(1) NLD spokesperson’s trial begins in Naypyidaw : Source : DVB 27-Jun-12 The National League for Democracy’s spokesperson and campaign committee manager Nyan Win stood in trial yesterday over alleged false claims he issued concerning voter fraud in April’s by-elections. Read More--- (2) ‘No Assistance’ for Kachin Refugees : Source : RFA 2012-06-26 A new report condemns China’s inadequate response to ethnic refugees fleeing fighting in Burma.The Chinese government has flouted international law by failing to provide adequate food, water, and protection to thousands of refugees fleeing conflict-ridden areas in northern Burma, a human rights group said Read More--- (3) Political solution necessary to fight drugs: report : Source : DVB 27-Jun-12 Shan Drug Watch published its 2012 annual report yesterday urging a political solution with armed ethnic groups in Burma. Read More--- (4) Trafficked migrants arrested in Mae Sot : Source : DVB 27-Jun-12 Police arrested 30 Burmese migrants who illegally crossed into Mae Sot yesterday, while they were in the process of being trafficked to Bangkok and central Thailand. Read More--- (5) Suu Kyi kicks off three day French tour : Source : DVB 27-Jun-12 President Francois Hollande told Burma’s Aung San Suu Kyi Tuesday that France would do everything possible to back the country’s democratic transition, as she visited Paris for the last leg of a landmark European tour. Read More--- (6) Peace committee holds talks with exile groups in Bangkok : Source : DVB 26-Jun-12 The government’s Peace Making Work Committee led by Railway Minister Aung Min met with Burmese opposition groups based in Thailand yesterday in Bangkok. Read More--- (7) China guilty of systemic abuse of Kachin refugees: HRW : Source : DVB 26-Jun-12 The Chinese government is guilty of systematic human rights violations against Kachin refugees fleeing violence in Burma, including the denial of vital humanitarian assistance and forced repatriation, a new report by Human Rights Watch (HRW) has warned. Read More--- (8) Thein Sein to discuss Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh : Source : DVB 26-Jun-12 The leaders of Burma and Bangladesh will discuss the issue of Rohingya refugees and related unrest near their shared border next month, Bangladesh’s ambassador in Rangoon said Monday. Read More--- (9) US Envoy Urges Continued Engagement with Burma : Source : VOA 27-Jun-12 CAPITOL HILL - U.S. engagement with Burma has been fruitful and should continue, said Derek Mitchell, President Barack Obama’s nominee to be the first U.S. ambassador to Burma since the early 1990s. Mitchell testified Wednesday before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, which is considering his nomination. Read More--- (10) Nearly 2,000 Displaced by Flooding in Myitkyina : Source : Irrwaddy 27-Jun-12 Up to 2,000 people have been forced to flee severe flooding in parts of Myitkyina after several days of heavy rain in northern Burma caused water levels on the Irrawaddy River to rise dramatically. Read More--- (11) Suu Kyi calls for more democracy and development : Source : Mizzima Wednesday, 27 June 2012 11:44 Mizzima News French President Francois Hollande told Burma’s opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi upon here arrival on Tuesday that France supported “all actors” in Burma’s rapid democratic reforms, and Suu Kyi repeated her European tour themes that development cannot be substituted for democracy. Read More--- (12) Kachin Peace Remains Elusive : Source : Irrawaddy 27-Jun-12 Despite some positive results from peace talks between the Kachin Independence Organization (KIO) and the Burmese government, the situation on the ground does not appear to be easing, with conflict ongoing and skirmishes reported in several locations on a near-daily basis. Read More--- (13) Indonesia cement company plans Burma plant : Source : Mizzima Wednesday, 27 June 2012 16:45 Mizzima News An Indonesian company will build a US$ 159 million cement plant in Burma with up to 1 million tonnes capacity a year, officials announced on Tuesday. Read More--- (14) No Removal of Sanctions, Only Suspension: US : Source : Irrawaddy 27-Jun-12 Asserting that its policy toward Burma is a “step-by-step” process, the US on Tuesday ruled out complete removal of economic sanctions against this Southeast Asian country, noting that based on the progress made by the new government, it finds it appropriate to only suspend these sanctions. Read More--- (15) Expats Cite Optimism in ‘New Burma’ : Source : Irrawaddy 27-Jun-12 Last August, President Thein Sein put out a call appealing to the thousands of Burmese nationals living in exile to come home. He asked that they use the skills and education developed abroad to support the country’s political and economic re-awakening—so ending the ‘brain drain” that has plagued Burma for decades. Read More--- (16) Burma Minister checks into Dr Cynthia’s Mae Tao Clinic : Source : Karen 27-Jun-12 The Burma government’s peace-talk delegation led by Railway Minister U Aung Min, today made an early morning visit to Dr Cynthia Maung’s Mae Tao Clinic in the border town of Mae Sot, Thailand. Read More--- (17) Opium, heroin and “ice” flowing out of Burma : Source : Mizzima Wednesday, 27 June 2012 12:44 Mizzima News The fight against narcotics faces increasing challenges amid a bumper poppy harvest in Burma this year, Chinese officials said on Tuesday, which marked International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking. Read More--- (18) 78 dead in sectarian violence: gov’t figures : Source : Mizzima Wednesday, 27 June 2012 12:30 Mizzima News A total of 78 people were killed in the bloody sectarian violence in Burma's Rakhine State from May 28 to June 24, according to government figures released on Tuesday. The widespread killings grew out of revenge killings in the murder and rape of a Buddhist woman by three Muslim men on May 28. Read More--- (19) Yawdserk “hopes” Naypyitaw will stop using drugs as political game : Source : Panglong Wednesday, 27 June 2012 15:02 S.H.A.N. Lt-Gen Yawdserk, interviewed on the eve of the International Day Against Drug Abuse and Trafficking, 26 June, said as long as Naypyitaw is handle, the drug problem as a political game, the problem will not be resolved. Read More--- (20) Human Rights Watch says Kachin refugees in China face dire situation : Source : Kachin 27-Jun-12 The US NGO Human Rights Watch (HRW) released a report on Tuesday criticizing China for forcibly sending hundreds of Kachin refugees back to Kachin and northern Shan state where fighting is taking place. Read More--- (21) Senators press US on Myanmar petroleum investment : Source : Google 28-Jun-12 WASHINGTON (AP) — A Republican and a Democratic senators and American businesses are pressing the U.S. government to allow investment by oil and gas companies in Myanmar as the U.S moves to suspend economic sanctions against that country. Read More--- (22) Myanmar's Suu Kyi honoured in Paris near end of Europe tour : Source : Channelnews 27-Jun-12 PARIS: Myanmar's democracy champion Aung San Suu Kyi, nearing the end of her triumphant Europe tour in France, accepted another award on Wednesday as she became an honorary citizen of Paris. Read More--- (23) US senators press for Myanmar oil investment : Source : News 28-Jun-12 US senators said they planned to move quickly to confirm the first US ambassador to Myanmar in two decades, as they pushed to allow investment in the country's oil and gas sector. Read More--- (24) Burmese government continue to arrest IDPs fleeing from conflict areas : Source : Kachin 25-Jun-12 A warden from the Jan Mai Kawng Baptist Church camp has been arrested by Myitkyina-based Military Affairs Security Unit who is investigating a bomb attack.There are about 700 internally displaced persons (IDPs) in the camp. Read More--- NLD spokesperson’s trial begins in Naypyidaw 27-Jun-12 http://www.dvb.no/news/nld-spokesperson%E2%80%99s-trial-begins-in-naypyidaw/22656 The National League for Democracy’s spokesperson and campaign committee manager Nyan Win stood in trial yesterday over alleged false claims he issued concerning voter fraud in April’s by-elections. On Tuesday, Zabuthiri township’s court in Naypyidaw commenced the legal proceedings and judges heard the prosecutor’s opening arguments. “[The court] heard the prosecutors’ accounts today, but set the next [court date] for July 6th,” said Nyan Win’s lawyer Kyaw Ho. “U Nyan Win was sued for allegedly providing false information that ballots were waxed. We’ve been preparing for this for a long time. We argued that he didn’t provide any false information.” During the April by-elections, the NLD’s spokesperson claimed ballots had been tampered with at a polling station in Pubbathiri. After investigating the allegation, the Union Election Commission announced on 9 May that the NLD’s complaints were a ‘sham’ and filed charges against Nyan Win. The UEC’s director Thaung Hlaing filed suit against the NLD’s Nyan Win under section 182 of the penal code: for providing false information to a public servant and for making a claim in a press conference during the 1 April by-elections that ballot-tickets in several polling stations were coated in wax. If found guilty, Nyan Win could be imprisoned for up to six months or fined. ‘No Assistance’ for Kachin Refugees 2012-06-26 http://www.rfa.org/english/news/burma/refugees-06262012165817.html A new report condemns China’s inadequate response to ethnic refugees fleeing fighting in Burma.The Chinese government has flouted international law by failing to provide adequate food, water, and protection to thousands of refugees fleeing conflict-ridden areas in northern Burma, a human rights group said Tuesday. New York-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) said at least 7,000 to 10,000 refugees had fled across the border to China since clashes between the military and rebels in northern Burma’s Kachin state broke out last June. The refugees lack access to food, potable water, and healthcare and have not received enough assistance from China, HRW said in the report, titled “Isolated in Yunnan.” “What we found is a group of refugees in a desperate situation, who have received no humanitarian assistance from the Chinese government since they started arrived in Yunnan in June 2011,” HRW Deputy Asia Director Phil Robertson said at a press conference in Bangkok. “China has not permitted major humanitarian agencies … to assist these refugees either,” he said, including the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), a UN agency that coordinates refugee crisis response worldwide. Local nongovernmental organizations and religious groups have been supporting the refugees, but are strained far beyond capacity, the group said. Forced to return The report accused China of turning some 300 refugees away at the border, in some cases forcing them to return to conflict zones in Burma. “The Chinese government has generally tolerated Kachin refugees staying in Yunnan, but now needs to meet its international legal obligations to ensure refugees are not returned and that their basic needs are met,” said Sophie Richardson, HRW’s China director. “China has no legitimate reason to push them back to Burma or to leave them without food and shelter.” Chinese authorities have also subjected Kachin refugees to roadside drug testing, arbitrary fines, and prolonged and abusive detention, all without due process or judicial oversight, the group said. HRW’s Robertson urged China to stick to its international commitments to assist refugees. “China is a party to the 1951 Refugees Convention and its 1967 Protocol, as well as other international human rights treaties that require China to not only recognize refugees, but also to provide protection to these refugees, and to also cooperate with UNHCR in its operation of its refugee protection mandate,” he said. Beijing rejected the allegations, disputing the refugee status of the Burmese and dismissing the notion that the government has not provided aid. “Since early this year, there have been military conflicts between [Burma’s] military government and armed ethnic groups. Some of the [Burmese] have come to China because of safety issues. They are not refugees,” said Hong Lei, a spokesperson for the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs. “Moreover, they will return to Myanmar [Burma] as soon as the conflicts end. China has been providing humanitarian aid to those people during their time in China,” he said, using another name for Burma. Regional violence Fighting in northern Burma between the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) and Burmese military forces has created a regional humanitarian crisis, displacing an estimated 75,000 people. Both sides have been implicated in the use of landmines and child soldiers, in violation of international rules. A 17-year ceasefire agreement ended in June of last year when Burmese forces moved in to close a KIA militia camp, rekindling the conflict. Tens of thousands have been displaced since then. The conflict has intensified in recent months, with stepped-up attacks from both sides. The KIA killed four government officials in April and blasted multiple rail lines, and government forces reportedly shelled several KIA bases in a recent helicopter attack. The KIA represents a Kachin ethnic minority centered in the northern Kachin state that is fighting the Burmese regime for greater autonomy. Political solution necessary to fight drugs: report 27-Jun-12 http://www.dvb.no/news/political-solution-necessary-to-fight-drugs-report/22650 Shan Drug Watch published its 2012 annual report yesterday urging a political solution with armed ethnic groups in Burma. In the report, the narcotics watchdog argues that a political solution would more effectively curb drug production than eradication programmes, which is currently being