Pictures of today(4 January 2008) protest in Political Prisoner uniform

(Pictures are from Dr. Lun Swe and Moemaka blog. Please give credit to these blogs )

To read the Full news in Burmese, please go to this

link:http://drlunswe.blogspot.com/2008/01/blog-post_892.html

Please read the News below for both in Burmese and in English click here

Protesters wearing Prisioners uniforms and Protest in Rangoon Today

Source: Ko Nicknayman: Link: http://koniknayman.blogspot.com

Friday, January 4, 2008

ႏိုင္ငံေရးအက်ဥ္းသမားမ်ားအျမန္ဆံုးလႊတ္ဆႏၵျပ။

ယခုႏွစ္ လြတ္လပ္ေရးေန ့တြင္ အမ်ဳိးသားဒီမိုကေရစီအဖြဲ ့ခ်ဳပ္ရုံးတြင္ ႏွစ္ (၆၀) ေျမာက္ လြတ္လပ္ေရးေန ့အခမ္းအနားက်င္းပရာတြင္ တက္ေရာက္သူ (၁၂၀၀) ခန္ ့ရွိေႀကာင္း သိရွိရပါသည္။ ထို ့အျပင္ ရုံးခ်ဴပ္ေရွ ့တြင္ အဖြဲ ့၀င္ (၁၂) ဦးမွ အေပၚေရာင္တြင္ အျပာႏုႏွင့္ ေအာက္တြင္ ပုဆိုးအျပာရင့္ေရာင္မ်ား၀တ္ဆင္ကာ ေက်ာေနာက္ဘက္တြင္ (ႏိုင္ငံေရးအက်ဥ္းသမားမ်ားအျမန္ဆံုးလႊတ္) စာလုံးမ်ားအား တစ္လုံးခ်င္းစီ ေရးသားထားကာ ဆႏၵျပႀကပါသည္။ ယခုအခ်ိန္အထိ ဖမ္းဆီးခံရမွဳသတင္းမရွိေသးပါ။ ဆႏၵျပမွဳႀကာျမင့္ခ်ိန္မွာ (၁၅) မိနစ္ခန္ ့ရွိပါသည္။

Translation: Protest to release Political Prisoners

About 1200 people attended this year 60th anniversary of Burma Independance day organized by Daw Aung San Suu Kyi's NLD Party infront of NLD party headquarter. 12 NLD members dressed like a political prisoners in dark blue sarong and light blue tops with a sentence "Release Political Prisioners in No time" with each word on the back of the each member.

So far no arrest was carrried out yet and the demostartion took about 15 mins.

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Source : Dr Lun Swe Blog
To read the Full news in Burmese, please go to this link:
http://drlunswe.blogspot.com/2008/01/blog-post_892.html

4 Jan 08, 11:17
ယေန႔ ေန႔ခင္း ရန္ကုန္ျမိဳ႔ စံေတာ္ခ်ိန္ ေန႔ခင္း ၁၂ နာရီတြင္ ေရႊဂုံတိုင္လမ္း၌ အက်ဥ္းသား ေထာင္ပုံစံ ၀တ္စုံမ်ားျဖင့္ လူအမ်ား တန္းစီးျပီး ႏိုင္ငံေရးအက်ဥ္းသားမ်ား လႊတ္ေပး ဆိုသည့္ စာတမ္းကို ဆြဲလွ်က္ စီတန္းလမ္းေလွ်ာက္ ခဲ့ၾကသည္ဟု ဆိုပါသည္။

Translation:
Today(4 January 2008) noon time, at Shwe-gon-dine Road, Rangoon, People wearing prisoner clothes and doing walking protest carrying banner demanding to release political prisoners.

More detail in Burmese read at the DVB link:

http://burmese.dvb.no/news.php?id=3423

Latest Update News about Long Peace March by The Burmese Monks

Photo taken: at 12:34 pm local time: 1 Kilometer away from Hikkaduwa City

Now the procession arrived Hikkaduwa City and the monks are walking in the city. Proudly, the Sri Lanka National Television programs are continuously showing our walking campaign.

