Burma Democratic Concern (BDC) strongly denounced the Irresponsible USDP Regime Failing to Save River Ayeyarwaddy

Burma Democratic Concern (BDC) strongly denounced the Irresponsible USDP Regime Failing to Save River Ayeyarwaddy

12 September 2011

Burma Democratic Concern (BDC) strongly denounced the USDP’s Electric Power Minister U Zaw Min’s irresponsible comment saying there is no plan to stop building the Ayeyarwaddy Dam instead the government is pledged to finish building it in the wake of widespread objections.

People of Burma including democracy leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi are calling for to review the Ayeyarwaddy Dam project due to the averse affect it will cause on Burma’s environment, on Burma’s bio-diversity and on Burma’s future.

Lo Hsing Han and his son Steven Law (a) Tun Myint Naing run Asia World Ltd which currently has contracts to build MyitSone Dam on the Ayeyarwaddy River north of Myitgyinar. Ten more companies are owned under the group in Singapore by Law's wife, Cecilia Ng.

The Myitsone Dam site is located just 2 miles below the confluence and about 24 miles away from Myitkyina, the capital of Kachin State.

The length of the dam is about 499 ft (152 m) and the height is about 499 ft, equivalent to the height of a 50-story building. The surface area of the reservoir is about 295.8 sq mi (766 sq km), about the size of New York City (301 sq mi).

A maximum water depth of the reservoir will be about 950 ft (290 m), approximately the height of a 66-story building. The estimated cost of the Myitsone Dam construction project is about US $3.6 billion.

The total cost for construction of the seven dams and hydroelectric development projects is about US $20 billion. The major construction contractor from the Chinese side is the China Gezhouba Group Corporation (CCGC), and from the Burmese regime side is Asia World Company.

It is strongly believed that Lo Hsing Han's business empire was originally built on narcotic-drug trafficking.

Starting as a local militia leader in the northern Kokang region in 1960, Lo Hsing Han was dubbed the "King of Opium" by US drug enforcement authorities in the 1970s because of large amount of heroin his alleged networks were sending through Thailand.

By 1994, his organization was widely considered among the most heavily armed drug trafficking organizations in Southeast Asia.

Golden Aaron, an Asia World subsidiary, has been linked to China.

Steven Law (a) Tun Myint Naing is the managing director of Golden Aaron, which has now been linked to CNOOC.

Both Lo Hsing Han and Steven Law have been on a US visa blacklist since 1996 for suspected drug trafficking activities.

In February 2008, they were also put on the Treasury Department's sanctions list, along with Asia World Company and subsidiaries Asia World Co Ltd, Asia World Port Management, Asia World Industries Ltd and Asia World Light Ltd for their financial connections to the regime.

Asia World Ltd, Burma's biggest and most diversified conglomerate with interests in industrial development, construction, transportation, import-export and a chain of local supermarkets. It is believed that he also controls several gold mines in Kachin State.

Tun Myint Naing also owns the Magwe United Football Club playing in the Myanmar National League (MNL).

Saving River Ayeyarwaddy is saving Burma and it is duties of all the people of Burma as well as the duties of man-kind to safe-guard the future of the world we are living in.

We also call for China Gezhouba Group Corporation (CCGC) and China's National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) to halt the ties with accused drug kin-pin of Burma.

Burma Democratic Concern (BDC) again calling for Burmese and Chinese regimes to review building Myit-Sone dam in Burma.

Addition, Burma Democratic Concern (BDC) call for all the people of Burma and justice loving people around the world to boycott Lo Hsing Han and his son Steven Law (a) Tun Myint Naing and Law’s wife Cecilia Ng’s Companies including Asia World Ltd, Golden Aaron, and Magwe United Football Club.

For more information please contact Burma Democratic Concern (BDC) at

U Myo Thein [United Kingdom]
Phone: 00-44-208-493-9137 , 00-44-787- 788-2386

U Khin Maung Win [United States]
Phone: 001-941-961-2622

Daw Khin Aye Aye Mar [United States]
Phone: 001 509-783-7223

U Tint Swe Thiha [United States]
Phone: 001-509-582-3261 , 001-509-591-8459

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Reference: Irrawaddy On-Line Magazine, RFA/Burmese News

Dear Friends,

Burma Democratic Concern (BDC) will be holding the demonstration in front of the Burmese Embassy in London, UK to commemorate 23rd anniversary of the military coup in Burma.

Burmese Students led the people calling for change demanding democracy, human rights and rule of law in Burma and military responded by opening fire on unarmed demonstrators.

Thousands of peaceful protestors were killed and the military staged the military coup on 18 September 1988 pledging to transfer power to the election winning party after the election.