pushed by the Burmese government. The SDW, which is run by Thailand-based Shan Herald Agency for News, held a press conference in Chiang Mai on 26 June – the International Day Against Drug Abuse and Trafficking – to launch the report. The document – Political Settlement: A win-win solution for all – said despite 13 years of implementing eradication programmes drug output from the region is still soaring. In 1999, the then ruling junta launched a 15-year plan that aimed to permanently eliminate drugs from Burma. However with two years left, 18 out of 20 of the townships that had been targeted for opium elimination continue to cultivate the drug. “Numerous People’s Militia Forces (PMF), set up by the Burma Army to assist in their operations against rebel forces, have become key players in the drug trade, both heroin and ATS [amphetamine-type stimulants]” stated the report. “Yet government complicity in the tangled drug problem is being conveniently ignored by the international community as it embraces Burma’s new administration.” The SDW said opium cultivation and production in Burma surged in the 2011-2012 growing season and is continuing to increase despite high-level of arrests of leading drug kingpins, such as Naw Kham in eastern Shan State’s Golden Triangle area who served in a government-backed milita on the Thai-Burma border. “It’s time to end the vicious cycle of new druglords emerging and being scapegoated over and again. The political root causes of the drug problem must be tackled,” said Khuensai Jaiyen, principal author of the Shan Drug Watch report. “If the government can accept these wishes [from ethnic opposition groups] then they’ll have reach to a political settlement and will no longer be enemies with each other, which will then facilitate the rule of law. Once this happens, they should be able to solve the drug problems.” According to the World Drug Report published by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime yesterday, Burma remains the world’s second largest producer of opium behind Afghanistan. In Burma “potential opium production increased from 580 tons in 2010 to 610 in 2011” – an increase of 14 percent, reported the UNODC. Trafficked migrants arrested in Mae Sot 27-Jun-12 http://www.dvb.no/news/trafficked-migrants-arrested-in-mae-sot/22646 Police arrested 30 Burmese migrants who illegally crossed into Mae Sot yesterday, while they were in the process of being trafficked to Bangkok and central Thailand. The Burmese nationals comprised of 15 men and 15 women, had allegedly paid human traffickers around 10,000 Baht each to hide them in a truck carrying pumpkins that was en route to central Thailand and Bangkok. The migrants were arrested by police at a traffic checkpoint on the outskirts of Mae Sot town. According to a Thai police officer, the migrants were found hiding underneath the pumpkins. The two Thai nationals driving the truck were arrested and later admitted that they’d been paid 10,000 Baht per person from the traffickers who were supposed to pick up the migrants at undisclosed locations in central Thailand. Experts estimate that there may be as many as three million migrants from Burma working in Thailand, who provide crucial low-cost labour to the kingdom’s economy. However, Burmese migrants often face regular exploitation, including extortion, workplace abuse and poor wages and lack of access to justice. During Aung San Suu Kyi’s visit to Thailand in late May, the opposition leader promised to address the treatment of Burmese migrants during her meetings with Thai officials and said she was committed to improving conditions in Burma so that migrants could return home in the future. Suu Kyi kicks off three day French tour 27-Jun-12 http://www.dvb.no/news/suu-kyi-kicks-off-three-day-french-tour/22642 President Francois Hollande told Burma’s Aung San Suu Kyi Tuesday that France would do everything possible to back the country’s democratic transition, as she visited Paris for the last leg of a landmark European tour. Hollande told the pro-democracy icon that France will support “all actors” in Burma’s reforms and that Paris was ready to welcome reformist President Thein Sein if he wanted to visit. Suu Kyi meanwhile called for investment in her country’s struggling economy, but not at the expense of democratic reforms. “I reaffirm here that France will support all the actors in [Burma]‘s democratic transition and will do everything possible with… the European Union so that this process goes to the end,” Hollande said at a joint press conference with Suu Kyi in the Elysee Palace. Asked about Thein Sein, who Britain last week invited to visit, Hollande said: “If he wants to come, he will come.” Nobel Peace laureate Suu Kyi, 67, came to France after warm welcomes in Switzerland, Ireland, Norway and Britain and was treated with honours normally accorded a head of state, including a dinner with Hollande and other top officials. Suu Kyi was freed from nearly two decades of house arrest in November 2010 and became a lawmaker earlier this year as part of a gradual transition towards democracy in the Southeast Asian nation. She has used the European tour to call for transparent investment in Burma. “We need democracy as well as economic development,” she said. “Development cannot be a substitute for democracy, it must be used to strengthen the foundations of democracy.” Suu Kyi said “financial transparency in the extractive industries and in fact business in general” were essential to investment. She said efforts still needed to be made to convince the Burmese regime of the need for democratic reforms but that Sein seemed sincere. “I believe that the president is sincere and I believe that he is an honest but I cannot speak for everybody in the government,” she said. “I don’t think we can say it (reform) is irreversible until such time as the army is committed to that.” Wearing a green dress, pink shawl and yellow flowers in her hair, Suu Kyi was earlier greeted by well wishers as she arrived in Paris by train from Britain. “It’s a very great joy… Seeing her here, free, it’s historic,” Pierre Martial, the head of the France Aung San Suu Kyi association, told AFP at the Paris train station. “She is a fantastic role model. She made horror and dictatorship retreat through non-violence, it is very rare,” he said. During her three-day visit Suu Kyi will also meet Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius and other top political leaders, as well as members of the local Burmese community and her supporters in human rights groups. Martial said her visit to France was motivated by a desire to thank her supporters in the country. “France is a symbol in the hearts of many” in Burma, he said. “It remains the country of human rights and it is a country that was very mobilised for her.” “Aung San Suu Kyi wanted to truly thank all those who helped her during these long years of repression.” She enjoyed strong support among rights groups in France and was the subject of 2011 French-English film biography, “The Lady”, directed by French filmmaker Luc Besson and starring Michelle Yeoh. Suu Kyi launched her European tour on 13 June in Switzerland and arrived in France from Britain, her home for years until she returned to fight for democracy in Burma, leaving her children and her English husband behind. On 16 June in Oslo she finally delivered her Nobel Peace Prize speech, 21 years after winning the award while under house arrest, pledging to keep up her struggle for democracy. Suu Kyi’s trip to Europe has been clouded by violence in western Burma where dozens have been killed and an estimated 90,000 people have fled clashes between Arakanese and the stateless Rohingya. Asked about the violence, Suu Kyi said democratic reform was essential to resolving civil conflicts. “We will need time to bring true harmony between the Muslims and the Buddhists,” she said. “What is most important at the moment is that we should establish rule of law,” she said. “We need to make sure that these citizenship laws are in line with international standards.” Peace committee holds talks with exile groups in Bangkok 26-Jun-12 http://www.dvb.no/news/peace-committee-holds-talks-with-exile-groups-in-bangkok/22636 The government’s Peace Making Work Committee led by Railway Minister Aung Min met with Burmese opposition groups based in Thailand yesterday in Bangkok. The committee’s delegation headed by Aung Min arrived in Bangkok yesterday morning and met with representatives from the Democratic Party for a New Society — a political party founded in 1988 by university students. The DPNS had the second largest member-base after Aung Sann Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy. Many of the members were high school and university students who went into exile in 1991. The party is currently listed as an unlawful association in Burma. The DNPS’s chairman Aung Moe Zaw said Minister Aung Min promised to work to get the group’s name removed from the unlawful association list and would help facilitate a safe return for all the DPNS members to Burma. “Some of us were accused of criminal charges individually – I have been a legal fugitive since 1990 and we want those charges cleared as well,” said Aung Moe Zaw. “We expressed our wish to go back to Burma and work there as a [legitimate] political party – [the committee] said this is possible and they would try as much as they can.” The government’s delegation recommend the DNPS’s members to write a letter concerning their requests their wishes and the peace committee would speak with the president about the issues. The Burmese Immigration and Population Minister Khin Yi and Hla Maung Shwe, vice-president of Myanmar Egress and Tin Win, Burma’s ambassador in Thailand, also attended the meeting. This was the second round of talks between the peace committee and the DNPS. On Sunday Aung Min and the committee met with members of Generation Wave at Myanmar Egress’s office in Rangoon. Generation Wave formed in 2007 during the Saffron Revolution and were in exile in Thailand but returned to Burma earlier this year. The government delegation in Thailand is also scheduled to meet with representatives from the Karen National Union, the National League for Democracy-Liberated Area (NLD-LA), the Forum for Democracy in Burma and the All-Burma Students Democratic Front today. China guilty of systemic abuse of Kachin refugees: HRW 26-Jun-12 http://www.dvb.no/news/thein-sein-to-discuss-rohingya-refugees-in-bangladesh/22625 The Chinese government is guilty of systematic human rights violations against Kachin refugees fleeing violence in Burma, including the denial of vital humanitarian assistance and forced repatriation, a new report by Human Rights Watch (HRW) has warned. Up to 10,000 Kachins live in squalid, makeshift camps in Yunnan province without access to the legal protection or humanitarian aid prescribed by international refugee law, while fighting rages between Burmese troops and Kachin rebels across the border. “Some Kachin refugee families have returned to Burma from Yunnan because of pressure from Chinese authorities or the lack of adequate humanitarian aid,” said the report. “There they are exposed to ongoing fighting, hostile Burmese army forces, and landmines that have been widely laid by both the Burmese army and the KIA [Kachin Independence Army].” The Chinese government has authorised a small number of local NGOs and church groups to operate along the border, but continues to block international aid or monitors from entering the region and refuses to recognise any of the refugees. As recently as May 2012, a government spokesperson dismissed the Kachin population as “border residents” who “come to visit friends and relatives.” According to the report, refugees “remain in dire need of shelter, food, safe water and sanitation, non-food items, and health care.” It further accuses the government of exploiting Kachins through discriminatory and abusive practices. “Most children have no access to schools. In search of income, adults seek day labor and are vulnerable to exploitation by local employers,” warned the report. “Other Kachin refugees have been subject to arbitrary roadside drug testing, arbitrary fines, and prolonged and abusive detention by the Chinese authorities, all without due process or judicial oversight.” As a signatory to the 1951 Refugee Convention, HRW is adamant that China must do more. “The Chinese government has generally tolerated Kachin refugees staying in Yunnan, but now needs to meet its international legal obligations to ensure refugees are not returned and that their basic needs are met,” said Sophie Richardson, China director at Human Rights Watch. “China has no legitimate reason to push them back to Burma or to leave them without food and shelter.” HRW has documented at least two bouts of refugees being refused entry or forced to return from China in June and November last year. “My aunt in Namhka tried to enter the China side in Nawngtaw,” explains an ethnic Lisu woman. “They all had passports but were turned away…[Chinese authorities] told them they are Burmese citizens and because of that they couldn’t enter.” The threat of refoulement has led to widespread fear among displaced Kachins, whose villages have often been razed to the ground by Burmese troops. “I don’t feel secure here at all because we are still on the border and too close to the Burma side,” a 25-year old refugee told HRW. “I worry as the fighting continues, if the Chinese don’t accept us, where will we go? Where can we live?” The KIA’s refugee committee (IRRC) recently told DVB that until late April residents in Laiza regularly witnessed Chinese soldiers at the official border gate express open hostility to Kachins crossing the border. “In the past when the situation got intense the soldiers at the border would practice pushing people away at the border using shields