Sitmone is back ! (Together with Daw Suu)

Sitmone is back ! Read here_http://sitmone.wordpress.com/2010/11/18/lwin-moe-kyaw-thu-and-democracy-of-burma/ I consider most of the readers to this post as non Burmese. Thus I decided to introduce Lwin Moe and Kyaw Thu, to those who are unfamiliar with Burmese celebrities, before continue writing the post. Both Lwin Moe and Kyaw Thu are Burmese celebrities. Both of them are and [...]

The plight of the Myanmarese

By:Rizal Sukma /from:thejakatapost After Cyclone Nargis hit Myanmar last year, very few in the region took notice of the continuing plight and suffering of the Myanmarese. It was overshadowed by other events in the region and in other parts of the world.

AFP:Aid groups blast ASEAN-led report on Myanmar relief effort

JAKARTA (AFP) — A coalition of humanitarian groups heavily criticised Thursday a report on Myanmar’s cyclone disaster, saying it glossed over the junta’s obstruction of aid and human rights abuses. The Burma Partnership, which represents 19 aid organisations, released an “alternative” report to provide what it said was a more accurate picture of the response [...]

Mizzima:Ban Ki-moon may cancel Burma visit

by Solomon Wednesday,08 October 2008 New Delhi – The United Nations Secretary General on Tuesday said he may cancel a planned visit to military-ruled Burma unless the government there fully implements a process of democratization. Ban Ki-moon, during a press briefing to reporters on Tuesday, said he is willing to make a return visit to [...]

Mizzima:Burma to have football academy in Mandalay

New Delhi – In a landmark development in the history of Burmese football, the Myanmar Football Federation (MFF) will soon have a Football Academy to promote soccer skills of the youth – both girls and boys – in Burma’s second largest city, Mandalay. The Academy, which has been under construction since 2006 with an aid [...]

DVB:Army officer accused of attempted rape of doctor

Sep 12, 2008 (DVB)–A judgment is due to be reached by military authorities tomorrow on an army officer who has been accused of attempting to rape a female doctor helping survivors of Cyclone Nargis in Irrawaddy division. The incident took place on 5 September at around 10.30pm on a touring medical ship, the Widuya, which [...]

Irrawaddy;Is Suu Kyi Trying to Get the Message Out?

  “All martyrs must finish their mission.” By WAI MOE Tuesday,August 19,2008 Neighbors of the democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi said a new message appeared last month on a large outdoor signboard in her compound, saying, “All martyrs must finish their mission.”  The message appeared on July 19, Burma’s Martyr Day. The signboard, about [...]

MacLean, MacLellan to headline benefit concert for Burma

MacLean, MacLellan to headline benefit concert for Burma The Guardian

Same old, same old

Sunday August 10, 2008 STRAY THOUGHTS By A.ASOHAN Myanmar’s ruling junta is hoping that its on-going human rights violations will become a non-issue, but let’s keep flogging this dead horse. TWENTY years and two days ago, student activists in a little-known South-East Asian country stood up for democracy against their oppressive, tyrannical government.

Zarganar Again Before Prison Court

By MIN LWIN Thursday,August 7,2008 Burma’s popular satirist Zarganar appeared before a court in Rangoon’s Insein Prison for a second time on Thursday, together with three activists accused of anti-state activities. A member of Zarganar’s family said the four had been charged with eight alleged offences under the Emergency Provisions Act, Section 5(J) and Section [...]

Press for Release of Political Prisoners, Say Activists

By SAW YAN NAING Friday,August 1,2008 The new UN human rights rapporteur for Burma, Tomas Ojea Quintana, should visit political prisoners and democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi and forcefully press for their release during his first visit to Burma next week, say human rights activists.  The new UN human rights rapporteur is scheduled to [...]

UN’s Lost Aid May Be Tip of the Iceberg

By WILLIAM BOOT Wednesday,July 30,2008 BANGKOK—The loss of United Nations aid money via “unacceptable” exchange rates orchestrated by the Burmese regime was going on long before this week’s disclosures about Cyclone Nargis cash losses, a US nongovernmental organization says. “There are indications that [the United Nations Development Program], even prior to Cyclone Nargis, provided larger [...]

Charges of Forced Labor Emerge in Cyclone-Hit Areas

By Saw Yan Naing Thursday,July 17,2008 Thousands of people in hundreds of villages are being forced to labor for free under a military-led reconstruction effort in the cyclone-devastated Irrawaddy delta, according to sources in the area. Villagers in the hard-hit townships of Laputta, Bogalay, Pyapon and Dedaye say that local people, including children, have been [...]

UN Admits Losses to Myanmar Junta Through Currency Exchange, NGOs Skirt with Hawala

Byline: Matthew Russell Lee of Inner City Press at the UN: News Analysis UNITED NATIONS, July 11 — The question is not “if” but “how much” money Myanmar’s military government has taken from the UN aid that has come into the country since Cyclone Nargis hit, it emerged Friday at the UN. John Holmes, the [...]