The 43 prospective MPs from the NLD may not take their seat Parliament

The 43 prospective MPs from the National League for Democracy (NLD) may not take their seats in Parliament until the government changes the wording of the oath that MPs must swear by―in particular, the pledge that they must “protect the Constitution.”

NLD spokesperson and lawyer Nyan Win told The Irrawaddy on Tuesday that the party is awaiting a response from President Thein Sein to a letter that party leaders sent him regarding the oath.

The president is due to travel to Tokyo for a five-day visit at the end of the week, leading to fears that such an amendment may take time.

Nyan Win said that the party members “want to respect the law,” but that the wording was “unacceptable.” He also confirmed that the elected candidates will meet in Rangoon on April 19-20 to seek legal guidance and to discuss parliamentary strategy.

Burma Sanction :Catherine Ashton EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs Speech April 17.2012-text/ video

 

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People’s militia under the KIA deserted to Burmese Army.mp4

US green light for Myanmar aid work

The United States has eased financial sanctions against Myanmar to enable US-based non-government organisations to  to operate in the country in recognition of recent political reforms in the Southeast Asian nation.

The announcement by the treasury department on Tuesday allows transactions in support of aid groups and charities working in areas such as democracy-building, health and education, sports and religious activities.

It follows recent by-elections in which opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi was elected to parliament, the release of hundreds of political prisoners, and a raft of reforms implemented by a military-backed civilian government since Myanmar’s generals ended decades of direct rule in 2010.

Myanmar has been isolated for decades by sanctions imposed over human rights concerns and the country is one of the poorest in Southeast Asia.

But the US government has said it will  “meet action with action,” gradually easing sanctions to reciprocate the government’s democratic changes. The European Union and Australia have also made moves towards easing sanctions.

Lt-Gen Yawd Serk: Agreements lost in translation

Naypyitaw and Loi Taileng, the main base of the Restoration Council of Shan State / Shan State Army (RCSS/SSA), had signed two agreements since December, but neither has been fully implemented so far, due to conflicting interpretation by each side, according to Lt-Gen Yawd Serk, the RCSS/SSA leader.

The two sides signed two agreements in Taunggyi:

2 December 2011	8 point ceasefire agreement
16 January 2012	11 point agreement to designate Homong and Mong Hta sub-townships as RCSS/SSA HQ; Taunggyi, Kholam, Kengtung, Monghsat and Tachilek as liaison offices; and Muse and Namkham as trade offices

Lt-Gen Yawd Serk

According to regime papers, the second agreement has to do with “territorial designation,” which was interpreted by the Burma Army that all SSA units must carry no arms outside Homong and Mong Hta areas.

The SSA, on the other hand, said the agreement’s Point 1: “It is agreed to designate Homong sub-township and Mong Hta sub-township as RCSS/SSA Headquarters” should be sufficiently plain to every party concerned. Nowhere in the agreement says the SSA’s movements will be restricted to the two sub-townships.

KIA slipping into Burma Army back door-18.april

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တပ္ၾကပ္ေက်ာ္ဆန္း ေခါင္းေဆာင္ေသာ KIA အဖြဲ႔ လက္နက္ခ

ကခ်င္ လြတ္ေျမာက္ေရး တပ္မေတာ္ (KIO) တပ္မဟာ (၅) လက္ေအာက္ခံမွ တပ္ၾကပ္ ေက်ာ္ဆန္း ေခါင္းေဆာင္ေသာ တပ္ ဖြဲ႔၀င္ ၃၅ ေယာက္သည္ ျမစ္ႀကီးနား ၿမိဳ႕နယ္ တာေလာႀကီး နယ္ေျမရွိ တပ္မေတာ္ စခန္းသို႔ ဧၿပီ ၁၆ ရက္ ေန႔က လက္နက္ႀကီး လက္နက္ငယ္ မ်ိဳးစံုျဖင္႔ လက္နက္ခ် ခဲ့သည္ဟု (FNG) သတင္းအရ သိရွိ ရပါသည္။