and sticks,” said Salang Kaba Doi Pyi Sa, head of the IRRC. “It was clearly to show that they would not accept refugees crossing into China.” Since then Kachin officials and local Chinese authorities have informally discussed the possibility of resettling refugees into camps in Yunnan province. But as of yet no progress has been made and it remains unclear whether these plans have received sanction from Beijing, notorious for its silence – and some say tacit complicity – in the Kachin conflict. In March, the Burmese army is reported to have crossed the border and executed a Chinese citizen, but even this elicited a measured response. “We thought that this time the Chinese government would be angry,” May Li Aung from humanitarian NGO Wunpawng Ninghtoi (WPN) told DVB. “But instead they brought food rations to the Burmese soldiers.” Local aid groups have continuously expressed concern about China’s recalcitrance as funding cuts precipitate a growing food and humanitarian crisis in the camps. All humanitarian supplies for displaced Kachins inside Burma must be smuggled across the border, while local authorities “look the other way.” “The Chinese government is not only legally obligated, but fully capable of temporarily protecting Kachin refugees and meeting their basic needs,” Richardson said. Violence between rebels and Burmese troops flared in June 2011 over a disputed territory near a Chinese-backed hydropower dam, ending a 17-year ceasefire. The Kachin Independence Organization cites concerns about large-scale development projects – largely dominated by Chinese economic interests – as a primary obstacle to durable peace. Thein Sein to discuss Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh 26-Jun-12 http://www.dvb.no/news/thein-sein-to-discuss-rohingya-refugees-in-bangladesh/22625 The leaders of Burma and Bangladesh will discuss the issue of Rohingya refugees and related unrest near their shared border next month, Bangladesh’s ambassador in Rangoon said Monday. The topic will be on the agenda when Burmese President Thein Sein travels to Bangladesh from July 15-17 to meet Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, Major General Anup Kumar Chakma told AFP. “It is expected the Myanmar refugee issue will be discussed with more seriousness this time,” he said. “Bangladesh supports all actions (and) measures that are being taken by Myanmar to restore normalcy in [Arakan] State as early as possible.” Burmese government officials said they were unable to confirm the planned trip. Burma’s Arakan state, bordering Bangladesh, has been rocked by rioting, arson and a cycle of revenge attacks involving Arakanese and Rohingya communities this month, prompting growing international concern. More than 80 people have been killed in the violence, with sporadic outbreaks of violence still occurring, according to the Burmeses government, which has placed the whole of Arakan state under emergency rule. “The overall situation in Sittwe district is under control although the curfew is still in force,” he said by telephone. In recent weeks Bangladesh has turned away hundreds of Rohingya Muslims fleeing the violence in Burma despite pressure from the US and rights groups to grant them refuge. The impoverished South Asian country is already home to a Rohingya refugee population estimated at 300,000. Speaking a Bengali dialect similar to one in southeast Bangladesh, the Rohingya are seen as illegal immigrants by Burma’s government and many Burmese, prompting many to attempt to flee to third countries in rickety boats. US Envoy Urges Continued Engagement with Burma 27-Jun-12 http://www.voanews.com/content/us-envoy-urges-continued-engagement-with-burma/1262833.html CAPITOL HILL - U.S. engagement with Burma has been fruitful and should continue, said Derek Mitchell, President Barack Obama’s nominee to be the first U.S. ambassador to Burma since the early 1990s. Mitchell testified Wednesday before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, which is considering his nomination. Speaking on Capitol Hill, Mitchell paid tribute to political and economic reforms in Burma long advocated by the United States. “As the Burmese government has taken steps over the past year, so, too, has the United States, in an action-for-action approach," he said. "Each action we have taken in recent months has had as its purpose to benefit the Burmese people and strengthen reform and reformers within the system. This engagement should continue and expand.” The United States has eased some sanctions against Burma after it embarked on a process of liberalization, highlighted by this year’s landmark parliamentary elections. Democratic Senator James Webb of Virginia marveled at how far Burma has come since he visited the country in 2009. “The country was locked in isolation, keeping its government, military and people from exposure to the international community," Webb said. "Aung San Suu Kyi remained under house arrest. Numerous other activists remained imprisoned. Conflicts with ethnic minority groups continued and challenged the unity of the country. The prospects for reform, opening up, and economic development looked bleak," he said. "Yet during that visit, one could clearly see the promise of a different future.” Webb said that promise has become reality, describing recent events in Burma as an “historic turning point." The senator advocated a level-headed U.S. policy going forward. “This is a country whose political system remains a challenge, but where positive conduct calls for reciprocal gestures," he said. "We should never take our concerns about political freedoms or individual rights off the table. We should make these concerns central to our engagement with all countries, including Burma. But we should also be promoting economic progress to sustain the political reforms that have taken place," he added. Derek Mitchell said he and the State Department have “no illusions” about the challenges that lie ahead in Burma. “As Secretary [of State Hillary] Clinton has observed, reform is not irreversible," Mitchell warned. "And continued democratic change is not inevitable. We remain deeply concerned about the continued detention of hundreds of political prisoners and the conditions placed on those previously released, lack of the rule of law, and the constitutional role of the military in the nation’s affairs. Human-rights abuses, including military impunity, continue, particularly in ethnic minority areas,” he said. Mitchell currently serves as the State Department’s special coordinator for Burma policy. He has also worked for the U.S. Defense Department. Should he be approved by the Foreign Relations Committee, Mitchell’s nomination would then be submitted for a vote by the full Senate. Nearly 2,000 Displaced by Flooding in Myitkyina 27-Jun-12 http://www.irrawaddy.org/archives/7887 Up to 2,000 people have been forced to flee severe flooding in parts of Myitkyina after several days of heavy rain in northern Burma caused water levels on the Irrawaddy River to rise dramatically. The flooding began two days ago in five quarters of the Kachin State capital, including Myit Thit Gyi, Rambu and Sitarpu. According to local sources, people living in those areas have taken shelter in monasteries, schools and churches in the city. “Around 1,500 to 2,000 people are staying in temporary shelters because of the flooding,” Kyaw Thiha, a member of the opposition National League for Democracy from Myitkyina, told The Irrawaddy on Wednesday. There are about 500 people staying at the Aung Zaeya Monastery alone, while many others are staying at churches or with relatives, he added. Two high schools and most primary schools in the affected areas have been closed, and electricity has also been cut. Some who fled said that they brought enough food to meet their needs for a few days, but worry that it might not last if the water doesn’t recede soon. Many others, however, are in immediate need of assistance. “The refugees don’t have enough food, clean drinking water and sanitation,” said Kyaw Thiha. He added that water levels have remained stable since this morning. Myitkyina was also heavily flooded in 1979 and 2004. Suu Kyi calls for more democracy and development Wednesday, 27 June 2012 11:44 Mizzima News http://www.mizzima.com/news/world/7397-suu-kyi-calls-for-more-democracy-and-development.html French President Francois Hollande told Burma’s opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi upon here arrival on Tuesday that France supported “all actors” in Burma’s rapid democratic reforms, and Suu Kyi repeated her European tour themes that development cannot be substituted for democracy. At a joint press conference, she said, “We need democracy as well as economic development. Development cannot be a substitute for democracy, it must be used to strengthen the foundations of democracy.” She said “financial transparency in the extractive industries and in fact business in general” were essential to investment in Burma, a country that has lived for decades under military rule with little focus on transparency and development. She said more efforts are needed to convince officials in the newly elected ruling government of the need for democratic reforms. She said Burmese President Thein Sein seemed sincere in his rapid moves to institute reforms in the financial system, land ownership, banking, foreign investment, workers’ rights, health and to bring peace and national reconciliation to the Burmese people. “I believe that the president is sincere, and I believe that he is honest, but I cannot speak for everybody in the government,” she said. “I don't think we can say it [reform] is irreversible until such time as the army is committed to that.” Hollande said Thein Sein is welcome to visit France if he wishes. Asked about the recent sectarian violence in Burma that has claimed at least 60 lives, Suu kyi said the rule of law was needed in Burma. “We will need time to bring true harmony between the Muslims and the Buddhists,” she said, adding that citizenship laws must be “in line with international standards.” The minority Rohingya population, who are Muslim, are denied citizenship rights in Burma. Up to 90,000 refugees have been displaced in the unrest, according to some unofficial sources in the area. Suu Kyi, who is susceptible to air sickness, arrived in Paris on Tuesday by train from Britain. “It's a very great joy... Seeing her here, free, it's historic,” Pierre Martial, the head of a French Aung San Suu Kyi association, told Agence France Presse at the Paris train station. “She made horror and dictatorship retreat through non-violence; it is very rare,” he said. During her four-day visit, Suu Kyi will also meet Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius and other top political leaders, as well as members of the local Myanmar community, supporters in human rights groups and speak to students at The University of Sorbonne. Suu Kyi launched her European tour on June 13 in Switzerland, where she spoke to the International Labour Organization before flying to Oslo, where she received the Nobel Peace Prize award, which had been given to her 21 years ago while she was under house arrest in Burma. She then flew to Dublin to receive an award from Amnesty International and from there to Britain, her home for years, where she received an honorary degree at Oxford University and later addressed a joint session of Parliament. Her reception across Europe has been compared with that given to a head of state. The leader of the National League for Democracy in Burma, Suu Kyi won a parliament seat this year in April. She will attend her first parliamentary session in July. Kachin Peace Remains Elusive 27-Jun-12 http://www.irrawaddy.org/archives/7877 Despite some positive results from peace talks between the Kachin Independence Organization (KIO) and the Burmese government, the situation on the ground does not appear to be easing, with conflict ongoing and skirmishes reported in several locations on a near-daily basis. The KIO said on Wednesday that government troops have launched military offensives this week against Kachin positions close to the group’s headquarters at Laiza on the Sino-Burmese border. Several other flashpoints were reported in northern Shan State where the KIO maintains bases. “The government troops resumed military activities around our headquarters,” said a KIO spokesperson. “They attacked using artillery and mortar shells.” High-ranking representatives from both sides have sat several times for negotiations in recent months, the latest round being on June 20 when a government delegation led led by Aung Min met with Kachin Independence Army (KIA) Vice-Chief of Staff Maj-Gen Sumlut Gun Maw in the town of Maijayang in Kachin State. The upshot of that meeting was a direct order from Naypyidaw to effectively “legitimize” the KIO by informally repealing Article 17/1, which prohibits the association of citizens with illegal organizations. Kachin mediator Hseng Aung, who was present at the talks, told The Irrawaddy that the KIO delegation had specifically requested that Article 17/1 be revoked at the Maijayang round, and that they had been asked to submit a list of political prisoners they expected to be released as a result of the agreement. Hseng Aung also said that Aung Min had laid out a map detailing the government’s proposal for the relocation of military bases to sites where both armies would be farther apart. The KIO said it would study the plan, and proposed reconvening talks at an unspecified time and place in the near future. But Col James Lum Dau, the KIO deputy chief of foreign affairs, told The Irrawaddy that despite the upbeat mood following the June 20 meeting, clashes have broken out between the sides almost every day, and that the Burmese army is focusing its efforts against KIA Brigades 4 and 5, in northern Shan State and