Speaker Tan Sri Pandikar Amin Mulia fails Human Rights standard test

  Speaker Tan Sri Pandikar Amin Mulia fails Human Rights standard test He is usually not neutral because he knows which side of the bread is buttered. Pandikar Amin (WRONGLY, according to Human Rights standard) told Fong that he did not think that the term was insulting as pendatang haram referred to illegals. Earlier, Datuk Seri Tiong King Sing’s (BN [...]

Myanmar government planning for another episode of Anti-Muslim riots

Myanmar government planning for another episode of Anti-Muslim riots               Dear Brother, I hope you can share the following news which is the part of a deliberate plan of the Military Junta of Burma to use its long term policy of using religious hatred to create the political environment [...]

Leadership quality of the Myanmar Military Generals

 Leadership quality of  the Myanmar Military Generals KJ John | Apr 1, 08 Modified and edited the original letter, “Leadership for the times” by KJ John in the Malaysiakini . I have edited and adapted to the Myanmar context from the original article. I hope that KJ John  and Malaysiakini could understand and forgive us for this. They [...]

Myanmar and other Political Jokes

Myanmar and other Political Jokes Cows in Politics Explained Some are mine but I got the original idea from here_  Myanmar under successive military governments:  You have two cows.  The government seizes both and sells you the milk with high price. You join the underground and start a campaign of sabotage. Burma under U Nu: [...]

Intrigue and illness in Myanmar’s junta

Intrigue and illness in Myanmar’s junta    BANGKOK – This month’s surprise announcement in Myanmar of a planned national referendum on a new constitution in May and multi-party democratic elections by 2010 are all part of Senior General Than Shwe’s game plan to hold onto power and ensure his family’s interests are secured. The question [...]

Sr. General Than Shwe is the thief

Sr. General Than Shwe is the thief of time Procrastination Procrastination is a type of avoidance behaviour which is characterised by deferment of actions or tasks to a later time. Psychologists often cite procrastination as a mechanism for coping with the anxiety associated with starting or completing any task or decision. For the person procrastinating [...]

A digitally enhanced Myanmar opposition

A digitally enhanced Myanmar opposition By Paul Watson, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer January 7, 2008 Excerpts_ YANGON, MYANMAR — During 45 years of military rule, Myanmar’s generals drilled fear and suspicion so deeply into the minds of their people that when their opponents tried to harness the rage seething on the streets last fall, [...]

1948-2008 Burma/Myanmar? Independence Day

1948-2008 Burma/Myanmar ?????????????? Independence Day ????????????? ????????????????????? ??????? ??????????????? ??????????????????????????????????????? ??????????????????????????? ?????????????????????? ??????????????????????????????????????????????? ???????????????????????????? Is this Independence?   That wasn’t a real protesting by true monks. It was set up by the military Juntas to lodge a wedge between Buddhist and Muslims in Burma. I was there in Mandalay when that happened. The Buddhist monks sheltered [...]

I dream of speaking with DSAI, former D.P.M. of Malaysia

I dream of speaking with DSAI, former D.P.M. of Malaysia     I was trying to get a chance to have an interview with the former Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia, Datuk Sri Anwar Ibrahim (many Malaysians affectionately referred him in a short form as DSAI) also since last year. Burma Digest Chief Editor was eager [...]

The Outsiders: Burmese Muslims

The Outsiders By Harry Priestley/Rangoon January 17, 2006 Read here In a country where discrimination against minority groups is a fact of life, Muslims are bottom of the heap. There is a saying that if you lose control of your bicycle in Burma’s western Arakan State, you shouldn’t worry as it will stop when it [...]

Interview with Chairman of Global Peace Malaysia (English)

Interview with Mr. Ahmad Azam Abdul Rahman, Chairman of Global Peace Malaysia (GPM)  _ interviewed by Dr San Oo Aung   Introduction Mr Ahmad Azam Abdul Rahman is the Chairman of Global Peace Malaysia, GPM, a Humanitarian Mission across Borders. He is also the President of the consortium of 77 NGOs. He is also a [...]

Famous Burmese Muslims

Famous Burmese Muslims  or List of Burmese Muslims   U Razak. U Razak (20 January 1898 – 19 July 1947; Arabic: Abdul Razak) was a Burmese politician who was a respected educationalist. He was a minister and was assassinated, along with his cabinet, on 19 July 1947. July 19 is celebrated in Myanmar today as [...]

Open letter to H.E. Professor Sergio Pinheiro

Open letter to H.E. Professor Sergio Pinheiro To Professor Sergio Pinheiro (Brazilian law professor and human rights investigator) Special rapporteur of the U.N. Secretary General on human rights in Myanmar   Dear Mr Sergio Pinheiro,                                                                                  Thank you for the great job you are going to do for the Burmese people. Instead of pressing SPDC [...]

EVOLUTION OF MYANMAR MUSLIMS

EVOLUTION OF MYANMAR MUSLIMS Race. Ethnic Groups Successive Myanmar Military leaders repeatedly claim that Muslims in Myanmar (Burma) could not be called, registered or enlisted as a separate race. They are giving various reasons or lame excuses for that attempts of Ethnic Cleansing. ( 1. Muslims in Myanmar (Burma) are mix-blooded people, not pure race [...]