ကိုမိုးသီးဇြန္ ( ျမန္မာ ျပည္လြတ္ေျမာက္ေရးအဖြဲ ့ခ်ဳပ္ႏွင့္ ) ႏွင့္ ကိုေဇာ္၀င္း
( ၈ေလးလံုးမ်ိဳးဆက္ ေက်ာင္းသားမ်ား – ျပည္ပ) တို႔ဟာ လန္ဒန္ျမိဳ ့ကို ေရာက္ရိွေနခိုက္ လက္ရွိရင္ဆုိင္ ေနရေသာ ၿမန္မာ့ ႏုိင္ငံေရးအေၿခအေနနဲ႔ ပက္သက္၍ လန္ဒန္ရွိ ၿမန္မာ့ ဒီမုိကေရစီ အင္အားစုမ်ား ၊ လူငယ္မ်ားႏွင့္ ေအာက္တုိဘာလ ၃၁ ရက္ေန႔က ပြင့္ပြင့္လင္းလင္း တရင္းတႏွီး ေဆြးေႏြး ခဲ့ၾကပါသည္။ ယင္း ေဆြးေႏြးပြဲသုိ႔ အဖြဲ႔အစည္း အသီးသီးမွ လူငယ္ ေခါင္းေဆာင္မ်ား၊ စိတ္၀င္စားသူမ်ား အားတက္သေရာ ၀င္ေရာက္ေဆြးေႏြး ခဲ့ၾကပါသည္။
by Phanida
Friday, 13 November 2009 21:39
Chiang Mai (Mizzima) – The High Court today accepted the revision case application filed by opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s lawyers.
The lawyers filed an appeal case against the lower court’s verdict for Suu Kyi, who is serving one and-a-half years suspended sentence at her home, but the Divisional Court dismissed the appeal on October 2, so they filed a revision case at the High Court today.
“We filed our application for Daw Aung San Suu Kyi’s revision case at the High Court today at about 10:30 a.m. The court accepted our application and gave us the case reference number — 600(b),” lawyer Kyi Win told Mizzima.
In the application, the lawyers pointed out that the 1974 constitution is no longer in existence and not in force anymore. So the verdict based on this constitution is inappropriate, Kyi Win said.
“The 1974 constitution is no longer in existence since 1988. How can it be in accordance with the law by imposing an internment order against Daw Aung San Suu Kyi by using a provision of this constitution? Using the dead constitution is unlawful,” he said.
The Rangoon North District Court sitting inside Insein prison sentenced Suu Kyi to three years in prison on August 11 this year for violating her house arrest terms. But the junta supremo Senior General Than Shwe by an executive order reduced her sentence to half to be served at her home.
Suu Kyi was tried for allowing an uninvited guest, an American John William Yettaw, who swam across Inya Lake and entered her house, according to him, to warn her of the danger of being assassinated. The incident coincided with the conclusion of her house arrest term due in a few days. But the junta released John Yettaw on humanitarian grounds.
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Witnessing a Season of Hope at Last?
Anand Sagar
The Khaleej Times, UAE
November 12, 2009
For many long years in Burma the hopes and aspirations of its people have been brutally crushed by one of the world’s most repressive and abusive military regimes in power. But, for once, there is also a flickering ?glimmer of hope that the generals might free the country’s foremost pro-democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi…soon. Or so it seems.
It is, of course, an ironical use of the four-letter word “soon.” After all, how soon is soon enough—considering that Suu Kyi has already spent some 14 of the past 20 years under solitary detention!
However, for whatever it might be worth, the Director of Burma’s Foreign Ministry Min Lwin has hinted, “there is a plan to release her soon…so she can organise her party.” That he has pointedly refused to elaborate is hardly surprising. But if the dictatorial military junta headed by General Than Shwe does, to any degree, relax her restrictions and Suu Kyi is in a position to stand for election and/or freely campaign for her National League for Democracy (NLD) party in the 2010 polls, the country would certainly witness some dramatic results.
And that because Suu Kyi, as is well remembered, had won a landslide victory in the last 1990 polls with the NLD securing 394 of the total 489 seats in the fray. What is equally well remembered with much anger is that the State Law and Order Restoration Council (SLORC) had promptly annulled the poll results. Suu Kyi, along with about 2,000 of her supporters, was imprisoned. And the more than alarmed generals in Rangoon had quickly tightened their slipping grip on power.
That Suu Kyi definitely retains her ability and her charisma to make a stunning political comeback, despite her party being in much disarray and her supporters highly de-motivated, is hardly in doubt. But, given these obvious implications of her release, what is surprising is what Min Lwin has said about the possibility of her release.
One wonders how much this apparent shift in attitude is motivated by next week’s Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in Singapore, where the US President Barack Obama will meet various leaders of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) -– including Burma’s Prime Minister General Thein Sein. And although it is known that President Obama is hardly likely to talk directly with Thein Sein, the very fact that he may be willing to follow a policy of engagement with Burma (almost universally shunned by the West over its poor rights record and refusal to allow free elections) may lead to a very welcome change in a country overpowered by over-ambitious generals and ruled by coercion. Continue reading “Witnessing a Season of Hope at Last?”
