Archive for November 27th, 2007
ေခတ္ၿပိဳင္ – ကေလးစစ္သားမသုံးဟု တိုင္းရင္းသား လက္ကုိင္အဖြဲ႕မ်ားျငင္းဆုိ
ေခတ္ၿပိဳင္ သတင္း
ကေလးစစ္သားမသုံးဟု တိုင္းရင္းသား လက္ကုိင္အဖြဲ႕မ်ားျငင္းဆုိ
ေက်ာ္ထင္(ထုိင္း)/ ၂၇ ႏို၀င္ဘာ ၂၀၀၇
“သက္ေသအေထာက္အထားေတြအမ်ားႀကီးရွိပါတယ္။ ဒါေတြရွိရဲ႕သားနဲ႕ က်ေနာ္တုိ႕ကုိ
၀ါးလုံးရွည္နဲ႕ရမ္းတယ္ ဆုိရင္လည္း က်ေနာ္တုိ႔အတြက္ မေကာင္း…..” အျပည့္အစံုသို႔
ကေလးစစ္သားအသံုးျပဳမႈရွိမရွိ လာေရာက္စစ္ေဆးရန္
ေကအင္အယ္လ္ေအ စစ္ဦးစီးခ်ဳပ္ စိန္ေခၚ
NEJ/ ၂၇ ႏို၀င္ဘာ ၂၀၀၇
“ဒီကေလးစစ္သားကိစၥနဲ႔ ပတ္သက္ၿပီး ယူအန္က တာ၀န္ေပးမယ့္ပုဂၢိဳလ္ရွိမယ္ဆိုရင္ က်ေနာ္တို႔ဆီမွာလာၿပီး ေလ့လာႏိုင္တယ္။ က်ေနာ္တို႔ကလည္း ျပခ်င္…..” အျပည့္အစံုသို႔
ဦးပူက်င့္ရွင္ထန္း ျပန္လြတ္လာၿပီ
တပါတ္ၾကာေအာင္ ထိန္းသိမ္းထားတဲ့ ခ်င္းတိုင္းရင္းသားေခါင္းေဆာင္ ဦးပူက်င့္ရွင္ထန္းကို (၂၆-၁၁-၂၀၀၇) ေန႔မွာ စစ္အစိုးရက ျပန္လည္ လႊတ္ေပးလိုက္ပါတယ္။
သတင္းအျပည့္အစံု အဂၤလိပ္ ဘာသာျဖင့္ ဖတ္ရန္
Myanmar junta frees ethnic Chin leader
Reuters India, India -
Critics have accused the regime of seeking to exploit ethnic divisions in the former Burma, home to a dizzying array of rival tribes, religions, …
သံဃာလႈပ္ရွားမႈ (၂)လျပည့္ လႈပ္ရွားမႈ သတင္းမ်ား
(RFA) သံဃာ့လႈပ္ရွားမႈ ႏွစ္လျပည့္ ဆႏၵျပဆုေတာင္းပြဲ ဗုဒၶဂါယာတြင္ ျပဳလုပ္
(RFA) သံဃာ့ေက်းဇူး
(DVB)
Indian Buddhist Monks Protest Against Burma’s Military Rule
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(News)
Indian Buddhist monks protest against Myanmar junta
Reuters -
… emblems,” Kyaw Than of the All Burma Students League said by phone from the town. A monk-led protest was crushed by Myanmar’s ruling junta in September, …
Report: Myanmar monks have vanished
United Press International -
The crackdown by the military junta, which has ruled Myanmar, formerly Burma, since 1989, began after pro-democracy protests were taken over by the monks. …
(Newsweek)
Pulling the Plug: A Technical Review of the Internet Shutdown in Burma
OpenNet Initiative
To view this bulletin as a pdf, click here
Executive Summary
This bulletin examines the role of information technology, citizen journalists, and bloggers in Burma and presents a technical analysis of the abrupt shutdown of Internet connectivity by the Burmese government on September 29, 2007, following its violent crackdown on protesters there. Completely cutting international Internet links is rare. Nepal, which severed all international Internet connections when the King declared martial law in February 2005, is the only other state to take such drastic action. Although extreme, the measures taken by the Burmese government to limit citizens’ use of the Internet during this crisis are consistent with previous OpenNet Initiative (ONI) findings in Kyrgyzstan, Belarus, and Tajikistan, where authorities controlled access to communication technologies as a way to limit social mobilization around key political events. What makes the Burmese junta stand out, however, is its apparent goal of also preventing information from reaching a wider international audience.
The shutdown of Internet connectivity was precipitated by its use by citizens to send photographs, updates and videos that documented the violent suppression of protests in Burma, information that contributed to widespread international condemnation of the Burmese military rulers’ gross violations of human rights.
