(1) Labour activist arrested in Mandalay after protest : Source : DVB
8-Aug-12
Police detained labour activist Aye
Thein who was assisting vendors that were protesting potential relocation in Mandalay’s Kidan Market
yesterday.
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(2) Suu Kyi to head ‘rule of law’ committee : Source : DVB
8-Aug-12
The Parliament’s Lower House formed
the “Committee for Rule of Law and Tranquility” yesterday and appointed Aung
San Suu Kyi as its chairperson after receiving approval from the country’s
legislative representatives.
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(3) Human rights commission recognises Kachin abuses : Source : DVB
7-Aug-12
Burma’s national human rights
commission (MNHRC) has accused the army of committing serious abuses against
civilians in Kachin state, in the wake of a five-day mission of inquiry to the
conflict-torn region.
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(4) Karen National Union, peace committee hold preliminary talks : Source : DVB
7-Aug-12
The government’s Peace Making Work
Committee and a Karen National Union delegation met in the Burmese border town
of Myawaddy in
eastern Karen state on Sunday to discuss an upcoming meeting later this month.
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(5) Renewed violence breaks out in Arakan state : Source : DVB
7-Aug-12
Sectarian clashes between Arakanese
and Rohingya residents have left three people dead in Burma, a
government official said today, amid growing international concern about the
sectarian unrest.
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(6) Official Support for 88 Rallies : Source : RFA
2012-08-08
The Burmese government reaches out to a democracy
movement the former military regime had crushed.
Activists in Burma held officially backed rallies in
two cities Wednesday to publicly commemorate for the first time the sensitive
anniversary of massive democracy protests that were ultimately crushed by the
former military regime 24 years ago.
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(7) Fallen Honored but Work Not Yet Done : Source : Irrawaddy
8-Aug-12
RANGOON—For
the last 24 years, making offerings to monks or falling silent in prayer to
honor those killed in the historic 1988 popular uprising has been considered
taboo in Burma.
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(8) Rights Envoy Meets Burmese Exiles : Source : Irrawaddy
8-Aug-12
The United Nations human rights
envoy for Burma, Tomas Ojea
Quintana, was in the Thai border town of Mae
Sot on Tuesday to discuss rights issues with Burmese
exiles and ethnic groups based in the area.
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(9) Min Ko Naing’s 88 Uprising Video Tribute : Source : Irrawaddy
8-Aug-12
“Today is the day when we came out among the
explosives and cheered our slogan. We were beaten by the butts of guns and
batons on the street during our demonstration,” Min Ko Naing, a leader of 88
Generation Students group, said in a video speech to mark the 24th anniversary
of the popular uprising.
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(10) Website of Burmese Information Ministry hacked : Source : Mizzima
Wednesday, 08 August 2012 12:54 Myo
Thant
Rangoon (Mizzima)
– Hackers broke into the website of the Burmese Information Ministry on
Tuesday, posting a threatening message to the Burmese government which said in
part, “Stop the killing of Muslims.”
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(11) The Day a New Burma was Born : Source : Irrawaddy
8-Aug-12
RANGOON — When he woke up early on a
drizzling Monday morning in August 24 years ago, Sanny, then 21 years old,
probably had no idea that the day would end in tragedy. He was in high spirits
when he left home at 7:30 to attend a downtown demonstration. He wasn’t worried
about a thing—just very excited.
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(12) Burmese speaker hopes to rush passage of Foreign Investment Law : Source : Mizzima
Wednesday, 08 August 2012 15:26
Mizzima News
The speaker of the Burmese Lower
House of Parliament has called for the legislative body to move the new Foreign
Investment Law on to the Upper House in not more than seven days.
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(13) US Urges Bangladesh to Allow Rohingya Aid : Source : Irrawaddy
8-Aug-12
WASHINGTON DC—The
United States on Tuesday urged the Bangladeshi government to permit
non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to carry out humanitarian assistance to
displaced Rohingyas and expressed deep concern that certain relief work had been
shut down.
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(14)
UN appeals to Bangladesh
to allow aid groups to work :
Source : Mizzima
Wednesday, 08 August 2012 13:15
Mizzima News
The UN has told Bangladesh that its decision to ban activities
by three humanitarian aid groups with unregistered people from Burma’s Rakhine State
will have a “serious humanitarian impact.”
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(15)
Burma
will sign agreement for South Korean-built power plant : Source : Mizzima
Wednesday, 08 August 2012 15:15
Mizzima News
Burma will sign an agreement later this year to build a natural
gas-fired power plant in Tharkayta
Township to help meet
electricity demands in the country, the Ministry of Electric Power-2 has
announced.
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(16) Floods leave 6,000 homeless in Hpa-an Town : Source : Karen
8-Aug-12
The Karen State Chief Minister, U Zaw Min,
said on August 7 that as many as 6,000 people have been left homeless after
severe flooding in Hpa-an Town area of Karen State.
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(17) KNLA and government’s militia fight – four soldiers killed : Source : Karen
7-Aug-12
Fighting between the Karen National
Liberation Army and the government’s Border Guard Force resulted in four BGF
being killed two KNLA soldiers wounded. The firefight between the government’s
militia and the Karen army broke out on August 5, in Mae Seik village, Papun Township
in northern Karen
State.
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(18) Peace process one step closer one year after : Source : Panglong
Wednesday, 08 August 2012 13:27 Khio
Fah
As the first anniversary of
President Thein Sein’s call for peace talks draws near, most non-Burman armed
movements that either have concluded ceasefire agreements of are still
negotiating say they are getting one step closer now though there is still “an
awful lot” to be done.
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(19) Norwegian NGO and Burma’s immigration ministry pilot citizen ID program in Karen State : Source : Karen
7-Aug-12
Burma’s Ministry of Immigration and
Population (MOIP) in Hpa-An, Karen State along with the Norwegian Refugee
council (NRC), has jointly launched a new program aiming to speed-up the
distribution of Citizen Scrutiny Cards (CSC’s) to populations in remote areas
of Burma.
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