BBC/Burmese: Burma Democratic Concern (BDC) on Depaeyin Massacre

UN Meet Minutes leaked – Some Burmese NGOs Say Suu Kyi Hampers Their Work – Irrawaddy

Thursday, December 16, 2010 By HTET AUNG Some Burmese non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have complained to aa United Nations envoy that their work has been hampered by the release of Aung San Suu Kyi and her active involvement in social issues. The complaints were voiced in a meeting between Vijay Nambiar, the UN secretary-general’s special envoy [...]

Opening remarks at UN Headquarters year-end press conference

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon UNHQ 17 December 2010 Good morning ladies and gentlemen, Before we begin, I want to make a statement on Côte d’Ivoire. As of this morning, the situation has taken a dangerous turn. Let me say clearly and directly: any attempt to obstruct UN operations or blockade the Golf Hotel is totally unacceptable. [...]

APNewsBreak: Laura Bush speaks by phone to Suu Kyi

Updated: Dec 17, 2010 – 13:27PM Jamie Stengle  AP DALLAS -Former first lady Laura Bush, a longtime advocate for free elections in Myanmar, spoke for the first time Friday with the isolated Asian country’s pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, who was released last month after more than seven years of house arrest. Bush told [...]

VALIDATED BY WIKILEAKS ON BURMA URANIUM SALES

December 16, 2010  Wikileaks is in the process of releasing over 250,000 United States  diplomatic cables. The less than 1% published so far have already changing  the way we think about the world. Hitherto secret information has been  revealed about one country after another. The cables have also made  evident that the U.S. regularly lies [...]

Problems for Burma’s Freedom (Bo Gyoke Aung San Speech)

We have then a big historic task which we have received from those who have gone ahead and passed, as an inviolable trust. How shall we fulfill it? Before we seek the answer to this question, it is essential in my opinion that we look round and find the threads that could lead us to [...]

WikiLeaks: Singapore Lee says Myanmar ’stupid’

Alex Kennedy AP Singapore-Singapore statsman Lee Kuan Yew kallas Myanmar juntans ledare “dum” och “tät” i samtal med amerikanska diplomater, enligt utlämnade sekretessbelagda handlingar i veckan av Wikileaks. Singapores ledaren sade att hantera Myanmars militärregim var som “att prata med döda människor”, enligt ett konfidentiellt USA briefing på en 2007 samtal mellan Lee och USA: [...]

Aung San Suu Kyi Speech (Part 3)

Junta’s elections on 7 November 2010 is to justify five decades of military rule

18 Oct 2010 Burma Democratic Concern (BDC) calls for the international community not to recognize junta’s planned 2010 election and its results.  Daw Aung San Suu Kyi led National League for Democracy (NLD), victor of 1990 election, decided unanimously to boycott the junta’s planned sham 2010 election due to its unfair electoral laws. Without the [...]

London Protest mot juntans grymheter i Kachin staten

London Protest mot juntans grymheter i Kachin staten 7 juni 2010: Omkring 100 människor i dag samlats framför burmesiska ambassaden i London, visa solidaritet i protest mot “tvångsförflyttning” av Kachin byar och godtyckliga gripanden av mer än 50 lokala ungdomar i Kachin i och med att militärjuntan i Burma. Den en timme långa protest, som [...]