THE TSUNAMI WATCH IS CANCELLED -breaking news

TSUNAMI BULLETIN NUMBER 004
PACIFIC TSUNAMI WARNING CENTER/NOAA/NWS
ISSUED AT 2211Z 10 AUG 2009

THIS BULLETIN IS FOR ALL AREAS OF THE INDIAN OCEAN.

… THE TSUNAMI WATCH IS CANCELLED …

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NATIONAL AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT AGENCIES HAVE THE AUTHORITY TO MAKE
DECISIONS REGARDING THE OFFICIAL STATE OF ALERT IN THEIR AREA AND
ANY ACTIONS TO BE TAKEN IN RESPONSE.

AN EARTHQUAKE HAS OCCURRED WITH THESE PRELIMINARY PARAMETERS

ORIGIN TIME – 1956Z 10 AUG 2009
COORDINATES – 14.1 NORTH 93.0 EAST
LOCATION – ANDAMAN ISLANDS INDIA REGION
MAGNITUDE – 7.7

EVALUATION

SEA LEVEL READINGS INDICATE THAT A SIGNIFICANT TSUNAMI WAS NOT
GENERATED. THEREFORE THE TSUNAMI WATCH ISSUED BY THIS CENTER
IS NOW CANCELLED.

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pictures 8888 Uprising from around the world by burmatoday

canada pics- http://burmatoday.net/photo2005/2009/200908/090809_canada_8888/pages/0019.htm

korea http://burmatoday.net/photo2005/2009/200908/090809_korea_8888/index.htm

france http://burmatoday.net/photo2005/2009/200908/090809_france_8888/pages/0002.htm

New York http://burmatoday.net/photo2005/2009/200908/090809_new_york_8888/index.htm
http://burmatoday.net/photo2005/2009/200908/090808_north_carolina_8888/index.htm
Nuke light of myanmar New York http://burmatoday.net/photo2005/2009/200908/090808_new_york_8888/index.htm
Netherland http://burmatoday.net/photo2005/2009/200908/090808_netherlands_8888/index.htm
Denmark http://burmatoday.net/photo2005/2009/200908/090808_denmark_8888/index.htm

http://bdc-burma.blogspot.com/2009/08/8888-demonstration-in-london.html

Kyaw Khaing, an Arakanese Member of Parliament, elected in the 1990 election, was transferred from Thandwe prison in Arakan state to Thayet prison in Magwe division in central Burma on Sunday.

Prison transfer for detained opposition member

by Phanida
Tuesday, 11 August 2009 02:15

Chiang Mai (Mizzima) – Kyaw Khaing, an Arakanese Member of Parliament, elected in the 1990 election, was transferred from Thandwe prison in Arakan state to Thayet prison in Magwe division in central Burma on Sunday.

Kyaw Khaing (87), who is also chairman of the organizing committee of the National League for Democracy, Taungup Township branch and vice-chairman of the organizing committee of the Arakan State NLD, was sentenced to two years in prison on June 13, on defamation charges.

“At about 1:30 p.m. (local time) yesterday, Kyaw Khaing was shifted from Thandwe prison on a highway bus,” a local resident of Thandwe town, who saw Kyaw Khaing being taken away, told Mizzima.

In early May, the vice-chairman of the NLD Township organizing committee Than Pe and Myo Myint, filed a lawsuit against Kyaw Khaing charging him with defamation. He was sentenced to two years in prison on July 13.

The two men were unhappy with Kyaw Khaing as he wrote a letter to explain to them the reason for collecting donation in the name of the NLD.

Kyaw Khaing was earlier arrested for his involvement in the monk-led protests in September 2007 and sentenced to seven years in prison but he was later released from the Thandwe prison after serving just a month’s term.

The 20 year old ceasefire between the Burma Army and the Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army (MNDAA) almost came to an abrupt end on Saturday, 8 August

Junta and Kokang almost come to blows
MONDAY, 10 AUGUST 2009 17:52 S.H.A.N.
The 20 year old ceasefire between the Burma Army and the Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army (MNDAA) almost came to an abrupt end on Saturday, 8 August, when the former came in force to demand inspection of the latter’s alleged firearms factory, according to reports from the Sino-Burma border.

Maj-Gen Aung Than Tut, Commander of the Lashio-based Northeastern Region Command, had arrived in Kokang with 60-well armed force, according to one source. “No, it was a 3 battalion size force,” reputed another. “The Kokang were angry, because the Burma Army could have brought in just their authorized inspectors. They could also use their units already deployed in the area. But they had instead gone in with units outside Kokang.”

