Burma News International - March 8, 2013

Burma News International Burma News International March 8, 2013 Villagers lose land to gold mining companies Villagers in the Kwingalay claim gold mining companies have taken over lands that they used for cultivation. Villagers allege that a Burmese, Thai and Chinese company based in Rangoon is overseeing contract gold mining projects in Karen National Union controlled areas, near Kwingalay village in Thaton Township, Mon State. Authorities torch Myawaddy illegal gambling casino District police and officials arrested people working at a gambling facility in Myawaddy, Karen State, and then burnt the casino. The raid took place last weekend. Burma Army Grabs Villagers Land to Make Way for Development Projects A new report – Losing Ground – by the Karen Human Rights Group documenting the land grabs by the Burma Army in Karen State was released this week in Bangkok at the Foreign Correspondent’s Club of Thailand. Government’s curriculum minifies core principles of Myanmar’s ethnic literature Late last year, Myanmar’s Ministry of Education (MOE) and chief of peace negotiator, Railway Minister U Aung Min, approved a reform that allowed for Mon language to be taught in government schools throughout the country. Dope peddlers in khaki: Report Shan Human Rights Foundation (SHRF)’s latest report has accused both police and military authorities of “making money out of the (drug) issues, instead of trying to address them” and violating human rights in the process. Burma govt and KIO meet again in Ruili Kachin Independence Organization (KIO) leaders will go to bat once again with the Union Peace-making Working Committee during the latest round of peace talks in the Chinese border town of Ruili this Monday.  Since the 17-year ceasefire crumbled on June 9, 2011, the KIO has met with government peace representatives both formally and informally 12 times with little success in ending the conflict. Amnesty calls for continued human rights monitoring in Myanmar Amnesty International has appealed to the UN Human Rights Council to continue closely monitoring the human rights situation in Myanmar in light of President Thein Sein's visit to Europe. German car rally reaches Inlay A car rally from Germany comprising 54 travelers in 29 vehicles