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Showing posts with label Irrawaddy. Show all posts
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Tuesday, March 26, 2019

The Original Panglong.

The Irrawaddy
By WEI YAN AUNG | 26 March 2019

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Shan chieftains pose for a photo at the 1946 Panglong in Shan State




Today marks the 73rd anniversary of a conference held in advance of the historic 1947 Panglong. The 1946 conference, which ran through March 28, also in Shan State’s Panglong Township, has been recognized as the first Panglong but is less known than the one that followed.

Sunday, March 24, 2019

Celebrated Bengali Artist Tagore Made 2nd Visit to Myanmar.

The Irrawaddy
By Wei Yan Aung 24 March 2019

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Rabindranath Tagore


Ninety-five years ago, Rabindranath Tagore (May 7, 1861 – Aug. 7, 1941), a Bengali polymath, poet, musician and artist, made his second visit to Myanmar. He made his first visit in 1916 and his third and final visit in 1927.

Tagore received a red-carpet welcome on all of his visits. The governor of British India, Sir Spencer Harcourt Butler, hosted a lunch for Tagore on his second visit.

Saturday, March 16, 2019

The ACC: Fighting Corruption With Independence?

The Irrawaddy
By THE IRRAWADDY |16 March 2019


Kyaw Zwa Moe: Welcome to Dateline Irrawaddy! This week we will discuss the actions of the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC), for which we should say ‘”bravo.” The ACC has filed a complaint against and detained Tanintharyi Region Chief Minister Daw Lei Lei Maw under the Anti-Corruption Law. This is what the majority of the complainants wanted to see. We will discuss how effective the ACC was over the last year, what its shortcomings are and how important it is to fight corruption to establish democracy. Daw Moe Moe Tun, leading member of the MATA (Myanmar Alliance for Transparency and Accountability) and GPS (Genuine People’s Servants) director and Access to Justice Initiative leading member Ko Thwin Lin Aung join me to discuss this. I’m The Irrawaddy English editor Kyaw Zwa Moe.


AA Accuses EU of Pro-Gov’t Bias in Statements on Rakhine Conflict.

The Irrawaddy
By MOE MYINT | 15 March 2019

Photos reportedly obtained from prisoners of war detained by the Arakan Army. The AA says the images are proof of police and fire brigade officers’ involvement in Myanmar military operations. / AA website

YANGON—The Arakan Army (AA) says it will stop targeting police task force members in Rakhine State when the European Union guarantees that police have ended what it says is their assistance to repressive operations by the Myanmar military against the Arakanese public in Rakhine.

When a White Bridge Ran Red With Students' Blood.

The Irrawaddy
By WEI YAN AUNG | 16 March 2019


People commemorate the fatal government crackdown on March 16, 1988, on student protesters at Yangon's "white bridge" in September of that year. / Htein Win

Thirty-one years ago today on Pyay Road in Yangon, Tada Phyu —”the white bridge” in Burmese — ran red with the blood of student protesters caught in a brutal government crackdown

Saturday, February 23, 2019

Top ARSA Commander Killed in ‘Gunfight’ in Cox’s Bazar.

The Irrawaddy

Nurul Alam after his arrest by RAB in Kutapalong, Cox’s Bazar on March 1, 2017. / RAB

22 February 2019
By MUKTADIR RASHID 

DHAKA—A senior military commander of the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA), also known by its former name Harakah al-Yaqeen, was killed on Friday morning in what is being called a “gunfight” with the Bangladesh police’s specialized unit, Rapid Action Battalion (RAB), in the Teknaf sub-district of the Cox’s Bazar.

ARSA has not yet made any statement on the death of their commander and top arms collector, Nurul Alam.

Thursday, February 21, 2019

Charges Against Aung San Statue Protesters Dropped, But Dispute Lingers.

The Irrawaddy
 20 February 2019



People opposed to a statue of Gen. Aung San in the Kayah State capital of Loikaw pose in front of the Loikaw Township Court on Wednesday. / PKPF

By ZUE ZUE 

YANGON — The Kayah State government has dropped its lawsuits against all 55 people charged over the past year for protesting against the installation of a statue of late independence hero Gen. Aung San in Loikaw, the state capital.

Khun A Than, a member of the Karenni Youth Force, a local civil society group, said the Demoso Township Court on Friday dropped its cases against those charged under Section 505 (b) and (c) of the Penal Code for defamation. He said on Wednesday the Loikaw Township Court dropped its cases against those charged under Section 19 and 20 of the Peaceful Assembly and Procession Law.

