Burma’s By-Elections: Still Short of International Standards

While the by-elections have limited political significance, they are important because they are being championed as an indicator of progress by the international community after the sham 2010 polls. Despite the hype, the bulk of laws and regulations [...]

Untold Miseries: Wartime Abuses and Forced Displacement in Kachin State

In his March 2011 inauguration speech, Burmese President Thein Sein emphasized the importance of ending Burma’s several ethnic armed conflicts, declaring that more than 60 years of ethnic warfare in Burma were due to “dogmatism, sectarian strife, and racism.” Burma’s ethnic minorities had, he said [...]

All the information I’ve given you, I faced it myself: Rural testimony on abuse in eastern Burma since November 2010

Human rights abuses faced by ethnic communities across rural eastern Burma have continued since November 2010, and are consistent with patterns KHRG has documented since 1992. Drawing from a dataset of 1,270 oral testimonies, sets of images and documentation [...]

Burma’s Parliament – A Tool for Institutionalized Oppression

Despite the regime’s claim that an elected legislature was a crucial step towards the emergence of its “discipline-flourishing democracy,” the Parliament turned out to be the regime’s key tool for institutionalizing oppression.

The pro-regime Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP)-dominated Parliament refused to repeal the draconian laws that provided the basis for the imprisonment of several thousand political prisoners in recent years [...]

Discrimination, Conflict and Corruption: The Ethnic States of Burma

Since achieving independence in January 1948, successive Burmese governments, elected and military dictatorships, have sought to address the complex issues involving the country’s many ethnic groups. They have sought to do this primarily through confronting [...]

ျမန္မာ့ႏိုင္ငံေရးသံုးသပ္ခ်က္ (၂/၂၀၁၁) – အမ်ဳိးသား ျပန္လည္ရင္ၾကားေစ့ေရးႏွင့္ ေတြ႕ဆံုးေဆြးေႏြးေရးျဖစ္စဥ္

၁၉၈၈ ဒီမိုကေရစီ အေရးေတာ္ပံုၾကီးအျပီး ျမန္မာ့ဒီမိုကေရစီေခါင္းေဆာင္ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္နဲ႕ စစ္အစိုးရတို႕ ထိပ္တိုက္ေတြ႕ဆံုေဆြးေႏြးခဲ့တာ ၂၃ႏွစ္တာကာလ အတြင္းမွာ ၁၆ၾကိမ္ေျမာက္ ရွိလာခဲ့ပါျပီ။ ေတြ႕ဆံုေဆြးေႏြးခဲ့တဲ့ မွတ္တမ္းေတြကိုၾကည့္မယ္ဆိုရင္ ၁၉၉၄ ခုႏွစ္မွာ (၂) ၾကိမ္၊ ၂၀၀၂ ခုႏွစ္မွာ (၁) ၾကိမ္၊ ၂၀၀၇ ခုႏွစ္မွာ (၃) ၾကိမ္၊ ၂၀၀၈ ခုႏွစ္မွာ (၃) ၾကိမ္၊ [...]

ျမန္မာ့ႏိုင္ငံေရးသံုးသပ္ခ်က္ (၁/၂၀၁၁)

ႏိုင္ငံေရးအက်ဥ္းသားမ်ားအား ခၽြင္းခ်က္မရွိ လႊတ္ေပးေရးသည္ အလြန္အေရးၾကီးသည့္ ႏိုင္ငံေရးလုပ္ငန္းစဥ္တစ္ခုျဖစ္ျပီး လြတ္ျငိမ္းခ်က္သာခြင့္ႏွင့္လည္း ဆက္စပ္ေနသည္။

ဦးသိန္းစိန္ေခါင္းေဆာင္ေသာ ၾကံ့ဖြံ႕အစိုးရသည္ ယခင္နအဖစစ္အစိုးရကဲ့သို႕ အက်ဥ္းေထာင္မ်ားတြင္ ႏိုင္ငံေရးအက်ဥ္းသားမ်ား မရွိပါဟု အၾကိမ္ၾကိမ္ ျငင္းဆိုေနသည္ကို ေတြ႕ရသည္ [...]

Myanmar National Human Rights Commission Accepting of Complaint

The Myanmar National Human Rights Commission has been established to promote and protect the fundamental rights of citizens enshrined in the Constitution of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar and it has opened its office at No. 27, Pyay Road, Hline Township, Yangon [...]

Post Election Chronology of Armed Conflict in Burma (7 November 2010 – 3 June 2011)

NDD is researching and documenting armed conflicts occurred throughout Burma after Burma’s 2010 Elections and has produced Post Election Chronology of Armed Conflicts in Burma. The report files important incidences of fighting covering 7 November 2010 to 3 June 2011 [...]

Burma Briefing No. 15: Events in Burma – New or Recycled?

This briefing analyses recent events in Burma, many of which have been hailed as ‘new’, ‘unprecedented’ and ‘progress’. It finds that most of what has taken place in recent months is not new at all, and that Thein Sein is borrowing ideas from his predecessors, Than Shwe and Ne Win [...]