near Laiza, respectively. James Lum Dau said that a KIA unit ambushed a Burmese army battalion in northern Shan State recently, resulting in at least eight deaths on the government side. He said that, in response, the Burmese army has intensified attacks against not only on KIA positions, but also against Kachin civilians. “The government troops have shot at farmers working in their paddy fields,” he said. “Two Kachin civilians were killed recently. One was a farmer and one was a Chinese man.” Fighting between the KIA and the Burmese army resumed on June 19 last year after an 18-year ceasefire. Some 60,000 Kachin villagers have been displaced as a result of the conflict, many of whom are currently taking refuge at camps on the Chinese side of the border. New York-based Human Rights Watch reported on Tuesday that some 10,000 Kachin refugees in Yunnan Province are at risk of being forced to return to the conflict zone. It urged the Chinese authorities to provide temporary protection to the refugees and permit the United Nations and humanitarian agencies free access to them. Naypyidaw has recently reported that it has reached peace agreements with 10 ethnic rebel groups, and insists that the KIO is the only major armed ethnic group that hasn’t agreed to a ceasefire. Indonesia cement company plans Burma plant Wednesday, 27 June 2012 16:45 Mizzima News http://www.mizzima.com/business/7405-indonesia-cement-company-plans-burma-plant.html An Indonesian company will build a US$ 159 million cement plant in Burma with up to 1 million tonnes capacity a year, officials announced on Tuesday. PT Semen Gresik, Indonesia's biggest cement maker, will build the plant next year, chief executive Dwi Soetjipto said, according to domestic Indonesia media. “We will set up a joint-venture with a local partner to build a factory with a capacity of 600,000-1 million tonnes a year.” he said, based on anticipated demands for infrastructure as foreign companies move into Burma in the coming years. On Februrary 2, Mizzima reported that Siam City Cement Plc (SCCC) of Thailand was looking at building a cement plant in Burma. Managing director Philippe Arto said the company already had contacts and is studying potential investment locations throughout the country. “For SCCC, we see the real potential and are positive about Burma. We have to act fast to grow our business there,” he local media. SCCC was chosen as one of the prospective cement companies to be involved in the Dawei deep-sea port industrial project, according to an article published late last year. SCCC Executive Vice President Chantana Sukumanont confirmed that SCCC had already carried out a feasibility study to determine if a cement plant in Burma would yield favorable results. Arto was quoted as saying he was concerned, however, about “regulations and exchange rates.” Burma floated the exchange rate of the kyat last month, in a move designed to make foreign investment easier, and it is in the process of modernizing its financial system after years of neglect. Chantana said SCCC is also looking at acquiring other assets in Burma. No Removal of Sanctions, Only Suspension: US 27-Jun-12 http://www.irrawaddy.org/archives/7791 Asserting that its policy toward Burma is a “step-by-step” process, the US on Tuesday ruled out complete removal of economic sanctions against this Southeast Asian country, noting that based on the progress made by the new government, it finds it appropriate to only suspend these sanctions. “This is a step-by-step process, and there’s quite a road to go, as I think our Burmese guests would agree with,” the State Department spokesperson, Victoria Nuland, told reporters at her daily news conference where in the audience were some invited guests—a delegation of advisors from the Office of the Presidency in Burma. The delegation is currently visiting the United States at the invitation of the Asia Society and the US Institute of Peace. “I think, as our Burmese visitors know better than anyone, we have been encouraging the kind of opening and reform that we are now seeing in Burma for many months,” she said. Referring to a question regarding US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who is the first US foreign minister to visit Burma since the 1950s, Nuland responded: “She said then that we would match action with action. “So as Burma has gone forward with free, fair, parliamentary elections, has taken steps on the border, has begun to talk about opening its economy, we’ve tried to match those steps. We’ve had the naming of an ambassador,” she said. “We’ve had the beginning of suspension of sanctions. We’re working now on being able to license our companies for investment, for trade, etcetera. But as we’ve said, these are suspensions,” she noted. “These are not erasing of sanctions because our continued progress is contingent on Burma’s own continued progress in terms of democratic reform, economic opening, peace and security, national reconciliation, and good human rights standards throughout the country,” Nuland said. Responding to a question on the Rohingya crisis in Burma, the spokesperson said the US has been urging Bangladesh to assume its international responsibilities. “We have had contacts with both governments. As you know, we have been urging Bangladesh to open its border to treat refugees properly. We’ve been supportive and encouraging of the UN’s Special Envoy, who, I understand, is now … working with the Burmese government, working with the Rohingya to try to have a dialogue about grievances, to try to settle issues peacefully. And also, as I understand it, the UN’s envoy will be traveling to Bangladesh,” she said. “I think the fact that they [Bangladesh and Burma] are in dialogue with the Burmese is a good thing. But again, we’d like to see that border open,” she said. Meanwhile the United Nations announced that the UN Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict, Radhika Coomaraswamy, will witness the signing of an agreement on Thursday in Burma to release children from the country’s armed forces. The new action plan sets out concrete and time-bound activities to ensure the separation of underage recruits from the army children and to prevent further recruitment. While in Burma, Coomaraswamy will meet with Burmese President Thein Sein, government ministers, UN agencies, civil society and the diplomatic community, a UN spokesman said. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Wednesday will hold a full committee confirmation hearing on the nomination of Derek Mitchell as US ambassador to Burma. Expats Cite Optimism in ‘New Burma’ 27-Jun-12 http://www.irrawaddy.org/archives/7780 Last August, President Thein Sein put out a call appealing to the thousands of Burmese nationals living in exile to come home. He asked that they use the skills and education developed abroad to support the country’s political and economic re-awakening—so ending the ‘brain drain” that has plagued Burma for decades. But exiles were not the only ones targeted—foreign expatriates, encouraged by the lifting of sanctions on the military-dominated nation or simply by opportunities that no longer seem possible in the West, have also descended on the country in droves. While some are businessmen and women racing to leverage their first-mover’s advantage in an untapped and resource-rich market, others are aid workers, physicians and skilled professionals hoping to lend an expert hand as the country rebuilds. Regardless of their motives, this talent infusion can be felt around the country, particularly in the former capital of Rangoon, injecting new life, energy and something akin to revelry. The city’s Strand Hotel has long been a bastion for wealthy foreigners. The mood during the Friday night happy-hour is almost festive as both new and seasoned expats loosen their ties over half-priced drinks. Tony Picon, originally from London, has spent much of the past two years in Rangoon as a research director for Colliers International, where he says rentals are topping US $60 per square meter compared with just $25 in Bangkok—a startling disparity only expected to grow. “Everyone wants to get into ‘new Myanmar,’” he says, describing the recently reformed country as better-connected, relatively untapped and increasingly business-friendly. As one of the “last frontiers” in Asia, and possibly the world, he believes Burma will soon throw off all remaining vestiges of its previous antiquation, which saw people pay for property in cash for the lack of a workable banking system. Picon says he came to Rangoon at exactly the right time and hopes to leverage his first mover’s advantage as Burma’s real estate market continues to mushroom. Of course, hurdles remain to doing business even in the age of new Burma and probably will for some time. Picon recalls frustratingly slowly email systems and local clients who do not always grasp his vision. One of the bigger challenges may be the shortage of accommodation available to expats, since finding units was tricky even before the country warmed to foreign investment. Another factor will be restoring and maintaining old colonial buildings to make Rangoon habitable without losing its distinctive heritage. Despite these quandaries, Picon is optimistic Burma’s number has finally come up. “The country’s location is its advantage,” he says, referring to its enviable position between global superpowers China and India. Indeed, some experts compare the country to Vietnam. This is not just because both are former pariah states with similarly sized populations, but also because Vietnam’s economy took off in the mid-90s upon repairing relations with the West—just as post-sanctions Burma may be poised to do now. Some expats such as Paul, who lived in Rangoon for around five years from the early 2000s, are returning to find a changed city, at least in certain regards. “Some things have changed, and others are the same,” he says, explaining that WiFi and growing internet connectivity are new developments as well as a general increase in living costs. The biggest difference might be the whiff of optimism in the air, he says, with a distinctive new atmosphere he describes as “cautiously optimistic.” But since the pollution, poverty and power cuts remain, Paul hopes to spearhead some social and environmental initiatives as soon as he gets resettled. “We might miss some things about the old Myanmar in a few years,” he says, speaking of the many development projects planned that may erase some of the charms that make Burma special. “But if the changes are creating new jobs and lessening poverty, then that is a good thing.” Nancy has also just returned to Rangoon after an absence of several years and is collaborating on a new project to provide practical work experience to Burmese students seeking a career in finance—a sector so woeful many once preferred to store kyat under their mattress rather than a local bank. “[The students] are at a disadvantage because the banking system in this country has been nonexistent for so many years,” she says, describing her project as offering Burmese banks the opportunity to send promising young people abroad to develop their skills at a competitive rate. Naturally, as Rangoon International Airport sees record arrivals, many expats work in tourism. Richard Mayhew, the general manager of Mandalay Hill Resort, a luxury hotel at the base of Mandalay Hill, has lived and worked in Burma for the past decade and saw more tourists than ever last season. Another hospitality executive revealed that 200,000 tourists came to Burma this season while 600,000 are expected next year. Similarly, a large number of expats in Burma run travel agencies that cater to tourists from their home countries. Nor is the Strand the only place where expats gather to talk shop. The 50th Street Bar & Grill, a Western-style sports pub just a few streets east, sees a similar energy while Burmese bands croon Western covers in the background. Here we meet Dr. Steven Siegal, an orthopedic surgeon from San Francisco on a “first pass trip” to determine the different ways US physicians can engage with Burmese doctors and medical institutions. While his project is in its early stages, Siegal feels optimistic after a promising discussion with the director of a Burmese medical institution, which included some frank talk about the challenges and potential of the sector. Calling this “a special time for Burma,” and certainly more conducive to such ventures than his first visit 13 years ago, Siegal plans to share his newfound knowledge with colleagues at home, round up funding and hopefully visiting again as early as October to lay the groundwork for long-term education and training programs. But not everyone is so optimistic. One foreign aid worker, who has lived on-and-off in Rangoon for the past decade, says nothing has changed on the ground for normal people and the promises of reform remain just that—promises. She gives the example of a recent conference held in the city where different ministers and government officials publically laid out their plans to develop a much-maligned sector. “People came away from the conference saying, ‘oh they’re so nice!’” she says, recalling the reactions of some of the newer expats to government proposals. “It’s not that they’ve ever been jerks face-to-face,” she says of the generals, describing politeness as key to most Burmese interactions. “They’re nice, polite Asian gentlemen,” she says, “who say one thing and do another.” “The newer [expats] took every word at face value. The long time foreign aid workers and the Burmese were considerably less impressed.” Her advice? Optimism is well and good, but the bad times were too recent to be totally forgotten. Burma Minister checks into Dr Cynthia’s Mae Tao Clinic 27-Jun-12 karennews.org/2012/06/burma-minister-checks-into-dr-cynthias-mae-tao-clinic.html/ The Burma government’s