The Different Between China & Ethnic Armed Organizations. Myiwa & KIA/KIO

Part (1-5) Rhohingya & Kachin Issues. Why the World Only Knew about Rhohingya Issues Not Kachin? Mungkan gaw hpa majaw Rhohinya Issues hpe sha mu mada ma ai rai kun? Hpa majaw anhte Kachin ni a tsin yam hpe mungkan gaw n chye ma ai rai kun? Madat yu ga. Sr. Mangshang Yaw Bawm, Interviewed By Gam Htun. #kachinlifestories #kachin part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 - Part 5

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Blacklisted journalist Bertil Lintner returns to Burma after nearly 30 years

Long a fierce critic of the authoritarian military government, Lintner believes only Aung San Suu Kyi can unite the country.

Bertil Lintner, expert on Burmese issues, in Yangon, Myanmar on June 15, 2013. He was blacklisted by Myanmar authorities in 1985. (Htoo Tay Zar/GlobalPost)

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YANGON, Myanmar — Journalist Bertil Lintner's presence in Burma this month, the first time he has been in the country with an official visa in nearly 30 years, is just one sign of change here.
Lintner was blacklisted by the military government in 1985, but on Saturday he launched a Burmese-language printing of his book "Outrage: Burma's Struggle for Democracy", first published in 1995 but banned here just as Lintner was.
The gentle-mannered writer with thick glasses and a thick Swedish accent addressed a group of 20 young Burmese and American journalists at the Savoy Hotel the night before the book launch. Lintner said he could not help but notice the positive changes that have taken place in the country since President Thein Sein announced a series of reforms following his election in 2011, but he remains skeptical.
"The constitution is not democratic," Lintner warned, the hotel staff who stood along the wall hanging on to every word just as the journalists were. "The military still has control."
Bertil said he first visited Burma in 1977 at the age of 24.
"I fell in love with the country," he said. "It's like being caught in a time warp, quaint and funny."
But after meeting a man who told him about friends who were either locked by the government or who had disappeared mysteriously, Bertil thought to himself, "there's something sinister underneath this quaint appearance," he said.
And indeed he was right, spending the next three decades documenting government abuses as a reporter for a number of publications including the Far Eastern Economic Review, which folded in 2009.
Linter said there are many things to consider when talking about reforms, especially in light of the recent clashes between Buddhists and Muslims in the country. Both religious discrimination and nationalistic sentiments have long been present in Burma, with the ethnic Burman majority remaining on the top of the social ladder.
"This has happened before," he said. "In 1968, a Muslim man wrote about the deaths of Muslims and mobs of Buddhists torturing and firing homes."
Looking around Burma, it could be difficult to imagine that a country with so many Buddha statues and pagodas lives in fear of a Muslim takeover of the country. The Muslim population makes up in total just 5 percent of the nation.
But many Yangon residents GlobalPost spoke with said a similar thing: "The people are fearful of the Muslim community. We don't want our country to be taken over by Muslims. This is a Buddhist society."
Lintner said he believes that Burma's constitution must be amended in order for Burma's most famous dissident, Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, to be able to run for the 2015 elections.
"The only person who can unify the country is Aung San Suu Kyi because her father General Aung San promised autonomy for all ethnic groups," Lintner believes.
The constitution states that anyone who is married to a foreigner or has children who hold foreign nationality is not permitted to become president. Suu Kyi's husband Michael Aris was British and both her sons hold British citizenship. She was under house arrest as a political prisoner for 15 years.
But as involved and appreciated as Gen. Aung San was in reconciliation with the ethnic communities, his daughter has been heavily criticized for her silence on ethnic violence in Kachin State and anti-Muslim violence in Rakhine State, among other domestic conflicts.
In an Asia Times article published in November 2012, Lintner wrote that "some Myanmar dissidents are beginning to ask, albeit in hushed tones, the hitherto unthinkable: is Suu Kyi being used by the Thein Sein's military-backed, civilianized government as a pawn in its efforts to break the country's long isolation from the West? And, has she come under pressure from the US and possibly other Western powers with a stake in Myanmar's future geopolitical role to strike a deal with her former military adversaries?"
Although Lintner said that Burma is not yet a democracy, his presence indicates some level of meaningful reform.
"They seem more optimistic than they have been for over a half a century," he said. "But one shouldn't underestimate the government."
  http://www.globalpost.com/dispatches/globalpost-blogs/groundtruth-burma/blacklisted-journalist-bertil-lintner-returns-burma

