Burma News International - January 21, 2013

Burma News International Burma News International January 21, 2013 Despite Kachin “ceasefire” fighting continues Less than a day after the Burma's government announced all military offensives against the Kachin Independence Organization (KIO) would stop, fighting has continued unabated across Kachin state, including areas close to the KIO Laiza headquarters and jade-rich Hpakant (Phakant) region in the far west. KIO accuse Burmese army of breaking ceasefire Kachin ethnic minority rebels in war-torn northern Burma accused the military of launching a fresh attack Sunday, just days after a ceasefire pledge by the country's reformist government. Govt uses ceasefire as tactic to deflect international concerns Two of Burma’s most significant opposition alliances have united to condemn the government’s escalation of the Kachin conflict and criticize the ceasefire it announced on Saturday. SSA “keeping our side of the bargain” Speaking during the 4-day annual meeting of the Restoration Council of Shan State/ Shan State Army (RCSS/SSA) which ended Saturday, 19 January, the movement’s supreme leader Lt Gen Yawdserk said it had strictly adhered to the ceasefire agreement made with Naypyitaw since 2 December 2011. Demonstration against army confiscating land in Gwa Gwa: Local residents held a demonstration on Friday near the army battalions in Gwa in southern Arakan State demanding the return of farmlands and coconut plantations they said was forcibly confiscated by the army. Army pressures Rohingya orchid farmers to sell wood The Burma army is pressuring Rohingya orchid farmers to sell their trees for wood to make bricks for a new highway in Maungdaw Township. State Gov’t not to pursue role in Mon National Day Min Lyon – Members of the Mon State government have reversed an earlier request to participate in planning activities leading up to the 66th Mon National Day. Arakanese leaders decide to build unity in their workshop discussion Arakanese leaders said they have decided to build unity among Arakanese nationalities in their recent workshop discussion. Gov’t press release reveals troop casualties in Kachin Min Thu Ta – Since fighting resumed in 2011 between the Kachin Independence Organization (KIO) and the Tatmadaw, Burma’s government army, a large number of government troops have been killed or seriously wounded, according to a press release by the Republic of the Union of Myanmar Information