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Political Prisoner on Hunger Strike

For Immediate Release:

December 7, 2009

Kyaw Zaw Lwin (a.k.a. Nyi Nyi Aung), a political prisoner in Burma’s notorious Insein Prison, is currently on hunger strike. He is on hunger strike to protest losing prisoners’ rights.
Kyaw Zaw Lwin is a 40-year-old male who was born in Burma and is now a naturalized U.S. citizen.He is a known political activist, and on 3 September 2009 he flew into Rangoon on a flight from Bangkok and was arrested by military authorities shortly after landing.During interrogation he was brutally tortured.He is currently on trial for charges related to fraud and of carrying excessive amounts of the Burmese currency into the country.

BREAKING NEWS: Nyi Nyi Aung on Hunger Strike 7 Dec 2009

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Political Prisoner on Hunger Strike

For Immediate Release:

December 7, 2009

Kyaw Zaw Lwin (a.k.a. Nyi Nyi Aung), a political prisoner in Burma’s notorious Insein Prison, is currently on hunger strike. He is on hunger strike to protest losing prisoners’ rights.
Kyaw Zaw Lwin is a 40-year-old male who was born in Burma and is now a naturalized U.S. citizen.He is a known political activist, and on 3 September 2009 he flew into Rangoon on a flight from Bangkok and was arrested by military authorities shortly after landing.During interrogation he was brutally tortured.He is currently on trial for charges related to fraud and of carrying excessive amounts of the Burmese currency into the country.

Activists protest junta PM’s Copenhagen visit

Monday, 07 December 2009 21:37

New Delhi (Mizzima) – Burmese activists in Denmark and Norway urged the European Union to reinforce its common position on Burma’s military rulers, with no special exception of allowing the junta’s high-level officials visiting the Union’s member countries.

The activists said the call was made in response to the news of Burma’s Prime Minister General Thein Sein arriving in Copenhagen on Tuesday to take part in the United Nations conference on climate change.

“We are asking the EU to re-examine its common position, because if the Burmese Prime Minister can be exempted from attending UN conferences in Europe, the common position does not have its impact at all,” Myint Wei, a leading activist in Copenhagen told Mizzima.

The activists, numbering 50, will gather on Tuesday in front of the Copenhagen Bella Centre with placards displaying slogans and messages against the visiting Burmese Prime Minister.

“We will be joined by our fellow activists from Norway. We want to remind the world that the Burmese military regime is not the legitimate government of Burma and they have no place in a conference like this,” added Myint Wei, who is also a member of Forum of Burmese in Europe (FBE).

Junta to survey gas pipeline route by HSENG KHIO FAH

Junta military is to conduct a survey in Shan State for construction of gas pipeline route to China from the offshore Shwe gas fields in Arakan State in western Burma, according to sources on the Sino-Burma border.

The field survey will be starting from 15 to 30 December and will be led by an official from the Science and Technology, Aung Zaw Lin and accompanied by officials from two other departments. The survey team is made up of about 20 officials.

On 15 November, junta authorities and some officials of China National Petroleum Company (CNPC) were reported to have held a meeting in Namkham, northern Shan State, over the gas pipeline project which is to be transported from Arakan state all the way to China. It was presided over by Brigadier-General Than Htay, Deputy Energy Minister and local authorities in Muse and Namkham, according to a report from a Shan language webpage.

According to the plan, the proposed gas pipeline route is to run through from Maddaya, north of Mandalay and will be crossing Shan State North’s former ceasefire territories that were forced to surrender by the Burma Army in 2005 all the way to Nongdao, southwest of China’s Ruili, the source said.

Dreaming of a ‘Green Mekong’

But the dream is likely to be thwarted by lack of commitment from the leaders of nearby countries.

In the first summit meeting between Japan and officials from the five countries that border the banks of the 4,800-km Mekong River, the countries pledged to urgently tackle the environmental issues related to development of the region. It is questionable, however, whether the meeting will end up as more than lip service despite the attention and funding from Japanese officials.

Tokyo pledged ¥200 billion (US$2.21 billion) to the initiative, called ‘A Decade toward the Green Mekong,’ which will begin next year and aims to promote biodiversity and cooperation on water resource management. In the so-called Tokyo Declaration following the summit, the five countries and Japan pledged in a remarkably vague agreement to, among other things, “build a mutually beneficial relationship based on the spirit of yu-ai, or ‘fraternity,’ which is a way of thinking that respects one’s own freedom and individual dignity while also respecting the freedom and individual dignity of others.” continue

Dreaming of a ‘Green Mekong’

Prominent Ethnic Leader Barred from Public Speaking Engagement

7 December 2009: Burmese authorities had barred a prominent Chin politician from appearing at a pre-arranged public speaking engagement during the gathering of students in Chin State. The move was the latest in a continuing attempt by the military regime to silence dissidents’ voice ahead of the planned 2010 polls.

Pu Chin Sian Thang, the president of Zomi National Congress (ZNC), and MP-elect during the 1990 elections, is a high profile ethnic leader on the national scene. Now based in the former capital Rangoon, Pu Chin Sian Thang was on a rare visit to Chin State late November where he was to deliver a speech to a gathering of about 200 students.

The Chin MP was to appear at a conference organized by Zomi Student Organization in Tiddim in northern Chin State during the last week of November. Ironically, the topic of his speech was to be “Post 2010.”

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–A monk who appeared at the Rangoon courtroom on the day Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi was sentenced in August has been imprisoned for two years

Monk given two-year sentence
Dec 7, 2009 (DVB)–A monk who appeared at the Rangoon courtroom on the day Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi was sentenced in August has been imprisoned for two years, family sources said.

Nyi Nyi San, also a member of Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy (NLD) party, who had entered temporary monkhood, was arrested whilst walking away from the Insein prison courtroom on the day the verdict was given.
He has been sentenced on charges of defaming the Buddhist religion at the end of a trial held in Bahan township, Rangoon, where the NLD headquarters are based.
Nyi Nyi San was in temporary monkhood under the name of Ashin Sandatika at Daysunpa monastery in Bago division when the opposition leader began her trial.
“He requested permission from the abbot at the monastery where he was ordained [to attend the trial],” said a source. “He was arrested and pulled into a truck while on his way to the NLD office from Insein prison.”