arrived on March 3 at Inlay in Myanmar’s Shan State after passing safely through the Indo-Myanmar border. Myanmar, Russia pledge cooperation on defense This week’s visit to Naypyitaw by Russian Defence Minister Sergey Shoigu is being seen by defense and intelligence analysts IHS Jane’s as a sign that the two nations are enhancing military cooperation. Myanmar police go high tech The Myanmar police force are to be equipped with the latest technology to meet international standards, the chief of police announced at the Pyithu Hluttaw (Lower House of Parliament) session in Naypyitaw on March 4. The Shan-Kayah Trust-building for Peace conference: the KNPP Perspective It is learned that about 25 armed-groups, political parties were invited to participate in the Shan-Kayah (Karenni) Trust-building for Peace forum. The Karenni National Progressive Party (KNPP) is among 13armed groups that have participated in the peace process at the state and union levels. Despite his tight schedule, the S.H.A.N was able to reach Khu Oo Reh, the first secretary of KNPP. ၀ုိင္းေမာ္ၿမိဳ႕နယ္ မုန္ဂါဇြပ္ ဒုကၡသည္စခန္း ေရမလုံေလာက္ ကခ်င္ျပည္နယ္ ဝုိင္းေမာ္ၿမိဳ႕နယ္ အတြင္းရွိ တရုတ္ျမန္မာနယ္စပ္ မုန္ဂါဇြပ္ (Mungga Zup) ဒုကၡသည္ စခန္းတြင္ ေရေလွာင္ကန္ႏွင့္ ေရပိုက္မ်ား အခက္ခဲျဖစ္ေနေသာေၾကာင့္ ေရသုံးစြဲမႈ မလုံမေလာက္ျဖစ္ေနေၾကာင္း သိရသည္။ သမၼတ ဦးသိန္းစိန္ ႏိုဘယ္လ္ ဆုရွင္ စာရင္းပါေသာ္လည္း မာလာလာႏွင့္ ကလင္တန္တို႕ ထိပ္ကေျပးေန ၂၀၁၃ ခုႏွစ္ ႏိုဘယ္လ္ ဆုရွင္အျဖစ္ အဆိုျပဳခံရသူ စာရင္းတြင္ ျမန္မာ သမၼတ ဦးသိန္းစိန္ ပါ၀င္ေနေသာ္လည္း  ပါကိစၥတန္ ေက်ာင္းသူ မာလာလာႏွင့္ အေမရိကန္ သမၼတ ေဟာင္း ဘီလ္ကလင္တန္တို႕မွာ  ေရႊးခ်ယ္ခံရမည့္ စာရင္းတြင္ ေရွ႕ဆံုးကေန ေျပးေနေၾကာင္း သိရသည္။ ႀကီးၾကပ္မႈ ဗဟုိအဖြဲ႔ ရွိေနျခင္းအား ပုံႏိွပ္ထုတ္ေဝသူအခ်ိဳ႕ ကန္႔ကြက္ ျပည္သူ႔လႊတ္ေတာ္သို႔ မတ္လ ၇ ရက္က တင္ျပခဲ့ေသာ ပုံႏွိပ္ျခင္းႏွင့္ ထုတ္ေဝျခင္း ဥပေဒမူၾကမ္းတြင္ ပုံႏွိပ္သူမ်ား၊ ထုတ္ေဝသူမ်ား မွတ္ပုံတင္ႏွင့္ ျဖန္႔ခ်ီေရးလုပ္ငန္းမ်ား ႀကီးၾကပ္မႈ ဗဟုိ အဖြဲ႔ရွိေနျခင္း အေပၚ ပုံႏွိပ္သူအခ်ိဳ႕က ကန္႔ကြက္ခဲ့သည္။ ျမန္မာ့ လူ႔အခြင့္အေရး အေျခအေနမ်ားကို ဆက္လက္ေစာင့္ၾကည့္ရန္ AI တိုက္တြန္း သမၼတ ဦးသိန္းစိန္၏ ဥေရာပ ခရီးစဥ္ အတြင္းတြင္ အျပည္ျပည္ဆိုင္ရာ လြတ္ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းသာ ခြင့္ အဖြဲ႔ (AI) က ေၾကညာခ်က္ တေစာင္ ထုတ္ျပန္ၿပီး ကုလသမၼဂၢ လူ႔အခြင့္အေရးေကာင္စီ အေနျဖင့္ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံ အတြင္းရွိ လူ႔အခြင့္အေရး အေျခအေနမ်ားကုိ အနီးကပ္ ဆက္လက္ ေစာင့္ၾကည့္သြားရန္ တိုက္တြန္း လိုက္သည္။ ခ်င္းေတာင္တြင္ ေဒသဖြံ႔ၿဖိဳးေရးလုပ္ငန္းမ်ား မၾကာခင္ စတင္မည္ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံ၏ အဆင္းရဲဆံုး ျပည္နယ္တခုျဖစ္ေသာ ခ်င္းျပည္နယ္တြင္ လူထုအေျချပဳ ဖြံ႔ၿဖိဳးေရးလုပ္ငန္းမ်ားကို (World Bank) ကမၻာ့ဘဏ္က ယခုႏွစ္မွ စတင္၍ အေကာင္အထည္ ေဖာ္ေတာ့ မည္ဟု သိရသည္။ ကခ်င္ ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရး လမ္းေလွ်ာက္သူမ်ားကုိ KIO မွ ႀကိဳဆုိမည္ ကခ်င္ျပည္နယ္ ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရးအတြက္ ရန္ကုန္ၿမိဳ႕မွ လုိင္ဇာၿမိဳ႕ထိ လမ္းေလွ်ာက္လာသူမ်ားအား ႀကိဳဆုိရန္ ကခ်င္ျပည္ လြတ္လပ္ေရးအဖြဲ႔ KIO က ေကာ္မတီအဖြဲ႔တခုကုိ ယေန႔ ေသာၾကာေန႔တြင္ ဖြဲ႔စည္းလုိက္သည္ဟု ေကာ္မတီေခါင္းေဆာင္ တဦးျဖစ္သူ အရပ္ဘက္အရာရွိ ဦးဒြဲပီဆားက ေျပာသည္။ ႏုိင္ငံတကာအမ်ိဳးသမီးမ်ားေန႔ မဲေဆာက္ၿမိဳ႕ ျမန္မာေရႊ႕ေျပာင္းအမ်ိဳးသမီး ၂၀၀ ခန္႔ ခ်ီတက္လမ္းေလွ်ာက္ ယေန႔ က်ေရာက္သည့္ ၁၀၂ ႀကိမ္ေျမာက္ ႏုိင္ငံတကာ အမ်ိဳးသမီးမ်ားေန႔တြင္ ထိုင္းႏိုင္ငံ-မဲေဆာက္ၿမိဳ႕ရွိ ျမန္မာေရႊ႕ေျပာင္း အမ်ိဳး သမီးအဖြဲ႔အစည္းမ်ားမွ လူဦးေရ ၂၀၀ ခန္႔ အမ်ိဳးသမီးအခြင့္အေရး ဆိုင္းဘုတ္မ်ား ကိုင္ေဆာင္၍ ခ်ီတက္ လမ္းေလွ်ာက္ခဲ့ၾကသည္။ တအာင္းပေလာင္ေဒသ ရက္ပုိင္းအတြင္း တုိက္ပဲြ ပုိစိပ္လာ တအာင္း (ပေလာင္) အမ်ိဳးသား လြတ္ေျမာက္ေရး တပ္မေတာ္ TNLA တပ္ဖြဲ႕ႏွင့္ အစိုးရ တပ္ဖြဲ႕တို႕ ယေန႕နံက္ (၉) နာရီ အခ်ိန္က ႐ွမ္းျပည္ ေျမာက္ပိုင္း နမ့္ဆန္ၿမိိဳ႕နယ္တြင္း၌ ရင္ဆိုင္ တိုက္ပြဲ ၂ ႀကိမ္ျဖစ္ပြား ခဲ့သည္ဟု အဖြဲ႕၏ ေျပာခြင့္ရ ဗိုလ္မႈဳး တာဘုန္း ေက်ာ္က ဆိုသည္။ Geneva စာခ်ဳပ္အၿပီး ကေလးအခြင့္အေရး ခ်ိဳးေဖာက္မႈ မေတြ႔ရ UN မွတ္တမ္းအရ ကေလးအခြင့္အေရး ခ်ိဳးေဖာက္တဲ့ထဲမွာ ကရင္နီအဖြဲ႔ ပါ၀င္ေနေပမဲ့ နားလည္မႈ စာခၽြန္လႊာ ေရးထိုးၿပီးတဲ့ေနာက္ပိုင္း လက္နက္ကိုင္ ပဋိပကၡနဲ႔ ပါတ္သက္လို႔ ကေလးအခြင့္အေရး ခ်ိဳးေဖာက္မႈ မေတြ႔ရေၾကာင္း Geneva ကဆိုပါတယ္။ ၈၈ မ်ဴိးဆက္ေက်ာင္းသားမ်ား ခ်င္းျပည္နယ္သို႔ေရာက္ ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရး ႏွင့္ ပြင့္လင္း လူ႔အဖြဲ႔အစည္း ေဖာ္ေဆာင္ေရး ေဟာေျပာရန္ ကိုမင္းကိုႏုိင္ ဦးေဆာင္ေသာ ၈၈ မ်ဴိး ဆက္ေက်ာင္းသား အဖြဲ႔ မေန႔က ခ်င္းျပည္နယ္ တီးတိန္ၿမိဳ႕သုိ႔ ေရာက္ရွိ ခဲ့သည္။ ကယားျပည္နယ္၏ အဓိက လိုအပ္ခ်က္မ်ား EU မွ လာေရာက္ေလ့လာ ကယား(ကရင္နီ)ျပည္နယ္ ေဒသဖြံ႕ၿဖိဳးေရး လုပ္ငန္းအတြက္ စီမံကိန္း ေရးဆြဲႏိုင္ရန္ အမွန္တကယ္ လိုအပ္သည့္ ေဒသ မ်ားအတြက္ သတင္းအခ်က္အလက္မ်ားကို EU မွ လာေရာက္ ေလ့လာဆန္းစစ္မႈ ျပဳလုပ္သြားတယ္လို႕ Senior Program Advisor, Mercy Corps အဖြဲ႕မွ ဦးသိန္းေဇာ္က ေျပာပါတယ္။ 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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