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 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: [...]

Myanmar Referendum jokes

Myanmar Referendum jokes I have edited and adapted to the Myanmar context from the original article in the Malaysiakini.  I hope that  the Malaysiakini  could understand and forgive for this. They should even be proud that they could contribute a very good letter for the fellow Myanmar/Burmese citizens.   (1) Myanmar Tatmadaw has announced that its [...]

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 [...]

Barring Daw Suu is against the existing local laws and UN Human Rights Decleration

Barring Daw Suu  is against the existing local Laws and UN Human Rights Decleration   NLD reacts to barring Daw Suu from contesting elections Nay Thwin, Mizzima News, February 25, 2008 The National League for Democracy (NLD) reacted strongly today to the ban on Aung San Suu Kyi contesting the 2010 elections saying that it was [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

“Brain Drain” to “Brain Gain”

“Brain Drain” to “Brain Gain” SHWE BA Almost every country complains about “Brain drain” but most of them fail to tap it to get “Brain gain”. Nowadays, with the process of globalisation process, it is almost futile to complain about brain drain but governments should try to gain from this phenomenon.  Why not tap the other [...]

UN-led Asian dialogue for Myanmar

UN-led Asian dialogue best way to push for change   By_Dr CHANDRA MUZAFFAR, President, International Movement for a Just World.    OF THE various proposals made so far on how one could coax the military junta in Myanmar to heed the voice of the people, the most feasible is perhaps the one that seeks to [...]

Defiant Recalcitrant Myanmar Military Junta

Defiant Recalcitrant Myanmar Military Junta Dr San Oo Aung The SPDC military regime was under tremendous international pressure for its bloody violent and inhumane crackdown on peaceful protesters led by revered Buddhist monks, peaceful demonstrators and activists. Thanks to the internet, ICT, mobile and satellite communication technology and the digital photo and movie equipments, now [...]

UN, US and EU should investigate the discriminating ASEAN laws on Burmese citizens

 Be careful Dr Gambari, in dealing with Singapore led ASEAN UN, US and EU should investigate the discriminating ASEAN laws, rules and regulations  of ASEAN imposed on Myanmar/Burmese citizens as modern Apartheid. Be careful Dr Gambari, Singapore led ASEAN is selfish, greedy, cunning, have kaisu culture and are going to keep Myanmar SPDC Junta as an [...]