တိုင္းရင္းသားလူမ်ဳိးစံုနထိုင္တဲ့မန္မာႏိုင္ငံမွာၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းမႈရွိဖို႔ဆိုရင္မျမႇဳပ္မိုင္းပေပ်ာက္ေရးကိုဆာင္ရြက္ဖို႔လိုအပ္တယ္လို႔ ျမန္မာ့ဒီမိုကေရစီ ေခါင္းေဆာင္ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္က ေျပာပါတယ္။ အစိုးရတပ္ေတြေရာလက္နက္ကိုင္တာ္လွန္ေနတဲ့အဖြဲ႕ေတြပါမျမႇဳပ္မိုင္းေတြအသံုးျပဳေနတဲ့ ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံမွာ ေျမျမႇဳပ္မိုင္း သံုးစြဲမႈရပ္တန္းကရပ္ပါလို႔င္ငံတကာမွာမျမႇဳပ္မိုင္းသံုးစြဲမႈပေပ်ာက္ေရးလႈပ္ရွားေနတဲ့အဖြဲ႕ကတဆင့္ ေျပာၾကားထားတာ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ အေၾကာင္းစံုကို မစုျမတ္မြန္က တင္ျပေပးထားပါတယ္။

ICBLဆိုတဲ့ ႏိုင္ငံတကာ ေျမျမႇဳပ္မိုင္းသံုးစြဲမႈပေပ်ာက္ေရးလႈပ္ရွားမႈအဖြဲ႕ကတဆင့္ဗြီဒီယိုနဲ႔ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ရဲ႕ ေျပာၾကားခ်က္ထဲမွာ သာမန္ အရပ္သား ျပည္သူေတြ၊ လက္နက္ကိုင္ စစ္သားေတြ၊ တိုင္းရင္းသား အဖြဲ႕ေတြပါ ထိခိုက္ေသေက် ဒဏ္ရာရေစတဲ့ ေျမျမႇဳပ္မိုင္းေတြကိုဆက္မသံုးၾကဖို႔ ေတာင္းဆိုထားပါတယ္။ ျပည္ေထာင္စုႀကီးၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းဖို႔ ေျမျမႇဳပ္မိုင္း ပေပ်ာက္ေရးဟာ အေရးႀကီးတယ္လို႔ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္က အခုလို ေျပာၾကားခဲ့တာပါ။

The Union Parliament Speaker of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar or Burma Thura U Shwe Mann met with parliament representatives in Yangon Region and responsible persons of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar Federation of Chambers of Commerce and Industry at the meeting hall of Yangon Region Parliament on Pyay Road Friday afternoon, according to the New Light of Myanmar newspaper.

The leader of Burma’s opposition movement has urged the U.S. Congress to do what it can to make sure that her government adheres to a United Nations Human Rights Council resolution on Burma.

Aung San Suu Kyi told members of Congress a resolution that the U.N. Human Rights Council passed in March is a clear guide for what needs to be done to bring democracy to Burma.

I am a Rohingya Burmese refugee asylum seeker in Australia and I left Burma since the end of 1999 for certain circumstances based on race, political and systematic oppression.

Due to the Burmese military government’s long war against minorities through an ethnic cleansing pogrom, the Rohingya ethnic minority became the most oppressed group and Burma’s first refugees.

I escaped to Malaysia and spent 10 years where I worked with Rohingya refugee organisations and Burmese political opposition groups based in Kuala Lumpur.

In her first appearance before Congress, Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi testified before a House committee on Wednesday in a videotaped address.

The Nobel Peace laureate and well-known pro-democracy activist spoke calmly and deliberately in the video, mentioning little of her own experience of living for much of the past two decades under house arrest.

New Delhi (Mizzima) – Burma’s pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi said on Sunday, her 66thBirthday, that peace was the most important thing as more fighting has broke out in Burma.

National League for Democracy (NLD) General-Secretary Aung San Suu Kyi, 66, gave a five-minute speech at her birthday party at NLD headquarters in Rangoon.

‘In order to develop and prosper, the first thing a country need is peace. So my birthday prayer is that we all can live in peace,’ Suu Kyi said.

She also said that to establish peace, neither a person nor an organization could do it alone. She called for cooperation.

JUNE 20 was World Refugee Day. The Myanmar Ethnic Rohingyas Human Rights Organisation Malaysia (Merh-rom) regrets that there is no change in our condition over the years.

June 20 also marked the 60th anniversary of the 1951 Refugee Convention. We must analyse whether this convention has done enough to protect refugees.

Every year, we see wars and conflicts across the world. This is worrying as more people flee their countries and become refugees, asylum seekers, stateless and displaced persons. While many have found new homes after resettlement to third countries, many more are struggling for survival.

June 14, 2011

A year ago, the world was shocked by reports of Rohingya refugees being beaten and tortured by Thai soldiers. On 20 January 2009, the head of the Thai military promised an investigation into the alleged abuses. One year later, the public is still waiting for the facts to emerge.

'We should remind the government about this promised investigation,' said Chris Lewa of the Arakan Rohingya National Organization, which advocates for the rights of the Rohingya.

The Rohingya, an ethnic Muslim group, were fleeing persecution in Burma, which does not consider them citizens. But rather than finding asylum in Thailand, they were abused and set adrift in motor-less boats. Hundreds reportedly died at sea.

