Following is the viewpoint of the writers, members of The SP editorial board.
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The junta that stole the Burmese state now has absconded with its capital. Surprising just about everyone who watches Myanmar – as its military regime renamed the nation – a convoy of trucks began moving government ministries last week 200 miles north from the longtime capital of Yangon to an undeveloped rural outpost.
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A United Nations committee is expected to block an attempt by the United States and European nations to single out six countries-Iran, North Korea, Burma, Sudan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan-for condemnation on human rights abuses.
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US President George W. Bush and Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi on Thursday discussed a US-brokered Middle East border accord, Myanmar and regional efforts to control bird flu.
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Hong Kong-based Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC), on 14 November, condemned the South Rangoon District Court’s summary rejections of recent appeals against the jailing of human rights defender Su Su Nway and a private tuition teacher Aung Pe from Twante Township.
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Authorities in Dhaka were set to finalise a draft agreement on the construction of the Bangladesh-Burma friendship road at an inter-ministerial meeting today in line with the government’s ‘Look East Policy’.
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A Burmese migrant worker and vegetable seller was killed by a landmine in India on November 6 just two miles from the Burma border.
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Rape offences committed by the junta’s security forces in regional Arakan State simply go unpunishable, says a close relative of one victim in Pone Nar Gyan Township, north of the capital, Akyab.
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Recently, the Township Peace and Development Council (TPDC) Chairman of Maungdaw Township, Arakan State has issued a new regulation regarding the marriage purposes of Rohingya community, said a businessman of Maungdaw Town.
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New Mon State Party has decided to attend the government sponsored National Convention next month in which it is hoped that formal talks will pave the way toward a political settlement among all of Burma’s nationalities.
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Renowned Burmese Mon lawyer Nai Ngwe Ya who had been helping people who sued the authorities over forced labour practices and defending those who were arrested and detained by the authorities, died at his home in Rangoon Thaketa Township on 16 November.
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Some political parties which have been boycotting the constitution-drafting ‘National Convention’ of Burma’s military junta, State Peace and Development Council (SPDC), are said to be among those invited to attend a new session of the suspended convention which is due to start on 5 December.
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