Detained Burmese-American calls off hunger strike

Friday, 18 December 2009 22:57 Myint Maung

Burma born US citizen Nyi Nyi Aung called off his hunger strike in Insein prison, his lawyer said on Friday.

“It is said that Nyi Nyi Aung ended his hunger strike. His health condition is not serious though he has become thinner. We don’t know when he called it off. He seems weak and we could not talk to him privately and met him only in the courtroom,” lawyer Nyan Win said.

Kyaw Zaw Lwin a.k.a. Nyi Nyi Aung (40) began his hunger strike in prison on December 4 protesting against ill treatment of prisoners and demanding their rights.

It is still not clear when he ended his hunger strike and whether the authorities gave in to his demands or not.

The South District Court sitting inside Insein prison today heard two police officers being examined for each count of the charge levelled. The argument shall be presented on December 29 as to whether the accused should be charged or not.

“I could not meet him for two weeks and can meet him on Monday. The family was worried whether he would be produced in court today. We felt happy when we heard he was produced in court and was fine,” his aunt Khin Swe Swe said.

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ဖာပြန္ၿမိဳ႕ဗုံးေပါက္ကဲြမႈ ေကအဲန္ယူလက္ခ်က္ဟု နအဖထုတ္ျပန္

ဒီဇင္ဘာလ ၁၈ရက္။ ေစာသိန္းျမင့္ (ေကအုိင္စီ)
ကရင္ျပည္နယ္ ဖာပြန္ၿမိဳ႕၌ ဒီဇင္ဘာလ ၁၆ရက္ေန႔က က်င္းပျပဳလုပ္သည့္ ကရင့္ႏွစ္သစ္ကူးေန႔ပဲြေတာ္တြင္ ဗုံးေပါက္ကဲြမႈ ျဖစ္ပြားရာ ၎သည္ ကရင္အမ်ဳိးသားအစည္းအရုံး (ေကအဲန္ယူ)၏ လက္ခ်က္ျဖစ္သည္ဟု နအဖမွ ယေန႔ သတင္း ထုတ္ျပန္ခဲ့သည္။ဖာပြန္ၿမိဳ႕၊ အမွတ္(၂)ရပ္ကြက္ရွိ အေျခခံပညာအထက္တန္းေက်ာင္းေရွ႕ ကြင္းျပင္၌ က်င္းပျပဳလုပ္သည့္ ၂၇၄၉ခုႏွစ္ေျမာက္ ကရင္ႏွစ္သစ္ကူးပဲြေတာ္တြင္ အဆုိပါ ဗုံးေပါက္ကဲြမႈေၾကာင့္ အရပ္သား ၇ဦးေသဆုံးၿပီး အမ်ဳိးသား ၁၀ဦး၊ အမ်ဳိးသမီးတဦး ထိခုိက္ဒဏ္ရာရရွိခဲ့ကာ အဆိုပါမုိင္းေထာင္သူမွာ ဖာပြန္ႏွင့္ နယ္စပ္ေဒသၾကားတြင္ လႈပ္ရွားလွ်က္ရွိသည့္ ေကအဲန္ယူအဖြဲ႔မွ ျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း နအဖ စစ္အစုိးရပိုင္ ျမန္မာ့အလင္းသတင္းစာတြင္ ေဖာ္ျပသည္။
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The Private Clinic compenstated 1000 Lakh of Kyats for dead patient – sources said

မခိုင္ရႊန္းလဲ့ရည္ ေသဆံုးခဲ့ရမႈတြင္ မိသားစုက ေလ်ာ္ေၾကး သိန္း ၁ေထာင္ရ
မိုးမခ အေထာက္ေတာ္၊ ရန္ကုန္
ဒီဇင္ဘာ ၁၈၊ ၂၀၀၉

ႏို၀င္ဘာလတြင္ မီဒီယာမ်ားတြင္ ေရးသားေဖၚျပခဲ့ၾကသည့္ ေရႊဂံုတိုင္ အထူးကုေဆးခန္းတြင္ ေသဆံုးခဲ့ရသည့္ မခိုင္ရႊန္းလဲ့ရည္ ကိစၥရပ္အတြက္ S S C ေခၚ ေရႊဂံုတိုင္အထူးကုေဆးခန္းမွ ေသဆံုးသူမိသားစုသို႔ က်ပ္သိန္း၁ေထာင္ ေလ်ာ္ေၾကးေပးအပ္ခဲ့ၿပီး continue
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Thailand needs more time to decide on seized North Korean weapons:no clear decision whether to destroy them all or keep some for military use in the armed forces.

BANGKOK, Dec 18 (TNA) – More time is needed for the Thai government to decide how to deal with the military weapons from North Korea seized last weekend at Bangkok’s Don Mueang airport, to destroy all of them under the terms of the active United Nations resolution or to only destroy a portion of them, according to Deputy Prime Minister Suthep Suthep Thaugsuban who oversees national security.

Mr Suthep said that until now there has been no clear decision whether to destroy them all or keep some for military use in the armed forces.

He said more time is needed to inspect the weapons, to catagorise and to consider the terms of the UN resolution.

United Nations Security Council resolution number 1874 (2009) banning North Korea from exporting any weapons was imposed in June after the reclusive communist regime conducted a nuclear test and test-fired missiles.

