Day: December 22, 2010
စစ္ေရး၊ ႏုိင္ငံေရး၊ လူမႈေရးဆိုင္ရာ ေရွ႕လုပ္ငန္းစဥ္မ်ား KNU ခ်မွတ္ by KIC
22.December 2010
ဒီဇင္ဘာလ ၂၂ရက္။ ေစာခါးစူးညား (ေကအိုင္စီ)
ေကအဲန္ယူ-ကရင္အမ်ဳိးသားအစည္းအ႐ံုးသည္ ၎တို႔၏ ႏွစ္ပတ္လည္ အစည္းအေ၀းတြင္ ၂၀၁၀ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲအၿပီးကာလ ျဖစ္ေပၚလာႏုိင္မည့္ စစ္ေရး၊ ႏိုင္ငံေရးႏွင့္ လူမႈေရးဆိုင္ရာ အခက္အခဲမ်ားကို ျပန္လည္သံုးသပ္ကာ ေရွ႕လုပ္ငန္းစဥ္အျဖစ္ ခ်မွတ္လုပ္ေဆာင္သြားမည္ျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း ယမန္ေန႔က ေၾကညာခ်က္ထုတ္ကာ ေျပာဆိုသည္။
ဒီဇင္ဘာလ ၁၄ရက္မွ ၁၈ရက္ေန႔အထိ ကရင္ျပည္နယ္ လြတ္ေျမာက္နယ္ေျမတေနရာ၌ က်င္းပခဲ့သည့္ ေကအဲန္ယူ၏ ၁၄ႀကိမ္ ေျမာက္ ကြန္ဂရက္အၿပီး တတိယအႀကိမ္ေျမာက္ ဗဟိုအၿမဲတမ္းေကာ္မတီ ႏွစ္ပတ္လည္ အစည္းအေ၀းတြင္ ထိုအေျခအေနမ်ား ကို ေဆြးေႏြးသံုးသပ္ကာ ႀကိဳတင္ျပင္ဆင္သည့္အေနျဖင့္ ဆံုးျဖတ္ခဲ့ျခင္းျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း ေကအဲန္ယူ ဒုဥကၠဌ ပဒိုေစာေဒးဗစ္သက ေဘာက ေျပာသည္။ Continue reading “စစ္ေရး၊ ႏုိင္ငံေရး၊ လူမႈေရးဆိုင္ရာ ေရွ႕လုပ္ငန္းစဥ္မ်ား KNU ခ်မွတ္ by KIC”
US sends Transocean a fresh subpoena over Burma conduct
Transocean International’s semi-submersible drilling rig, the Actinia. Last year, the Actinia was contracted to drill in Burmese waters licensed to a consortium that includes China’s CNOOC and Singapore-registered firm China Focus Development – owned by junta crony and alleged narcotics money-launderer Stephen Law, aka Tun Myint Naing. Photo: Mizzima
The administrative subpoena came from the US Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), the branch of the Treasury Department that oversees American trade and financial sanctions.
According to the filing submitted in September but made public last month, Transocean informed its shareholders: “We have received and responded to an administrative subpoena from the OFAC concerning our operations in Myanmar [Burma] and a follow-up administrative subpoena from OFAC with questions relating to the previous Myanmar operations subpoena response.”
“OFAC’s administrative subpoena authority,” according to the Treasury’s website, “generally provides the basis for OFAC to require the production of whatever additional information it may require to assess its enforcement response to the apparent violation.” Continue reading “US sends Transocean a fresh subpoena over Burma conduct”
Elected White Tiger party member goes on trial
An elected Shan Nationalities Democratic Party (SNDP)’s representative in Shan State South’s Kunhing township was summoned to Naypyitaw in order to appear in court brought by its defeated rival Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) representative, according to party members.
“The defendant with 3 other party members including the party’s lawyer Sao Nang Myawaddy were in Naypyitaw since 19 December a few days after the party conference held in Taunggyi,” said Sai Hsawng Hsi, vice chairman of the SNDP.
Sai Mon aka Sai Kyaw Htun
The defendant, Sai Mon aka Sai Kyaw Htun, elected for state legislature at Kunhing’s constituency No.1, was accused by its rival USDP representative Dr. Sai Kham Leng, a former member of Union Election Commission (UEC) that Sai Mon won the seat on 7 November, the day of elections, with the help of the ceasefire armed group Shan State Army (SSA) ‘North’s 7th Brigade.
Dr. Sai Kham Leng was one of the 17 appointed members of Burma’s Union Election Commission (UEC). But in the middle of August, he was reportedly directed by the USDP to resign from his position and contest for a seat in the state legislature in Kunhing township Constituency No. 1 for the party. He was reportedly slated to become Shan State’s first Chief Minister in 48 years.
“People who intend to sue say whatever they want. However, he must show what evidence he has for his complaint,” said Sai Hsawng Hsi.
According to Sai Kham Leng’s complaint submitted to the UEC on 6 December and relayed to the SNDP on 14 December: Continue reading “Elected White Tiger party member goes on trial”
Sithu Zeya, 21, a reporter for the Democratic Voice of Burma gets 8 year jail term
A man arrested by Burmese authorities for photographing the aftermath of thedeadly bombings in Rangoon in April this year has been sentenced to eight years imprisonment.
Sithu Zeya, 21, a reporter for the Democratic Voice of Burma, was yesterday found guilty by Rangoon’s Mingalartaungnyunt township court of illegal border crossing and holding ties to an unlawful organisation. He was arrested shortly after the April bombings and has been held by police since.
“I am sad that he’s now ended up prison for taking some photos,” said his mother Yee Yee Tin. “He just finished school and had not even started working yet. He is interested in journalism, that the only thing I know.”
Sithu’s father, Maung Maung Zeya, also a DVB reporter, was arrested a day after his son and is still awaiting a verdict, but from a high-level court. Yee Yee Tin said that she was expecting his sentencing to be harsher.
Sithu is facing a further charge under the Electronics Act, which can result in up to 20 years in prison. The family’s legal advisor, Aung Thein, said that none of the accusations were supported by strong evidence.
“The prosecutors couldn’t provide any independent evidence for the accusations on [Sithu Zeya’s] illegal border crossing and contact with the individuals of the so-called ‘unlawful association.’ The verdict was based on informal confession results from torturing the accused while he was under interrogation,” said Aung Thein. Continue reading “Sithu Zeya, 21, a reporter for the Democratic Voice of Burma gets 8 year jail term”
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