ထုိင္းႏုိင္ငံ၊ ထေဆာင္ယမ္းၿမဳိ႕နယ္ ႏုိဘုိးေက်းရြာအတြင္းရွိ ယာယီဒုကၡသည္စခန္းတြင္ စာသင္ေက်ာင္းအေဆာက္အဦးျပင္ဆင္ခြင့္ မရသည့္အတြက္ ေက်ာင္းသူေက်ာင္းသား စာသင္ရန္အခက္အခဲျဖစ္ေနၿပီး ယခုခ်ိန္တြင္ ေက်ာင္းကုိ ပိတ္ထားရသည္ဟု ေက်ာင္း ဆရာဦး၏ ေျပာျပခ်က္အရသိရသည္။
အလယ္တန္းအထိ ဖြင့္လွစ္ထားေသာ အဆုိပါေက်ာင္းသည္ ပထမဆန္းစာေမးပြဲေျဖၿပီး ေက်ာင္းသူေက်ာင္းသားမ်ားအတြက္ အားလပ္ရက္အေနျဖင့္ ေအာက္တုိဘာ ၁၆ ရက္ကစ၍ ႏုိဝင္ဘာလ ၁ရက္ေန႔အထိ ေက်ာင္းကုိ ပိတ္ထားခဲ့ၿပီး ထုိေက်ာင္းပိတ္ရက္ အေတာအတြင္း ေက်ာင္းအမုိးအကာမ်ား ျပန္လည္ျပဳျပင္ရန္ လုပ္ေဆာင္ေနစဥ္ ထုိင္းအာဏာပုိင္မ်ား လာေရာက္တားျမင့္ခဲ့သျဖင့္ ယခုခ်ိန္ထိ ေက်ာင္းကုိ ျပန္မဖြင့္ႏုိင္ပဲ ပိတ္ထားရသည္ဟု ေက်ာင္းဆရာ ေစာဂ်က္ပစီက ေကအုိင္စီကုိ ေျပာသည္။ Continue reading “ေအာက္တုိဘာလ ၁၃ရက္။ (ေကအုိင္စီ) by KIC”
Thirty-four Burmese political exiles detained for 11 years in a jail in Kolkata were allowed on Thursday to present defense testimony before a court in the Indian city, according to local sources.
Twenty-four of the detainees are members of the National United Party of Arakan (NUPA). The other 10 are members of the Karen National Union. They were arrested in 1998 in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands during a joint Indian military exercise codenamed “Operation Leech,” which also netted a large cache of arms, ammunition and explosives.
The detainees were accused of attempting to smuggle weapons to Indian insurgent groups. 
Tint Swe, a New Delhi-based minister of the National Coalition Government of Union of Burma (NCGUB), the Burmese government in exile, told The Irrawaddy that he and three other defense witnesses had testified before the court on Wednesday and Thursday.
Tint Swe said he had told the court that the accused had entered India because they hoped to find support there for Burmese pro-democracy efforts. He said he told the court: “They didn’t come to destroy India.” Continue reading “Twenty-four of the detainees are members of the National United Party of Arakan (NUPA). The other 10 are members of the Karen National Union.”
Aung San Suu Kyi has proposed to her party’s leaders that she meet with junta leader Snr-Gen Than Shwe for direct talks on how to remove international economic sanctions against Burma, according to sources close to the National League for Democracy (NLD).
On Wednesday, Suu Kyi met with Nyan Win, the NLD spokesperson, and asked him to inform the party’s executive committee of “important” proposals. Nyan Win declined to elaborate on the nature of her proposals.When The Irrawaddy asked Nyan Win on Friday if Suu Kyi had discussed meeting with Than Shwe to talk about economic sanctions, he said: “The sanctions would be the most suitable issue to start any high-level talks.” However, he declined to elaborate, saying, “Wait until Tuesday.”
He said the NLD central executive committee will discuss Suu Kyi’s proposals on Monday and probably issue a statement on Tuesday.
Presumably, if given her party’s consent, Suu Kyi would write a letter to Than Shwe seeking a direct meeting or make a proposal through Aung Kyi, who serves as Than Shwe’s liaison officer to Suu Kyi.
According to sources, Suu Kyi will also ask the regime to allow her to meet with NLD party leaders and to visit the homes of three executive committee members—party chairman Aung Shwe; secretary U Lwin; and Lun Tin, all of whom are in poor health.
In the past, Suu Kyi has angered the junta because of her vocal support for economic sanctions, but in recent months she has indicated that she is now open to cooperating with the regime to work for their removal. Her change of mind comes at a time when the US has initiated a new direct engagement policy with Burma and has held several exploratory discussions with high-level generals.
In August, Suu Kyi sent a letter to Than Shwe, offering to cooperate with the government and requesting to meet with Western diplomats to discuss the extent and impact of the sanctions.
Since then she met twice with liaison Aung Kyi. A short while later, she was allowed to meet with Rangoon-based diplomats from the UK, Australia and the United States in order to gather information about the impact of sanctions.
Expectations that Suu Kyi may soon be released from house arrest or given more discretionary freedom are running high in Rangoon, following a statement by Min Lwin, the director-general of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, given to The Associated Press in Manila on Monday, in which he said, “There is a plan to release her [Suu Kyi] soon.”
Meanwhile, Suu Kyi’s lawyers filed an appeal with the Supreme Court on Friday that challenged the legality of her house arrest.
The United States said on Thursday that if Suu Kyi were not allowed to participate in Burma’s 2010 elections, the international community would not consider the election credible. US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton this week called for Suu Kyi’s unconditional release to ensure the elections would be free and fair.
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