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Suu Kyi draws rare rancor over Myanmar mine report

By Soe Zeya Tun | Reuters –  

http://news.yahoo.com/suu-kyi-draws-rare-rancor-over-myanmar-mine-134540798.html

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  View PhotoReuters/Reuters - Myanmar pro-democracy Leader Aung San Suu Kyi comforts a woman at a village in Sarlingyi township March 14, 2013. REUTERS/Soe Zeya Tun

By Soe Zeya Tun

MOEGYOBYIN, Myanmar (Reuters) - Myanmar Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi faced the wrath of hundreds of villagers on Thursday angered by her defense of an independent report that backed expansion of a copper mine they say was built on illegally seized land.

The country's most high-profile lawmaker chaired a panel that concluded in a report on Tuesday that a deal agreed between a local joint venture and the former military government to build the Monywa copper mine should be honored, with amendments made to compensate the public and minimize environmental damage.

"We don't want Aung San Suu Kyi. We don't want the copper project," shouted some 300 demonstrators that had gathered in each of the three villages the opposition leader visited to try to justify the findings of the parliamentary commission.

Protests against the hugely popular longtime leader of the struggle against military rule are almost unheard of in Myanmar, where criticizing the 67-year-old Suu Kyi is rare.

The daughter of independence hero Aung San made a switch last year from activist to politician and found herself saddled with expectations and playing a tricky balancing act that caused some disappointment among the public and human rights groups.

She has been criticized for her reluctance to speak out about violence in Rakhine and Kachin states and for accepting party donations from tycoons considered cronies of the former military junta.
She also caused a stir when she expressed "fondness" for the military, which for more than 15 years kept her under house arrest and jailed and tortured hundreds of her allies.
A spokesman for the National League for Democracy (NLD) party, which re-elected Suu Kyi as its leader last week, said it had urged her not to visit the villages and was worried about her safety.
"It's a pity most of those who protested had not known anything about the content of the report," Nyan Win said.
The NLD had received information about "agitation and incitement with political motivation" during the protests, Nyan Win added, without elaborating.
More than 100 people, most of them Buddhist monks, were injured in November when police fired smoke bombs containing phosphorous into crowds of people protesting against the mine, according to the commission, which recommended better training for police.
The panel also recommended greater compensation and return of some farmland to residents and changes to the mine's expansion plans which residents had said would result in illegal seizure of more than 7,800 acres of land.
Reformist President Thein Sein has set up a committee to implement the recommendations, including representatives of the government and of the mine's joint owners, the military-owned Union of Myanmar Economic Holdings Ltd and a unit of China North Industries Corp, a Chinese weapons manufacturer.
(Additional reporting by Aung Hla Tun; Writing by Martin Petty; Editing by Robert Birsel)

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Simsa Kasa Shilaika

Simsa Kasa Shilaika”ngu ai  Sumroi ka shagun dat ai yaw. Mani (21.9.2012) hta, Manmaw lam, Loimawk Yang makau na anhte a Bumsawn post kaji hpe M ni ganaw lung wa ai majaw, shana  de jan du hkra gap hkat ma ai lam na lu ai. Dap Ba 4 de mung shara  2-3 gap hkat nga ai lam na lu ai. M ni post kaji ni shawng htim ai hpe yu yang, shamu wa magang sai re ngu, maram lu ai. Miwa ni a Pa Ye Shi Wu ngu ai muk sha poi garai n du yang, “ပြဲသိမ္းမယ္” ngu ma ai da. Miwa Asuya e matsun ai re nga ma ai. KK hpe myit dum ga; tsun dan ga; kam sham ga. Shawnglam de na Share Ninghkring ni mung, akyu aja awa matut n di hpyi ya mi nga nna, shana wa ma ai hpe bai htawn shalai dat ai law.

Kam hpa let,

JIC

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Simsa Kasa Shilaika

Shawng nnan Karai Kasang a Chyeju hpe shakawn ai.

