Monday, February 09, 2009 NCUB News feed border office

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Commander of SPDC MOC No. 5 Brig. Kaung Myat who is assigned to KNU Brigade 2 territory Toungoo District asserted, “Abusing you locals is uneventful for the media. It won’t get into news anymore. The media won’t print this kind of news anymore. Nor will radio stations air such pieces. Don’t count on them for your suffering. We can torment you as much as we like.” Claiming thus, he is carrying out tortures and human rights violations upon the people in Toungoo District blatantly.

Since early January, SPDC troops are forcing local populace of twelve villages in Bawgaligyee area to carry army ration supplies and act as human minesweepers on auto roads. On February 6, junta troops forced fifty Bawgali villagers and twenty Yethogyee villagers to walk abreast throughout the length of Bawgali road in order to act as human shields and also as human minesweepers. Moreover the army commandeered cars owned by Saw Maung Krue and Saw Tha Hto of Bawgali village and forced them to drive on the road to sweep any hidden mines.

As the army extorted giant bamboo poles (Dendrocalamus giganteus) from villages in the vicinity for construction of army outposts and fences, the giant bamboo is now in danger of extinction.

On February 6 at about 7:00 PM, SPDC soldiers camping in Tate-pu outpost shelled Tate-pu village without any apparent cause, wounding Naw Bway Phaw (aged 18), Naw Khoe Khoe (aged 14 ) and motherless child Naw Day Moo Seet (aged 1) of Tate-pu village and Naw Hekhalay (aged 22) of Phalawbawdel village and vendor Maung Min Htin (aged 30) of Zayatkyee Town.

Tactical Operations Commander Kan Paw Oo under the command of MOC No. 5 ordered villagers along the electricity grid lines in Toungoo District Thandaung Gyee area to pay compensation for bombed pylons.

In KNU Brigade 1 territory Thaton District, DKBA battalions 907 and 999 in joint operations with SPDC Army’s LIR 214 and IB 96 are carrying out forced labor and physical torture upon the people. IB 96 outpost in-charge Myo Zaw has ordered Thetbawhtur, Pokalaylo and other villages to supply 500 bamboo poles each.

http://www.naytthit.com/newsphptos/ncgubnewsfeb09.html

China does not want conflict between Bangladesh and Burma over the maritime boundary dispute in the Bay of Bengal.

It was said by Shanghai Institutes for International Studies President Yang Jiemian at a “meet the press” program at the National Press Club in Dhaka on Friday.

“All kinds of debates should be solved through negotiation. China would play a facilitating role to bring down any conflict between the two neighbors,” he said.

The press program was organized by the Bangladesh Institute of Peace and Security Studies in partnership with the Shanghai Institutes for International Studies.

According to a source, a six-member SIIS delegation led by President Yang Jiemian and BIPSS President ANM Muniruzzaman attended the function.

China is a good partner of both Burma and Bangladesh and its concern over the issue has increased after Bangladesh and Burmese relations became colder by the day.

There remain some unresolved questions between the two neighbors after the Burmese regime has building its military strength on the western border recently. The Burmese military regime is setting up a military air base on the western border and is stationing an artillery battalion that was reassigned from Burma proper.
http://www.narinjara.com/

Washington has expressed its willingness to take part in a joint patrol of the Bay of Bengal but ruled out building a new US military base in Bangladesh.

US Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs Richard Boucher said on Sunday that assistance is offered in helping Bangladesh secure its unprotected maritime boundary if Dhaka desires, adding that, “My country had cooperation with the military agencies of Bangladesh but ruled out a US military base there.”

Boucher spoke with journalists at the Zia International Airport prior to leaving for India after a two-day visit to Bangladesh.

“Some of those are military agencies. We have cooperation with them on things like maritime security and any areas where we have opportunities. I think there is some interest in maritime patrol so that you can protect your sea areas better,” said Boucher.

According to a source, Boucher also discussed the issue with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, Foreign Minister Dipu Moni, and Home Minister Shahara Khatun during his visit in Bangladesh.

“We can help their [border security agencies’] activities but the modalities will depend on what Bangladesh wants,” he said at the end of his visit.

The US is willing to take part in a joint patrol in the Bay of Bengal under the proposed South Asian Regional Task Force on Terrorism. According to sources, two US generals had come to Bangladesh before Boucher’s visit.

Bangladesh has been having maritime disputes with both Burma and India. On 3 November last year, the Burmese military government attempted to set up oil rigs in the Bay of Bengal to extract oil and gas from Bangladesh’s claimed territory, in defiance of Dhaka’s diplomatic and military protests.

Both countries mobilized forces along the border when diplomatic forces failed to defuse tension in the Bay.

The Burmese military regime has built up its forces on the western Burmese border to provide more strength after the maritime dispute with Bangladesh. Analysts in the border area believe that the Burmese junta will again attempt to enter the disputed maritime area to explore for gas after they finish preparing the military.
http://www.narinjara.com/

A spokesperson for the Mon National League for Solidarity (MNLS) based in the USA says the political crisis in Burma will not be solved until the ethnic issue is rightly addressed.

Mon National League for Solidarity: Ethnic Issue should be solved as priority

A spokesperson for the Mon National League for Solidarity (MNLS) based in the USA says the political crisis in Burma will not be solved until the ethnic issue is rightly addressed.

Nai Myint Soe, the leader of MNLS said by telephone to Kaowao that this year is a critical moment for all nationalities and it is essential to be act decisively to establish a common goal for Burma’s future.