Team on January 18. UN Sec-Gen welcomes ceasefire, but Kachins say fighting continues United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has welcomed the Burmese government’s unilateral declaration of a ceasefire in Kachin State and is following the various reports from the ground on its implementation, his spokesperson said on Sunday. Memorial prayer service for Padoh David Taw A memorial prayer service was held for Padoh Saw David Taw, the late leader of Karen National Union who was also a member of peace committee, after a hundred days of his death at Hsa Thoo Lei Learning Center in the Thai border town of Mae Sot, Tak Province on Saturday, January 19. Mon MPs address Union Parliament Min Thu Ta – Two Mon members of parliament (MPs) addressed the sixth session of the Pyidaungsu Hlutaw, or Union Parliament, in Burma’s capital of Naypyidaw last Wednesday. Burma govt meets with Chinese military team Qi Jianguo, a senior officer in the Chinese armed forces, expressed his government’s hope that Burma would settle peacefully its conflict with the Kachin ethnic group and safeguard tranquility along the two countries’ mutual border, according to a report on Sunday in China’s official Xinhua News Agency. Chinese predict June opening for Burma pipeline The trans-Burma oil and gas pipelines are expected to be completed on May 30, according to Chinese contractor Gao Jianguo, the head of the project under the China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC), according to a report on Monday by the Chinese national news agency, Xinhua. Thai Interior Minister cools refugee repatriation talk Senior Thai officials, including the Minister of Interior, visited Mae La refugee camp in Tha Song Yang district of Tak Province to assess the situation of refugees on Thursday, January 13. Burma releases protesters but anti-protest laws stay in place Following the release of four protesters last week, an international advocacy group, Burma Campaign UK, called on the Burma government to stop using vague and undemocratic laws to jail its opponents. ဗန္းေမာ္ - လြယ္ဂ်ယ္ကားလမ္းတြင္ ဗုံးကြဲ၊ ခရီးသည္ ၂၀ ေက်ာ္ ဒဏ္ရာရ KIA ႏွင့္ အစိုးရစစ္တပ္တို႔ ႏွစ္ဘက္ တိုက္ပြဲမ်ား ျပင္းထန္စြာ ျဖစ္ပြားေနေသာ  ကခ်င္ျပည္နယ္ ဗန္းေမာ္ - လြယ္ဂ်ယ္ ကားလမ္းေပၚတြင္ ယခုလ ၁၉ ရက္ေန႔ ေန႔လည္ ၁၂ နာရီခြဲခန႔္က ခရီးသည္တင္ယာဥ္တန္း မ်ား ျဖတ္သန္းေနစဥ္ ဗုံးတစ္လုံးကြဲခဲ့ရာ ယာဥ္ေပၚပါ ခရီးသည္ ၂၂ ဦးခန႔္ ဒဏ္ရာရရွိခဲ့ေၾကာင္း သိရသည္။ ပထမဆုရ စစ္ကိုင္းတုိင္း ေဘာ္လံုးအသင္းတြင္ ခ်င္းေက်ာင္းသား