Arrests Continue in Burma by Buffalohair

Than Shwe has decided to restrict the types of prayers a person can make in his latest act of tyranny. He arrested *National League for Democracy members for praying for the release of Aung San Suu Kyi to assert his authority in religion. The road map to Burma’s new future already has pot holes and proves beyond a shadow of a doubt it will dead end in more repression.

There is no future and his road map looks more like a guided tour of hell since he has decided to act like a G*D and dictate what people can pray for. Clearly democracy will not have a place within his vision of future Burma and arresting people for the content of their prayers is shear madness. As cancer spreads throughout his body it may very well be exacting a toll on his brain since this insanity at its best.

Rape and murder continues to be the rule as reports of more atrocities manage to make their way to the outside world. Than Shwe’s henchmen in the State Peace and Development Counsel raped a **13 year old girl in the Papun District and continue their rain of murder on Karen villagers. It is business as usual for the criminal regime who continues to commit crimes against humanity with impunity.

Other arrests continue in secret as people disappear from the streets and placed in distant jungle prisons. Eventually the Burmese government will have arrested all the opposition to the pending 2010 election. It is believed that the people who disappear without public knowledge are simple being killed to put an end to the opposition of his illegal elections. The brutality of his criminal regime has no boundaries and has escalated with a vengeance in an effort to thwart efforts the opposition to him and his band of criminals.

Myanmar, Thailand sign MoU against human trafficking

BANGKOK, April 25 (TNA) — Myanmar and Thailand have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to fight against human trafficking, especially of women and children, between the two neighbouring countries.

Thailand’s Minister of Social Development and Human Security Issara Somchai said he had signed the agreement with Myanmar Home Affairs Minister Gen. Maung Oo in Myanmar’s administrative capital of Naypyidaw on Friday.

Under the terms of the pact, the two countries will tackle and prevent cross-border trafficking.

A statement issued in Myanmar after the signing of the pact said it covers areas such as prevention, protection, recovery and reintegration of victims, law enforcement and criminal justice, “as well as developing and implementing joint actions between the two countries.”

Mr. Issara said there are now 192 Myanmar currently identified women and children victims of human trafficking in Thailand who will be sent back to their home country as soon as possible.

He said more checkpoints would be set up in the Thai-Myanmar border province of Kanchanaburi to prevent illegal entry of Myanmar nationals as well as to interdict drug smuggling.

According to Mr. Issara, Friday’s agreement will complement anr MoU signed in 2003 between the two countries which help prevent human trafficking in the form of labour. (TNA)
General News : Last Update : 14:17:31 25 April 2009 (GMT+7:00)

Myanmar, Thailand to set up more checkpoints against human trafficking

Date: 25 Apr 2009

BANGKOK, Apr 25, 2009 (Xinhua via COMTEX) — Myanmar and Thailand signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) Friday to fight against human trafficking, especially of women and children, with more checkpoints to be set up along their border, Thai News Agency said on Saturday.

Thailand’s Minister of Social Development and Human Security Issara Somchai said he had signed the agreement with Major-General Maung Oo, Myanmar Minister of Home Affairs in Myanmar’s administrative capital of Nay Pyi Daw on Friday. The agreement is aimed at tackling and preventing cross-border trafficking.

Issara said there are now 192 Myanmar nationals in Thailand identified as women and children victims of human trafficking, who will be sent back to their home country as soon as possible.

He said more checkpoints would be set up in the Thai-Myanmar border province of Kanchanaburi to prevent illegal entry of Myanmar nationals as well as to interdict drug smuggling.

Tens of thousands of migrant workers from Myanmar are working in Thailand legally or illegally.

The news agency quoted Issara as saying that Friday’s agreement will complement an MoU signed in 2003 between the two countries which help prevent human trafficking in the form of labour.

In what seems to be another warning, Burma’s state-run Newspaper on Friday carried an article that says Satellite channels that enables people to watch international news and entertainments are manipulated by big nations and should be banned in Burma.

Satellite dishes bad for people: Junta mouth piece

by Nem Davies
Saturday, 25 April 2009 21:22

New Delhi (Mizzima) – In what seems to be another warning, Burma’s state-run Newspaper on Friday carried an article that says Satellite channels that enables people to watch international news and entertainments are manipulated by big nations and should be banned in Burma.

A writer, who identifies himself as Ko Gyi on Friday wrote in the New Light of Myanmar, that powerful nations are exploiting the Satellite channels to instigate unrest, and harm the culture of the people by broadcasting entertainment, which have hidden agendas.

The Writer said, therefore, the government should prohibit the sales of satellite dishes and receivers, which are widely used in Burma.

A similar article appeared in the same daily newspaper two months ago which said, “Restrict the watching of uncensored satellite TV programmes telecast by the outside world’.

