Jailed Rohingya MP U Kyaw Min, who was election in the 1990 polls, has been released along with his family. A volunteer with Burma Campaign UK spoke to him this morning: “U Kyaw Min thanked those around the world who have campaigned for the release of political prisoners. He says he is in good health.”

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Foreign Secretary William Hague: "I am delighted to hear that a significant number of political prisoners in Burma have today been released, including 88 Generation and ethnic leaders."

"The release of all political prisoners is a long-standing demand of the international community and I warmly welcome these releases as a further demonstration of the Burmese government’s commitment to reform.

"This is exactly the kind of measure I called for in all my meetings with Burmese government leaders last week. So is this week's much needed ceasefire in the conflict with the Karen people. I hope these positive steps will contribute to greater democratic participation in the upcoming Parliamentary by-elections."

Speaking on 12 January, the Foreign Secretary welcomed the ceasefire between the Burmese government and Karen National Union:

"I welcome the reports that the Burmese government and Karen National Union have signed a ceasefire after 63 years of fighting. This is good news for the people of Burma. It has been a longstanding goal of the international community to see a ceasefire, and indeed it was one of the key issues on which I urged the Burmese government to make progress during my visit last week when I also met with Karen representatives. There is still a long way to go fully to rebuild trust between the parties after so many years of conflict, but this is an important step in the right direction."

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ႏုိင္ငံေရး အရ ဖမ္းခဲ့တာပါ၊ ျပန္လႊတ္တဲ့အခါမွာလဲ ႏုိင္ငံေရး အရ ျပန္လႊတ္လုိက္တာပါလုိ႔ သရက္ေထာင္ကေန ဇန္နဝါရီလ ၁၃ ရက္ေန႔က လြတ္ေျမာက္လာတဲ့ ၈၈ မ်ဳိးဆက္ ေက်ာင္းသားေခါင္းေဆာင္ ကုိမင္းကုိႏုိင္က ေျပာပါတယ္။ ကုိမင္းကုိႏုိင္ဟာ ရန္ကုန္ျပန္ေရာက္တဲ့အခါ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ႏွင့္ ေတြ႕ဆုံမွာျဖစ္ၿပီး အလုပ္ေတြကုိ ဝုိင္းကူညီေပးမွာျဖစ္တယ္လုိ႔ ေျပာပါတယ္။

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Mr. Tomas Ojea Quintana, Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in Burma stated, “Despite being in this region for generations, this population is stateless. This population is not recognized by the Government as one of the ethnic groups of the Union of Myanmar and is subject to discrimination….However the Government allowed them to participate in the referendum on the adoption of the new Constitution…. What is more significant than the possibility to vote for the Constitution of a Nation to show that one belongs to the Nation? If this population was considered apt to give its views on the adoption of the Constitution, then it should be granted all other privileges, including the citizenship, which recognized ethnic groups, citizens of Myanmar do enjoy in the Union.”

We urge upon the U Thein Sein government to treat the Rohingya people humanly, to stop forthwith all human rights violations against Rohingya and other peoples, and to grant, without delay, the civil and political rights of the Rohingya, including their citizenship and ethnic rights in Burma. To these issues we invite the attention of the international community, UN, OIC, EU, ASEAN, U.S., U.K., neighboring countries, NGOs, human rights and humanitarian organizations with a request to exercise their good offices.

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Talks with Karen – the only ethnic group never to have reached a peace deal – are part of efforts to seek international legitimacy

Ethnic Karen men outside talks between Karen leaders and Burmese government ministers in Pa-an. Photograph: Soe Than Win/AFP/Getty Images

Burma's government has signed a ceasefire agreement with ethnic Karen rebels in a major step toward ending one of the world's longest-running insurgencies and meeting a key condition for better ties with the west.

The talks between officials and Karen National Union leaders were part of efforts by Burma's new, nominally civilian government to seek international legitimacy through democratic reforms after years of military repression.

The Karen group has been fighting for greater autonomy for more than 60 years in a guerrilla campaign in eastern jungles that dates back to before Burma's independence from Britain. It has been the only one of Burma's major ethnic groups never to have reached a peace agreement with the government.

"A ceasefire agreement has been signed," Aung Min, head of the government's peace committee, told reporters in the Karen capital, Pa-an, after the talks. Details were not immediately released.

For decades, Burma has been at odds with the ethnic groups who seek greater autonomy, but a military junta that took power in 1988 signed ceasefire agreements with many of them. Some of those pacts were strained as the central government sought to consolidate power, and combat resumed.

