A man was brutally assaulted up by BGP near Santouli in Akyab by BGP personal.
Last Friday, Md Sadek was on the road when BGP intercepted him and started beating him up, leaving him with multiple injuries all over the body. The victim is currently in a critical condition.
Sources say a day earlier, a raid by BGP forces in Santouli was protested by locals as the security forces rounded up innocent men on alleged terror charges. The assault on Sadek is a revenge by the BGP for protesting the raid.
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Saturday, November 28, 2015
Treating More HIV Patients in More Places: Myanmar’s Next Challenge
Between 2011 and 2014, Myanmar more than doubled the number of people living with HIV who are on long-term antiretroviral-therapy (ART), the gold standard for HIV treatment. This is fantastic news. Furthermore, while Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) continues to be one of the biggest providers of HIV care in Myanmar, currently treating 35,000 patients across the country, by the end of 2014, almost half of all ART drugs in Myanmar were being provided in the public sector.
But despite these achievements, the harsh reality remains that today only half the estimated 210,000 people living with HIV in Myanmar receive ART. So as we mark Word AIDS day this year, and acknowledge the huge progress that has been made in Myanmar, we need to ask ourselves: why is this? And, even more importantly, what needs to happen next?
We have entered a new phase in the HIV epidemic in Myanmar. Success in starting more people on proper treatment has also brought a new challenge: how do we maintain the long term support of those already on treatment, while simultaneously ensuring that the remaining people living with HIV know their status and have access to services? Part of the answer lies in simplifying the way we support those already on lifelong treatment.
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But despite these achievements, the harsh reality remains that today only half the estimated 210,000 people living with HIV in Myanmar receive ART. So as we mark Word AIDS day this year, and acknowledge the huge progress that has been made in Myanmar, we need to ask ourselves: why is this? And, even more importantly, what needs to happen next?
We have entered a new phase in the HIV epidemic in Myanmar. Success in starting more people on proper treatment has also brought a new challenge: how do we maintain the long term support of those already on treatment, while simultaneously ensuring that the remaining people living with HIV know their status and have access to services? Part of the answer lies in simplifying the way we support those already on lifelong treatment.
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Tokyo seeks closer ties with victorious NLD, offers expertise
TOKYO -- The Japanese government has taken a step toward cementing ties with the National League for Democracy, following the party's landslide victory in Myanmar's Nov. 8 election.
Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida met here Friday with Nyan Win, the NLD's No. 2 official and a close aide to party leader Aung San Suu Kyi. Kishida promised to support the launch next spring of a new government, which is to be led by the NLD, and invited Suu Kyi to visit Japan at an early date.
Nyan Win told Kishida that Myanmar needs Japanese investment and technology. Nyan Win is scheduled to stay here through Thursday, conferring with government and business leaders. He is rumored as a possible presidential candidate as Myanmar's constitution blocks Suu Kyi -- with sons who are U.K. citizens -- from becoming president.
"The NLD has almost no knowledge of government, and we are in a position to introduce Japanese-style administration methods," a Japanese government official said.
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Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida met here Friday with Nyan Win, the NLD's No. 2 official and a close aide to party leader Aung San Suu Kyi. Kishida promised to support the launch next spring of a new government, which is to be led by the NLD, and invited Suu Kyi to visit Japan at an early date.
Nyan Win told Kishida that Myanmar needs Japanese investment and technology. Nyan Win is scheduled to stay here through Thursday, conferring with government and business leaders. He is rumored as a possible presidential candidate as Myanmar's constitution blocks Suu Kyi -- with sons who are U.K. citizens -- from becoming president.
"The NLD has almost no knowledge of government, and we are in a position to introduce Japanese-style administration methods," a Japanese government official said.
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The Road to The Future
The Aung San Suu Kyi-led NLD party’s decisive victory in the recent Myanmar elections holds the promise of far-reaching changes in India’s important, if relatively neglected, eastern neighbour. It also has the potential of opening up a new and positive chapter in India-Myanmar relations. Rajiv Bhatia’s book, India-Myanmar Relations: Changing Contours is timely; it offers significant insights into the transformative processes underway in Myanmar and the direction in which India-Myanmar ties may evolve. On the former, he correctly notes, “The change arose from within, from the political elite’s careful assessment that the SPDC approach had run the ship of the economy aground…” (pg 39) and consequently, the military realised that a compromise with Suu Kyi was required. On her part, Suu Kyi too retreated from an insistence on adhering to full democratic functioning.
Bhatia has excellent credentials to survey India’s long and historic relations with Myanmar. A professional diplomat with a scholarly bent of mind, he served as India’s ambassador to the country and also spent many years in dealing with Myanmar in the ministry of external affairs. More importantly, Bhatia developed an enduring interest in the country and its people. He brings all the experience he gained over his over two decade-long association with the country and its people to his writing.