Military regime held election in 1990 in which Daw Aung San Suu Kyi led National League for Democracy (NLD) won landslide victory but the junta ignored to honor the election results.

People of Burma are still suffering, after 23 years on, but we don't forget the fallen heroes who sacrifice their lives in our struggle for democracy in Burma.

To remember our fallen heroes, and to show our support for Daw Aung San Suu Kyi’s call for peace, dialogue, and national reconciliation, Burma Democratic Concern (BDC) will be holding the demonstration on 16th September 2011 (Friday) from 13:00-14:00 in front of the Burmese Embassy in London, UK and the address is 19A Charles Street, Mayfair, London, W1J 5DX http://maps.google.com/

Date: 16 September 2011 (Friday)

Time: 13:00 - 14:00

Transit: Green Park (0.2 mi E)

Tube: Jubilee, Piccadilly, Victoria

Address: 19A Charles Street, Mayfair, London, W1J 5DX

In order to build the peaceful prosperous progress Burma, we must have common position amongst all parties concerned by putting national interest first.

Burma Democratic Concern (BDC) firmly believes that only dialogue is the best possible answer for the national reconciliation process in Burma.

Burma Democratic Concern (BDC) would like to call for all the people around the world to support taking place the dialogue in Burma leading towards national reconciliation in Burma.

You are cordially invited to show your support and looking forward to see you all.

Yours faithfully,

Burma Democratic Concern (BDC)
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Political Science သင္တန္း အပါတ္စဥ္ ၇ မွ သင္တန္းသား၊သူ ၁၃ ေယာက္ႏွင့္ CSO Networking and Democracy သင္တန္း အပါတ္စဥ္ ၂ မွ သင္တန္းသား၊သူ ၁၈ ေယာက္ စုစုေပါင္း ၃၁ ေယာက္အား သင္တန္းဆင္း လက္မွတ္မ်ား ေပးအပ္ခဲ့ပါတယ္။

Bayda Institute စြမ္းေဆာင္ရည္ ျမင့္မားေရးသင္တန္းဆင္းပြဲ အခမ္းအနား

Bayda Institute စြမ္းေဆာင္ရည္ ျမင့္မားေရးသင္တန္းဆင္းပြဲ အခမ္းအနား
၁။ အခမ္းအနား ဖြင့္လွစ္ေၾကာင္း ေၾကညာျခင္း။
၂။ အမ်ဳိးသားဒီမိုကေရစီအဖြဲ႕ခ်ဳပ္ ဒုဥကၠဌ ဘဘ ဦးတင္ဦးမွ အဖြင့္အမွာစကားေျပာၾကားျခင္း။
၃။ Bayda Institute ရဲ႕ အမႈေဆာင္ Director အဖြဲ႕၀င္ ဦးျမင့္ဦးမွ ႏႈတ္ခြန္းဆက္ အမွာစကားေျပာၾကားျခင္း။
၄။ သင္းတန္းဆင္းလက္မွတ္မ်ားအား ( ဦးတင္ဦး၊ ဦးအံုးႀကိဳင္၊ ဦး၀င္းထိန္၊ ဦးေစာႏုိင္းႏုိင္း၊ ဦး၀င္းထိန္၊ ေဒၚေမ၀င္းျမင့္ အစရိွေသာ ပုဂၢိဳလ္မ်ားမွ) ေပးအပ္ျခင္း၊
၅။ ဂုဏ္ျပဳမွတ္တမ္းလႊာေပးအပ္ျခင္း။
၆။ အလွဴေငြမ်ားေပးအပ္ျခင္း။
၇။ သင္တန္းသား/သူမ်ား ကိုယ္စား သင္တန္းသားမ်ားမွ ေက်းဇူးတင္စကား ေျပာၾကားျခင္း။
၈။ Bayda Institute ၏ ေက်ာင္းအုပ္ခ်ဳပ္ေရးမွဴး ဦးကိုကိုျမင့္မွ ေက်းဇူးတင္စကားေျပာၾကားျခင္း။
၉။ Bayda Institute သင္တန္းသား၊သူမ်ားမွ “We shall overcome” သီခ်င္းျဖင့္ သီဆိုဧည့္ခံျခင္း။
၁၀။ အခမ္းအနား ၿပီးဆံုးေၾကာင္း ေၾကညာျခင္း။


Political Science သင္တန္း အပါတ္စဥ္ ၇ မွ သင္တန္းသား၊သူ ၁၃ ေယာက္ႏွင့္ CSO Networking and Democracy သင္တန္း အပါတ္စဥ္ ၂ မွ သင္တန္းသား၊သူ ၁၈ ေယာက္ စုစုေပါင္း ၃၁ ေယာက္အား သင္တန္းဆင္း လက္မွတ္မ်ား ေပးအပ္ခဲ့ပါတယ္။
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Course completion ceremony

Dear All


There will be course completion ceremony for two courses , Political Science 45 days course and CSO , Networking and Democracy 5 day intensive course ( for Mandalay Division) at bayda institute from 9.00 am to 12.00. And You are cordially invited.