peace-talk delegation led by Railway Minister U Aung Min, today made an early morning visit to Dr Cynthia Maung’s Mae Tao Clinic in the border town of Mae Sot, Thailand. U Aung Min’s 6am visit followed-up on his yesterday meet with the Karen National Union and Dr. Cynthia Maung, the Minister said today’s visit was to get a first hand look at the work the Mae Tao Clinic does – treating as many as 145,000 people from Burma each year. Dr. Cynthia told Karen News that the Clinic sees many international organizations and government representatives, including members of the Thai government. who visited the clinic but for Burma government it is their first time. Dr Cynthia said this was the first visit by the Burma government and she hoped that the Minister’s visit would improve the much needed health services on the border. “There are many issues that we need to work on together for the long term benefit of the people. Health, education, children right issues and they are all very broad issues that need to be urgently addressed. But first, we need to see how the ceasefire and peace building process works. We cannot just look at the health care factor in isolation.” Minister U Aung Min told Karen News that he had brought with him a message from President Thein Sein encouraging people based on the border to return to their country. “I came here and talked to individual academics, political organizations and other people about the President’s instruction. I will meet [a total] of fourteen groups. I encourage all those who live along the border to go back to the country to work in the country, as the [political] system is changing in our country.” U Aung Min said that this was his fifth trip to the Thai-Burma border and it is in accordance with President Thein Sein’s plan to explain about the country situation to individual and groups on the border. He also pointed out that it was up to each individual or group to accept or reject his offer. Naw Sophia, the program manager at the In-patient reproductive health department said. “It is good they [U Aung Min and his group] came and see with their eyes the real situation that we are facing each day. We welcome them to come back and see the situation if they want to learn more.” During the visit, Aung Min and his delegation were given a tour of the Clinic’s reproductive health In-patient department, general In-patient ward and the eye department. Dr. Cynthia later briefed the Minister and his group about general situation at the clinic and health and education for migrant workers and refugees on the borderline. Minister U Aung Min donated 150,000 Baht to the Clinic and U Khin Ye, the Immigration Minister gave children in the In-patient department an envelope of money. Dr. Cynthia presented the government delegation a book documenting the Clinics work along the border. Burma Minister U Aung Min and his nine-member group met with Dr. Cynthia Maung, The Karen National Union and the All Burma Student Democratic Front during their Mae Sot trip. Opium, heroin and “ice” flowing out of Burma Wednesday, 27 June 2012 12:44 Mizzima News http://www.mizzima.com/news/inside-burma/7401-opium-heroin-and-ice-flowing-out-of-burma.html The fight against narcotics faces increasing challenges amid a bumper poppy harvest in Burma this year, Chinese officials said on Tuesday, which marked International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking. Burma’s poppy growing area increased to 44,867 hectares this year, up 41 percent year-on-year, based on figures from the Chinese Ministry of Public Security, said an article in China Daily, the official Chinese newspaper. Apart from being the world’s No. 2 producer of opium, behind Afganistan, northern Burma is also a major producer of methamphetamine, commonly referred to as “ice,” coming into China and Southeast Asia countries. China seized 7.9 metric tons of “ice” coming from northern Burma last year, up 62 per cent on the previous year. It accounted for 55 percent of all methamphetamine seized in China, said police officials. Smuggled drugs in the area mainly come the Golden Triangle, one of the world's major drug producing regions that overlaps the mountains of Myanmar, Laos and Thailand, and the Golden Crescent region, which includes mountain valleys of Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan. In response, China has established a case-by-case cooperation mechanism with Burma, officials said. Four police liaison offices have also been set up in border areas to facilitate investigations. China and Burma have arrested and repatriated about 60 fugitives since 2009, including drug lords, according to figures by the ministry. On Tuesday, authorities in southwest China's Yunnan Province reported detaining 167 suspects in drug-related crimes and seized 528 tonnes of precursor chemicals used to make illegal drugs in the province last year. A Yunnan provincial anti-narcotics office said border towns have become a key channel for smuggling drugs into and out of the province, and there are many underground narcotic manufacturing workshops just outside the border. In related news, Laotian Prime Minister Thongsing Thammavong released a document on Tuesday outlining his vision of combating drug abuse and cultivation, local media reported. Thammavong focused on seven steps to tackle the drug problem in Laos, the Vientiane Times reported, such as raising awareness, providing opium growers with alternative cash crops, rehabilitating addicts, fostering grass- roots political and rural anti-drug campaigns, setting up provincial funds financing anti-drug programs, improving drug inspection and control organizations, and increased cooperation with international organizations. In 2006, the article said, Laos had almost totally eradicated opium poppy cultivation, reducing the cultivation area by 94 percent from 27,000 hectares to just 1,500 hectares. Addiction rates dropped 80 percent from 63,000 people to 12,000, the article said. However, from 2007 to 2011 there was a 173 percent increase from 1, 500 hectares to 4,100 hectares, the article said, while other illegal substances are increasingly being produced and trafficked in Laos, such as amphetamine type substances (ATS), pseudoephedrine, heroin and marijuana. Pseudoephedrine is an important precursor in the manufacture of methamphetamine. In 2010 24.5 million ATS tablets were seized, and a further six million tablets were seized in the first half of this year in Laos, officials said. High levels of seizure give little indication of the amount on average being trafficked, however. 78 dead in sectarian violence: gov’t figures Wednesday, 27 June 2012 12:30 Mizzima News http://www.mizzima.com/news/inside-burma/7400-78-burmese-dead-in-sectarian-violence-govt-figures.html A total of 78 people were killed in the bloody sectarian violence in Burma's Rakhine State from May 28 to June 24, according to government figures released on Tuesday. The widespread killings grew out of revenge killings in the murder and rape of a Buddhist woman by three Muslim men on May 28. A total of 3,158 residential and business structures were destroyed by arson. The violent rampages forced Buddhist and Muslims to seek safety in temples, mosques, schools and government facilities. In the post-violence period, a total of 37 refugee camps were established for a total of 31,884 refugees, according to official statistics. Other sources say as many as 90,000 people may be in need of aid or assistance, including food, shelter and medicine. Meanwhile, relief aid and donations are pouring into the state. United Nations agencies and international nongovernmental organizations are setting up aid programs for the refugees in the riot-hit state. The U.N. said it foresees a three-month relief effort in the area. Over the past week, nearly 1,000 displaced people were sent back to respective villages in Maungtaw Township as a move by the local government after it claimed restoration of peace and stability to the area. Many refugees say they are still afraid of violence in the area. A declaration of emergency in the state and the imposition of curfew in six townships including Maungtaw and Sittway, the capital of the state, has been in force since June 10. President Thein Sein appeared on nationwide television during the peak of the violence calling for calm and religious tolerance in the country. He said the country does not have a good record of respecting all religions. The majority of Burmese consider the Rohingya population of Rakhine State to be foreign intruders and call them “Bengali,” even though many have lived there for generations. The government denies Rohingya citizenship. Aung San Suu Kyi has called for the government to clarify its citizenship laws. President Thein Sein will go to Bangladesh on July 15 to meet with government officials to disucss the refugee problem. As many as 200,000 undocumented Rohingya have sought shelter in Bangladesh over the past decades, officials said. Bangladesh said it does not have the resources to aid the Rohingya on its territory. Yawdserk “hopes” Naypyitaw will stop using drugs as political game Wednesday, 27 June 2012 15:02 S.H.A.N. http://www.english.panglong.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=4755:yawdserk-hopes-naypyitaw-will-stop-using-drugs-as-political-game&catid=89:drugs&Itemid=286 Lt-Gen Yawdserk, interviewed on the eve of the International Day Against Drug Abuse and Trafficking, 26 June, said as long as Naypyitaw is handle, the drug problem as a political game, the problem will not be resolved. “It’s time drugs equal rebels accusations are stopped,” he told SHAN. He was speaking to SHAN two days after the Thai government presented him and the Shan State Army (SSA) with a Gold Eagle Award for cooperation in the campaign against drugs. The award given by Gen Pichitr Kullavanich, Privy Councilor in Bangkok, was received by the SSA representative Sai Aye on 23 June. The group had also submitted a drug eradication project to the Burmese government on 19 May. Its representatives also met the government-run Central Committee for Drug Abuse Control (CCDAC) earlier this month to work out the details. However, no concrete agreement has reached so far. “We are pressed for time,” he said. “If we wait too long, it’ll be too late to do anything. At the same time, no single agency can deal with the problem on its own. We need cooperation from all to do it.” Cooperation from all armed groups are also necessary. “It’s time we show the world we can survive without drugs,” he said. Naypyitaw has set 2014, two years from now, as its target date for drug eradication. So far, most of its targeted townships in Shan, Kachin, Chin and Kayah states as well as non-targeted townships in Sagaing, Mandalay and Magwe are also also growing poppies, according to Shan Drug Watch 2012 report published by SHAN yesterday. Human Rights Watch says Kachin refugees in China face dire situation 27-Jun-12 http://www.kachinnews.com/news/2333-human-rights-watch-says-kachin-refugees-in-china-face-dire-situation.html The US NGO Human Rights Watch (HRW) released a report on Tuesday criticizing China for forcibly sending hundreds of Kachin refugees back to Kachin and northern Shan state where fighting is taking place. Human Rights Watch also said that many refugees who remain in the southern part of China's Yunnan region have poor access to food water and shelter and remain at grave risk of being forcibly returned to a war zone. In an introduction to the report Sophie Richardson HRW's China director described the grim situation the refugees face. “Many Kachin refugees have already endured terrible abuses and war in Burma, only to settle into a life of dire struggle in Yunnan,” she said. “Until it is safe for the Kachin to return home, the Chinese government has a responsibility to ensure their safety and well-being,” she added. Though the majority of the estimated 10,000 refugees who have fled to China from Kachin and northern Shan states are ethnic Kachin, those displaced also include Shan, Sino-Burmese and Palaung ethnic minorities. Members of the Burman ethnic majority have also been affected by the conflict and forced to move. Chinese towns and cities located along the Burmese border for many years have already had large populations of undocumented migrants from Burma. Many displaced Kachin refugees have taken shelter among these migrant communities while others have set up temporary shelters in farming and forested areas located just inside the Sino-Burma border. Woman's rights activists warn that many young female refugees who have taken refuge in China are at risk of being forced into the border areas booming sex industry or could fall victim to being trafficked into a forced marriage with a Chinese man. Due to China's notorious one child policy there is a serious shortage of brides in China and many Chinese men resort to using a broker to buy a spouse from northern Burma. Often the brides are unwilling participants in the process but have little chance of escape. Senators press US on Myanmar petroleum investment 28-Jun-12 http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gmywA0mNvb-iBNLA9p4F8w5UAFKw?docId=0f84ad22295c44ac93d5a26a82b73d65 WASHINGTON (AP) — A Republican and a Democratic senators and American businesses are pressing the U.S. government to allow investment by oil and gas companies in Myanmar as the U.S moves to suspend economic sanctions against that country. Democrat Jim Webb and Republican James Inhofe made the appeal at a confirmation hearing Wednesday for the first U.S. ambassador to the military-dominated country in 22 years. The Obama administration announced last month its plan to ease the sanctions to reward the military-dominated government for democratic reforms. The ambassador nominee, Derek Mitchell, said the administration is still deliberating the details of a general license that would facilitate U.S. investment. He said no sectors of Myanmar's economy would be excluded, but voiced concerns about transparency and corruption in a Myanmar state enterprise that the petroleum industry would need to partner with. Over the past year, Mitchell led Washington's efforts to engage the country also known as Burma after decades of diplomatic isolation, a policy that has won bipartisan support. His appointment is widely expected to receive Senate approval, and Webb said that would likely happen this week. Despite Myanmar's swift shift away from authoritarian rule — for which Mitchell credited President Thein Sein's "extraordinary vision and leadership" — the country faces tough challenges. Activists are concerned that new foreign investment could entrench Myanmar's military-linked business elite, and ethnic violence continues unchecked in some regions. Communal clashes in the western state of Rakhine have left scores dead since late May. Mitchell voiced concern over military impunity in ethnic minority regions, and the armed forces unique constitutional position — which guarantees them a quarter of parliamentary seats and an effective veto on constitutional amendments. Democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, who has reconciled with the government after years of persecution and house arrest, has welcomed responsible foreign investment, but has urged foreign governments against allowing companies to do joint ventures with the Myanma Oil and Gas Enterprise until it improves its transparency and accountability. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce said in a statement Wednesday that would amount to a "de facto investment ban" in that sector — the impoverished country's main source of foreign revenue. The chamber, which represents 3 million businesses, criticized the U.S. government for not moving faster to issue the general license since announcing May 17 it would allow U.S. investment. The chamber also cautioned against the imposition of "burdensome reporting requirements" on U.S. companies. Human rights groups are calling for strict standards of social corporate responsibility and wants the administration to make them legally binding. Myanmar's Suu Kyi honoured in Paris near end of Europe tour 27-Jun-12 http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_asiapacific/view/1210302/1/.html PARIS: Myanmar's democracy champion Aung San Suu Kyi, nearing the end of her triumphant Europe tour in France, accepted another award on Wednesday as she became an honorary citizen of Paris. "You are a woman of peace and love, and this is why Paris also loves you," said mayor Bertrand Delanoehe, hailing her "tenacity" and "unshakeable faith" in her campaign for democracy in the country formerly called Burma. The Nobel Peace laureate - who spent almost two decades under house arrest for her freedom struggle - has been cheered by crowds and leaders on her five-nation tour, her first visit to Europe in a quarter-century. In France, she was treated with honours normally reserved for a head of state, dining at the Elysee Palace on Tuesday with President Francois Hollande, who pledged support for her country's transition towards democracy. Myanmar was for decades ruled by an iron-fisted junta, but a reformist government under ex-general President Thein Sein has freed political prisoners and allowed Suu Kyi's party back into mainstream politics. Suu Kyi, 67, has in the past two weeks visited Switzerland, Norway, Ireland, Britain and now France, receiving rock star welcomes along the way. The trip allowed her to finally give her 1991 Nobel Peace Prize speech in Oslo, and to thank groups and institutions from the Rafto Foundation and Amnesty International to Oxford University for awards they have given her. On Wednesday, she received her 2004 honorary citizen of Paris certificate and met with the Paris mayor, Delanoe. City Hall once honoured Suu Kyi by hanging a huge portrait of her outside the building in 2007. Reading a statement in French in city hall's sumptuous Salon des Arcades, Suu Kyi hailed "the deep attachment of Paris to justice and freedom". "I was surprised and happy that Paris supported my cause with such vigour," she said. Suu Kyi has enjoyed strong support among rights groups in France and was the subject of a 2011 French-English film biography, "The Lady", directed by French filmmaker Luc Besson and starring Michelle Yeoh. Speaking later to representatives of rights groups, Suu Kyi told political prisoners around the world not to give up their fight. "You must not let go of your principles. If you respect yourself you do not give up your fight," she told the gathering on a barge on the River Seine in the heart of Paris. Among those in attendance were Yevgenia Tymoshenko, the daughter of jailed former Ukrainian premier Yulia Tymoshenko, and Pavel Khodorkovsky, the son of the imprisoned former businessman and famed foe of Russian President Vladimir Putin, Mikhail Khodorkovsky. Suu Kyi was also to meet Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius on the second day of her three-day visit to France, where she travelled from London. On Tuesday Hollande said France gave its full backing to the transition efforts in Myanmar, and said Paris was ready to welcome Thein Sein, who also received an invitation from former colonial ruler Britain last week. Major Western powers have rolled back or suspended long-standing sanctions against Myanmar, a resource-rich but deeply impoverished country. Suu Kyi has on her tour called for human rights-friendly investment. "We need democracy as well as economic development," she said on Tuesday. "Development cannot be a substitute for democracy, it must be used to strengthen the foundations of democracy." Suu Kyi said "financial transparency in the extractive industries and in fact business in general" were essential to investment. She also said efforts were still needed to convince the former regime of the need for democratic reforms, but that Thein Sein seemed sincere. "I believe that the president is sincere and I believe that he is honest, but I cannot speak for everybody in the government," she said. "I don't think we can say it (reform) is irreversible until such time as the army is committed to that." Hollande also said on Tuesday that French oil giant Total - whose operations in Myanmar have been criticised - is respecting all environmental and labour laws in Myanmar, but told Suu Kyi to call him if any complaints arose. Total's presence in Myanmar has been contested by human rights activists, who accuse the firm of enriching the former ruling junta. "Today this company's practices have changed and are respectful of human rights and must also respect environmental and social norms," said Hollande. "If it ever happens that they don't respect (regulations), Mrs Aung San Suu Kyi will be able to call me anytime so we can put things in order." US senators press for Myanmar oil investment 28-Jun-12 http://news.yahoo.com/us-senators-press-myanmar-oil-investment-202740125--finance.html;_ylt=A2KJNTsYv.tPHx8ASHPQtDMD US senators said they planned to move quickly to confirm the first US ambassador to Myanmar in two decades, as they pushed to allow investment in the country's oil and gas sector. President Barack Obama on May 17 nominated Derek Mitchell, a veteran US policymaker on Asia, as ambassador to the country after dramatic reforms including the election of opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi to parliament. At a hearing on the nomination, senators across party lines voiced support for Mitchell. Senator Jim Webb, who heads a subcommittee on East Asia, said he hoped to complete Mitchell's confirmation by the end of the week. But senators pressed the Obama administration to allow investment by US energy companies as part of its loosening of sanctions on Myanmar, voicing fear that US companies would lose out to foreign competitors. Senator James Inhofe, a Republican from Oklahoma and champion of the fossil fuel industry, said he heard rumors that the administration will exclude oil firms from new rules allowing US investment in the country formerly known as Burma. "This or any other 'carve-out strategy' would be a strategic mistake," Inhofe told the hearing of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. "I believe that US companies including the oil and gas companies can play a positive role in the effort by demonstrating high standards of responsibility, responsible business conduct and transparency -- including respect for human rights in Burma," Inhofe said. Human rights groups have long charged that the oil and gas industry fuels abuses inside Myanmar, with villagers allegedly forced into labor and the powerful military seizing the revenue to support its operations. Suu Kyi, paying a historic tour of Europe, said in Geneva on June 14 that foreign firms should not partner with the state-owned Myanmar Oil and Gas Enterprise until her country signs up to international standards such as the IMF code on transparency. In a rare note of discord with Suu Kyi, a Nobel peace laureate who is widely respected in Washington, Webb said that the United States "does not require countries to endorse this code or other standards as a prerequisite for US investment." Webb, a longtime advocate of engagement with Myanmar, said that other countries as diverse as China and New Zealand have also not signed the code. Mitchell said that the administration had not made a decision on oil and gas investment in Myanmar but reiterated concerns about the state-owned company. US engagement with Myanmar must benefit reform and ensure "that we are contributing to the highest values and that we model the type of behavior that we like to see," Mitchell said. Not all US lawmakers are enthusiastic about oil and gas investment, with some members of the House of Representatives saying that Myanmar's reforms are overblown. Senator John Kerry, the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said that any further removal of sanctions needed to be "handled in a thoughtful, step-by-step process that is contingent upon continued progress." Mitchell, testifying before the committee, warned that reform in Myanmar "is not irreversible" and raised concerns that "hundreds of political prisoners" remained locked up. He also expressed worries about human rights in ethnic minority areas, pointing to recent violence between Buddhists and Muslims in western Rakhine state that has left more than 80 people dead. "Recent sectarian violence in Rakhine State demonstrates the divisiveness in Burma cultivated over many decades, if not centuries, that will need to be overcome to realize lasting peace and national reconciliation in the country," Mitchell said. But he praised President Thein Sein, a general turned civilian who took office last year, as a "remarkable figure." "We should never forget to recognize his extraordinary vision and leadership and the many reformist steps he and his partners in government have taken over the past year," Mitchell said. Burmese government continue to arrest IDPs fleeing from conflict areas 25-Jun-12 http://www.kachinnews.com/news/2334-burmese-government-continue-to-arrest-idps-fleeing-from-conflict-areas.html A warden from the Jan Mai Kawng Baptist Church camp has been arrested by Myitkyina-based Military Affairs Security Unit who is investigating a bomb attack.There are about 700 internally displaced persons (IDPs) in the camp. According to the camp’s IDP committee, agents from the MAS and several police from a local police station arrested Lahtaw Brang Shawng, at 9 pm on June 17. It’s alleged he fled from the area where a bomb attack took place in Kachin Independence Army (KIA) controlled territories. “They arrested him under suspicion of being part of the bomb attack. They said he will be released if found not guilty” said Maran Labung, a camp leader.But the camp committee is concerned he’s being tortured at the police station. “They didn’t have evidence to prove he was connected to the bombing when they arrested him. I went to the MAS office in Myitkyina the night of his arrest. They placed in a private room. I don’t know what they did to him,” said one camp leader. According to a camp resident, when Lahtaw Brang Shawng was arrested the police said he would be released within a day if he is not guilty. So far he has not been released and no-one knows where he is now being detained. “We thought Lahtaw Brang Shawng was still being detained at MAS office but the police said he wasn’t there anymore. No-one can tell us where he is. We will continue trying to discover his whereabouts. We are also preparing a letter to the president”, he told KNG. Lahtaw Brang Shawng, 29, has three children. He’s from Npawn Village in Waingmaw Township the site of where the conflict between Kachin Independent Army (KIA) and Burmese military began, over one-year ago (June 9). Before his arrest, Lahtaw Brang Shawng, who has three-children, was living at Jan Mai Kawng for nearly a year.His family is worried about him because he doesn’t speak much Burmese. “He hasn’t done anything,” said mother in law, Hpauje Htu.“He works hard as a daily worker to support the family.” The Burmese government has been arresting many people who have fled from KIA-controlled territories since the conflict began. They using the Act 17/1, which forbids any contact with an illegal association or trying to pin them to bomb attacks. According to their family members once under arrest they are tortured. Often they don’t why they were arrested or even where they are being detained. As these kinds of arrests happen more frequently IDPs living in government controlled areas are worried about their security. Manam Tu was arrested from Jan Mai Kawng camp last May 28. Since then the family members have not been able to see him but they suspect he’s being tortured.