However, the new government that took office after elections in November 2010 has embarked on reforms to try to end its international isolation. Western governments had imposed political and economic sanctions on Burma because of repression under the junta.

Ending war with ethnic rebels is one of the conditions set by the west for improved relations, a point emphasised by the US secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, during her recent visit to Burma.

In recent months, the government has held talks with rebel groups to strike new peace deals or rebuild shattered ceasefires. The other groups reportedly involved in talks include the Shan, Karenni, Chin and Kachin.

Ending the long-running ethnic conflicts has also been one of the key demands by Burma's pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi.

"Unless there is ethnic harmony it will be very difficult for us to build up a strong democracy," Aung San Suu Kyi said in an interview with the Associated Press last week.

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ျမန္မာအစိုးရႏွင့္ ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရးေဆြးေႏြးမည့္ လုပ္ငန္းစဥ္၏ ပထမအဆင့္ျဖစ္သည့္ အပစ္အခတ္ရပ္စဲေရး ေဆြးေႏြးမည့္ အစီအစဥ္တြင္္ KNU ဘက္မွ အခ်က္ ၁၁ ခ်က္ ေတာင္းဆိုသြားမည္ဟု သိရသည္။

၁။ တျပည္လံုးအတိုင္းအတာျဖင့္ အပစ္အခတ္ရပ္စဲရမည္။ အထူးသျဖင့္ တိုင္းရင္းသားနယ္ေျမမ်ားတြင္ ျဖစ္ပြားေနသည့္ စစ္ပြဲမ်ားကို အျမန္ဆံုး ရပ္စဲရမည္။
၂။ ေၾကာက္ရႊံ႕ျခင္းကင္းသည့္ ျပည္သူျပည္သားဘ၀အျဖစ္ ရပ္တည္ႏိုင္ရန္ အာမခံရမည္။
၃။ ျပည္သူျပည္သားမ်ားအတြင္း ယံုၾကည္ရသည့္ အေျခအေန တည္ေဆာက္ရန္။
၄။ အေျခခံ ျပည္သူ႔၀န္ေဆာင္မႈလုပ္ငန္းကို ေဆာင္ရြက္ေပးေရးႏွင့္ ေဒသဆိုင္ရာ လူထုႏွင့္ အတိုင္ပင္ခံျပဳသည့္ ဖြံ႔ၿဖိဳးေရးလုပ္ငန္းမ်ားအား အေထာက္အကူေပးရန္။
၅။ ႏိုင္ငံေတာ္၏ သတင္းမီဒီယာမ်ားအား ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရးျဖစ္စဥ္မ်ားတြင္ ပူးေပါင္းေဆာင္ရြက္ေစရန္ႏွင့္ အျခားမီဒီယာမ်ားအား တိက်ေသာ ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရးျဖစ္စဥ္မ်ားဆိုင္ရာ အခ်က္အလက္ ရယူခြင့္ျပဳရန္။
၆။ အတင္းအဓမၼ လုပ္အားေပးခိုင္းေစျခင္း၊ ပံုစံအမ်ိဳးမ်ိဳးျဖင့္ ေငြေၾကးေကာက္ခံျခင္း၊ ေပးကမ္းလွဴဒါန္းခိုင္းျခင္း၊ အျခားအျခားေသာ ေငြေၾကးကူညီေစျခင္း မျပဳရန္။
၇။ အက်ဥ္းသားမ်ားအား လႊတ္ေပးရန္၊ ျပည္သူျပည္သားမ်ားဘ၀ ျပန္လည္ထူေထာင္ေရးႏွင့္ ျပည္သူမ်ား၏ ေျမယာမ်ားကိစၥကို ေျဖရွင္းေပးရန္။
၈။ ႏွစ္ဘက္စလံုးမွ ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရးေျပာဆိုမႈမ်ားႏွင့္ တိုးတက္ေရးနည္းလမ္းမ်ားအား အက်ိဳး ေဆာင္ပံ့ပိုးၾကရန္။
၉။ ေစ့စပ္ညိႇႏိႈင္းမႈစားပြဲ၀ိုုင္းတြင္ ပါ၀င္သည့္ ကိုယ္စားလွယ္မ်ား တရား၀င္မႈရိွေစရန္နွင့္ သက္ဆိုင္ရာ နယ္ေျမမ်ားရိွ ျပည္သူမ်ားႏွင့္ လံုေလာက္သည့္ တိုင္ပင္မႈျပဳခ်ိန္ ရရိွရန္ႏွင့္ ျဖစ္စဥ္အား ျပင္ပမွ ကူညီပံ့ပိုးသူမ်ားအၾကား ရွင္းလင္းသည့္ အခန္းက႑မ်ား ထားရိွရန္။
၁၀။ ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရးျဖစ္စဥ္အတြက္ ေစာင့္ၾကပ္စစ္ေဆးျခင္း၊ စိစစ္အတည္ျပဳျခင္းႏွင့္ တည့္မတ္မွန္ကန္ေအာင္ အစီအစဥ္လုပ္ေဆာင္မႈမ်ား စတင္ရန္။
၁၁။ ဘက္အားလံုးမွ တည္ျမဲသည့္ ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရးကို ေရွးရႈသည့္ လုပ္ေဆာင္မႈမ်ား တိုးတက္ျဖစ္ေပၚေစႏိုင္ရန္ အာမခံသည့္၊ ေပ်ာ့ေျပာင္းညင္သာသည့္ လုပ္ငန္းစဥ္ ထားရိွရန္၊ ဘက္တဖက္အေပၚ သတိမဲ့ ခြင့္ျပဳလိုက္ေလွ်ာသည့္၊ လိုသလို အနက္အဓိပၸာယ္ေကာက္ယူႏိုင္ေသာ ေ၀ါဟာရအသံုးအႏႈန္းမ်ား ပေပ်ာက္ေရးကို လုပ္ကိုင္ရမည္။