Bests

MYNT

Film screening: This Prison Where I Live
FCO
05 Sep 2011

Tickets are limited and there will be a maximum of 2 tickets per person.

Please RSVP on this page to show your support but to confirm your attendance you will also need to email: SEAPG.Enquiries@fco.gov.uk with your name and your guest's name. You will then receive a confirmation of your place which you will need to print out and bring with you.

If you do not bring the confirmation print-out we can't guarantee entrance!

The screening of ‘This Prison Where I Live’ is in conjunction with Rex Entertainment at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office on Thursday, 15th September. Director Rex Bloomstein will take part in a Q&A session following the screening.

The FCO has helped to organise screenings of ‘This Prison Where Live’ all over the world and we are now pleased to give our Facebook members the chance to see it here.

‘This Prison Where I Live’ tells the story of the political prisoner Zarganar, a fierce critic of the regime and Burma’s most popular comedian. Containing secret footage of Zarganar filmed in 2007, it is an insight into the experiences of an extraordinary man and the journey made by Bloomstein and German comedian Michael Mittermeier in their attempt to share his story with the world.

This film simultaneously explores the scale of oppression in Burma and the resilience of those who struggle against it. The comparison between two comedians from two different countries reveals the importance of democracy and freedom of speech.

“The movie is an introduction to a remarkable man who needs the support of the world against his vindictive oppressors” – The Observer

Thank you for your continuing support. We look forward to seeing you at the screening.

Details

The screening will take place on 15th September. Refreshments will be served from 6.00pm before an introduction to the film at 6.30pm. Please arrive at the main reception by 6:15 to be escorted to the screening.

Nearest Tube Station: Westminster
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A leaked U.S. diplomatic cable says Burma shipped thousands of tons of rice to North Korea in exchange for arms.
The cable was sent in July 2009 from the U.S. embassy in Rangoon and just released by the anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks. It says Burma shipped about 20,000 tons of rice to North Korea through the first six months of that year in exchange for conventional arms.
The cable also quotes a well-placed business source saying the shipments had gone on for more than five years. North Korea suffers from chronic food shortages but has a sophisticated arms industry.
U.S. officials have long suspected North Korea may also be helping Burma to develop a nuclear weapons capability, though Burma denies it.
Burma's long-ruling military junta stepped down at the end of March, turning over power to a new government that was chosen in tainted elections late last year. The new administration, led mainly by retired generals, has taken modest steps to open talks with some of its critics.
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REPORT ON BURMA ARMY USE OF CHEMICAL WEAPONS

September 5, 2011

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We have posted a report prepared by a Shan activist, Hkun Hom, based on
information provided by the Shan State Army - North. The report describes
an attack by the Burma Army against the SSA on June 3, 2011, using what
are believed to be chemical weapons. If true, this is a war crime by
Burma’s military regime.

On June 3rd, the Burma Army launched a major attack against the SSA’s
Wanhai headquarters. The attack began with an extended artillery assault,
after which BA troops engaged in a battle with the SSA. Even though the
SSA troops were far outnumbered, the BA suffered some twenty killed in
action casualties.

Following the battle the BA removed their dead and wounded. They then
fired a short volley of mortars, four shells in total. These landed some
eighty meters from an SSA outpost. The mortars released an unusual smoke,
which drifted with the prevailing winds over the outpost. Of the SSA
soldiers located there, one died and the others suffered immediate and
debilitating health problems. They were ultimately evacuated to a hospital
in Thailand for treatment. Their blood tests revealed a number of
abnormalities, consistent across all the soldiers, but the Thai doctors
were not informed that they were the victims of a suspected chemical
weapons attack.

The SSA are calling for doctors who are proficient in this type of
medicine to review the results. They are willing to cooperate with
additional investigation.

Other gas attacks have been reported in previous years, as well as the
delivery of chemical weapon mortar shells to the Burma Army from North
Korea. The International Community should take these allegations
seriously, and act decisively to ensure that such attacks are not
repeated.

One possible explanation for the attack is obvious. The Burma Army
suffered great losses in the Wanhai battle. Their local commander decided
to retaliate. The gas mortars were purposely launched so that they would
land upwind from the SSA position, and the gas would drift over it.

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