ။ ဘာလို႔ေၾကာက္ လဲ။ လက္နက္ရိွလို ေၾကာက္တယ္။ ၀ ေတြက ေၾကာက္စရာေကာင္းသလား။ ေကာင္းတယ္။ လက္နက္ကိုင္တပ္ဖြဲ႔က ၅ ေသာင္းခန္ ့ရိွတယ္။ ဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္ေက်ာ္ေဇာ္ရဲ႕ အဆိုအရ အေကာင္းဆံုးေပ်ာက္က်ား တပ္မေတာ္တခုလို႔ ဆိုတယ္။ စစ္ေရ၀၊ လက္နက္ေကာင္း၊ အၾကမ္းခံ၊ နယ္ေျမကၽြမ္းက်င္မႈ စတဲ့ စြမ္းရည္ေတြရိွတယ္။ အမိန္႔နာခံမႈနဲ႔ ေလ့က်င့္မႈ သိပ္ေကာင္း တယ္။ တရုပ္ လက္နက္ႀကီးကၽြမ္းက်င္သူေတြ၊ နည္းဗ်ဴဟာတိုက္ပြဲ ပညာရွင္ေတြကိုယ္တိုင္ မၾကာခန ေလ့က်င့္ေပးေလ့ ရိွတယ္။
တရုပ္ျပည္က ၀နယ္ထဲမွာ လက္နက္စက္ရံု ၃ ခု တည္ထားေပးထားတယ္။ ၀ က ထုတ္တဲ့ လက္နက္ေတြက အိႏိၵယ နယ္စပ္အထိ ေရာင္းခ်ေပးတယ္။ ၀ ကို တရုပ္ျပည္က သူတို႔ လူမ်ိဳးစုတခုလို႔ ခံယူတယ္။ ျမန္မာျပည္ထဲမွာ တရုပ္ျပည္ရဲ႕ တရား၀င္လက္နက္ကိုင္တပ္ဖြဲ႔တခု ျဖစ္လာဖို႔အထိပါ ရည္ရြက္ခ်က္ထားတယ္။
ျမန္မာစစ္တပ္နဲ႔ အာဏာခ်ိန္ခြင္ညႇာ ထိမ္းညိႇဖို႔အတြက္ ၀ တပ္ကိုေတာ့ ေတာင့္တင္းေအာင္ လက္နက္၊ ယူနီေဖါင္း၊ စီးပြား ေရးတပ္ေတြ တပ္ဆင္ေပးထားတယ္။ ဒီေတာ့ ၀ ျပည္နယ္ဟာ ကိုယ္ပိုင္အုပ္ခ်ဳပ္ေရး အျပည့္အ၀ရိွတဲ့ ျပည္နယ္တခု ျဖစ္ လာေနတယ္။ တရုပ္ရဲ႕ေပၚလစီကေတာ့ ျမန္မာျပည္တြင္းေရးမွာ တရုပ္က ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံထဲကို ေျခ႐ႈပ္ႏိုင္ဖို႔အတြက္ ၀ က တဆင့္ ၀င္ႏိုင္ေရး ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။
စစ္အစိုးရနဲ႔ ၀ ေဆြးေႏြးပြဲကို ေဘာလံုစကားနဲ႔ ေျပာရရင္ေတာ့ အႏိုင္ဂိုးတလံုး သြင္းလိုက္ႏိုင္သေပါ့ဗ်ာ။
http://www.naytthit.net/?p=19137EU မဟာမင္းႀကီးနဲ႔... more
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Burmese pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi has met the country's new leader, President Thein Sein, for the first time, reports say.
The meeting came as she paid her first visit to the remote capital, Naypyidaw, to attend an economic forum.
Government officials said she met the former general at the presidential palace, but gave no further details.
The move comes amid signs that the new government is trying to soften its image.
It came to power after widely criticised elections in November 2010 that replaced military rule with an army-backed nominally civilian government.
The polls were boycotted by Ms Suu Kyi's party, the National League for Democracy, because of election laws it said were unfair.
The NLD won the previous elections in 1990 but was never allowed to take power.
Ms Suu Kyi has spent much of the last two decades under house arrest, but was released late last year after the polls had taken place.
The talks between Ms Suu Kyi and the new president, a former general who stepped down to contest the polls as a civilian, were held behind closed doors.
But they come amid some signs the new government is reaching out to its opponents.