In a photo-essay for the Portfolio section of the Summer 2011 issue of World Policy Journal, Saiful Huq Omi documented the lives of Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh—members of a Muslim minority community who fled persecution at the hands of the military junta that rules Burma, their homeland.

Though preferable in many ways to the oppression they faced in Burma (now officially known as Myanmar), life in Bangladesh is extremely difficult for the Rohingya, many of whom are denied legal status as refugees. Some Rohingya, however, have been granted asylum in places where conditions are less dire, including Britain.

Omi also spent time with a small community of Rohingya now living in Bradford, a city of around 300,000 residents in Northern England.

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Seven Kachin women have been raped in separate attacks by Burmese troops in the country’s north, four of whom were subsequently murdered, a rights group has told DVB.

All incidents occurred in or close to Bhamo district in Kachin state, where additional battalions of Burmese soldiers have been deployed in the past fortnight to fight the insurgent Kachin Independence Army (KIA).

Moon Nay Li, coordinator of the Kachin Women’s Association Thailand (KWAT), said that six women were raped this month – two of the incidents happened in Donbon village, one in Momauk township and three in Nahlon. The three women in Nahlon were then murdered.

NLD General Secretary and People's leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi's 66th birthday and Burma Women's Day were celebrated on 19th June, 2011 in the headquarters of the NLD. CEC members, NLD leaders from States and Divisions, members from NLD townships, veteran politicians, CRPP members and ethnic leaders and diplomats attended the ceremony. Vice Chairman U Tin Oo chaired the ceremony when Daw Khin Saw Mu conducted as the master of ceremony.

(CNN) -- Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi will address members of the U.S. Congress this week, a rare foray into American politics for a woman who is lauded internationally even as she struggles to be heard in her native Myanmar.

Suu Kyi will not be in Washington for Wednesday's hearing of the U.S. House of Representatives' subcommittee focused on Asia and the Pacific. But she will testify via video about conditions in her nation, including on recent elections that drew widespread criticism, U.S. Rep. Don Manzullo said Monday in a statement. Myanmar is also known as Burma.

"This hearing will highlight these sham elections and Burma's difficult road ahead," Manzullo, R-Illinois, said. "I am excited to share the videotaped testimony of (Suu Kyi) so everyone can hear of the junta's continued military offenses against ethnic groups and the dire human rights situation in Burma."

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MAE SOT/MAE LA, Thailand— Oblivious to the late afternoon downpour, six children chase each other near the roadside fence at Mae La, the biggest of nine refugee camps along the Thailand-Burma frontier.

“Please, no photos of the people,” implores a man standing nearby, sheltering against the wall of one of the thousands of timber huts along the roadside. Three of the children are his, although he refuses to give his name, saying only that he crossed to Thailand from Burma's Karen State “more than one year ago” and has been confined to the camp ever since.

Acting on the orders of Tak Provincial Governor Samart Loifah, Thai officials started a headcount in Mae La as well as Umpiem Mai and Nu Pu—the two other camps in Tak province. The census is ongoing, with roughly 40 percent of the estimated 140,000 Burmese refugee population in Thailand unregistered.

Chiang Mai (Mizzima) – The office of the UN secretary-general says a new full-time UN envoy to Burma could be appointed ‘in due time’ as a result of what they say is a willingness of the new Burmese government to work more closely with the UN.

High-ranking delegations from two key Southeast Asian nations visited Naypyidaw and met Burmese President ex-Gen Thein Sein and his key cabinet members this week, while Burma upgrades its relationship with the closest ally, China, to a “strategic partnership.”

GENEVA — Burma’s pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi said Monday her nation yearns for justice and progress, and the international community must help lift its workers' grim conditions.

"Burma must not be allowed to fail and the world must not be allowed to fail Burma," the 65-year-old Nobel laureate told a UN labor conference by videolink, using the Southeast Asian country's former name.

The pro-democracy icon, freed last November after spending much of the past 20 years under house arrest, said her nation once seemed the most likely success story in Southeast Asia but "has fallen behind almost all the other nations in the region."

Suu Kyi won the 1991 Nobel Peace prize for her nonviolent struggle for democracy. She led her National League for Democracy to victory in 1990 elections, but the military junta that led the government refused to recognize the results.

The former junta changed the nation's name to Myanmar, but many democracy supporters and Suu Kyi still call it Burma.

Maungdaw, Arakan State: The Rohingyas who are living in Maungdaw and Buthidaung are facing difficulty while attempting to travel on the Maungdaw-Buthidaung Road, Ahnno, a driver who regularly travels on the road, said.

“The Rohingya from Maungdaw who travel on this road must pay 1,000 kyats at the Burma border security force (Nasaka) gate at three miles, even when they have all of the required documents.”

“The Rohingya from Buthidaung must pay 2,000 kyats at the gate, and if they stay overnight, they must pay 2,000 kyats per day per person.”

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina requested the US government to take initiative after discussion with the Myanmar government to bring back the Rohingya refugees staying in Bangladesh through the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR).

The premier made call when the visiting US Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration Eric P Schwartz called on her at Gono Bhaban in the city on Thursday.

The United States (US) Assistant Secretary for Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration (PRM) Mr Eric P Schwartz Thursday said his country will continue providing humanitarian assistance for Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh.

"The US will continue to provide humanitarian assistance to Bangladesh as the poor and beleaguered Rohingya people have done nothing wrong and did not get their basic rights except persecution and torture by the Myanmar authorities," he told the media at a press briefing at the American Centre at Baridhara in the capital.