Day: January 11, 2010
bad+SPDC—KNU ဘာလဲ
၂၀၁၀ ခုႏွစ္၊ ဇန္နဝါရီလ ၈ ရက္ေန႔ထုတ္ ျမန္မာ့အလင္းသတင္းစာ၊ စာမ်က္ႏွာ ၆မွလည္းေကာင္း၊ နအဖ ၀ါဒျဖန္ ့ ခ်ီေရး ေက်းေစတမန္ဘေလာ့မွလည္းေကာင္းေဖၚျပထားေသာ နအဖ စစ္အစုိးရ၏ ေဆာင္းပါးရွင္ တစ္ဦးျဖစ္သူ ကေလာင္နာမည္ ေစာဖိုးစီရဲ႕ KNU ဘာလဲ ဆုိတဲ့ေဆာင္းပါးကုိ ျပန္လည္တုံ ့ျပန္ျပီး အီးေမးျဖင့္ စာေရးပုိ ့လာတဲ့ ေစာေကာ္ကေညာ(ေညာင္ေလးပင္) ၏ ေျဖႀကားခ်က္ကုိ တင္ဆက္ေပးလုိက္ပါတယ္။
Start of mass deportations of Burmese migrants from Thailand on 20th Jan 2010?
Mon, 11/01/2010 – 08:49
Andy Hall, The Human Rights and Development Foundation
20th Jan 2010 marks the renewal deadline for the first batch of 70, 000 Burmese, Cambodian and Laotian migrants working in Thailand whose work permits will expire on that day. The next date for the expiry of all the other work permits of migrants from Burma, Cambodia and Laos (approximately 930, 000 officially registered persons) is 28th Feb 2010. This latter date is also the deadline for migrants to express their intention to go through the migrant nationality verification process (for migrants from Burma, must return to Burma and get a temporary passport from the State Peace and Development Council) or be deported. For those 1.5 million plus migrants not currently registered, the crackdown to get them out of Thailand will also begin with intensity, according to Royal Thai Government policy, on 28th Feb 2010.
The Ministry of Labour has yet to announce its policy on renewal of work permits on 20th Jan 10 or 28th Feb 10. The Royal Thai Government has yet to announce what it will do given only 5-6,000 migrants from Burma have gone through the nationality verification process in one year, given the process is failing with lack of transparency and bureaucratic inefficiency, and is simply too expensive for most workers who still don’t know what nationality verification actually is.
Thailand’s Alien Workers Management Committee (AWMC) recommended on 21st Dec 2009 the following: (1) An extension of nationality verification from Feb 28th for two years to allow particularly Burmese authorities to get the process going more effectively; (2) Only those migrant workers who agree to nationality verification shall be allowed to renew their work permits during these 2 years. For others, mass deportation shall start immediately; (3) 28th Feb 2010 deadline for the end of the 15-years year on year migrant registration system must be respected. All eyes turn to the nationality verification process now, and there is no compromise. Thailand will no longer allow illegal migrants after 28th Feb, and all import and export systems for migration must now be formalised between governments (including through the Royal Thai Government’s working with the SPDC as most of the migrants in Thailand are from Burma). Continue reading “Start of mass deportations of Burmese migrants from Thailand on 20th Jan 2010?”
Junta Again Honours Transformed NDA-K To Woo KIO
Government employees were forced to welcome the newly formed Border Guard Force from New Democratic Army-Kachin in Myitkyina this morning by the order of Northern commander Maj-Gen Soe Win.
Written by KNG
Saturday, 09 January 2010
The Burmese military junta held a ceremony to honour the Kachin ethnic rebel group for the second time in Kachin State capital Myitkyina on the eve of Kachin State Day for having transformed to the Border Guard Force (BGF), local people told Kachin News Group.
The junta also known as the State Peace and Development Council (SPDC) on Saturday again honoured, the former Kachin ethnic rebel group the New Democratic Army Kachin (NDA-K) who officially transformed to BGF in November 8 last year at its headquarters in Pangwah, one day before the 62nd anniversary of Kachin State Day. Local military analysts said it was done to divert attention from the Manau festival being held from January 5 to 11. Continue reading “Junta Again Honours Transformed NDA-K To Woo KIO”
the donor agency Medicins Sans Frontieres (MSF) Belgium pulled out its staff and announced that funding for ARV drugs would cease as of December 2009.
Staring at a medical black hole
Joseph Allchin
Jan 11, 2010 (DVB)–Not far from the white sand of Thailand’s Andaman Sea coast, tucked away from the luxury resorts, sits some very different accommodation for ‘foreigners’.
This shelter is not ordinary; the collection of tin huts house around 17 HIV patients. Many have been in Thailand for decades, all invariably to work. Here they are looked after and taken to get donor funded antiretroviral (ARV) drugs, without which they would not survive.