8888-Aung Latt, former student from Kachin State, added his viewpoint. “There was also a need for coordination and cooperation between activists inside the country and those outside the country that could have made a difference,” he said.

Former activists recount why 8888 did not succeed
MONDAY, 10 AUGUST 2009 22:28 S.H.A.N.
Three former 8888 activists, marking the 21st anniversary of the 8 August 1988 uprising on Saturday, said there were several reasons how a popular rebellion could go wrong.

“We did not know what to shout and what to demand,” recalled Khun Myint Tun, elected MP from Thaton and currently serving as labor minister for the exile “National Coalition Government of the Union of Burma” (NCGUB), who was in the rubyland of Mogok at that time. “We had no slogans. We just shouted that we were not satisfied with the government. We did not even know what kind of revolution we were waging. We just improvised as we marched along the streets. ‘Down with murderers!’ and ‘Down with the dictators’ were added by my suggestions.”

He reasoned that for any popular uprising to succeed it must have common political aim, a unified leadership and organization, all of which 8888 did not have. “So in the end, power returned to the Burma Army that at least could boast organization (apart from arms),” he said.

All the speakers agreed that due to the demonetization of all 25-, 35- and 75-Kyat banknotes without compensation in 1987 and the student unrest in March 1988 when scores of people were killed and schools closed, the whole country was already ripe for the uprising.

“Another reason was that anti-government activities inside government- controlled towns and those in the countryside could not be combined,” said Hsailed, now universally known as cartoonist Harn Lay. “They fight separately. They did not help each other. That was also one big weakness of the uprising.”

To these, Aung Latt, former student from Kachin State, added his viewpoint. “There was also a need for coordination and cooperation between activists inside the country and those outside the country that could have made a difference,” he said.

Popular uprisings since 8888 up to the 2007 “Saffron Revolution” all shared the same weaknesses. “The only difference we can pinpoint is increased media access as well as citizen journalism,” said Khun Myint Tun.

Future uprisings are bound to succeed if the said weaknesses have been overcome, according to the speakers.

The 8888 countrywide demonstrations ended in bloodshed when the military, led by Gen Saw Maung, staged a coup on 18 September of that year.
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Myanmar Military regime response to Global Action for Burma (GAB)

ကၽြန္ေတာ္ အုတ္လွငယ္ တစ္ေယာက္ ပ်င္းပ်င္းရွိတာနဲ႔ အိမ္က လက္ေတာ့အစုတ္ေလးကို ထုတ္ၿပီး လယ္ကြင္းထဲကေန အင္တာနက္ထဲ ၀င္ၾကည့္လိုက္တယ္ ။ ဘာျဖစ္လို႔လဲ ဆိုေတာ့ မနက္ျဖန္ (၃၁-၇-၂၀၀၉)မွာ ဒီမိုေတြရဲ့ မယ္ေတာ္ႀကီး ေဒၚစုၾကည္ ကို အေမရိကန္ ႏိုင္ငံသား Mr. John William Yettaw ကိစၥနဲ႕ ပတ္သက္ၿပီး နိဳင္ငံေတာ္ အစိုးရက ထိုက္သင့္တဲ့ အျပစ္ဒဏ္ ေပးမွာ ျဖစ္တဲ့ အတြက္ ျပည္ပက ေဒၚလာစား ဒီမိုအဖြဲ႕ေတြက ဘာအခမ္းအနားေတြမ်ား လုပ္ၾကမလဲလို႔ Google Search နဲ႔ ရွာၾကည့္လိုက္ေတာ့ ဘာမွ မေတြ႕ဘူးျဖစ္သြားတယ္။ continue
http://bdc-burma.blogspot.com/2009/08/mr.html

