Posted in Burma on June 11th, 2008 14 Comments »
Burma’s military junta said on Wednesday that detained opposition leader and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi deserved to be beaten like an errant child for threatening national security.
Seeking to justify the 62-year-old’s latest stretch of house arrest, now in its sixth year, official newspapers said Suu Kyi and other detainees had been […]
Posted in Burma, Parliament on November 14th, 2007 6 Comments »
I retorted him by asking him not to disturb me (kacau) and he asked me to retract my statement but I refused, and I continued my speech at Rocket speed.
Posted in Burma on June 23rd, 2007 5 Comments »
by Gerald Giam
The extension of the imprisonment of Burma’s pro-democracy leader, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, on May 27, 2007 was a widely expected move by the country’s military government, which has already kept her under detention for most of the 17 years since her party won the national elections by a landslide in 1990.
While […]
Posted in Burma, NGOs on June 21st, 2007 1 Comment »
Aliran media statement, Tuesday, 19 June 2007
There will be nothing for Rohingya refugees to celebrate this year on World Refugees Day. Their hope of obtaining temporary settlement in Malaysia under the IMM13 special pass was squelched by the government about a year ago.
It had taken the government nearly four years to implement the positive measure […]
Posted in Burma on May 27th, 2007 2 Comments »
This is an excerpt from Number One Wisma Putra published by the Institute of Diplomacy and Foreign Relations of Malaysia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 2006.
In it, former UN Special Envoy Razali Ismail tells of his encounters with Aung San Suu Kyi and the Burmese military junta.
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Posted in Burma on January 13th, 2007 No Comments »
The Myanmar issue is not a subject for the United Nations Security Council to discuss, Malaysian Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi said Saturday.
This is because the Asean country is neither a security threat nor does it have a security impact on the region, he added.
The United States regards the policies of the Myanmar […]
Posted in Burma on January 13th, 2007 No Comments »
China and other Asian powers on Saturday accused the United States of overstepping by seeking a U.N. resolution against Myanmar, saying the Security Council was not the place to tackle the isolated Southeast Asian junta.
Military-run Myanmar, formerly called Burma, escaped censure at the United Nations Security Council on Friday after China and Russia vetoed a […]
Posted in Burma on November 8th, 2006 No Comments »
United Nations, New York, 7 November 2006
Statement Attributable to the Spokesman for the Secretary-General on Myanmar
The Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs, Ibrahim Gambari, will visit Myanmar from 9-12 November as an emissary of the Secretary-General, within the context of the good offices mandate given by the General Assembly and at the invitation of the Government of […]