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၁၄။တဲြဘက္ျပန္ႀကားေရးရာမႉး(၂) ေဒၚယင္းမာတင္
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အေထြေထြအတြင္းေရးမႉး ဦးျမင့္ေဆြ
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။ (၂) ဦးေအာင္ေအာင္မိုး
ဝါဏိၭစၥေရးရာမႉး ဦးထြန္းနိုင္ေအး
တဲြဘက္ဝါဏိၭစၥေရးရာမႉး (၁) ဦးစည္သူေက်ာ္
။ (၂) ဦးေဌးျမင့္
နိုင္ငံေရးရာမႉး ဦးမ်ိဳးဦး
တဲြဘက္နိုင္ငံေရးရာမႉး(၁) ဦးေဇယ်ာမင္းသန္ ့
။ (၂) ဦးေဇာ္မ်ိဳးေထြး
ျပန္ႀကားေရးရာမႉး ဦးသန္းဝင္း
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။ (၂) ေဒၚယင္းမာတင္
က်န္းမာေရးရာမႉး ေဒၚမာလာ
အမ်ိဳၚသမီးေရးရာမႉး ေဒၚေႏြရည္ဦး
တဲြဘက္အမ်ိဳးသမီးေရးရာမႉး ေဒၚျမသီတာဝင္း
စည္းရုံးေရးမႉး (၁) ဦးႀကည္ရိွန္
။ (၂) ဦးေဇာ္ဝင္းနိုင္
။ (၃) ဦးေက်ာ္ေအာင္နိုင္
ဒု-ဥကၠဌ(၁) ဦးဘုန္းလိႈင္
ဒု-ဥကၠဌ(၂) ဦးေနေအာင္
ဒု-ဥကၠဌ(၃) ဦးဂၽြန္မ်ိဳးေအာင္
အေထြေထြအတြင္းေရးမႉး ဦးျမင့္ေဆြ
တဲြဘက္အေထြေထြအတြင္းေရးမႉး(၁) ဦးဥာဏ္ဝင္း
။ (၂) ဦးေအာင္ေအာင္မိုး
ဝါဏိၭစၥေရးရာမႉး ဦးထြန္းနိုင္ေအး
တဲြဘက္ဝါဏိၭစၥေရးရာမႉး (၁) ဦးစည္သူေက်ာ္
။ (၂) ဦးေဌးျမင့္
နိုင္ငံေရးရာမႉး ဦးမ်ိဳးဦး
တဲြဘက္နိုင္ငံေရးရာမႉး(၁) ဦးေဇယ်ာမင္းသန္ ့
။ (၂) ဦးေဇာ္မ်ိဳးေထြး
ျပန္ႀကားေရးရာမႉး ဦးသန္းဝင္း
တဲြဘက္ျပန္ႀကားေရးရာမႉး(၁) ဦးမင္းညိုဝမ္း
။ (၂) ေဒၚယင္းမာတင္
က်န္းမာေရးရာမႉး ေဒၚမာလာ
အမ်ိဳၚသမီးေရးရာမႉး ေဒၚေႏြရည္ဦး
တဲြဘက္အမ်ိဳးသမီးေရးရာမႉး ေဒၚျမသီတာဝင္း
စည္းရုံးေရးမႉး (၁) ဦးႀကည္ရိွန္
။ (၂) ဦးေဇာ္ဝင္းနိုင္
။ (၃) ဦးေက်ာ္ေအာင္နိုင္
၂၀၁၂-၂၀၁၃ ခုနွစ္ FWUBC ဗဟိုအလုပ္အမႈေဆာင္စာရင္း
၂၀၁၂-၂၀၁၃ ခုနွစ္ FWUBC ဗဟိုအလုပ္အမႈေဆာင္စာရင္း
၁။ ဥကၠဌ ဦးတင္ဝင္း
၂။ ဒု-ဥကၠဌ ( ၁ ) ဦးဘုန္းလိွဳင္
၃။ ဒု-ဥကၠဌ ( ၂ ) ႏွင့္ဘဏၰာေရးမွဴး ဦးေနေအာင္
၄။ ဒု-ဥကၠဌ ( ၃ ) ဦးဂြ်န္မ်ိဳးေအာင္
၅။ အေထြေထြအတြင္းေရးမွဴး ဦးျမင့္ေဆြ
၆။ တဲြဘက္အေထြေထြအတြင္းေရးမွဴး ( ၁) ေဒၚသင္းသင္းဦး
၇။ ၊၊ ( ၂ ) ဦးဥာဏ္၀င္း
၈။ ၊၊ ( ၃ ) ဦးေအာင္ေအာင္မိုး
၉။ ၀ါ႑ိစၥေရးရာမွဴး ဦးထြန္းနိုင္ေအး
၁၀။ တဲြဘက္၀ါ႑ိစၥေရးရာမွဴး (၁) ဦးစည္သူေက်ာ္
၁၁။ ၊၊ (၂) ဦးေဌးျမင့္
၁၂။ ႏိုင္ငံေရးရာမွဴး ဦးမ်ိဳးဦး
၁၃။ တဲြဘက္ႏိုင္ငံေရးရာမွဴး (၁) ဦးေဇယ်ာမင္းသန္႔
၁၄။ ၊၊ (၂) ဦးေဇာ္မ်ိဳးေထြး
၁၅။ ျပန္ၾကားေရးရာမွဴး ဦးသန္း၀င္း
၁၆။ တြဲဘက္ျပန္ၾကားေရးရာမွဴး (၁) ဦးမင္းညိဳ၀မ္း
၁၇။ ၊၊ (၂) ေဒၚယင္းမာတင္
၁၈။ က်န္းမာေရးရာမွဴး ေဒၚမာလာ
၁၉။ အမ်ိဳးသမီးေရးရာမွဴး ေဒၚေႏြရည္ဦး
၂၀။ တဲြဘက္အမ်ိဳးသမီးေရးရာမွဴး ေဒၚျမသီတာ၀င္း
၂၁။ လူမွဳေရးရာမွဴး ေဒၚညိဳညိဳစန္း
၂၂။ တဲြဘက္လူမွဳေရးရာမွဴး ဦးဇာနည္ေအာင္ႏိုင္
၂၃။ စည္းရံုးေရးမွဴး (၁) ေဒၚေမႏွင္းေ၀
၂၄။ စည္းရံုးေရးမွဴး (၂) ဦးၾကည္ရွိန္
၂၅။ ရံပံုေငြရွာေဖြေရးရာမွဴး ဦးေအာင္သန္း
၂၀၁၁-၂၀၁၂-ျမန္မာနိုင္ငံသား အလုပ္သမားသမဂၢအဖဲြ ့ခ်ဳပ္(ဂ်ပန္ျပည္)၏ အလုပ္အမႈေဆာင္အဖဲြ ့ဝင္မ်ား
ဥကၠဌ-ဦးတင္ဝင္း
ဒုဥကၠဌ(၁)- ဦးဘုန္းလိႈင္
ဒုဥကၠဌ(၂) ႏွင့္ ဘဣာေရးရာမႉး - ဦးေနေအာင္
ဒုဥကၠဌ(၃) နွင့္စာရင္းစစ္- ဦးဂၽြန္မ်ိဳးေအာင္
အေထြေထြအတြင္းေရးမဳႉး-ဦးျမင့္ေဆြ
တဲြဘက္အေထြေထြအတြင္းေရးမႉး(၁)ေဒၚသင္းသင္းဦး
တဲြဘက္အေထြေထြအတြင္းေရးမႉး(၂)- ဦးေက်ာ္မင္းသိန္း
တဲြဘက္အေထြေထြအတြင္းေရးမႉး(၃)- ဦးဥာဏ္ဝင္း
ဝါဏိစၥေရးရာမႉး- ဦးထြန္းနိုင္ေအး
တဲြဘက္ဝါဏိစၥေရးရာမႉး(၁)-ဦးစည္သူေက်ာ္
တဲြဘက္ဝါဏိစၥေရးရာမႉး(၂)-ဦးေဌးျမင့္
နိုင္ငံေရးရာမႉး- ဦးေအာင္ေအာင္မိုး
တဲြဖက္နိုင္ငံေရးရာမႉး-ေဒၚေႏြရည္ဦး
ျပန္ႀကားေရးရာမႉး-ဦးသန္းဝင္း
တဲြဘက္ျပန္ႀကားေရးရာမႉး-ဦးမင္းညိုဝမ္း
က်န္းမာေရးရာမႉး-ေဒၚမာလာ
အမ်ိဳးသမီးေရးရာမႉး-ေဒၚျမင့္ျမင့္လိႈင္
လူမႈေရးရာမႉး-ေဒၚညိုညိုစန္း
စည္းရုံးေရးမႉး(၁)- ေဒၚေမနွင္းေဝ
စည္းရုံးေရးမႉး(၂)- ဦးႀကည္ရိွန္
ရံပုံေငြရွာေဖြေရးရာမႉး-ဦးေအာင္သန္း
NTT visit FTUB Parami School on May 11. 2010
FTUB 1st Congress
1st Congress of Federation of Trade Unions-Burma
FTUB congress was held by following procedures FTUB secretariats meeting Sending message to Inside Burma Pre-congress Congress FTUB secretariats meeting FTUB Secretariats was held on December 2005. A decision was made to convene the 1st congress and committee to handle the pre-congress matters. Sending message to inside Burma unions and affiliates unions To prepare for pre-congress and congress Prepare to choose delegates Prepare for reports Prepare for future plan Pre-congress Indo-Burma border ( November 2006) Thai Burma border ( December 2008 ) Set-up congress convening committee and sub-committees Set-up draft procedure for congress Congress 1st Congress of Federation of Trade Unions - Burma (FTUB) was held on 22-24 March 2009 at Thai - Burma border. The committees Credential committee Congress procedure committee Election rules and regulation committee Resolution Drafting Committee Future plan Drafting committee Finance Information, Record and media committee Food and accommodation committee Chairpersons group 1st Day 22 march 2009 Chairs – U Hla Oo and Daw Khin Swe Aye MC – Dr. Zaw Win Aung, Ma Htwe Ngwe Translation – U Tin Win Registration 8:30 AM Opening ceremony – speech by: U Hla Oo – president FTUB U Mg Mg – General Secretary FTUB Jaap Weinan – Deputy Secretary ITUC Cicillia Brighi – CISL Rudy Porter – Solidarity Center AFL-CIO Andriette Nomensan – FNV John Osolnick Adopt the congress agenda Accept and Record the delegate’s lists Reporting by: Federation of Trade Unions Chin FTUC Migrant Krian Labor Union – MKLU Rakhine General Workers Union – RGWU Report on workers and Trade Union Rights – U Min Lwin Report on organizing -Kyar Inseitkyi area – U Zar Ni Thwe Agricultural workers union – Kabaw valley Construction workers union General Workers union – Tamu area Transport workers union-upper Burma Hand loom workers union Discussion on FTUB Draft constitution Ended at 11:30 PM 2nd Day 23 March 2009 Chairs – Dr. Min Nyo and U Bala MC – Dr.Zaw win Aung, Saw Than Zaw, Ei Shwe Zin Nyunt Reports By: FWUBC Hotel and Restaurant Workers Union Burma Public service workers Union Report on Organizing by Ei Shwe Zin Nyunt General Workers Union – Middle Burma Agricultural workers Union – Lower Burma General Workers Union –Lower Burma Teachers Union Naga Labor Union - NLU Report on organizing – Indo-Burma Border by U Hla Tun Report on Migrant Workers Affairs by Tin Tun Aung Report on ILO and force labor-Burma by U Maung Cho begin_of_the_skype_highlighting end_of_the_skype_highlighting Report on Development programs by U Zaw Tun Report by U Than Lwin –Chief Administrative Executive Report by General Secretary of FTUB End report section Discuss on Future Plan Internal Organizing Sector and Regional Activity on Freedom of Association and Forced Labor Prepare to Movement for Labor Act Co-operation with Ethnic group/union Agricultural / Farmer International Solidarity Migrant issue Capacity building Training Try to establish Regular Training School Co-ordination and promoting in Regional – Ethnic area Women and Youth issue Finance Discussion on Election rules and regulation Adopt the Set method by majority in open vote Adopt to used secret ballot in election process Discussion on Congress Decision and Declaration Decisions See- Annex -2 Declaration – See- Annex – 3 Discussion on Draft Constitution of FTUB Ended 12:00 PM 3rd Day 24 May 2009 Chairperson: Dr. Min Nyo Master of Ceremony: Dr. Zaw Win Aung, U Aung Thin Adopt the constitution Adopt Congress Decision and Adopt Congress Declaration unanimously by Delegates. Nominate and Select the Election committee as : Dr. Min Nyo Naw P’lem Rah - Federation Trade Unions Kawthoolei (FTUK) Mary - Naga Labour Union (NLU) Announcing the Dismissal of CEC of FTUB by president Elections New Elections for Policy Board and Central Executive Committee of FTUB by Secrete voting Click Here for Newely Elected Central Executive Committee Members Closing event Addressed by: U Hla Oo president U Mg Mg General Secretary Solidarity message by : Bro Suzuki and ITUC-APRO, ATUC Trade Union Representative of Thai, Singapore, Malaysia, East Timor, Laos, Indonesia, Japan , USA and Philippine 1st Policy Board Meeting Date 24 March 2009 1st CEC meeting Date 25 March 2009 Appointed Secretariats U Min Lwin ( Trade Union Rights and Human Rights) U Bala ( Regional ) U Hla Htun (Regional) U Ko Gyi (Regional ) U Zaw Tun (Finance and Development ) U Cho Maung begin_of_the_skype_highlighting end_of_the_skype_highlighting (Information, Multinational Enterprises Affairs) U Tin Tun Aung ( Migrant Affairs)
NUCLEAR FREE BURMA SIGN CAMPAIGN
FTUB and ATUC PLENARY MEETING AND SPECIAL SESSION
9th.General Meeting of FWUBC(Japan) in Tokyo (2010-april 25th)-CREDIT-U THAN WIN
9th.General Meeting of FWUBC(Japan) in Tokyo (2010-april 25th)
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81st.Anniversary May Day Celebrate in Japan on 29th.April 2010-CREDIT U THAN WIN
ဆႏၵျပပဲြဓါတ္ပုံမ်ားရယူရန္-CREDIT U THAN WIN
- No Vote 2010 Election(07-11-2010)TOKYO-JAPAN
- 25th July 2010-FWUBC လစဥ္ပံုမွန္အစည္းအေ၀းႏွင့္အာဇာနည္ေန႔ေဟာေျပာပြဲတြင္ပထမဆုရရွိေသာ-စည္သူေက်ာ္အားဂုဏ္ျပဳလက္မွတ္ေပးအပ္ေသာအခမ္းအနားမွတ္တမ္းပံုမ်ား။
- မန္မာစစ္အစိုးရ၏ႏ်ဴကလီးယားဆိုင္ရာေဆာင္ရြက္မွဳ ႔မ်ားအားစံုစမ္းစစ္ေဆးအေရးယူရန္ ႏွင့္ျမန္မာ့ႏိုင္ငံေရးတြင္ပိုမိုဖိအားေပးေဆာင္ရြက္သြားေစရနဂ်ပန္သို႔္ေရာက္ရွိေနေသာအတြင္းေရးမွဴးမစၥတာဘန္ကင္မြန္း္အိပ္ဖြင့္ေပးစာကို UN ရံုးေရွ ႔တြင္ဒီမိုကေရစီအင္အားစုမ်ားႏွင့္ FWUBC တို႔ပူးေပါင္းေတာင္းဆိုပြဲအခမ္းအနားမွတ္တမ္းပံုမ်ား။
- 65th.Anniversary DawAungSanSuKyi'Birthday
- ဂ်ပန္ေရာက္ျမန္မာနိုင္ငံသားမ်ား၏၂၀၁၀ေရြးေကာက္ပဲြအေပၚသေဘာထားထုတ္ေဖာ္ပဲြ-၁၃-၀၆-၂၀၁၀
- 7th.Anniversary Depeyin Day celebrated in Tokyo,Japan.