We examine the impact of communication technology in shaping these key political events in Burma, the limitations of these tools, and the prospects ………………………
This is an excerpt. Read full bulletin on a webpage
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Figure 1. Timeline of Events, Aug. 19-Oct. 13, 2007
Figure 2. Blockpage found while surfing the Internet in Burma
Figure 3. Internet Shutdown Times in Burma
World Focus on Burma (27-11-2007)
- Former Annapolis High athlete aids Myanmar protesters
Annapolis Capital, MD -
On the air, the 22-year-old smoothly expounded as an authority on conditions inside Myanmar, also called Burma, where a military junta has held the country … - UN Envoy Discusses Burma Crisis With Vietnam
Scoop.co.nz, New Zealand -
The Secretary-General’s Special Adviser on Myanmar is meeting with officials in Viet Nam as part of his consultations with regional leaders on the situation … - Burmese Government Disconnect Fails
ThreatsWatch.Org -
The will to overcome such restrictions however, triumphed to a degree: Savvy young bloggers in Myanmar are breaking through the military junta’s tight … - Myanmar mid-year gems emporium ends in Yangon
Xinhua, China -
27 (Xinhua) — A total of 3618 lots of jade, gems and pearls were sold at the 13-day mid-year Myanmar gems emporium which ended here Monday evening, .. - Vietnam expects a stable Myanmar: PM
Nhan Dan, Vietnam -
As an ASEAN member and a neighbour of Myanmar, Vietnam expects the situation in the Southeast Asian country to become stable, contributing to the stability … - Search for 50 boat passengers called off
Brisbane Times, Australia - 8 hours ago
Jasimuddin said the passengers were Bangladeshi and also Burma refugees from camps at Cox’s Bazar, 300 km south of the national capital, Dhaka. … - New Images from Rambo!
IESB.NET, CA -
… aid workers recruit John Rambo to guide them up the Salween River to deliver medical supplies to the Karen tribe of neighboring Burma (aka Myanmar). … - Myanmar gem auction wrapped up regime says amid boycott calls
AFP -
YANGON (AFP) — Military-run Myanmar has wrapped up a gem auction, a major money-spinner for the junta, state media said Tuesday, despite sanctions and calls …
- Vietnam can help Myanmar: envoy
Gulf Times, Qatar -
… in the country formerly called Burma. Vietnam’s leaders “are listened to by Myanmar, because I think they are among the countries closest to Myanmar, … - Myanmar junta frees ethnic Chin leader
Reuters India, India -
Critics have accused the regime of seeking to exploit ethnic divisions in the former Burma, home to a dizzying array of rival tribes, religions, … - Myanmar concludes gems auction with foreign merchants
International Herald Tribune, France -
AP YANGON, Myanmar: More than 2000 foreign merchants attended Myanmar’s major gems auction, state-media reported Tuesday, despite international calls to … - CBS 5 Journalist Ventures Inside Burma
CBS 5, CA -
Many in the nation that was called Burma hope 45 years of military rule will end. Sandwiched between China and India, Myanmar is closed to journalists. … - Missed opportunity on Burma
ISN, Switzerland -
… in Burma. But no aversion to EU sanctions could deter ASEAN from talking trade with Brussels. Summit host Lee Hsien Loong said that “while Myanmar is … - ‘Our’ dictator gets away with it
Asia Times Online, Hong Kong -
“Even Burma [Myanmar] is ahead. On the other hand in 2006, Pakistan spent US$ 5.1 billion on arms.” Khan, now released, says he’s in favor of boycotting the … - Junta soldier shot Nagai from 1 meter away : MPD Kyodo News: The Japanese video journalist gunned down in September while covering an antigovernment rally in Myanmar was shot from a meter away by the nearest soldier, Tokyo police said Monday.
- Myanmar sells $150 mln of gems at auction: official
AFP -
YANGON (AFP) — Military-run Myanmar has sold precious stones worth 150 million dollars during this month’s gem auction, an official said Tuesday, … - Burmese Gem Auction Concludes
IDEX Online, Israel -
Myanmar’s (Burma) gem auction ended Monday, after more than 2000 foreign merchants from 16 countries had attended and more than 3500 lots of precious stones … - Panties with Power
RH Reality Check, DC -
Currently, activists exasperated at the failure of diplomacy to apply pressure on Burma’s military regime are resorting to a new means of protest against … - Burma’s weekly journals faced with declining readership
Mizzima.com, India -
With more publishing license issued by the Burmese junta’s Information Ministry, sources said, new journals such as the Myanmar Times and Mann Daw Yeik will …