The MNLS statement, released on February 5, 2009 for the 62nd Anniversary of Mon National Day, called attention to the Panglong agreement to highlight the problem of governance that has existed in Burma from the formation of the Union of Burma.
When Burma gained independence from Britain in 1948, the Burmese central government failed to guarantee the rights of non-Burmans as agreed to in the Panglong Agreement led by General Aung San and his fellow countrymen. Rather than solving the root cause that addressed the issue of equal rights including self-determination, the Burmese government ignored the agreement.

Nai Myint Soe who was a founder of the Overseas Mon National Students Organization (OMNSO) said some opposition groups have no clear vision or understanding on political issues of the ethnic nationalities and label their movement as a separatist or insurgency uprising.

The MNLS also criticized the exiled government National Coalition Government of Union of Burma (NCGUB) led by Dr. Sein Win as a failure to unite the opposition camps.

The Mon National League for Solidarity (MNLS) urged all Mons to work together for the cause of the Mons for the present generation as well as the descendants of the Thai Mon who fled the militant Burmese king U Aung Zeya over 250 years ago. It also appeals to the international community to increase pressure on the Burmese military government to speed up the process of a democratic transition in Burma.

The MNLS was founded by Mon activists who took part during 1988 uprising and who now live in the USA.
http://www.kaowao.org/index.php

http://www.kaowao.org/b/MND%20Statement%20of%20MNLS09.pdf

Building a bridge to the future: The 62nd Mon National Day

The Main Committee of 62nd Mon National Day will host the annual celebration in Beelu Kyun Island on February 10, 2009. The MND promises to be another fantastic event with many people anxiously awaiting the grand celebration at the Kamar Moor village comprised of over three thousand households on a Mon island.

Mon leaders first conceived the event in 1948 when the future had looked promising after the Second World War. After conferences at Kamarwet and Pa-Nga villages during 1947 and 1948, the first celebration kicked off at Ywa Lut Monastery in Moulmein according to the statement by the MND main committee. Rev. Palita, the well-known Mon Abbot wrote the first Mon National Day gathering was also held at the cinema hall of Kwan Wai Tut (Ywa Lut Village) in Beelu Kyun in 1948.

As well as around the world where Mon communities have resettled, the 62nd MND will be held in many cities and villages in lower Burma, but the committee will host the main jubilant event at Kamar Moor of Takok Khamine (Beelu Kyun). “The MND main celebration is held in a different place every year and last year was in Mudon. We rotate this event to build solidarity among the local communities and other Mons,” said Dr. Min Soe Linn, organizer of the MND.

Meanwhile, organizers of Mon National Day committees are preparing for the celebration which will fall on February 10 this year. continue http://www.kaowao.org/index.php

The Jandeland Myanmar Co. Ltd., the largest Kachin company in Burma, laid off 71 workers of over 800 workers in December, 2008. Worse the workers who remain in the company are yet to receive salaries due for several months, said company sources.

Workers in fisheries department of the Jandeland Myanmar Co. Ltd. in Hukawng (Hugawng) valley in Burma’s northern Kachin state are having to contend with a salary backlog of eight months, said workers.

Moreover, workers in the company’s rubber plantation and mechanical departments in Myitkyina, the capital of Kachin state have not received their salaries since October, 2008, said sources close to them.

The Jandeland Myanmar Co. Ltd. is located in Myitkyina and its main businesses ventures are jade, logging, fisheries and road construction in Kachin state. The company is owned by Kachin jade tycoon Sutdu Yup Zau Hkawng. continue http://www.kachinnews.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=frontpage&Itemid=1

အေျခခံ ဥပေဒ တရားမ၀င္ဟု SSA (ေတာင္ပိုင္း) ေျပာၾကား

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တနလၤာေန႔၊ ေဖေဖၚဝါရီလ 09 2009 17:50 – ျမန္မာစံေတာ္ခ်ိန္

ခ်င္းမုိင္ (မဇၥ်ိမ)။ ။ နအဖ သည္ စစ္အာဏာ တည္ၿမဲေရးအတြက္သာ အစဥ္တစိုက္ လုပ္ေဆာင္ေနၿပီး၊ ေမလ ဖြဲ႔စည္းပံု ဥပေဒသည္ တရားမဝင္ေၾကာင္း ရွမ္းျပည္တပ္မေတာ္ (ေတာင္ပိုင္း) SSA-S က ယေန႔ ေျပာသည္။

ဝျပည္ ေသြးစည္းညီၫြတ္ေရး ပါတီ၊ ကခ်င္ လြတ္ေျမာက္ေရးအဖြဲ႔ အပါအဝင္ အပစ္ရပ္ထားေသာ တိုင္းရင္းသား လက္နက္ကိုင္ အဖြဲ႔မ်ားကို နအဖ က ၂၀၁၀ ခုႏွစ္ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲဝင္ရန္ အႏုနည္း၊ အၾကမ္းနည္းမ်ားျဖင့္ စည္း႐ံုး သိမ္းသြင္းေနသည့္အေပၚ SSA-S က ေဝဖန္ ေျပာၾကားျခင္း ျဖစ္သည္။
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CYBER DEMONSTRATION RSF for Harry Nicolaides

Cyber-demonstration to call for the release of jailed Australian writer Harry Nicolaides Reporters Without Borders is organising a cyber-demonstration on the Internet on 9 February to call for the release of Australian writer Harry Nicolaides, who is serving a three-year prison sentence on a lese majeste charge for referring briefly to the monarchy in a novel set in Thailand. He has been held since 31 August 2008 in Bangkok.

http://www.rsf.org/freeharry/

download report http://www.rsf.org/IMG/pdf/rapport_en_2_.pdf