US backs UN rights expert’s report on Myanmar

WASHINGTON (AFP) — The United States gave its backing Tuesday to a UN expert’s report raising concerns about Myanmar’s recent referendum and called on the military rulers to release all political prisoners. US State Department spokesman Sean McCormack also called on the country’s military rulers to uphold their pledge to give international aid access to [...]

Monks and students reject junta’s constitution

Jun 5, 2008 (DVB)–The All-Burmese Monks’ Alliance, 88 Generation Students and All Burma Federation of Student Unions issued a joint statement yesterday rejecting the state constitution adopted by the military regime last week.  The organisations also urged the people of Burma and the international community not to accept the constitution that formally creates a repressive [...]

Myanmar criminals are taking a leaf out of SPDC Referendum

Myanmar criminals are taking a leaf out of SPDC Referendum   Global oil price hike, increase in rice price is leading to Global economic slump and recession in many countries. SPDC mismanagement of economy, Cyclone Nargis after effects and mismanagements compounded the ever rising inflation and economic downturn.    The present crime rate in Myanmar [...]

Meikhtila NLD denounces referendum result

Jun 3, 2008 (DVB)–The National League for Democracy in Meikhtila township strongly denounced the results of the government’s constitutional referendum in their monthly meeting yesterday, according to the Meikhtila party chairman.  The Burmese military regime claimed the constitution was approved by 92 percent of voters in a national referendum held on 10 and 24 May, [...]

Picture/Poster of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi voting NO

Picture/Poster of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi voting NO A poster of Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi stands outside the head quarters of the National League for Democracy in Yangon(AFP/Khin Maung Win)

NLD rejects Burma referendum result

NLD rejects Burma referendum result Posted Sat May 17 Aung San Suu Kyi’s opposition party has rejected the Burma junta’s claim that more than 92 per cent of voters approved a military-backed constitution in the first round of a referendum last week. “This result is completely incorrect,” said Nyan Win, spokesman for the opposition National [...]

Burma referendum begins while aid trickles in

Burma referendum begins while aid trickles in Allegra Stratton and agencies guardian.co.uk, Saturday May 10 2008 Article history An unidentified man votes in Burma’s controversial referendum  on a new military-drafted constitution at a polling station at Hlaeuk township near Rangoon. Photograph: AP   Voting on a controversial constitution began in Burma today while aid for [...]

Protest against referendum in Kuala Lumpur,Malaysia

UPDATE: Burmese groups protest referendum outside embassy Malaysiakini news More than 500 Burmese refugees and students demonstrated outside their embassy in the Malaysian capital, calling for a referendum in the reclusive nation to be scrapped. Burma’s ruling generals went ahead today with the ballot for a new constitution despite the major devastation wrought by Cyclone [...]

Myanmar’s junta continues with referendum despite millions affected by cyclone

Myanmar’s junta continues with referendum despite millions affected by cyclone The Gazette, Aileen McCabe, Asia Correspondent, Canwest News Service BANGKOK – As if the junta’s grudging response to Cyclone Nargis isn’t mind boggling enough, Myanmar’s generals diverted manpower from the aid effort Saturday to oversee a referendum on a new constitution. The xenophobic regime clearly felt [...]

Security Council urges inclusive and credible Myanmar referendum, elections

Security Council urges inclusive and credible Myanmar referendum, elections UN News Service                 2 May 2008 – The Security Council today stressed the need for the upcoming referendum and elections in Myanmar to include the full participation of all political actors and respect for fundamental political freedoms. In February authorities [...]

If don’t vote No, we all would be annihilated (Poster in Burmese)

  If don’t vote No, we all would be annihilated

Appeal to all the Burmese/Myanmar citizens (In Burmese)

Appeal to all the Burmese/Myanmar citizens Posted by Ko Htike  ပန္ၾကားခ်က္ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံအတြင္း မွီတင္း ေနထိုင္ၾကေသာ တိုင္းရင္းသား ျပည္သူလူထုၾကီးႏွင့္တကြ ဌာနဆိုင္ရာ ၀န္ထမ္းမ်ား၊ ဒီမိုကေရစီ လိုလားေသာ မ်ိဳးခ်စ္စိတ္ရွိသည့္ တပ္မေတာ္သားမ်ား၊ လူမႈေရး အဖြဲ႕အစည္းမ်ား၊ ရဟန္းသံဃာေတာ္မ်ား၊ ဘာသာေရး အသင္းအဖြဲ႕မ်ား အားလံုးသို႔ ျပည္ပေရာက္ မ်ိဳးခ်စ္ျမန္မာမ်ား (OBP) မွ “ ႏွစ္သစ္ ကူးေျပာင္းရာ အခါသမယတြင္ ေဘးရန္ ကင္းျငိမ္းလွ်က္ ကိုယ္စိတ္ႏွစ္ျဖာ ခ်မ္းသာစြာျဖင့္ ဖြံ႕ျဖိဳးတိုးတက္ေသာ ဒီမိုကေရစီ ႏိုင္ငံသစ္ဆီသို႔ စိတ္တူကိုယ္တူ ေျပာင္းလဲႏိုင္ပါေစ ” ဟု ဆုမြန္ ျပဳအပ္ပါသည္။ ထိုသို႔ ေျပာင္းလဲရန္မွာလည္း မိမိတို႔ အားလံုး၏ တာ၀န္ပင္ ျဖစ္သည္ဟု [...]

NO NO NO by Moustache Brothers

NO NO NO by Moustache Brothers From Irrawaddy online magazine‘s “Suu Kyi’s Party Launches Vote ‘No’ Tour” by WAI MOE The well-known comedians, the Moustache Brothers, are conducting a vote “No” campaign in their nightly performances in Mandalay, the second largest city, using a visual gag of crossing their arms over their chests, a tourist [...]

REFERENDUM WOULD BE ILLEGAL If non citizens are allowed to vote

REFERENDUM WOULD BE ILLEGAL If non citizens are allowed to vote with Temporary IDs Temporary ID for voters living in outskirts of Burma Written on 10:34 PM by Ka Daung Nyin Thar This ID shows the cruel selfishness of the Myanmar Military dictators. They want the people to support them with YES votes. But refuses [...]