ထိုင္းနယ္စပ္ မဲေဆာက္အနီး ဖို႔ဖတ္ၿမိဳ႕နယ္ရိွ ေတာထဲတြင္ ေသနတ္ဒဏ္ရာျဖင့့္ ျမန္မာ (၇) ဦး ေသဆံုးမႈတြင္ ေဒသခံ ရဲတပ္ဖြဲ႔၀င္မ်ား ပါ၀င္ပတ္သက္မႈရိွမရိွ သိရိွႏိုင္ရန္ ၿမိဳ႕နယ္ ရဲတပ္ဖြဲ႔၀င္အားလံုး ယေန႔ေနာက္ဆံုးထား၍ အစီရင္ခံစာ တင္ၾကရမည္ဟု တာ့ခ႐ိုင္ရဲမင္းႀကီး ရဲဗိုလ္မႉးႀကီး ပန္ညာဆူအင္က အမိန္႔ေပးထားသည္။
ခ႐ိုင္ရဲမင္းႀကီး၏အမိန္႔တြင္ အခင္းျဖစ္ပြားသည့္ကာလ ယခင္လ (၂၃) ရက္မွ (၂၈) ရက္အတြင္း ဖို႔ဖတ္ၿမိဳ႕နယ္ရိွ ရဲတပ္ဖြဲ႔၀င္အားလံုး မည္သည့္ေနရာတြင္ ရိွေၾကာင္း၊ တယ္လီဖုန္းျဖင့္ မည္သူ႔ကို အဆက္အသြယ္လုပ္ေၾကာင္း၊ မိမိကိုင္ေဆာင္သည့္ေသနတ္ သတ္မွတ္ရက္အတြင္း ပစ္ခတ္မႈရိွမရိွ စသည္တို႔ကို လာေရာက္ အစီရင္ခံရမည္ဟု ပါရွိသည္။ continue
http://www.khitpyaingnews.org/news/February%2010/1210c.php
Day: February 1, 2010
Min Ko Naing and Ko Ko Gyi refused the regime’s offer to “sign a 401
Jailed 88 Generation Leaders Refuse to Compromise
Burma’s military authorities have recently tried unsuccessfully to pressure jailed members of the 88 Generation Students group into accepting the government’s election process in return for their release, according to one of their colleagues.
“I can confirm that an exchange took place between military authorities and 88 Generation Student leaders Min Ko Naing and Ko Ko Gyi,” said Soe Tun, a 39-year-old former political prisoner and a leading member of the 88 Generation group who is now in hiding. “However, they didn’t cave in to any form of pressure.”
Last week, the 88 Generation Students group issued a statement calling for the release of Aung San Suu Kyi and all other political prisoners so that all stakeholders can participate in the political process. The statement also urges the regime to seek peaceful ways in resolving the conflicts with armed ethnic groups.
Speaking to The Irrawaddy on Monday, Soe Tun said that Min Ko Naing and Ko Ko Gyi refused the regime’s offer to “sign a 401,” which would effectively suspend their sentences and allow for their release. The offer was on the condition that both leaders accept the junta’s election process, which is due to be held this year.
Section 401 of the Burma’s Criminal Procedure Code is a mechanism used by the Burmese regime to provide suspended sentences to jailed political activists.
“Their response, as far as I know, was that they want to see a dialogue between all the political stakeholders and the regime,” said Soe Tun, who went into hiding after the 2007 Saffron Revolution was brutally suppressed by the Burmese junta. He added that both student leaders refused to sign a 401 during their previous periods of incarceration. Continue reading “Min Ko Naing and Ko Ko Gyi refused the regime’s offer to “sign a 401”
Bomb discovered near Wa office
Feb 01, 2010 (DVB)–A bomb was discovered near the office of a major ceasefire group and defused last week – while plotters are still at large, according to local sources.
Residents of Muse, a border town in northern Shan State near China’s Ruili, said the bomb, apparently a large one, was found near United Wa State Army (UWSA) office by locals who reported it to the authorities. It was later defused by a Burmese Army’s bomb squad last Thursday.
A Muse resident said the plotters and their motives were still unknown.
The incident was the latest in a series of unrest in northern Shan State after the general secretary of another ceasefire group in nearby Mongla was shot dead on Wednesday at the group’s headquarters.
Both the UWSA and the Mongla group, known officially as National Democratic Alliance Army-Eastern Shan State, are still at loggerheads with Burma’s ruling junta over the latter’s plan to transform them into Border Guard Force units.
The UN is a club of governments.
NGO’s Report on Conflict Resources, Targeting Rebelos, Is Reviled by UN’s Doss
By Matthew Russell Lee
UNITED NATIONS, February 1 — The UN is a club of governments. Even the seemingly idealistic things it does, it does for reasons of state and sovereignty.