It has removed daily criticism of foreign media from its newspapers and called for talks with armed ethnic groups.
It also allowed Ms Suu Kyi to make her first political trip outside the commercial capital, Rangoon, earlier this month.
A government minister has also held two rounds of talks with the pro-democracy leader, with both sides expressing a desire to co-operate for the good of the country.
BBC's South East Asia Correspondent Rachel Harvey expresses her views:
"The fact that Aung San Suu Kyi is in the remote jungle capital, the seat of a government whose legitimacy she questions, is an important step - the latest in a series that suggest perhaps some kind of accommodation is taking shape.
The government is seeking to improve its image at home and abroad, to try to show that things are changing in Burma with the aim, eventually, of getting sanctions lifted.
Aung San Suu Kyi appears keen to exploit whatever openings may be on offer to try to influence government thinking."
These are carefully calibrated moves by very wary, old adversaries.Burmese pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi has met the country's new leader,... more
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Burma's Myo Yan Naung Thein on Min Ko Naing who earns respect from people of Burma. Min Ko Naing is one of the most well-known political dissidents in Burma. Min Ko Naing's interest in politics began at the Rangoon Arts and Science University in the mid-1980s where he studied Zoology. Min Ko Naing formed and organized the All Burma Federation of Student Unions (ABFSU), a nationwide student union to oppose decades of illegitimate military rule.
Min Ko Naing has been sentenced to 20 years' imprisonment, under Section 5(j) of the 1950 Emergency Provisions Act, vaguely-worded legislation which is frequently used to imprison political prisoners. During his detention, Min Ko Naing has been severely tortured and ill-treated and his health suffered as a consequence.In 19 November 2004, he was released from prison, after being imprisoned for 15 years.
After almost two years of his release in 2004, Min Ko Naing, along with other four leading student leaders, was rearrested in late September of 2006. The authorities released Min Ko Naing on January 11, 2006. He was arrested again around midnight on 21 August 2007, with other leaders of the 88 Generation Students for organizing peaceful demonstrations. Min Ko Naing has been sacrifice his life for the freedom of Burma.Burma's Myo Yan Naung Thein on Min Ko Naing who earns respect from people of... more
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Filmed in the summer of 2009, Altered Focus: Burma follows three film makers and skateboarders including Harmony and Analog UK rider Ali Drummond, as they travel across Yangon and Mandalay. The film explores the reaction to this unseen activity whilst touching on the political situation there. (MADE PUBLIC - 9th May 2011)
Altered Focus: Burma - http://vimeo.com/19780095
CNN Feature - http://edition.cnn.com/video/#/video/world/2011/05/25/aqui.myanmar.skateboarding.cnn?iref=allsearchFilmed in the summer of 2009, Altered Focus: Burma follows three film makers and... more
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Burma Democratic Concern (BDC) is humbled to present the new Burmese campaign video TV-Series "Hay Man Oo Mar SHOCK Shi Tae" to educate, empower and encourage the new generation activists working for the democratisation of Burma.
Daw Aung San Suu Kyi said that she would like to build the democracy networking web so as to communicate with people around the world as well as she also emphasised that youths are the strength for the future nation building since she released from detention.
To play our parts, Burma Democratic Concern (BDCs) produce Burmese campaign video TV-Series "Hay Man Oo Mar SHOCK Shi Tae". In the video there will be information regarding expanding political space, institution building, strengthening civil society organisations (CSOs), and establishing networks as well as other important information. The message will include revolution of the spirit, people power, mass movement; freedom from fear, empowering future generation and replacing Burma's military with new generation activists who value professionalism and respect people.
Burma Democratic Concern (BDC) believes the power of butterfly effect and we would be very happy if the video could be a useful tool triggering the domino effect resulting in emergence of the peaceful, progress and prosperous Burma. Thank you very much for your unwavering support.
For more information please contact Burma Democratic Concern (BDC) at http://www.bdcburma.org/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvBfGv8M8XkBurma Democratic Concern (BDC) is humbled to present the new Burmese campaign video... more
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Kim Aris, 33, finally saw his mother in Burma today after waiting weeks in Thailand for the military regime to grant him a visa.
Kim lives in Britain and last saw his mother in December 2000. He has repeatedly been denied visas ever since by the ruling junta.
Suu Kyi, who won the 1991 Nobel Peace prize was first arrested in 1989 when Kim was 11 and her older son Alexander 16. She has been detained for 15 of the past 21 years.
