10./2/2015 More than 3,000 manual labourers from five garment factories in Shwe Pyi Tha Industrial Zone held a demonstration on Monday morning calling for the formation of a labour union and salary raises. The procession marched around the five facilities – Ford Glory Garment, Han Jen Textile and Garment, Costes International Co Ltd, E Land Myanmar Garment and Red Stone Garment. The protestors held placards that read ‘Salary is vital’ and ‘Foreign business owners must respect local laws.’ They called for labour rights and an end to discrimination against workers. “We just asked for our rights. The demonstrators have long been sitting [protest] camps in front of the factories they work for. But we still see no sign of negotiation,” said an employee from Ford Glory Garment. The protestors also expressed their will to organise a union to help resolve labour disputes. ELEVEN MEDIA photocredit by activists Naing Zaw –HAN JEN, FORD GLORY, RED STONE. E.Land Myanmar. COSTEC စက္ရံုအလုပ္သမားမ်ား သပိတ္စစ္ေက်ာင္း FORD GLORY သပိတ္စခန္းေရာက္ရွိ
The civic organsiation Myanmar Alliance for Transparency and Accountability (MATA) demonstrated in Monywa Township against the Letpadaungtaung clash on January 5, denouncing the police crackdown on protesters.
“We stand together with the Letpadaungtaung farmers. The owners of our country’s natural resources are the ethnic minorities,” said Tun Myint Aung, member of the MATA.
He continued: “I see natural resources being seized by a small group of people and companies. Ethnic minorities do not benefit from their local resources. What is worse, they have become homeless.”
Protestors demanded the truth about the killing of female farmer Khin Win, an end to land confiscation, respect for people and their traditions, protection of the environment and transparency and accountability from companies and government authorities. photocr. Thar Pauk
Dozens of displaced residents who have for nine months staged a camp-in protest in downtown Rangoon escalated their campaign on Friday, blocking the entrance to City Hall. The protestors say the Burma Army evicted them from their homes in Rangoon’s Michaungkan quarter more than two decades ago
4,000 students and lecturers from Princess of Narathiwat University (PNU) rallied in Narathiwat’s Muang district yesterday morning in protest against violence in the region that claimed the life of a young schoolmate.
The group, led by PNU rector Jongrak Plasai, called for an end to violence against innocent people and condemned those who shot dead the university’s second-year student Suthida Tangjai on November 2nd.//
A female university student was fatally shot believed by militants as she and three other students from the same institute were riding on two motorcycles on their way from the campus to their hostel in Narathiwat’s Muang district this late afternoon (Sunday).
A team of police and army troops was later dispatched to the scene of the shooting on a secondary road from Muang district to Cho Airong district where the found the victim, a sophomore of Narathiwat Srinagarind University, lying on the road with a bullet on the back of her head.
The victim, whose identity was not known at press time, was later rushed to the provincial hospital where she was pronounced dead shortly afterward.
The victim’s friends reportedly told police that as the four of them were riding back to their hostel in two motorcycles, one motorcycle approached then from behind and the pillion rider fired a short at the victim and pointed the same gun at the rest of them but it did not function and the motorbike sped away.
Police said that the victim’s father was shot dead in similar fashion three years ago.
MA THANDAR မေန႔ကမတရားမႈအတြက္ဆနၵေဖာ္ထုတ္ေတာင္းဆိုၾကသူႏိုင္ငံေရးေခါင္းေဆာင္မ်ားေက်ာင္းသားေခါင္းေဆာင္မ်ား လူငယ္မ်ားတက္ႂကြလႈပ္႐ွားသူမ်ား ႏိုင္ငံေရးပါတီမ်ားနင့္အဖြဲ႔အစည္းအသီးသီးပူးေပါင္းပါ၀င္သူျပည္သူအားလုံးကိုက်မတို႔မိသားစုမွေက်းဇူးတင္ပါတယ္။ဆက္လက္ၿပီးအမွန္တရားအတြက္တိုက္ပြဲ၀င္ရမွာျဖစ္လို႔ဆက္လက္ကူညီေပးၾကပါလို႔ေမတၱာရပ္ခံပါတယ္။မေန႔ကလူထုလႈပ္႐ွားမႈကေတာင္းဆိုသံသည္က်မတို႔မိသားစုရဲ႕ေတာင္းဆိုသံႏွင့္ထပ္တူျဖစ္ပါသည္။
Maha Mingyi
ကိုပါၾကီးအား စစ္တပ္မွ သတ္ျဖတ္မွဳ အေသးစိတ္ကို ေဖၚလိုက္ျပီ
U Aung YeSoe
ေသဆုံးသြားသူ သတင္းေထာက္ ကိုပါၾကီး ၏ပံုေလးပါ
မင္၀ုိင္းထားတာကုိပါၾကီးပါ
(ဓာတ္ပံု-ရဲမိုး ထံမွ)
ICRC in Burma should have access to independently investigate the cause of death of Ko Aung Kyaw Naing (aka) Ko Par Gyi so that whosoever responsible will be held accountable possible
YANGON – Venerable monks have been denied access to hotel conference rooms to host a press conference urging the release of five Buddhist monks detained on Friday.