Daini gaw, “ A” lu ai ninghtoi langai rai nga mali ai. 2011 ning June 9
kaw majan byin mat ai hpang, September praw 3 kaw na Simsa Kasa
Shilaika hpe shapraw dat ai; daini laning mi hpring jan sai re. Daini gaw,
Simsa Kasa Shilaika laning mi ladu hkrum, masat dingsat hpe alak mi
lamang galaw la ai ninghtoi rai sai.

Ndai Simsa Kasa Shilaika byin pru wa ai labau kadun hpe tsun ga nga
yang, maning majan byin ai hte, Myusha lam- yan hta nachying myit lawm
ai; Yangon na, Sr. Nbyen Dan Hkung Awng( Shd. Kareng Awng) gaw, Ginjaw
shara Laiza de Amyusha lam- yan hta daw jau lawm na matu, larau ladau du
lung wa ai. Ngai hku nna, shi hpe Karai Kasang dat ya ai Lamu Kasa langai re
ngu tsun shagrau, matsing masat da mayu nngai.

Shi du ai hte, RANIR ngu kadun ai hku shamying ai; (Relief Action
Network for IDP and Refugee) Jinghpaw hku, “ Hpyen-yen Lakawn Lanawn
Jinghkri” ngu ai; Magam bungli kaba langai hpe wa hpaw hpang dat ai. Dai
kaw bungli lamang kaba law law lawm ai hta, ndai Simsa Kasa Shilaika
galaw shapraw ai bungli mung komiti langai hku lawm nga ai re. Ndai
Shilaika hta, majan a majaw tsin-yam hkrum nga ai hpyen-yen mungmasha
ni a lam hte nsen ni hpe madung da nna shalawm ai hku re. “Majan ten na
ka matsing” ngu mung, mai tsun ai. Htawm hpang de labau tai ngam taw
nga na matu, daini anhte ndai hpe galaw nan jawm galaw ra ga ai re. Ga
shagawp laika 29:18 hta, “Shingran ga n nga yang, mungmasha ni gumlu
gumlang rai ma ai. Tara hkan shatup ai wa chyawm gaw, a nga ai” nga ai
hte maren, daini anhte ndai Shilaika hpe galaw shakut da ai gaw, htawm na
ban, anhte a Amyu Matu Mara Mungmasha( Next Generation) ni gumlu
gumlang n rai ai sha, Tara hpe hkan shatup chye ai ni tai wa na hpe
shingran mu da ai lam rai nga ai.

Ndai Shilaika byin pru wa hkra shang lawm ai ni gaw, hpyen-yen
Mungmasha ni, Shiga hta ai ni, Sumla dem ai ni, Laika ka ai hte Computer
lang ai ni, Shilaika hti masha ni, Laika hpe jep shagrin ai Editors ni rai nga ga
ai.

Ningrai, anhte jawm shakut ai gaw, Karai Kasang a chyeju hte laning
mi jan wa sai. Nnan e jawm bawngban da ai daw de gaw, shata mi hta 2
lang shapraw lu hkra ngu ai re. Gajawa ta tut galaw wa ai shaloi gaw, dut
dang ai lam law law nga ai; “ Woi tin tim hpun lakung n tin ai” nga ai baw
rai mat wa ai. Grai shakut nna she shata mi kalang, shata 2 lapran e kalang
lu shapraw ai hku rai sai. Hti n-gun jaw ai mungmasha ni yawng hte hpyen-
yen mungmasha ni yawng hpe chyeju dum ga ai. Matut nna jawm shakut ga
ngu mung, n-gun jaw mayu ai.

Ndai Simsa Kasa Shilaika hpe majan sim mat nna, Awmdawm
Shanglawt lu ai a hpang e, mare buga ni bai gaw- gap gram sharawt lajang
la ai ten a wora maga du hkra, matut n di shapraw mat wa na ngu, yaw
shada da ai re. Karai Kasang lawm ya rit ga, kyu jawm hpyi shaja ga ngu nna,
lajin laroi let, shawng nnan ndai Simsa Kasa Shilaika hpe shachyen ya ai rai
sai.

¬ Bai matut na.

Shanglawt Tsing
(22.9.2012,1:00AM)

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