South Africa accuses Israel Navy of killing hundreds of Palestinian boat people from Gaza

South Africa accuses Israel Navy of killing hundreds of Palestinian boat people from Gaza WARNING: Readers must read the lower part of this news/article to understand the truth. Those reading the upper part only and failed to continue could be mislead or miss the real message. Cape town, South Africa(AFP) — South Africa said Sunday that hundreds of people were missing at sea, believed [...]

No Political Prisoner in Burma: Junta’s Mouthpieces

By WAI MOE Thursday,July 24 ,2008 Burma’s state-run newspapers rejected the use of the term “political prisoners” to describe imprisoned dissidents, saying in a series of articles published ahead of Thursday’s commemoration of the United Nations’ Declaration on Prisoners of Conscience that detained activists were actually guilty of criminal offenses. 

Blogger Nay Phone Latt appears in court

Jul 9, 2008 (DVB)–Blogger Nay Phone Latt appeared before Insein prison court for the first time yesterday where he heard three charges against him, including causing public alarm, his mother told DVB. Daw Aye Than said her son was charged under section 32(b) of the Video Act, section 36 of an unspecified law regulating electronic [...]

The Lesson of Zimbabwe’s ‘Election’

By Alex Perry Under the watchful eye of the regime’s security services, Zimbabweans Friday voted in a single-candidate presidential “runoff” that will almost certainly extend Robert Mugabe’s rule until 2014. Despite reports of a low turnout, the decision by opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai to withdraw last Sunday makes Mugabe’s victory inevitable. In Zimbabwe, presidential terms [...]

NLD Challenged to Contest 2010 Election

By Saw Yan Naing Monday, July 7,2008 The Burmese opposition group, the National League for Democracy (NLD), was challenged by the military government on Sunday to form a political party to contest the 2010 national election and to forget the results of the “illegal” 1990 election. An article, “Goodbye 1990 Election Results,” published in the [...]

The shame of Africa and Asean

Published on July 3, 2008 It is sad that the outcome of the African leaders’ summit reflected anything but condemnation and shame on Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe. Some African countries are ready to defend Mugabe, who rigged and stole the country’s general election held last week. It is amazing how some African leaders have the [...]

Anger Against Burma Junta Rises

By AP/DENIS D. GRAY Wednesday,July 02 ,2008 (BANGKOK, Thailand) — The cyclone that devastated Burma’s heartland has also roiled a political landscape dominated by the military for more than four decades. Buddhist monks are regrouping after the battering they took nine months ago, civil society groups are emerging and foreign aid workers — often agents [...]

Parties to Register for Election: Junta

By WAI MOE Wednesday , July 2,2008 Burma’s military junta will make an announcement in the coming months that all political parties must register in advance of the 2010 election, sources told The Irrawaddy.  Sources close to ethnic armed groups—which have maintained a ceasefire with the ruling junta since the 1990s—said that military officials told [...]

The Failed States Index 2008 : The Rankings

                                The Failed States Index data ကမၻာေပၚ မွာ ေအာင္ၿမင္မူ႔အနည္းဆုံး၊ အနိမ္႔က်ဆုံး ႏွင္႔ အေၿခအေနဆုိး၀ါးဆုတ္ရုတ္မူ႔ အမ်ားဆုံးရွိေနတဲ႔ တုိင္းၿပည္ေတြကုိ အဆင္႔အတန္းသတ္မွတ္ရာမွာ ၿမန္မာႏုိင္ငံ ႏွင္႔ ဘဂၤလားေဒ႔ရွ္ ႏုိင္ငံတုိ႔ အဆင္႔ (၁၂) အၿဖစ္ ပူးတြဲဆြတ္ခူးသြားပါတယ္။ ဒီလုိ အဆင္႔ အတန္း သတ္မွတ္ရာမွာ ဘယ္လုိအခ်က္ အလက္ေတြကုိ ထည္႕သြင္းစဥ္းစား ၿပီးဆုံးၿဖတ္လည္း ဆုိတာ ေလ႔လာၾကည္႕ရေအာင္……..  

Myanmar launches 11-day gems auction: report

YANGON (AFP) — Military-run Myanmar on Tuesday launched an 11-day auction of precious gems in Yangon, state media said, as the country struggles to recover from last month’s devastating cyclone. The New Light of Myanmar announced that the sale of gems, jade and pearls would run until July 4 in the economic hub, where some [...]

Sincere advice to SPDC how to destroy Daw Suu, NLD and opposition

 Sincere advice to SPDC how to destroy Daw Suu, NLD and opposition   I hope SPDC could consider my following advice after reading the attached news in the Star newspaper.   All the oppositions around the world are good or excellent at opposing the present governments but they used to be at a lost once [...]

Crimes committed by SPDC thugs and People’s Rights of Self Defense

The inability of the successive Military dictators to resolve many political problems using the democratic framework has led to the emergence of numerous protests in Myanmar. The evolution of international human rights law has legitimizes the activities of human rights groups that concentrate exclusively on human rights abuses committed by the state actors. The International [...]

Myanmar junta gang hits Suu Kyi birthday rally

Thu Jun 19, 2008 By Aung Hla Tun YANGON, June 19 (Reuters) – Pro-junta thugs broke up a rally by supporters of Myanmar democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi on Thursday, detaining three people among a crowd chanting for her release on her 63rd birthday, a senior opposition member said. At least six truckloads of [...]

Let-Gen Ye Myint is now in Singapore

  ” Despite all drug scandals are going on in Burma (MYANMAR ), father of main culprit Aung Zaw Ye Myint, Lt-Gen Ye Myint and wife Dr.Tin Lay Myint were in Singapore. They left country from 15th June,2008 by Silk Air and purpose of visit Unknown.Probably collecting all drugs related money from all sources.” Report [...]