ႏွစ္ဦးပါဝင္ ၂၀၁၂-၁၃ ပညာသင္ႏွစ္၊ ဒုတိယအႀကိမ္ အေျခခံပညာေက်ာင္းသား အားကစားၿပိဳင္ပြဲတြင္ ပထမ အဆင့္ ရရွိသည့္ စစ္ကိုင္းတိုင္းေဒသႀကီး ေဘာ္လံုးအသင္းတြင္ ခ်င္းေက်ာင္းသား ႏွစ္ဦးပါဝင္သည္ဟု သိရသည္။ ရခိုင္ဖြံ႔ၿဖိဳးေရး ေကာ္ပိုေရးရွင္းႏွင့္ ေဒသခံမ်ားေဆြးေႏြးပြဲသုိ႔ ရခုိင္ျပည္နယ္ ၀န္ႀကီးခ်ဳပ္ တက္ေရာက္ ရခိုင္ျပည္နယ္ ေက်ာက္ျဖဴၿမိဳ႕တြင္ ယမန္ေန႕က ျပဳလုပ္ခဲ့ေသာ ရခိုင္ဖြံ႔ၿဖိဳးေရးေကာ္ပိုေရးရွင္း လီမိတက္ (Rakhine Development Corporation Limited)တာ၀န္ရွိသူမ်ားႏွင့္ ေဒသခံ ျပည္သူမ်ား ေတြ႕ဆံု ေဆြးေႏြး ပြဲသုိ႕ ရခုိင္ျပည္နယ္ ၀န္ႀကီးခ်ဳပ္ ဦးလွေမာင္တင္ တက္ေရာက္ခဲ့သည္ဟု သိရသည္။ မဲေဆာက္ၿမိဳ႕ရွိ မီးေဘးသင့္ အလုပ္သမားမ်ားကို JACBA မွ ပစၥည္းမ်ားလႉဒါန္း ထိုင္းႏိုင္ငံ မဲေဆာက္ၿမိဳ႕၊ ကန္႔ပိဘန္းရပ္ကြက္ရွိ SPT သိုးေမြးစက္႐ံုအေရွ႕ ျပင္ပတန္းလ်ား မီးေလာင္၍ ဒုကၡ ေရာက္ေနသည့္ မီးေဘးသင့္ အလုပ္သမား ၅၀၀ ခန္႔ကို ျမန္မာျပည္သားမ်ားအေရး ပူးတြဲလႈပ္ရွားမႈေကာ္မတီ- JACBA အဖြဲ႔မွ ပစၥည္းမ်ား ယေန႔ သြားေရာက္လႉဒါန္းခဲ့သည္။ အာဏာပုိင္ေတြက မီးသတ္ကားသယ္ယူရန္ မတရားေငြေကာက္ခံ ဗဟုိအစိုးရမွ ထုတ္ေပးထားသည့္ မီးသတ္ကားသယ္ယူရန္ လမ္းစားရိတ္အတြက္ မင္းတပ္ၿမိဳ႕ မီးသတ္ဦးစီး ဌာနႏွင့္ ၿမိဳ႕မိၿမိဳ႕ဖ လူႀကီးေတြက ၿမိဳ႕ေပၚ ကုန္စုံဆုိင္မ်ားထံ အကန္႔အသတ္မဲ့ ေငြေကာက္ ခံေနေၾကာင္း သိရသည္။ နမ့္ခမ္းၿမိဳ႕တြင္ ေဘာ့လုံးေလာင္းကစားလုပ္ငန္း လြတ္လပ္စြာလုပ္ကိုင္ေန သၽွမ္းျပည္ေျမာက္ပိုင္း၊ နမ့္ခမ္းၿမိဳ႕တြင္ ေဘာ့လုံးေလာင္းကစားလုပ္ငန္းကို အဖမ္းအဆီးမရွိ လြတ္လပ္စြာ လုပ္ကိုင္ေနေၾကာင္း စုံစမ္းသိရွိရသည္။ ဒု-ဦးစီးမွဴးႏွင့္ ေက်းရြာအုပ္ခ်ဳပ္ေရးမွဴး ပူးေပါင္း၍ လယ္သမားမ်ားထံမွ စပါးသိမ္း ရခိုင္ျပည္နယ္ မင္းျပားၿမိဳ႕နယ္ သက္ဖုန္ ေက်းရြာတြင္ လယ္သမားမ်ားပိုင္ေသာ စပါးမ်ားကို ၿမိဳ႕နယ္ ဒုဦးစီးမွဴးႏွင့္ ေက်းရြာ အုပ္ခ်ဳပ္ေရးမွဴးတို႕က သိမ္းယူေနသည္ဟု ေက်းရြာသားမ်ားက ေျပာသည္။ အစိုးရ၏ လုပ္ေဆာင္ခ်က္မ်ားကို လူ႔ေဘာင္သစ္ အားမရ ျမန္မာနုိင္ငံ၏ အေျပာင္းအလဲကာလတြင္ အစိုးရ၏ လုပ္ေဆာင္ခ်က္မ်ားကို အားမရေၾကာင္း လူ႔ေဘာင္သစ္ ဒီမိုကရက္တစ္ပါတီ (DPNS) အေထြေထြ အတြင္းေရးမွဴး ဦးေငြလင္း က ဆိုသည္။ အုန္းသီးႏွင့္ အုန္းသားေစ်း က်ဆင္း၍ ရခိုင္ အုန္းျခံလုပ္ငန္းရွင္မ်ား အခက္ေတြ႔ ရခိုင္ျပည္နယ္၊ သံတြဲႏွင့္ ဂြၿမိဳ႕နယ္မ်ားမွ ထြက္ေသာ အုန္းျခံမ်ားမွာ သီးထြက္ႏႈန္း ေကာင္းေသာ္လည္း အုန္းသီးႏွင့္ အုန္းသား ေရာင္းရေစ်းႏႈန္း က်ဆင္းေန၍ အရံႈးေပၚလ်က္ရွိေၾကာင္း ေဒသခံ အုန္းျခံလုပ္ငန္း ရွင္မ်ားက ဆိုသည္။ Forward to a friend  Burma News International is an unique network of eleven independent media organizations: Mizzima News, Shan Herald Agency for News, Phop Htaw News Agency, Khonumthung News Group, Narinjara News, Kaladan Press Network, Independent Mon News Agency, Network Media Group, Kantarawaddy Times, Karen Information Center and Kachin News Group. 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