A UK-based NGO with 45 employees, Global Witness came to the UN in New York to lobby about conflict resources. Two of its campaigners met with the EU, and later the Press. They talked about the Congo, about Angola, all Africa all the time.
Inner City Press asked about Myanmar, about the military regimes use of resources to fund its war on the Burmese. Global Witness is looking at Burma, but only rebel groups export of timber across the border.
It seems obvious that to merely crack down on rebel groups is just what governments would want. What about Zimbabwe or North Korea? Asked this question by Inner City Press, Global Witness’ campaigner Amy Barry said another side of their work is anti-corruption.
But that doesn’t line up with squarely with human oppression. And Equatorial Guinea, which she cited, is not on the Security Council’s agenda.
Japan, she said, indicated it would need more evidence that in a UN Experts’ report to go after companies trafficking in conflict resources. The UK said it could not rely entirely on reports by the UN Group of Experts. But few countries can afford to do their own research. If the UN reports are not credible, according even to an ostensibly human rights sensitive P-5 member, why are they being funded?
While many in the UN open their ears to Global Witness, the head man in the Congo Alan Doss showed only anger, it was said. As Inner City Press has reported, to solve his nepotism scandal he has rolled the dice with the ex-CNDP. Doss has called Human Rights Watch short sighted. He was even more brusque with Global Witness. continue
http://www.innercitypress.com/un1gwconflict020110.html
Nine Burmese Job Seekers Killed near Thai-Burma Border
Nine Burmese job seekers were killed by unknown gunmen near the Thai-Burmese border town of Mae Sot, Thai police reported.
A Thai police official in Phop Phra, in western Thailand’s Tak Province, told The Irrawaddy on Monday that the nine victims were among a party of 12 Burmese job seekers traveling from Mae Sot last Thursday.
Four of the dead were women. The remaining three Burmese escaped.
A Phop Phra police official said the killers were being sought.
The bodies of the dead were discarded in various locations, the official said.
According to media reports, the killers demanded 1,000 baht (US $33) from each of the job seekers.
The Thai news agency Manager online said local Thai militia were suspected of killing the job seekers. Myo Zaw, officer in charge of the Mae Sot-based Yaung Chi Oo Workers Association, said job seekers were frequently targeted by local gunmen. It was one of the hazards they faced in seeking employment in Thailand, he said.
Of the 3 million Burmese migrant workers in Thailand, an estimated 200,000 live in and around Mae Sot.
Burma Democratic Concern (BDC) today welcomes the British Government stands on Burmese junta’s 2008 constitution and planned 2010 election.
01 February 2010
Burma Democratic Concern (BDC) today welcomes the British Government stands on Burmese junta’s 2008 constitution and planned 2010 election.
Written in the Hansard, Mr. Ivan Lewis, the Minister of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office said that “The constitution that underpins the election is deeply flawed. It is designed to perpetuate military rule in Burma. As long as the elections are contested on the current constitution, whatever the outcome they cannot be recognised by the international community.” And he went on saying that “It must be clear that without the release of political prisoners and a commitment to an inclusive process in respect of opposition and ethnic groups, the forthcoming elections in Burma will not be recognised by the international community-indeed, they will be entirely illegitimate.”
Mr. Lewis said that “We continue to call for the release of Aung San Suu Kyi. We have made it clear that the elections cannot be credible if political prisoners are not free and able to engage in an inclusive process. We have lobbied China, India and Association of South East Nations members to recognise that only free and fair elections will lead to a stable and secure Burma. We support the UN Secretary-General’s continued engagement. Tough EU sanctions will remain in place in the absence of any progress. It is equally important that the entire international community gives a united response to any election outcome. If there were any suggestion that some members of the international community attempted in any way to legitimise that outcome, that would be very dangerous in terms of strengthening the regime. What we seek to achieve is maximum unity of response on the basis that the election will be fought on a flawed constitution.” Continue reading “Burma Democratic Concern (BDC) today welcomes the British Government stands on Burmese junta’s 2008 constitution and planned 2010 election.”
LONDON CALLING:Invitation to Chin National Day Celebration (20 February 2010)
Chin Community
Dear all,
You are warmly and cordially invited to the 62nd anniversary of Chin National Day to be held in London, UK on 20 February 2010 (see details below).
The celebration will include a variety of programmes and traditional foods. Click the link to learn more:http://www.youtube. com/watch? v=GjDldSCXOHU
Time: 17:00 – 23:00
Date: 20 February 2010
Venue: London Welsh Association (Centre)
157-163 Grays Inn Road
WC1X 8UE
Please also see the attached for invitation card, Lucky Draw ticket, and directions to the venue.
Looking forward to meeting you there.
With warm regards,
Celebration Committee
Chin National Day
Chin Community UK
democracy for burma 
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