In July last year however, the donor agency Medicins Sans Frontieres (MSF) Belgium pulled out its staff and announced that funding for ARV drugs would cease as of December 2009. In Phang Nga state there are over 100 such Burmese migrants dependent on this aid. “We do not know why they withdrew;” says Htoo Chit, head of Grassroots Human Rights Education (GHRE) group, “we didn’t have clear information why they have withdrawn.” Phang Nga is home to around 150,000 Burmese migrants who form an essential pillar of labour in most of the least desirable jobs from construction to fishing. Continue reading “the donor agency Medicins Sans Frontieres (MSF) Belgium pulled out its staff and announced that funding for ARV drugs would cease as of December 2009.”
Thailand- Soldiers nab job brokers, 30 illegal Myanmar workers
CHUMPHON, Jan 10 (TNA) – Thai soldiers arrested several Myanmar job brokers and 30 illegal Myanmar workers at a house in the southern province of Chumphon on Sunday.
A unit of 15 troops led by Maj Thanaphan Sukprasert raided a house in Tha Sae district in Chumphon on a tip that it accommodated illegal migrant workers en route to work in other areas.
They detained 16 male and 14 female workers. Two Myanmar nationals, identified only as Mr So and Ms. Sor, working as job brokers in a illegal labour gang were also arrested.
According to the initial investigation, some Thai officials, including a community leader and a local businessman were involved in the trafficking of illegal labourers.
The illegal workers entered Thailand at Ranong and moved to the safe house in Chumphom to await being sent to work in factories in Samut Sakhon, Chonburi, Surat Thani and Songkhla.
Each of them paid Bt5,000-7,000 to job brokers, depending on the distance of their trips and paid 500 baht at a police checkpoint. The military detained them questioning and making records before deporting the workers. Further investigation will be conducted to identify and arrest more Thais involved in the gang. (TNA)
BURMA: Junta Turns to Draconian Electronics Law to Silence Critics By Marwaan Macan-Markar
BANGKOK, Jan 11 (IPS) – A court ruling in military-ruled Burma has brought into sharp focus a law the junta widely uses to go after civilians it wants to silence.
On Jan. 7 a court found Win Naing Kyaw, a former military officer, guilty of violating the Electronics Act, a law controlling Internet usage, and condemned him to a 20-year sentence. He was linked to photos of a ranking junta official’s visit to North Korea that had appeared on a news website run by Burmese journalists living in exile.
This came just a week after a 25-year-old teacher, Hla Hla Win, was given a 20-year prison sentence on Dec. 31 for violating the same law. Her “crime” was the work she did as a member of the South-east Asian country’s growing network of “undercover journalists” for the Democratic Voice of Burma (DVB), an Oslo-based news organisation of exiled Burmese journalists.
The Electronics Law bans Burmese citizens from using the Internet to send information, photos or videos critical of the junta to foreign audiences.
The sentence for the freelance video reporter comes on top of another six- year prison term that was handed down last October for having a motorcycle that had been “illegally imported.” Myint Naing, who helped the freelance reporter, was condemned to 26 years in prison.
“Hla Hla Win has been working with us for a few years. And she did so knowing the danger of getting caught with video clips or being seen on the street with a video camera,” said Toe Zaw Latt, DVB’s bureau chief in Thailand. “She was driven to get images of what was happening inside Burma and get them out to the world.” Continue reading “BURMA: Junta Turns to Draconian Electronics Law to Silence Critics By Marwaan Macan-Markar”
INTERVIEW: A former foreign ministry employee has accused the Burmese military regime of trying to wipe out secrets of the past – the killing of SPDC’s Secretary 2 General Tin Oo
Junta finds scapegoats for government leaks, says former colleague
Chiang Mai (Mizzima) – A former foreign ministry employee has accused the Burmese military regime of trying to wipe out secrets of the past – the killing of SPDC’s Secretary 2 General Tin Oo, who died in a controversial helicopter crash in 2001 by giving death sentences to two officials last Friday.
They were accused of leaking secret details of the military government’s ministerial visits to abroad and the network of tunnels built in Burma.
Sein Lwin, a former employee in the Burmese embassy in Cambodia told Mizzima in an interview that he does not believe that those who were sentenced to death by the Burmese regime last Friday leaked the information as accused by the Burmese government.
Sein Lwin (35), was in the Burmese embassy in Phnom Penh, Cambodia till 2004 as head of branch II and worked for intelligence gathering and reporting for the Burmese military. However, he was not in Burma at the time of the arrests last year.
Excerpts from the interview: Continue reading “INTERVIEW: A former foreign ministry employee has accused the Burmese military regime of trying to wipe out secrets of the past – the killing of SPDC’s Secretary 2 General Tin Oo”
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