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Daw Aung San Suu Kyi is the leading pro-democracy opposition leader in Myanmar and the daughter of Aung San, a martyred national hero, and Khin Kyi, a late Burmese diplomat. She has spent most of the past two decades under detention after her party, the National League for Democracy, won a victory in the 1990 elections but was denied power by the ruling military junta. In the midst of her struggle, she has endured the loss of her husband, Michael Aris, and continued separation from her two sons. She was eventually released from house arrest on November 13, 2010 following the election of a new government, and a year later announced she would rejoin the political system.

Aung San Suu Kyi's reemergence into politics has ushered in a new state of dialogue between Myanmar and the international community, highlighted by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's visit in early December 2011, the first visit from a foreign secretary to the country in over 50 years. She formally registered her National League for Democracy as a political party in December 2011. The government of Myanmar approved the National League for Democracy's registration on January 5, 2012, and the party is ready to begin campaigning for the by-elections to be held on April 1 of this year.

In 1991, Aung San Suu Kyi was awarded the Nobel Peace Price for her non-violent struggle for democracy and human rights.

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နယ္စပ္ျဖတ္ေက်ာ္လူကုန္ကူးခံရမႈ အားလံုးအနက္ အမ်ိဳးသမီးရွားပါးေသာ တရုတ္ႏိုင္ငံဘက္တြင္ ျမန္မာအမ်ိဳးသမီးမ်ားကို ဇနီးမယားအျဖစ္ အေရာင္းစားခံရမႈမွာ အမ်ားဆံုးျဖစ္သည္ဟု လူကုန္ကူးမႈတိုက္ဖ်က္ေရးအဖြဲ႕မ်ား ကဆို သည္။

၂၀၁၀ ခုႏွစ္အတြင္း တရုတ္ျပည္သို႔ ျမန္မာ အမ်ိဳးသမီးမ်ား အေရာင္းစားခံရသည့္ျဖစ္ရပ္မွာ ထိုႏွစ္တစ္ႏွစ္လံုး နယ္စပ္ျဖတ္ေက်ာ္ လူကုန္ကူးခံရမႈအားလံုး၏ ၇၀ ရာခိုင္ႏႈန္းအထိပင္ရွိေၾကာင္း ကုလသမဂၢ လူကုန္ကူးမႈတိုက္ဖ်က္ေရးအဖြဲ႕ UN Inter-Agency Project (UNIAP) အဖြဲ႕က ဆိုသည္။

လူကုန္ကူးမႈတိုက္ဖ်က္ေရးလုပ္ေဆာင္ေနေသာ အဖြဲ႕အစည္းတစ္ခုမွ အရာရွိတစ္ဦးက “လူကုန္ကူးမႈကို တိုက္ဖ်က္တဲ့ေနရာမွာ က်မတို႔ဘက္အျခမ္း (ျမန္မာဘက္) ကခ်ည္းပဲ လုပ္ေနလို႔ မလံုေလာက္ဘူး” ဟု ဆိုသည္။