As for the report that Thailand’s National Security Council would request the United Nations to help finance the cost of the transportation and destruction of the weapons, Mr Suthep said the government must further study the regulations and the previous practices of countries that have shared similar incidents.

Thailand’s relevant officials are gathering information and summarising the case, he said, adding that the procedures should not be rushed as it is a sensitive issue.

Thai police impounded the Russian-built Georgian Ilyushin IL-76 aircraft Saturday and discovered 35 tonnes of explosives, rocket-propelled grenades and components for surface-to-air missiles in its cargo hold.

The plane’s five crew members, a Belarussian pilot and four Kazakh crew, have been charged in Thailand with possessing war weapons. However, they denied being aware of what they were transporting, according to the police.

Initial reports said the plane was flown from the United Arab Emirates to Don Mueang airport in the Thai capital last Wednesday and landed without cargo for a refuelling stop, then continued on to North Korean capital of Pyongyang.

Leaving North Korea after taking on caro in Pyongyang, the aircraft returned to Bangkok on Saturday for a scheduled refuelling before flying on to Sri Lanka.

Prime Minister Abhisit said earlier that the seller and buyer of the weapons remains unknown, and there is no evidence to prove that Russian arms dealer Victor Bout (now being held in Thailand) is involved in the possible arms smuggling incident. (TNA)

Burmese pop star Phyu Phyu Kyaw Thein has been designated the MTV EXIT campaign ambassador for Burma, a campaign official said.

Burmese pop star Phyu Phyu Kyaw Thein has been designated the MTV EXIT campaign ambassador for Burma, a campaign official said.
New Delhi (Mizzima) – Burmese pop star Phyu Phyu Kyaw Thein has been designated the MTV EXIT campaign ambassador for Burma, a campaign official said.

Simon Goff, Executive Director of MTV EXIT, said his group began the campaign to raise awareness on human trafficking in Burma with Phyu Phyu Kyaw Thein hosting the launch of a documentary film in Rangoon on Friday.

“Phyu Phyu is the Burmese celebrity, who has become the Ambassador of the campaign, and is the presenter of the documentary in Burmese,” Goff told Mizzima on Friday.

The Music Television’s End Exploitation and Trafficking (EXIT) campaign on Friday morning, 10 a.m. (local time), launched the documentary film in Sedona Hotel in Rangoon, Goff said.

“We believe this documentary film will be able to raise awareness among the people to protect themselves from traffickers,” he added.

The MTV EXIT in partnership with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) produced the documentary film that narrates stories of real people that have become victims of human trafficking, Goff said.

Arakan National Congress rejects SPDC’s 2010 Elections-vdo

“Aung Shwe, Lun Tin and U Lwin all agreed to Daw Suu’s suggestion of reforming party leadership, which is a good sign and we welcome it

Friday, 18 December 2009 15:20 Myint Maung

New Delhi (Mizzima) – Ethnic political leaders in Burma on Thursday welcomed leaders of the National League for Democracy party’s consideration reforming party leadership.

NLD Chairman Aung Shwe, Secretary U Lwin, central executive committee member Lun Tin and detained pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Wednesday, during a rare meeting arranged by the government, discussed on reforming party leadership as many of the CEC are ageing and a few ailing.

“Aung Shwe, Lun Tin and U Lwin all agreed to Daw Suu’s suggestion of reforming party leadership, which is a good sign and we welcome it. The party needs younger generation as we do not know how long our struggle will continue,” Thakhin Chan Tun, a veteran politician in Rangoon, told Mizzima.

Aye Thar Aung, secretary of the Committee for Representing People’s Parliament’ (CRPP), a group formed with members of parliament elected in 1990 elections, said, “We welcome the meeting between the NLD CEC members. We know that the CEC will be expanded with new members. It is a good sign as a first step.”

Similarly, Cin Sian Thang, chairman of the Zomi National Congress (ZNC), said, “NLD is the biggest and strongest party in Burma. Many have said aging and inactive leaders should retire. It is good to see Daw Suu paying her respects to the three elderly leaders and they agreeing to her proposal. I think it is not only for the party, it’s also good for our country.”

Thai crisis set to turn towards Burma -Step aside, Cambodia! It’s Burma’s turn now

The crisis in Thailand is set to take another major turn in the next few days, and this time it will relate to our neighbour to the northwest when the Supreme Court wraps up its hearing on ousted prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra’s frozen Bt76 billion in assets.

The prosecution hopes its final blow will arrive next Tuesday.

Former foreign minister Surakiart Sathirathai will testify as a state witness, purportedly to provide the final piece of the jigsaw, proving Thaksin’s failure to be honest about his assets was no honest mistake.

The prosecution is confident it has what is needed to prove Thaksin did not relinquish control of his business empire as legally and constitutionally as required when he served as prime minister.

Waratchya Srimachand, assistant secretary-general of the Securities and Exchange Commission, has told the court there was reliable evidence to prove Thaksin had concealed his massive shareholding in the telecom business – something he was supposed to have given up as head of the government.

Her testimony corroborates findings by the Assets Examination Committee, whose origin has been decried by the Thaksin camp, because it was set up after the September 19, 2006 coup.