နအဖ ေခာတ္သာကုန္သြားမယ္ KNU by thawthikho 10.August

နအဖ ေခာတ္သာကုန္သြားမယ္ KNU ကရင္အမ်ိဴးသားအစည္းအရုံးႀကီးဟာ ပုိေနျမဲ က်ားေနျမဲပဲ ဆုိဒါ နားလည္ဖုိ ့ ့သင့္ျပီ။ ေကအန္ယူကုိ အျပတ္ရွင္းခ်င္တယ္ဆုိ ရင္ ျမန္မာျပည္တြင္းသာမက တကမၻာလုံးမွာျပန္ ့က်ဲေန တဲ့ ကရင္ေတြကုိ မ်ိဴးတုံးေအာင္လုပ္ႏုိင္မွ ေကအန္ယူဆုိဒါ ဒီကမၻာႀကီးမွ ေပ်ာက္ကြယ္သြားႏုိင္မယ္။ အဘယ္ေႀကာင့္နည္း? ေကအဲန္ယူဟာ ကရင္အမ်ိဴးသားေတြရဲ့ ရင္ထဲက ေပါက္ဖြားလာလုိ ့ပဲျဖစ္တယ္။ တန္းတူညီမွ်မွဳ၊ ကုိယ္ပုိင္ျပဌာန္းခြင့္ မရွိေနသေရြ ့ကာလပါတ္လုံး ကရင္ဟာ ရာဇ၀င္ရုိင္းခံျပီး ဘယ္ေတာ့မွ မင္းတုိ ့ကုိဦးမညြတ္ဘူး ဆုိဒါ မွတ္ထားစမ္းပါ… မွတ္ထားစမ္း… မွတ္ထားစမ္းပါ….. မဟာ၀ါဒီတုိ ့ေရ…..

http://thawthikho.blogspot.com/2009/08/blog-post_6553.html

KNU statement on anniversary of 8888 movement

OFFICE OF THE SUPREME HEADQUARTERS

KAREN NATIONAL UNION

KAWTHOOLEI

KNU Statement on 21st Anniversary of 8-8-88

August 8, 2009

1. The eighth of August 2009 is the 21st Anniversary of the people’s movement in Burma against oppression and injustices imposed on them by the military dictatorship in the guise of a civilian government. The ruling party, known as the Burma Socialist Program Party (BSPP) was headed by U Ne Win, former chief of the Burma

armed forces and father of military dictatorships of Burma. All the key positions in the government were occupied by military men or former military men.
2. After 26 years of military rule, mismanagement of the economy, corruption in the government and the cost of war reduced the country to the status of Least of Least Developed Country (LLDC) by 1987. There had been sporadic demonstrations expressing bitter opposition by the students, youths or the workers against the dictatorial rule. The uprising beginning on August 8, 1988 was a nationwide movement against the dictatorial rule. People from all strata of life participated in the movement. It was basically a peaceful movement. However, on September 27, 1988 the generals brutally crushed the movement killing thousands of people all over the country, including many men, women and young people.
3. We will always remember August 8, 88 as a day of heroism of the common people of Burma. The day on which the generals brutally crushed the movement will go down in history as a day of infamy unparalleled in the history of mankind.
4. In the days following the brutal suppression of the movement, many youths and students from the towns and cities braved the difficult journey to the areas of ethnic resistance forces to continue movement for freedom and democracy. The arrival of urban youths and students in the revolutionary resistance areas was the conjunction of the movements for democracy and federalism.
5. Due to lack of substantive support for the freedom movement and quiet but massive support by the unscrupulous businesses to the military regime, progress made by the democratic and ethnic nationality forces is slow. However, there has always been a growing determination among the people as well as the democratic and ethnic nationality forces to struggle on until final victory is achieved.
6. The monumentally self-conceited and power-mad military regime has been employing all kinds of deceit and cajolery to hoodwink the domestic as well as the international community by zealously attempting to implement an important stage of its Road Map, currently.
7. In conclusion, we would like to caution all the democratic and ethnic nationality forces not to be taken in by the deceit of the military regime and earnestly urge all concerned to struggle on unwaveringly, until victory is achieved, with the spirit of those who had sacrificed their lives and limbs in the 8888 movement 21 years ago.

Central Executive Committee

Karen National Union

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Burma’s Struggle, Aung San Suu Kyi’s role

Myanmar activists shout slogans during a rally calling for the immediate release of their pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi and her colleagues near the Myanmar Embassy in Seoul on Saturday August 8, 2009. The rally marked Saturday the 21st anniversary of the military crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators in Yangon that left thousands dead. (AP Photo)

The anniversary of the “8-8-88” massacre in Rangoon is a moment to reaffirm the core principles of Burmese people’s long march to democracy

Burmese people across the world, whether in the homeland or in exile, have for the last eighteen years marked today’s date with particular sharpness and poignancy. 8 August 1988 was the occasion of a massacre in the capital Rangoon in which the emerging, democratic “people’s power” movement of students, workers and citizens was drowned in blood.
The military regime which had ruled the country since 1962 showed that day and in the forty days of nationwide repression that followed (in which perhaps 10,000 people altogether were killed, including 3,000 on the day itself) that its determination to retain its power was absolute. This was confirmed when the ruling junta, having been forced by the strength of the people’s will to concede an election in 1990, refused to recognise the overwhelming victory of the National League for Democracy (NLD) led by Aung San Suu Kyi.