“လူကုန္ကူးခံရတဲ့သူေတြရဲ႕ ခရီးဆံုးႏိုင္ငံေတြဘက္ကလည္း ထိထိေရာက္ေရာက္ ပူးေပါင္းေဆာင္ရြက္ၾကဖို႔လို တယ္၊ ေစ်းေပါေပါနဲ႔ ရလို႔ဆိုၿပီး ခုိင္းေနတဲ့၊ ေခါင္းပံုျဖတ္ေနတဲ့ စက္ရံုအလုပ္ရံုေတြကို တစ္ဘက္ႏိုင္ငံေတြက ထိထိေရာက္ေရာက္အေရးယူေအာင္ အဲဒီႏိုင္ငံေတြကိုလည္း ဖိအားေပးသင့္တယ္” ဟု အဆိုပါအရာရွိက ျဖည့္စြက္ေျပာဆိုသည္။

ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံဘက္မွ လူကုန္ကူးမႈတိုက္ဖ်က္ေရး (ေခတ္သစ္ေက်းကၽြန္ျပဳမႈမ်ားအား တိုက္ဖ်က္ေရး) အဖြဲ႕အစည္းမ်ားႏွင့္ ေတြ႕ဆံုခဲ့ေသာ မစၥတာစီဒီဘာကာက နယ္စပ္ျဖတ္ေက်ာ္လူကုန္ကူးမႈမ်ားကို အာရံုစိုက္တိုက္ဖ်က္ေနသည့္ တစ္ခ်ိန္တည္းတြင္ တိုင္းျပည္အတြင္းမွာ ပင္ ျဖစ္ေပၚေနသည့္ ေခတ္သစ္ေက်းကၽြန္ျပဳမႈမ်ားကိုလည္း ရွာေဖြေဖာ္ထုတ္တိုက္ဖ်က္သင့္ေၾကာင္း တိုက္တြန္းေျပာဆိုသြားသည္။

အေမရိကန္ႏိုင္ငံျခားေရး ၀န္ႀကီး ဟီလာရီကလင္တန္ ဒီဇင္ဘာလဆန္း၌ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံသုိ႔လာေရာက္ၿပီး ဦးသိန္းစိန္ အစိုးရ၏ ျပဳျပင္ေျပာင္းလဲေရး လုပ္ငန္းမ်ား ဆက္လက္လုပ္ေဆာင္သြားရန္ တိုက္တြန္းခဲ့သည္။ အေမရိကန္ အစိုးရက ခ်မွတ္ထားေသာ စီးပြားေရး ပိတ္ဆို႔မႈကို ရုပ္မသိမ္းေသးေသာ္လည္း ႏွစ္ႏို္င္ငံအၾကား ပညာေရးဆိုင္ရာ ကၽြမ္းက်င္မႈဆိုင္ရာ အကူအညီအခ်ိဳ႕ကိုေပးရန္ သေဘာတူခဲ့သည္။

ႏို္င္ငံျခားေရး ၀န္ႀကီး၏ ခရီးစဥ္အၿပီး တလေက်ာ္အၾကာတြင္ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံဆိုင္ရာ အေမရိကန္မူ၀ါဒ ညွိႏိႈင္းေရးမွဴး ဒဲရစ္မစ္ခ်ဲလ္၊ အထက္လႊတ္ေတာ္အမတ္ႏွင့္ ယခု မစၥတာ ဒီဒီဘာက တို႔လာေရာက္ၾကျခင္း ျဖစ္သည္။


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A work coordination meeting between Union Election Commission (UEC) and respective State/Region and District sub-commissions for holding by-elections to fill up vacant seats in respective parliaments, held at the UEC office in capital Nay-Pyi-Taw Tuesday morning, the New Light of Myanmar reported today.

In his briefing, Chairman of Union Election Commission, U Tin Aye said that to take lesson from the experience gained in previous elections; measures are to be taken to ensure free and fair election in the upcoming by-election. It is also necessary to supervise the political parties in accord with the law, he said.

The junta-backed Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP), led by ex-general Thein Sein, takes hold of 259 seats out of 325 in the House of Representatives, 129 seats out of 168 in the House of Nationalities and 495 seats out of 661 in regional parliament respectively during the last 7 November 2010 polls.

