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Day: April 18, 2009
The Bodyguard of Aung San Suu Kyi
by David Calleja
lan Clement’s book, Aung San Suu Kyi: The Voice Of Hope, documents a series of conversations between Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi and the American author. The National League for Democracy (NLD) leader was asked by Clements how Burma could achieve a democratic revolution through non-violence and overcome a brutal military dictatorship with an army of 400,000 people.
Her answer was simple: “Courage.”
This singular trait, in the eyes of “The Lady”, as Aung San Suu Kyi is affectionately known, is what her supporters and the civilians possess and demonstrate in abundance. Any individual that campaigns for freedom and democracy in Burma will be arrested, interrogated, tortured and locked away.
One man who can account for such horrors is Iqbal, a 39 year old man from Rangoon now living in Melbourne, Australia. He has three sisters living in refugee camps in Thailand, and was a survivor himself of imprisonment and torture before fleeing Burma and reaching Thailand’s largest refugee camp, Mae La, on the Thai-Burma border. Iqbal’s story is living testimony of the Orwellian nightmare that is carried out daily in modern day Burma. But one characteristic particularly enables him to stand out. Iqbal is a former bodyguard of Aung San Suu Kyi Continue reading “The Bodyguard of Aung San Suu Kyi”
The executive director of the British Columbia Securities Commission has issued a notice of hearing alleging that Michael Kyaw Myint Hua Hu contravened the insider trading provisions of the Securities Act when he purchased shares of a TSX Venture Exchange-listed company.
British Columbia Securities Commission
Apr 17, 2009 16:30 ET
BCSC Executive Director’s Bulletin: Securities Regulator Gives Notice of a Hearing Into Alleged Illegal Insider Trading
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA–(Marketwire – April 17, 2009) – The executive director of the British Columbia Securities Commission has issued a notice of hearing alleging that Michael Kyaw Myint Hua Hu contravened the insider trading provisions of the Securities Act when he purchased shares of a TSX Venture Exchange-listed company.
The notice of hearing says that between Sept. 21, 2007 and Oct. 12, 2007, Hu, a B.C. resident, was a director and chairman of Maple Leaf Reforestation Inc., an Alberta-incorporated company listed on the TSX-V. The notice alleges that during that period, Hu bought 887,800 shares of Maple Leaf at an average price of $1 per share for a total of $861,445.80, while in a special relationship with Maple Leaf, and with knowledge that the company had entered into a memorandum of understanding to establish a bio diesel production project in China. Continue reading “The executive director of the British Columbia Securities Commission has issued a notice of hearing alleging that Michael Kyaw Myint Hua Hu contravened the insider trading provisions of the Securities Act when he purchased shares of a TSX Venture Exchange-listed company.”
MYANMAR: Key Asian meeting fails to resolve Rohingya issue (IRIN)
BANGKOK, 17 April 2009 (IRIN) – A key Asian conference in Bali, Indonesia, on people smuggling and human trafficking has failed to discuss in detail or resolve the issue of the Rohingya ethnic minority, tens of thousands of whom are holed up in various Asian countries, having fled Myanmar.
The Rohingyas, a mainly Muslim minority with a distinct culture and language, have been fleeing persecution at the hands of Myanmar’s military-led government for the past two decades – mostly to Bangladesh, where there are an estimated 200,000, but also to many other Asian countries.
A few are classed as refugees, but the majority are stateless migrants without rights. The conference focused only on the Rohingya problem as it related to people smuggling and human trafficking, though some had hoped for more. continue
http://www.IRINnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=83974
UWSA Leader Calls for ‘Solid, United’ Wa State
The leader of Burma’s largest armed ethnic group, the United Wa State Army (UWSA), vowed to strengthen Wa State as thousands of Wa people celebrated the 20th Anniversary of the coup against the Communist Party of Burma (CPB) on Friday at Panghsang in northeastern Burma.
Bao You-Xiang, a UWSA commander and the chairman of its political wing, the United Wa State Party (UWSP), said in his speech before thousands of Wa supporters that he would build a more solid and united Wa State, according to sources on the Sino-Burmese border.
However, Bao said that while the UWSA would create a more solid and united Wa State, they would negotiate peacefully on any matters of disagreement with the Burmese junta.
The anniversary event was held at the UWSA headquarters in Panghsang, a Sino-Burmese border town in northeastern Burma. Aung Kyaw Zaw, a Burmese analyst who was present for the celebrations, estimated that nearly 20,000 people attended the ceremony. Continue reading “UWSA Leader Calls for ‘Solid, United’ Wa State”
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