Burma Extends Detention of Deputy Opposition Leader

Burma’s military government extended the house arrest of the deputy leader of Aung San Suu Kyi’s party by another year, shrugging off demands for his release.
The extension of Tin Oo’s detention—which the National League for Democracy (NLD) called “meaningless and unjust”—came just four days after the ruling junta announced it would hold a constitutional referendum in May and a general election in 2010.

ဖဒုိမန္းရွာ(သုိ့မဟုတ္)ၾကယ္တစ္ပြင့္ေၾကြလြင့္ျခင္း

ရဲေဘာ္ သံခဲ (ဥကၠ႒၊ ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံလံုးဆုိင္ရာ ေက်ာင္းသားမ်ား ဒီမိုကရက္တစ္တပ္ဦး)

“က်ေနာ္ျမင္တဲ့ ဖဒိုမန္းရွာက အင္မတန္မွ အရည္အခ်င္းရွိတဲ့ ႏုိင္ငံေရး၊ ေတာ္လွန္ေရး သမားေကာင္း တေယာက္ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ သူဟာ ကရင့္အမ်ဳိးသား အစည္းအ႐ုံးရဲ့ အေထြေထြ အတြင္းေရးမႉး ျဖစ္သလို ကရင္အမ်ဳိးသားေတြရဲ့ တကယ့္ကို အာဇာနည္တဦးလည္း ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ က်ေနာ္သိသမွ် ေတာ္လွန္ေရးသမားေတြထဲမွာ တကယ့္ကို စစ္စစ္မွန္မွန္နဲ႔ အမ်ဳိးသားေရး၊ ဒီမိုကေရစီေရးအတြက္ အရည္အခ်င္းရွိရွိ၊ အင္မတန္မွ အလုပ္ေတြ ေဆာင္ရြက္ႏုိင္တဲ့ ပုဂၢိဳလ္တေယာက္ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ ဒီလို အာဇာနည္တေယာက္ ဆံုး႐ႉံးသြားတယ္ဆိုတာ ၾကားသိရတာဟာ က်ေနာ္တို႔ အားလံုးအတြက္ ႏွလံုးမသက္မသာဖြယ္ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ ဒီလိုမ်ဳိး လုပ္ႀကံခံရမႈေၾကာင့္ က်ဆံုးသြားတဲ့ ဖဒိုမန္းရွာ လိုခ်င္တဲ့ အမ်ဳိးသားေရးေတြ၊ ဒီမိုကေရစီအေရးေတြဟာ ဘယ္ေတာ့မွ က်ဆံုးသြားမွာ မဟုတ္ပါဘူး။ ဒီလို လုပ္ႀကံမႈမ်ဳိးေတြနဲ႔လည္း လြတ္ေျမာက္ေရး တိုက္ပြဲေတြ ရပ္သြားမွာ မဟုတ္ဘူးဆိုတာ မဟုတ္မဟတ္လုပ္ႀကံတဲ့ လူေတြကို ဒီေနရာက ေျပာခ်င္ပါတယ္။

စစ္ဖိနပ္ေအာက္သုိ႕ သြတ္သြင္းမည့္အစီအစဥ္
၀ိုင္း၀န္းဆန္႔က်င္ရန္ ေကအန္ယူ တိုက္တြန္း

လာမည့္ေမလတြင္ နအဖ၏ ဖြဲ႕စည္းပုံအေျခခံဥပေဒဆုိင္ရာ လူထုဆႏၵခံယူပြဲ က်င္းပမည့္ကိစၥ
သည္ ျပည္သူလူထုတရပ္လုံးအား စစ္ဖိနပ္ေအာက္သုိ႔ သြတ္သြင္းမည့္အစီအစဥ္ျဖစ္ေသာေၾကာင့္ ၀ုိင္း၀န္းဆန္႔က်င္တုိက္ဖ်က္ၾကရန္ အေရးႀကီးေၾကာင္း KNU က ယေန႔ရက္စဲြျဖင့္ ေၾကညာခ်က္ တေစာင္ ထုတ္ျပန္သည္။

Burma Extends Detention of Deputy Opposition Leader

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS : Burma’s military government extended the house arrest of the deputy leader of Aung San Suu Kyi’s party by another year, shrugging off demands for his release.

The extension of Tin Oo’s detention—which the National League for Democracy (NLD) called “meaningless and unjust”—came just four days after the ruling junta announced it would hold a constitutional referendum in May and a general election in 2010.

Rare Sandpipers Found in Burma

MICHAEL CASEY / AP WRITER / BANGKOK : The discovery of 84 spoon-billed sandpipers in a coastal stretch of Burma this year offers hope for saving the endangered birds, a conservation group said Thursday.

The discovery comes only months after Russian researchers reported that numbers of the tiny birds—with speckled brow feathers and a distinctive spoon-shaped bill—had dropped 70 percent in the past few years in their breeding sites in Siberia and none had been seen this year in their traditional wintering sites in Bangladesh, Britain-based conservation group BirdLife International said.

13 Countries Recruit and Use Child Soldiers

EDITH M. LEDERER / AP WRITER / UNITED NATION : The situation for children caught in conflict remains “grave and entirely unacceptable” because 58 groups in 13 countries still recruit and use child soldiers, a senior UN official said.

Undersecretary-General Radhika Coomaraswamy told the UN Security Council Tuesday that a resolution adopted in 2005 establishing a group to monitor and report on countries and groups using child soldiers has produced results.

A mother of three raped and killed by Burmese soldier

Kachin News Group : A Kachin mother of three children was raped and killed over a month ago in Hukawng Valley in Kachin State of Northern Burma by Burma Army soldiers, said local sources.

Ms. Hpaumyang Kai (32), a widow and a mother of three children was raped and killed on December 30, 2007 in her village called Nawngmi on Ledo Road, said residents of Nawngmi.

Children’s Day nothing to celebrate in Burma

Irrawaddy - Min Lwin : Today is Children’s Day in Burma, commemorating the birthday of Gen Aung San, the founder of the Burmese armed forces and hero of Burmese independence. However, the current military leaders in Burma would rather erase his name from the history books and forbid his birthday being celebrated altogether.