Five Buddhist monks from Maha Thandi Thukha monastery in Yangon were disrobed and detained at Insein prison for offending the state religious ruling committee.
The religious dispute came to a head last Tuesday when police, officials from the Religious Affairs Ministry and some 250 monks from Yangon Sangha Nayaka Committee raided and shut down the monastery, run the venerable abbot Penang Sayadaw.
The authorities took some 20 monks into custody and have since disrobed and charged five — including the abbot’s disciple, English national Sayadaw U Ottara — for religious offences under Section 295 (a) 20/90 of the Penal Code at Tarmwe Court.
Sayadaw U Pamauk Kha aimed to hold a press conference on June 15 but found there was no available place to rent.
“We went to Sky Star Hotel owned by Shwe Than Lwin Company on June 14 morning to rent a hall and the hotel staff agreed. When we came to pay a deposit in the afternoon they didn’t accept us. They lied to us and denied saying that the rooms were already full,” said U Pamauk Kha.
Other followers found similar difficulties, with many owners refusing to associate themselves with the monastery for fear of repercussions from the government.
“Many owners agreed to rent their places before knowing the case but then refused us after hearing that we were from Maha Thandi Thukha monastery. On June 20, Sayadaw U Oatta and monks will be hearing at Tarmwe Court. We will know what to do while meeting with the Sayadaw U Oattara,” said Ye Min Oo.
MEANWHILE TODAY IN FRONT OF BURMESE EMBASSY LONDON
BURMA DEMOCRATIC CONCERN – BDC LONDON
Penang Sayadaw, abbot of MahaThandiThukha monastery, yesterday lashed out at the authorities for defrocking five monks before investigating their alleged religious offence.
Asked by Daily Eleven, Penang Sayadaw was commenting on the Tuesday’s raid at his monastery which led to the remanding and disrobing of the five monks.
The abbot, who has been on a trip to Japan, said he would return and resolve the incident carried out by secular authorities as well as the Regional SanghaMahaNayaka Committee, the ruling body for Buddhist monks.
“The Regional SanghaMahaNayaka Committee has the mandate. We do not have any mandate; therefore we will watch and respond to the actions they carried out. I will return to Myanmar to solve the problem. I cannot say exactly when I am going to come back. It may be tomorrow. It is difficult to set the date,” said the abbot, also known as U Pannavamsa.
The five monks are U Ottara (Sayadaw from England), U Thondnara, U Pannawura (Sayadaw from London), U Nanniya and a Sayadaw (name unknown) from Rakhine. They are guests at the monastery, according to the abbot.
The abbot said he suspected foul play in the defrocking process and that he questioned whether the decision to deprive the monkhood reflected the view of the entire ruling body for Buddhist monks.
“The Sangha code of conduct office has to determine whether a monk should be disrobed. Depriving monkhood without investigation is against Buddhist teaching, code of conduct and Sangha laws. The incident has caused uneasiness among local and foreign monks. The order of Regional Sangha Maha Nayaka Committee is based on 47 monks in the committee, representing some 500,000 monks. I want to ask them whether their order was really based on the view of all 47 monks,” said the abbot.
Under the instruction of the committee, the five monks were charged for religious offence under Section 295 (a) 20/90 of the Penal Code at Tarmwe Court.
The five have been disrobed and are currently detained at Insein prison, according to Friday’s news reports. Continue reading “#BURMA #MYANMAR #Hotels #deny #evicted #monks #rooms to #host #Press conference”→
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