Wednesday, February 20, 2019

Myanmar Army Fight With Arakan Rebels Ensnares Local Bus Companies.

RADIO FREE ASIA 
2019-02-19


Residents hold bullet shell casings following fighting between the Myanmar military and ethnic Arakan Army in a village in Rathedaung township, western Myanmar's Rakhine state, Jan. 28, 2019. AFP


The Myanmar military on Tuesday denied an accusation by the rebel Arakan Army that it has been using passenger buses and cars to transport its troops in western Myanmar’s Rakhine state, where the two forces are fighting each other, a national army spokesman said.

The Arakan Army (AA) on Monday warned private bus companies in volatile Rakhine not to transport Myanmar soldiers, who it said were using private vehicles along with military trucks to move personnel into conflict zones, the online journal The Irrawaddy reported.

Monday, February 11, 2019

Hundreds More Flee Fighting in Northern Rakhine Over Weekend.

The Irrawaddy





11 February 2019, By MOE MYINT








People displaced by fighting between the Myanmar military and Arakan Army over the weekend take shelter and have a meal at the Yoe Ta Yoke monastery in Ponnagyun Township, Rakhine State, on Sunday. / Rakhine Ethnic Congress / Facebook



YANGON — Fighting between the Arakan Army (AA) and the Myanmar military’s Light Infantry Division 22 drove more than 500 residents of Saung Du Village, in northern Rakhine State’s Kyauktaw Township, out of their homes over the weekend.

Saturday, February 2, 2019

Daw Aung San Suu Kyi Has Seized the Prime Moment to Amend the Constitution




The Irrawaddy
By JOE KUMBUN | 1st February 2019



Daw Aung San Suu Kyi waves at supporters at Kachin National Manu Park in Kachin State on Feb. 24, 2012. / Reuter

State Counselor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and her party, the National League for Democracy (NLD), swept power in the 2015 general elections. Amending the Constitution was one of her campaign promises. At a forum in Singapore in August, the state counselor said “amendment of the Constitution was one of the goals of our government,” reaffirming her commitment to the cause.

Wednesday, January 23, 2019

Dozens of Rohingya Arrested for Traveling Illegally.

By HTUN HTUN 
23 January 2019


                                             A group of Rohingya arrested in Mindon Township, Magway Region / supplied by police

YANGON—Police have opened cases under the Immigration Law against dozens of undocumented Rohingya accused of leaving Rakhine State without permission.

Police arrested 12 Rohingya on a vehicle near milepost No. 13 on the Yangon-Mandalay Highway on Jan. 19 and 15 more on Mindon-Thayet Rd. in Magwe Region the following day.

Monday, January 21, 2019

Obituary: David Abel, Economics Czar Under Myanmar's Military Regime, Dies.

By THE IRRAWADDY 
21 January 2019

                                      David Abel as seen in a screengrab from an AP video published in 2015



David Oliver Abel, a former brigadier general and the economics czar of Myanmar’s military regime in the 1990s, died of heart failure in Yangon on Sunday. He was 84.

Of Anglo-Burman, Indian and Jewish Catholic descent, he was one of only a few non-Buddhists in the military government. Born in Yangon, David Abel was selected to attend the Royal Military Academy, Sand Hurst, in the United Kingdom from 1953 to 1956 and graduated with a degree in economics.

Sunday, January 20, 2019

Fresh ARSA Attack Injured Six Police Officers: Govt





Police Brig-Gen Tin Ko Ko (far right) pays a visit to police private Myo Kyaw Lwin (centre), who was wounded during the ambush on Wednesday, at a government hospital in Yangon on January 17, 2019. / Ye Zarni / Facebook

By THE IRRAWADDY

20 January 2019

YANGON—Six policemen, including one police colonel, were wounded during an ambush by the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA) on Wednesday in northern Rakhine State, according to an announcement on State media on Saturday.

Wednesday, January 16, 2019

Three Villagers Shot Dead in Fighting Between Gov’t, AA Troops in Rakhine

A government soldier on sentry duty at an outpost in Rakhine State’s Buthidaung Township. / Kyaw Kha / The Irrawaddy

By MOE MYINT 15 January 2019

YANGON—At least three villagers were reportedly killed in armed clashes between the Myanmar Army and the Arakan Army (AA) near Hpon Nyo Leik village in northern Rakhine’s Buthidaung Township on Sunday, Muslim and Rakhine villagers said.
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