Day: July 18, 2011

Thailand: Celebrating Chiang Rai’s 750th anniversary amid coal dust and river pollution: Impacts of Burma’s Mong Kok coal mine and power plant project

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MONDAY, 18 JULY 2011 13:12 JUTHAMAS

Public Forum

Celebrating Chiang Rai’s 750th anniversary amid coal dust and river pollution?
Impacts of Burma’s Mong Kok coal mine and power plant project

21 July 2011
Euang Majja Room, Yupparat Wittayamongkol Building (Central Library), Ratchapat University, Chiang Rai

8.30 – 9.00 am      Registration

9.00 – 9.15 am      Opening remarks by Dean of Social Science Faculty

9.15 – 9.30 am      Overview of Mong Kok project by Montree Chantawong

9.30 – 12.45 am    Panel Discussion: “Impacts of Mong Kok coal mine and power plant on Chiang Rai province”

  1. Suwit Kaewnat, Head of Tambon Administrative Organisation, Mae Korn
  2. Dr. Kan Thongkaem na Ayuddhaya, Chiang Rai Prachanukhroa Hospital
  3. Supakij Nantaworakarn, Healthy Public Policy Foundation
  4. Representative from Shan State
  5. Dr. Niran Pitakwachara, Thai National Human Rights Commission
  6. Representative of Chiang Rai Waterworks Authority
  7. Representative of communities affected by Mae Moh coal mine, Lampang

Open discussion
Moderator: Prof. Nikom Boonserm
(10.30 – 10.45 am coffee break)

12.45 – 13.00 pm    Closing remarks by Tuenjai Deetes

13.00 pm                 lunch

Note: The Forum will be conducted in Thai.

For further information, pls contact Khun Juthamas Rajchaprasit at 086-179 5044

 

KIA: 28 Govt. Troops Killed in Ambush

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Officials of the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) claim 28 government troops were killed during skirmishes in southern Myitkyina over the weekend—the most Burmese Army casualties since the current Kachin State conflict began on June 9.

KIA sources told The Irrawaddy that they ambushed a military supply column and the high number of government casualties—which included a major—was due to the surprise nature of the attack which took place in unfamiliar surroundings for government troops. A KIA soldier was killed and four others were injured in the fighting. Continue reading “KIA: 28 Govt. Troops Killed in Ambush” →

ေရႊမထြက္ေသာေၾကာင့္ ရ၀မ္ျပည္သူ႔စစ္မ်ား ထြက္ေျပး

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Monday, 18 July 2011 18:51 KNG

 

4_Rawang_N-gawn_Hpyenစီးပြါးေရးသမားႏွင့္ ျပည္သူ႕စစ္ေခါင္းေဆာင္ အတန္၏ ေနာက္လိုက္ တစ္ခ်ိဳ႕

 

ကခ်င္ျပည္နယ္ ေျမာက္ပိုင္း ပူတာအိုခ႐ို္င္ေခါင္လံဖူးၿမိဳ႕နယ္ တြင္ တပ္ဖြဲ႔ေရႊကြက္မွ ေရႊမထြက္သျဖင့္ေသာင္းက်န္းသူ ဆန္႔က်င္ေရးတပ္ဖြဲ႔ (Rebels Resistance Army, RRF)ေခၚ ရ၀မ္ျပည္သူ႔စစ္ အဖြဲ႔၀င္မ်ား ထြက္ေျပးေနၾကေၾကာင္း ေဒသခံမ်ားေျပာသည္္။

“အဒန္ရဲ႕တပ္ေတြ ေရႊတြင္းကေန ပိုက္ဆံရမယ္ဆိုၿပီး တပ္ထဲ၀င္ၾကတယ္၊ ဒါမဲ့ေရႊမထြက္ဘဲ ပိုက္ဆံမရေတာ့ တပ္ကေန ထြက္ေျပးၾကတယ္။” ဟု ေဒသခံတစ္ဦးေျပာသည္။

တန္ဂူးတန္ (Tanggu Dang a.k.a Ah Dang) ဦးေဆာင္သည့္ RRF တပ္ဖြဲ႔သည္ ကခ်င္ဒီမိုကေရစီသစ္တပ္မေတာ္ (New Democratic Army-Kachin, NDA-K)၊ ယခုနယ္ျခားေစာင့္တပ္မွ ခြဲထြက္လာကာ ထိုခ်ိန္က ေျမာက္ပိုင္းတိုင္းစစ္ဌာနခ်ုဳပ္ တိုင္းမွဴး ဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္အုန္းျမင့္ (ယခု ဖားကန္႔ျပည္သူ႔လႊတ္ေတာ္ ၾကံံ့ခိုင္ဖြံ႔ၿဖိဳးေရး အမတ္၊ သမ၀ါယမ၀န္ႀကီး)က ၂၀၀၅ ကုန္ပိုင္းတြင္ စတင္ဖြဲ႔စည္းေပးခဲ့သည္။

ေက်ာက္စိမ္းေလာပန္း စီးပြားေရးသမား (ယခင္ NDA-K ဘ႑ာေရးတာ၀န္ခံ) အတန္သည္ ၂၀၁၀ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲတြင္ ပူတာအိုခ႐ိုင္ကုိယ္စားျပဳ အမ်ိဳးသားလႊတ္ေတာ္အမတ္အတြက္ ၾကံ့ခုို္င္ဖြံ႔ၿဖိဳးေရးပါတီမွ ၀င္ေရာက္ယွဥ္ၿပိဳင္ခဲ့ေသာ္လည္း အႏိုင္ မ ရရွိခဲ့ေပ။

ယခုအခါ RRF တပ္ဖြဲ႔၀င္ ၆၀ ခန္႔ ကခ်င္လြတ္ေျမာက္ေရးအဖြဲ႔/တပ္ဖြဲ႔ (KIO/KIA) ဌာနခ်ဳပ္လိုင္ဇာအနီး ေရွ႕တန္းေရာက္ေနသည္ဟု ၎တို႔ႏွင့္နီးစပ္သည့္ ပူတာအိုေဒသခံမ်ားေျပာသည္။

ယခင္က ၂၀၀၇ ေရႊ၀ါေရာင္ေတာ္လွန္ေရးကာလတြင္လည္း RRF တပ္ဖြဲ႔၀င္ ၂၀၀ ခန္႔ ဆႏၵျပ သံဃာေတာ္မ်ားအား အၾကမ္းဖက္ႏိွမ္နင္းရာတြင္ ပါ၀င္ေစခဲ့သည္ဟု ထပ္ဆိုသည္။

Last Updated ( Monday, 18 July 2011 19:17 )

WAR: Fighting intensifies around rebel HQ

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MONDAY, 18 JULY 2011 14:02 S.H.A.N.
Failing to bombard the Shan State Army (SSA) North fighters from the air, the Burma Army had recently resorted to pounding rebel bases with heavy weapons brought in by two artillery commands and thereby forcing Shan fighters to leave their mountain bastions to employ hit-and-run tactics, according to SSA sources.Heavy weapons include 81 mm and 120 mm mortars coming from Lashio where Artillery Command #902 is based and from Taunggyi where Artillery Command #903 is based. Sources however were still unsure if 105 mm howitzers were also used against them.

SSA fighters

Fresh infantry battalions were also listed among the attacking Burmese forces: Light Infantry Battalions (LIBs) 17, 114 and 115 from Nawng-Khio, for instance. Continue reading “WAR: Fighting intensifies around rebel HQ” →