- 23-05-2010-NLDေရြးေကာက္ပြဲအႏိုင္ရႏွစ္၂၀ျပည့္အထိမ္းအမွတ္၊ႏိုင္ငံေရးအက်ဥ္းသားမ်ားလႊတ္ေျမာက္ေရးဆႏၵျပပြဲ
- Demo for Free DASSK in Tokyo,Japan-11-01-2010
- ShwegondaingDeclaration-Gateway to National Reconciliation in Union of Burma
- Meeting between FWUBC and Kun Myint Tun at Tokyo,Japan on 22nd.November2009
- စစ္အုပ္စု၏ ၀န္ႀကီးခ်ဳပ္ဆိုသူ သိန္းစိန္အား ေတာေခ်ာက္ပြဲ ( လႊတ္ေတာ္ေရွ ့- တိုက်ိဳ)(06-11-2009)-CREDIT KO THET LINN
- get out Thein Sein from Japan demo at Text Office on 7th.November2009-CREDIT U THAN WIN
- THEIN SEIN QUIT TO GO TO SPDC EMBASSY IN TOKYO AFRAID OF DEMOSTRATION-PHOTO BY MG SHIN
- Meeting between FWUBC and U MG MG general secretary of NCUB & FTUB(Mother Union of FWUBC)
- Free Daw Su & political prisoners demo at Japan Tokyo on 11th.October2009
- ေရႊ၀ါေရာင္ေတာ္လွန္ေရး(၂)ႏွစ္ျပည့္အထိမ္းအမွတ္ႏွင့့္ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံတြင္သံဃာလူပ္ရွားမႈမ်ားေထာက္ခံပြဲ
- 2nd anniversary of saffron-Tokyo Japan ,Credit U Than Win
- 軍事政権の翼賛組織「連邦団結発展協会（ＵＳＤＡ）」のトップが、外務省の招待された 2-CREDIT KOPUOR
- လူသတ္သမား ေဌးဦးႏွင့္အေပါင္းအပါမ်ားအား ေတာထုတ္ပြဲ -CREDIT U THET LINN
- demo in front of MOFA on 24-08-2009
- demo in Japan,Tokyo for free DASSK on 23th.August2009
- Demo at the front of MOFA in Japan (12-08-2009)
- Demonstrate in Japan,Tokyo that The Court sentenced to Daw Aung San Suu Kyi on Tuesday (11-08-2009)
- 21th.Anniversary of 8888 in Tokyo,Japan-2009-AUGUST
- Demo at Japan Tokyo for FREE DAW SU-Jul 30, 2009
- Demo at MOFA on 2nd.July2009
- ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုႀကည္၏၆၄ႏွစ္ျပည့္ေမြးေန ့
၂၀၁၀-၂၀၁၁ FWUBCအလုပ္အမႈေဆာင္စာရင္း
ဥကၠဌ-ဦးတင္ဝင္း
ဒုဥကၠဌ(၁)-ဦးသက္လင္း
ဒုဥကၠဌ(၂)-ဦးဘုန္းလိႈင္
အေထြေထြအတြင္းေရးမဳႉး-ဦးျမင့္ေဆြ
တဲြဘက္အေထြေထြအတြင္းေရးမႉး(၁)ႏွင့္
ဘဣာေရးရာမႉး -ဦးေနေအာင္
တဲြဘက္အေထြေထြအတြင္းေရးမႉး(၂)-ေဒၚသင္းသင္းဦး
အမ်ိဳးသမီးေရးရာမႉး-ေဒၚအတိသႏိၱမာလာ
ဝါဏိစၥေရးရာမႉး-ဦးေက်ာ္မင္းသိန္း
တဲြဘက္ဝါဏိစၥေရးရာမႉး-ဦးဥာဏ္ဝင္း
တဲြဘက္ဝါဏိစၥေရးရာမႉး-ဦးမင္းမင္းထြန္း
တဲြဘက္ဝါဏိစၥေရးရာမႉး-ဦးထြန္းနိုင္ေအး
တဲြဘက္ဝါဏိစၥေရးရာမႉး -ေဒၚေမနွင္းေဝ
စာရင္းအင္းေရးရာမႉး-ဦးသန္းထြန္းနိုင္
နိုင္ငံေရးရာမႉး-ေဒၚျမင့္ျျမင့္လိႈင္
တဲြဖက္နိုင္ငံေရးရာမႉး-ေဒၚညိုညိုစန္း
စည္းရုံးေရးမႉး(၁)-ဦးေအာင္စိုးျမင့္
က်န္းမာေရးရာမႉး-ေဒၚေအးမြန္သြယ္
တဲြဘက္က်န္းမာေရးရာမႉး-ဦးေအာင္ေအာင္မိုး
ျပန္ႀကားေရးရာမႉး-ဦးသန္းဝင္း
တဲြဘက္ျပန္ႀကားေရးရာမႉး-ဦးမင္းညိုဝမ္း
လူမႈေရးရာမႉး-ဦးဂၽြန္မ်ိဳးေအာင္
တဲြဘက္လူမႈေရးရာမႉး-ေဒၚရတနာ
ဒုဥကၠဌ(၁)-ဦးသက္လင္း
ဒုဥကၠဌ(၂)-ဦးဘုန္းလိႈင္
အေထြေထြအတြင္းေရးမဳႉး-ဦးျမင့္ေဆြ
တဲြဘက္အေထြေထြအတြင္းေရးမႉး(၁)ႏွင့္
ဘဣာေရးရာမႉး -ဦးေနေအာင္
တဲြဘက္အေထြေထြအတြင္းေရးမႉး(၂)-ေဒၚသင္းသင္းဦး
အမ်ိဳးသမီးေရးရာမႉး-ေဒၚအတိသႏိၱမာလာ
ဝါဏိစၥေရးရာမႉး-ဦးေက်ာ္မင္းသိန္း
တဲြဘက္ဝါဏိစၥေရးရာမႉး-ဦးဥာဏ္ဝင္း
တဲြဘက္ဝါဏိစၥေရးရာမႉး-ဦးမင္းမင္းထြန္း
တဲြဘက္ဝါဏိစၥေရးရာမႉး-ဦးထြန္းနိုင္ေအး
တဲြဘက္ဝါဏိစၥေရးရာမႉး -ေဒၚေမနွင္းေဝ
စာရင္းအင္းေရးရာမႉး-ဦးသန္းထြန္းနိုင္
နိုင္ငံေရးရာမႉး-ေဒၚျမင့္ျျမင့္လိႈင္
တဲြဖက္နိုင္ငံေရးရာမႉး-ေဒၚညိုညိုစန္း
စည္းရုံးေရးမႉး(၁)-ဦးေအာင္စိုးျမင့္
က်န္းမာေရးရာမႉး-ေဒၚေအးမြန္သြယ္
တဲြဘက္က်န္းမာေရးရာမႉး-ဦးေအာင္ေအာင္မိုး
ျပန္ႀကားေရးရာမႉး-ဦးသန္းဝင္း
တဲြဘက္ျပန္ႀကားေရးရာမႉး-ဦးမင္းညိုဝမ္း
လူမႈေရးရာမႉး-ဦးဂၽြန္မ်ိဳးေအာင္
တဲြဘက္လူမႈေရးရာမႉး-ေဒၚရတနာ
国民民主連盟総選挙勝利記念デモ行進-(27-05-2009)CREDIT KO POUR
Demonstration marching for free Daw Aung San Suu Kyi in Tokyo,Japan 24th.May09-CREDIT-U THAN WIN
FWUBC HELD 8TH ANNIVESARY GENERAL MEETING-26-04-2009
Demo at Tax Office for Free Aung San Su Kyi (14-5-09)-CREDIT U THAN WIN
国民民主連盟声明文の会合-CREDIT KOPUOR
21ST ANNIVERSARY OF BURMA HUMANRIGHTS DAY-2009-MARCH-13-TOKYO JAPAN
FWUBC FIRST GENERAL MEETING
FIRST FTUB GENERAL MEETING-2009-03
BURMA REVOLUTION DAY REVOLATION-TOKYO(credit-kopour)
LINKS
DAW SUU
OUR LEADER AUNG SAN SUU KYI AND HER FATHER NATIONAL HERO GENERAL AUNG SAN-
'It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong', 政府が間違っているとき権利であることは危ない
FWUBC BLOG
SISTER SITE OF FWUBCJAPAN.COM
Demo for Freedom of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi in front of Diet Building inTOKYO-JAPAN(19-2-2009)
WORK SHOP NO. 3
Truth will Conquer
OUR OBJECTIVE AND AIM
1. To organize and protect the Burmese migrant workers living in Japan.
2. To learn from the Japanese Labour Unions about how to organize and manage a free labour union in democratic atmosphere.
3. To support and follow Daw Aung San Suu Kyi in her quest for Democracy in Burma since democracy is the prerequisite to plough a seed of free labour union.
4. To make public about the violation of labour rights and other human rights violtions of fellow worker who have been suffering severely under the militarydictators.
2. To learn from the Japanese Labour Unions about how to organize and manage a free labour union in democratic atmosphere.
3. To support and follow Daw Aung San Suu Kyi in her quest for Democracy in Burma since democracy is the prerequisite to plough a seed of free labour union.
4. To make public about the violation of labour rights and other human rights violtions of fellow worker who have been suffering severely under the militarydictators.
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