Suu Kyi's late husband, British academic Michael Aris died of prostate cancer in 1999 at age 53, after having been denied visas to see his wife for the three years leading up to his death. Suu Kyi has never met her two grandchildren.
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Only two days after being freed from her house arrest Aung San Suu Kyi has just challenged the junta and said that her aim for Burma is a peaceful revolution.Speaking at the headquarters of her National League for Democracy, she said she was sure democracy would come to Burma eventually, although she did not know how long it would take.She said she would take any opportunity to speak to ruling generals. Her release came six days after Burma held its first election in 20 years.According to the BBC several security officials watched her interview from across the street at NLD headquarters but did not intervene.
Aung San Suu Kyi also confirmed that she was not subject to any restrictions on her freedom. But she said that she was fully prepared to take the consequences if the military government decided to lock her up again for what she said or did.The Nobel Peace Prize winner has spent 15 of the past 21 years in detention. She was released on Saturday when her latest period of house arrest expired.On Sunday, thousands of jubilant supporters gathered to hear her speak, as she urged Burmese people to work together for change.
Aung San Suu Kyi
Born 1945, daughter of Burma's independence hero, General Aung San, assassinated in 1947
1960: Leaves Burma and is later educated at Oxford University
1988: Returns to care for sick mother and is caught up in revolt against then-dictator Ne Win
1989: Put under house arrest as Burma junta declares martial law
1990: NLD wins election; military disregards result
1991: Wins Nobel Peace Prize
1995: Released from house arrest, but movements restricted
2000: Near continuous period of house arrest begins
Sept 2007: First public appearance since 2003, greeting protesting Buddhist monks
November 2010: NLD boycotts first election in 20 years and is disbanded; House arrest ends
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Aung San Suu Kyi is finally free. After 15 years of jails and house arrest is now a free woman like many others. Tomorrow she will make her first speech. This liberation comes a few days after the fake Burma elections.
http://www.inaltreparole.net/en/world/aungsansuukyilibera131110.htmlAung San Suu Kyi is finally free. After 15 years of jails and house arrest is now a... more
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Myanmar activist Aung San Suu Kyi released
November 13th, 2010
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Myanmar activist Aung San Suu Kyi released
Myanmar activist Aung San Suu Kyi was released from house arrest Saturday, police outside her home said. CNN could not independently verify the report.
Crowds of supporters waited near her home in Yangon. Hundreds of others waited near her National League for Democracy.
Suu Kyi has spent 15 of the past 21 years under house arrest because of her fight for democracy in the nation formerly known as Burma.
Security has been stepped up in Myanmar, but it was unclear whether that was because of the country's first elections in two decades last Sunday.Myanmar activist Aung San Suu Kyi released
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Update: Saturday 13th November
The military authorities in Burma have released the pro-democracy leader, Aung San Suu Kyi.
She has appeared in front of a crowd of her supporters who rushed to her house in Rangoon when nearby barricades were removed by the security forces.
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Reports are coming out of Burma that the country's leading generals are believed to have sanctioned the release of pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi who has spent 15 of the last 21 years under house arrest.
It's been a week full of rumours and speculation if and when the Nobel Peace Prize winner will be released, but with police activity growing outside her home in Rangoon and agency reports of government officials making 'necessary security preparations', it is believed she could be free this weekend.
Her sentence officially ends tomorrow: "There is no law to hold her for another day. Her detention period expires on Saturday and she will be released," her lawyer, Nyan Win, told reporters. "They should release her for the country."
Earlier this week, he said Ms Suu Kyi would "not accept a limited release". "[It] must be unconditional. As we all know, she never accepted limited freedom in the past," he added.
She was originally due to be released last year, but a case involving an American who swam across Inya Lake to her home, claiming he was on a mission to save her, prompted the latest 18-month detention.
Her supporters, who have been publicly counting down the days to the end of her current term of house arrest, have been gathering at the headquarters of her political party, the National League for Democracy (NLD), in anticipation of her release.
Reports of the democracy icon's release come after a state media announcement on Thursday that the pro-junta political party had secured a majority in both houses of Parliament in last Sunday's elections.
The partial results showed the Union Solidarity and Development Party had won 190 of 219 constituencies reported in the 330-seat Lower House and 95 of 107 seats in the 168-seat Upper House.
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