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Bhatia has excellent credentials to survey India’s long and historic relations with Myanmar. A professional diplomat with a scholarly bent of mind, he served as India’s ambassador to the country and also spent many years in dealing with Myanmar in the ministry of external affairs. More importantly, Bhatia developed an enduring interest in the country and its people. He brings all the experience he gained over his over two decade-long association with the country and its people to his writing.
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Suu Kyi to take fresh look at peace deal
Aung San Suu Kyi, chair of the National League for Democracy (NLD), said she would restart the peace process in an effort to persuade other groups to sign the ceasefire.
Speaking on the Radio Free Asia programme, ‘Rough Journey to Democracy and Aung San Suu Kyi’, she said: “We will have to negotiate from the beginning in order to lay down the political framework for the nationwide ceasefire. We will continue carrying out the tasks of the Myanmar Peace Centre, but some will have to be changed. We would like to tackle the peace process as early as possible. We want to move quickly towards ensuring a smooth transfer of power so that we will be poised to tackle all the issues when we are in government,” Suu Kyi said.
She added that the NLD would have to work hard for the ethnic minorities and peace must be given priority in addition to regional development in matters like education, health and social welfare.
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Speaking on the Radio Free Asia programme, ‘Rough Journey to Democracy and Aung San Suu Kyi’, she said: “We will have to negotiate from the beginning in order to lay down the political framework for the nationwide ceasefire. We will continue carrying out the tasks of the Myanmar Peace Centre, but some will have to be changed. We would like to tackle the peace process as early as possible. We want to move quickly towards ensuring a smooth transfer of power so that we will be poised to tackle all the issues when we are in government,” Suu Kyi said.
She added that the NLD would have to work hard for the ethnic minorities and peace must be given priority in addition to regional development in matters like education, health and social welfare.
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Hunger strikers sue for prison beating
Two students have sued Myingyan prison commander for beatings they received while on hunger strike in the jail.
Sithu Myat, a second-year maths student, and Soe Hlaing from Monywa Technology University were arrested in March. They went on hunger strike along with another student, Nyan Myint Than, on November 5.
Soe Hlaing said: “On November 6, Sithu Myat and I were wrapped in blankets and taken from our cells. Our legs were beaten with sticks or bricks. They sent us back to our cells in great pain. We aren’t criminals. We are students demanding educational reform. We weren’t sentenced. They breached our human rights. That’s why we are trying to sue the prison commander. We also sent a letter to the Myanmar Human Rights Commission.”
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Sithu Myat, a second-year maths student, and Soe Hlaing from Monywa Technology University were arrested in March. They went on hunger strike along with another student, Nyan Myint Than, on November 5.
Soe Hlaing said: “On November 6, Sithu Myat and I were wrapped in blankets and taken from our cells. Our legs were beaten with sticks or bricks. They sent us back to our cells in great pain. We aren’t criminals. We are students demanding educational reform. We weren’t sentenced. They breached our human rights. That’s why we are trying to sue the prison commander. We also sent a letter to the Myanmar Human Rights Commission.”
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Pestilent mines plague Myanmar’s people
Myanmar’s war zones, even in areas where a ceasefire is in place, continue to experience the terrors of conflict as landmines riddle jungles and village tracks. The biggest problem about this, no one knows how many or where they are.
The International Campaign to Ban Landmines released their 17th report on Myanmar on 25 November. It once again highlights the lack of trust between groups in solving an issue that harms civilians mostly after the conflict is over.
The most disturbing factor that the report highlights is that no one fully knows the number of causalities or how many people the destructive weapon maims.
“The Tatmadaw or ethnic armed groups do not record the number of civilians who have been injured or killed by anti-personnel mines that they have laid. The ministry of health is unable to count the number of people who are landmine victims in Myanmar,” said Yeshua Moser-Puangsuwan, Research Coordinator & Editor of the Landmine & Cluster Munition Monitor.
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The International Campaign to Ban Landmines released their 17th report on Myanmar on 25 November. It once again highlights the lack of trust between groups in solving an issue that harms civilians mostly after the conflict is over.
The most disturbing factor that the report highlights is that no one fully knows the number of causalities or how many people the destructive weapon maims.
“The Tatmadaw or ethnic armed groups do not record the number of civilians who have been injured or killed by anti-personnel mines that they have laid. The ministry of health is unable to count the number of people who are landmine victims in Myanmar,” said Yeshua Moser-Puangsuwan, Research Coordinator & Editor of the Landmine & Cluster Munition Monitor.
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