အလားတူ ယမန္ေန႔ ဧၿပီလ (၁၇) ရက္ေန႔တြင္လည္း KIAတပ္ဖြဲ႔၀င္ (၂) ဦးသည္ ျမစ္ႀကီးနားၿမိဳ႔ တပ္စခန္းသို႔ လည္းေကာင္း၊ ည ေနပိုင္းတြင္ တပ္ဖြဲ႔၀င္ (၅) ဦးသည္ တာေလာႀကီး တပ္စခန္းသို႔ လည္းေကာင္း ထပ္မံ ၀င္ေရာက္ လာခဲ့ၿပီး စုစုေပါင္း တပ္ဖြဲ႔၀င္ ၄၂ ဦး လက္နက္ ခ်ခဲ႔ၾကေၾကာင္း သတင္းက ဆိုပါသည္။

ေရွ႔တန္း စခန္းတေနရာ (ဓါတ္ပံု KIA)

ျမန္မာျပည္ ေျမာက္ပိုင္း ကခ်င္ၿပည္မွာ ၂၀၁၁ ဇြန္မွစ၍ တပ္မေတာ္ စစ္ေၾကာင္းတစ္ေၾကာင္းမွ ကခ်င္အရာရွိ ၊စစ္သည္ ၃ဦး အား အေၾကာင္းမဲ႔ ဖမ္းဆီးခဲ႔ရာမွ စတင္ျဖစ္ေပၚလာသည့္ KIA ႏွင္႔ ျမန္မာ စစ္တပ္ၾကား ျဖစ္ပြားခဲ့သည့္ တိုက္ပြဲမ်ားသည္ တ ျဖည္းျဖည္းအ ရွိန္ျမင္႔ လာခဲ့ၾကပါသည္။

တိုက္ပဲြမ်ားေၾကာင့္ အျပစ္မဲ့တဲ႔ျပည္သူမ်ား၊  ဒုကၡသည္မ်ား ျဖစ္ခဲ႔ၾကသည္ဟု KIO ဖက္က ေျပာဆိုခဲ့သလို ျမန္မာစစ္တပ္မွ အရာရွိ တစ္ဦးကလည္း ဒုကၡသည္မ်ားသည္ KIO မိသားစု၀င္မ်ား သာျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း ေၿပာၾကားခဲ႔ပါသည္။
KIA ၏ေျမပံု စစ္ဆင္ေရး သင္တန္းျပကြက္ တခု (ဓါတ္ပံု – KIA)

ယခုျဖစ္ပြားေနေသာ တိုက္ပြဲတြင္ ျမန္မာ စစ္တပ္၏ ပိတ္ဆို႔ တိုက္ခိုက္မႈေၾကာင့္ ျဖစ္ပြားေနသလို KIA၏ ခံစစ္အားေကာင္းမႈ ေၾကာင့္လည္းေကာင္း၊ နယ္ေျမ စိုးမိုးေရး ကၽြမ္းက်င္မႈေတြေၾကာင္႔ လည္းေကာင္း ႏွစ္ဖက္စလံုး ထိခိုက္မွဳ မ်ားျပား သည္ဟု ဆို ပါသည္။

အစိုးရႏွင့္ KIO တို႔သည္၊ အပစ္အခတ္ ရပ္စဲေရးအတြက္ အႀကိမ္ႀကိမ္ ေဆြးေႏြးခဲ့ပါသည္။ တိုက္ပဲြမ်ားသည္၊ ႏိုင္ငံေရးျပသနာ ၏ေနာက္ဆက္တဲြျဖစ္သည္၊ ႏိုင္ငံေရး အရ ေဆြးေႏြးမွဳ ေျပလည္ပါက အပစ္အခတ္ ရပ္စဲေရးသည္လည္း ရပ္တန္႔မည္ဟု KIO ဖက္မွ ရပ္တည္သလို၊ အပစ္ရပ္ၿပီးမွ ႏိုင္ငံေရးအရ ဆက္ေဆြးေႏြးလို႔ ရမည္ဟု အစိုးရ ဖက္က သေဘာထား ခဲ့သည့္အတြက္ အခုခ်ိန္ထိ မေျပလည္ျခင္း ျဖစ္ေပသည္။

Source: http://freedomnewsgroup.com/2012/04/18/kia-defect/