However, the USDP was accused of tampering with advance ballots, and bribing or menacing voters. Spokespersons for the National Democratic Force (NDF), the Democratic Party (Myanmar) and the All Mon Region Democracy Party (AMRDP) alleged that the vote-counting was seriously out of order. Opposition parties said their members had witnessed ballot boxes full of advance votes being brought into polling stations for counting after the polls had closed.

The Asian Network For Free Elections (ANFREL) released a statement dated 9 November 2010 criticizing ballot counting procedures made by the Union Election Commission (UEC). It said the counting process was not made transparent to the public and the media beginning with the first advance voting period.

The complaints about the previous 2010 polls ranged from lack of transparency in vote-counting to no privacy in many of the nation's nearly 40,000 polling booths. Parties also complained of threats from local authorities and forced early voting for the junta's proxy party. Most of the leaders from opposition parties stated unanimously that this election is totally far away from free, fair and openness.

Concerning 2010 election, the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, who just released from house-arrest, told the BBC, "From what I have heard, there are many, many questions about the fairness of the election, and there were many allegations of vote-rigging, and so on."

On the contrary, during 10 January coordination meeting between UEC and respective State/Region and District sub-commissions for holding by-elections, the UEC chairman added that a systematic measure needs to be adopted to disseminate knowledge about the election to the people and develop check and balance system among the political parties. Election process must be carried out in accordance with the law without any bias and malpractices, said the chairman.

After that, the participants discussed processes of by-election. The coordination meeting came to an end with the concluding remarks by the UEC chairman Tin Aye, a former general.

Critics criticized the previous 2010 voting was rigged and premeditated to protected the supremacy of the military, which has ruled Burma for five decades. 

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အီတလီ-ျမန္မာ ခ်စ္ၾကည္ေရးအသင္းအေနျဖင့္ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္အား အီတလီႏိုင္ငံ၏ ဂုဏ္ထူးေဆာင္ ႏိုင္ငံသားအျဖစ္ခြင့္ျပဳရန္ အီတလီအစိုးရထံ တင္ျပ ထားေၾကာင္း အီတလီ-ျမန္မာခ်စ္ ၾကည္ေရးအသင္း ဥကၠ႒ Mr.Joseph Malpeliက ေျပာသည္။

အဆိုပါ အသင္းအေနျဖင့္ ျမန္မာျပည္သူမ်ားႏွင့္ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္၏ စိတ္ကူးမ်ားအား အေကာင္အထည္ေဖာ္ ေထာက္ပံ့ေပးရန္ ဖြဲ႕စည္းတည္ေထာင္ထားျခင္းျဖစ္ ၿပီး ယခုႏွစ္အေတာအတြင္း ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္အား အီတလီႏိုင္ငံ၏ ဂုဏ္ထူးေဆာင္ ႏိုင္ငံသားအျဖစ္ ခြင့္ျပဳရန္ အီတလီ အစိုးရထံအသင္းမွ တင္ျပေတာင္းဆုိ ထားေၾကာင္း ၄င္းကဆိုသည္။

“ကြၽန္ေတာ္တို႔အေနနဲ႔ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံအေပၚ ေလးစားခ်စ္ခင္တဲ့အျပင္ အမ်ားႀကီးကူညီမႈေတြ ေပးသြားဖို႔ ရွိပါတယ္။ ကြၽန္ေတာ္တို႔ရဲ႕ အီတလီ-ျမန္မာ ခ်စ္ၾကည္ေရးအသင္း အေနနဲ႔ အနာဂတ္မွာ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံနဲ႔ ယဥ္ေက်းမႈဖလွယ္ေရး၊ ျပည္ပမွာ သြားေရာက္ပညာသင္ၾကားႏိုင္ေရးနဲ႔ ျမန္မာအမ်ိဳးသမီးမ်ား အား ေထာက္ပံ့ကူညီေရး အစီအ စဥ္ေတြကို လုပ္ေဆာင္သြားဖို႔ရွိပါတယ္။ အီတလီႏိုင္ငံအပါအဝင္ ဥေရာပႏိုင္ငံေတြအေနနဲ႔ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ရဲ႕ ဒီမိုကေရစီအေရး လႈပ္ရွားမႈအေပၚ ႏွစ္ေထာင္းအား ရ ေက်နပ္မႈရွိတဲ့အျပင္ အသိအမွတ္လည္း ျပဳပါတယ္” ဟု ထပ္မံေျပာၾကားခဲ့သည္။

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