“We were surprised to see this article today. This is a warning to our satellite dish shops. But they have not done anything so far. We have to wait and see for another 10-15 days,” Nyi Nyi Naing, a salesman at an the imported TATA Sky satellite dish shop in Rangoon, told Mizzima.

Wounded

Tasmanian Times
Daniel Pedersen
Mae Sot, Thailand
April 22, 2009
One Karen National Liberation Army soldier was wounded by a land mine this afternoon as his unit made its way through dense jungle and the pitched battle for his base camp entered its 10th day.
Wah Lay Kee camp, just over the Thai border, is home to the KNLA’s 201st brigade of its sixth brigade region, to the south of the Thai border town of Mae Sot.
Today the Burma Army and units from its allied militia, the Democratic Karen Buddhist Army, held back, after suffering heavy casualties from land mines and jungle booby traps during the past week.
From high ground they shelled areas of jungle around Wah Lay Kee in their relentless pursuit to eliminate small bands of KNLA guerilla fighters who have so far held off a major assault that could sound the death knell for its last major base in the sixth brigade region.
Colonel Nerdah Mya, eldest son of the late General Bo Mya, said heavy weaponry had been employed throughout the day.
More than five 81mm shells dropped near KNLA troops, but they suffered no casualties. Troops of Burma’s ruling military junta, the State Peace and Development Council, also strafed areas with a .50 calibre machine gun.
Colonel Nerdah described the situation at the tenuous base camp as such: “They have high ground, we have high ground and in between we have guerilla fighters.
“There are a lot of booby traps and land mines, Wah Lay Kee is a real war zone.”
He said the SPDC was maintaining a base camp about five miles from Wah Lay Kee on high ground, and today did not make the deep forays into KNLA territory that have marked the past week.

Karen: Ceasefire talks …

Tasmanian Times
Daniel Pedersen
Mae Sot, Thailand
Enemies locked in the world’s longest-running civil war are to begin cease-fire talks aimed at brokering a lasting peace deal.
For more than 60 years the Karen National Union and Burma’s ruling military junta, known these days as the State Peace and Development Council, have been at war.
Now, after a hiatus of 14 years, the two sides will hear each other out, in a bid to thrash out a deal that might end the bloodshed.
A timetable and location are yet to be set, but Thailand is likely to play host to the talks.
Thailand, the current chairman of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations – of which Burma is a member – has cast itself in the role of mediator.
It is a contentious role for Thailand to play, because much of the Kingdom’s future energy demands will be serviced by deals already struck with Burma’s generals.
And there are dozens of other deals on the table that will enrich Burmese and Thai businessmen, who inevitably and necessarily have close ties with the military of both countries.
Thailand can also use this role of peacemaker to deflect stinging criticisms of its treatment of Muslim Rohingya boat people in recent months.

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ေကအန္ယူႏွင့္ ျပန္လည္ေပါင္းစည္းသည့္ ခြဲထြက္အဖြဲ႔မ်ားမွ အဖြဲ႔၀င္မ်ားကုိ ေကအန္ယူက ေသြးေအးေအးျဖင့္ သတ္ျဖတ္လ်က္ရိွသည္ဟူေသာ စြပ္စြဲေျပာဆုိခ်က္အား ျပန္လည္ရွင

ယမန္ေန႔ ညက ထုတ္လႊင့္သည့္ ျမ၀တီ႐ုပ္ျမင္သံၾကားအစီအစဥ္တြင္ ေကအန္ယူ/ ေကအန္အယ္လ္ေအ ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရးေကာင္စီဥကၠ႒ ေစာေဌးေမာင္က ေကအန္ယူအေပၚ စြပ္စြဲေျပာဆိုခ်က္မ်ား အေျခအျမစ္မရိွေၾကာင္း ျပန္လည္၀င္ေရာက္လာသူမ်ားက ရွင္းလင္းပြဲတရပ္ျပဳလုပ္သည္။

ေကအန္ယူႏွင့္ ျပန္လည္ေပါင္းစည္းသည့္ ခြဲထြက္အဖြဲ႔မ်ားမွ အဖြဲ႔၀င္မ်ားကုိ ေကအန္ယူက ေသြးေအးေအးျဖင့္ သတ္ျဖတ္လ်က္ရိွသည္ဟူေသာ စြပ္စြဲေျပာဆုိခ်က္အား ျပန္လည္ရွင္းလင္းျခင္းျဖစ္သည္။

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Buffalohair: Burma’s Secrets Reveled

It was only a matter of time before the pleas of the Karen people were heard around the world and now the *US Congress is getting an ear full. Former Karen Internally Displaced Person (IDP) Myra Dahgaypaw told a compelling story of how her and her family survived genocide, disease and starvation. In horrific detail she exposed the dark secrets of Burma’s military junta and their rain of terror on innocent farmers under the watchful eye of dictator General Than Shwe.