Peaceful Burma (ျငိမ္းခ်မ္းျမန္မာ)平和なビルマ

Peaceful Burma (ျငိမ္းခ်မ္းျမန္မာ)平和なビルマ

TO PEOPLE OF JAPAN



JAPAN YOU ARE NOT ALONE



GANBARE JAPAN



WE ARE WITH YOU



ဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္ေျပာတဲ့ညီညြတ္ေရး


“ညီၫြတ္ေရးဆုိတာ ဘာလဲ နားလည္ဖုိ႔လုိတယ္။ ဒီေတာ့ကာ ဒီအပုိဒ္ ဒီ၀ါက်မွာ ညီၫြတ္ေရးဆုိတဲ့အေၾကာင္းကုိ သ႐ုပ္ေဖာ္ျပ ထားတယ္။ တူညီေသာအက်ဳိး၊ တူညီေသာအလုပ္၊ တူညီေသာ ရည္ရြယ္ခ်က္ရွိရမယ္။ က်ေနာ္တုိ႔ ညီၫြတ္ေရးဆုိတာ ဘာအတြက္ ညီၫြတ္ရမွာလဲ။ ဘယ္လုိရည္ရြယ္ခ်က္နဲ႔ ညီၫြတ္ရမွာလဲ။ ရည္ရြယ္ခ်က္ဆုိတာ ရွိရမယ္။

“မတရားမႈတခုမွာ သင္ဟာ ၾကားေနတယ္ဆုိရင္… သင္ဟာ ဖိႏွိပ္သူဘက္က လုိက္ဖုိ႔ ေရြးခ်ယ္လုိက္တာနဲ႔ အတူတူဘဲ”

“If you are neutral in a situation of injustice, you have chosen to side with the oppressor.”
ေတာင္အာဖရိကက ႏိုဘယ္လ္ဆုရွင္ ဘုန္းေတာ္ၾကီး ဒက္စ္မြန္တူးတူး

THANK YOU MR. SECRETARY GENERAL

Ban’s visit may not have achieved any visible outcome, but the people of Burma will remember what he promised: "I have come to show the unequivocal shared commitment of the United Nations to the people of Myanmar. I am here today to say: Myanmar – you are not alone."

QUOTES BY UN SECRETARY GENERAL

Without participation of Aung San Suu Kyi, without her being able to campaign freely, and without her NLD party [being able] to establish party offices all throughout the provinces, this [2010] election may not be regarded as credible and legitimate. ­
United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon

Where there's political will, there is a way

政治的な意思がある一方、方法がある
စစ္မွန္တဲ့ခိုင္မာတဲ့နိုင္ငံေရးခံယူခ်က္ရိွရင္ႀကိဳးစားမႈရိွရင္ နိုင္ငံေရးအေျဖ
ထြက္ရပ္လမ္းဟာေသခ်ာေပါက္ရိွတယ္
Burmese Translation-Phone Hlaing-fwubc

Friday, August 22, 2008

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Free Buram's Political Prisnoers campaign  WORLD NEWS MyNews.in:(MORE)

"There are over 7,000 people detained during and after the protests. Among those detainees were 13 leaders of ‘the 88 Generation Students’ who previously served long jail sentences, surviving torture and solitary confinement. The International Committee for the Red Cross (ICRC), which monitors prison conditions in many conflict settings, has not been able to visit Burmese prisons since late 2005 because authorities have prevented visits in accordance with the ICRC’s usual procedures that include carrying out private interviews with detainees, is still unable to visit the detainees."

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BURMA NEWS: MYANMAR /TIBET NEWS , BURMA DISASTER NEWS, FREE BURMA / TIBET NEWS: Burma's children still forced into army: "He said that he came from a very poor family and at the age of seven or nine, he started working. While he was on the way to sell garden produce in Rangoon, he was recruited.
“I lost my travel pass from the ward leader, and at Bago railway station and some soldiers came on board and asked everyone for ID cards. I realized I'd lost my recommendation letter, and they took me in. The same day they sent me to the Mingaladon Su Saun Yay in handcuffs”."

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Lower ranking Military Affairs Security Unit disarmed for security reasons(MORE)

Wed 20 Aug 2008, IMNA
Lower ranks of the Military Affairs Security Unit (Sa Ya Pha), which replaced the former Military Intelligence, were disarmed after three Lt. Generals of the Bureau of Special Operation and Lt.Gen Aung Htwe were removed.

Ranks lower than Captain in the Sa Ya Pha have been disarmed because top generals believe that some Sa Ya Pha members loyal to Lt. General Ye Myint would be a security risk after his dismissal. Lower ranking Military Affairs Security Unit disarmed for security reasons
Wed 20 Aug 2008, IMNA
Lower ranks of the Military Affairs Security Unit (Sa Ya Pha), which replaced the former Military Intelligence, were disarmed after three Lt. Generals of the Bureau of Special Operation and Lt.Gen Aung Htwe were removed.

Ranks lower than Captain in the Sa Ya Pha have been disarmed because top generals believe that some Sa Ya Pha members loyal to Lt. General Ye Myint would be a security risk after his dismissal."

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Bangkok Post | General news | Oppressed Burmese deserve better from the world(MORE)

THAUNG HTUN

The Burmese people have had to maintain a sense of optimism after 46 years of military dictatorship. But, as the first anniversary of the Saffron Revolution approaches and in the midst of yet another visit by the United Nations special envoy Ibrahim Gambari to Rangoon, optimism is waning. The international community has expressed its commitment to promoting democracy in Burma, as this latest visit by Mr Gambari underlines. However, commitment in its expression is easily undermined by its failure in practice."

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Migrants Flow out of Burma as Economic Woes Deepen

Migrants Flow out of Burma as Economic Woes Deepen: "Burma’s economic troubles have been a boon to human traffickers in recent months, keeping them busy at a time of year when wet conditions traditionally slow the flow of migrants across the border into Thailand.
A source who is involved in smuggling migrant workers from Burma to Thailand estimated that about 300 Burmese migrants are illegally transported to Bangkok each day from border areas such as Mae Sot, Three Pagodas Pass, Mae Sai and Ranong."

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VOA News - UN Secretary-General Plans December Visit to Burma(MORE)

Burma's opposition party, the National League for Democracy, says the United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon is to visit Burma in December to hold talks on the country's political problems. As Ron Corben reports from Bangkok, the NLD was told of Mr. Ban's scheduled visit during talks with the U.N. special envoy currently on a five-day official visit."

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Rejection of the meeting means ‘NO’ to 2010 election

BURMA DEMOCRACY & DEVELOPMENT: "BDD
Regardless of UN special envoy plays the SPDC agent role, NLD seniors questioned him about 1990 election result and why not getting honor. Who will be sure that if regime’s proxies would lose in 2010 and another redoing constitution under new national convention banner?

Sham UN’s negotiation process which is carrying without having a single word of 1990 election result that might not pave the way to another election.

Daw Aung San Suu Kyi started moving against the SPDC's game plan and carefully deal with both UN and SPDC, said source close to NLD. She watches how combination of UN's failed mission and SPDC’s dirty game. Her message was clear, without getting any positive progress, UN should pack its bag and allow SPDC to play without favoring from UN, said NLD source.

International community should be aware the worst Burmese political situation and stop dancing with the SPDC's tune regardless of safe-employed lobbyists from inside and outside. Many political bystanders and academics have joined the bandwagon of 2010 election reality. But it's unlikely to improve the political situations and unable to extend the civil society space, a well-known Burmese journalist stressed from Rangoon.
Posted by BURMA DEMOCRACY & DEVELOPMENT at 8/22/2008 02:56:00 PM"

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