More Photos at : Ashin Mettacara Blog: http://ashinmettacara-eng.blogspot.com/

Sri Lanka Long Peace Walk Update

Source: MSMA http://lanka-msma.blogspot.com/

You can read Full news in Burmese at this link:
http://lanka-msma.blogspot.com/2008/01/blog-post_4835.html

Over 50 Burmese Monks in Sri Lanka, at 7:00am today (4 January 2008), praying metta prayer and marching towards City Hall, Galle City toward City Hall Galle for the opening ceremony of Long Peace Walk. The ceremony which was stsrting at 8:00 am in front of the City Hall, Buddha square. The ceremony was attended by the Principle Abbot of Galle Buddhist Council Ven. Chandakumara,Ven. Pannaratana and monks, Gelle region police chief Mr. Keerthie. D- Silva (S. S. P) and others responsible personals and over 200 Citizens from Gelle city.

The ceremony was opening by reciting "Namaw Satha" prayer 3 times by the attendees. The public and monks recite the peace prayer for the Peace in Burma and for the World Peace. Also offering flowers and candles.

After that, Chief Monks take turns give speeched for the Peace in Burma and peace in the world. On behalf of the Burmese Monks in Sri Lanka, Ashin Thura Wuntha explaining about the reason of the Long Peace Walk.

Ashin Thura Wuntha explain that 4 January is the 60th Anniversary of Burmese Independence from British Colony but Burma is still under Military Junta Dictatorship for 45 years. Current Military Dictator practise only interest to hold their power and for the sake of to prolong their their power as long as possible, the military Junta is killing, arresting, torturing its own people without considering any Human Rights at all.

Especially in September 2007, Military arrested more than 4000 monks and killed almost 40 monks inhumanely, who were (for the sake of the Burmese public) ,reciting Metta prayer and carried out peaceful walking demonstration to show the people desire and demand.

Because of this, The intention of the today Long Peace Walk by the overseas Burmese monks is to make the World aware of the suppression in Burma and participate to help Burmese people in peaceful way.

More Photos of Long Peace Walk at Ashin Mettacara Blog:

http://ashinmettacara-eng.blogspot.com/

Myanmar Monks in Sri Lanks start Long Peace Walk

Source: Ashin Mettacarra Blog (link here)

Myanmar Monks in Sri Lanka Start Campaign
Myanmar Student Monks in Sri Lanka have started walking campaign 7 am in this morning. Welcomed by the authority of Galle City and will be guarded by the Sri Lanka security on the long way. This walking campaign is dedicated to Myanmar Independence Day and to keep peace in the whole world including inside Burma. This news will be posted with the photos sooner or later.
Posted by Ashin Mettacara at 10:42 AM

New Year News from DID

Source: DID,

Read this Full news in Burmese here:

DID ျပည္တြင္းႏွစ္သစ္ကူးသတင္းမ်ား

Around 8:00 pm New Year, The Shwedagon Pagoda was closed to the Public by putting up Signboards everywhere mentioning "Cleaning In Process". Not a single person was allow to enter the Shwedagon pagoda for worshipping.

About 8:30 pm, along the Rangoon's Pyay Road, security forced were stopping all the cars and Transports by the roadside in Frantic manner. Later long motorcade passing by according to the eye witness reported to DID.

According to the report which is considered as reliable by the people who close to the security force, General Than Shwe and so many Officers lighted up 90,000 candles at Shwedagon Pagoda as a "Ye-Ta-Yar(doing some thing or offering something as certain place,at certain time and date to counter-act in advance to prevent the bad things going to happen to someone).

On the same day(earlier time) at Shwedagon Pagoda, some activists shouting "our Cause" slogan at the Shwedagon Pagoda and distributed VCD and CD to the public. The person who reported this news had no chance to obtain these VCD and CD, he was not sure what informations inside these VCD and CD. So far noone was arrested yet.

Another unrelated news which DID got was, according from the public from Rangoon that the Fuel(petrol) price will be increased up to 4500 -5000 Kyats

Breaking News!! Counsellor of Myanmar embassy in Moscow found dead

Thanks to Happy who posted the link on Ko-Htike's Blog C-box.

Source: http://www.itar-tass.com/eng/level2.html?NewsID=12231991&PageNum=0

Counsellor of Myanmar embassy in Moscow found dead
03.01.2008, 20.48

MOSCOW, January 3 (Itar-Tass) -- The third counsellor of the Myanmar Embassy in Moscow was found dead at the embassy premises in downtown Moscow, a source in the Moscow police told Itar-Tass on Thursday. Doctors said in a preliminary diagnosis report that the diplomat died of intestinal poisoning and acute heart attack.



“An alarm call about the incident came at 6.14 p.m. Moscow time on Thursday to the police alert force. The 40-year-old third counsellor of the Myanmar Embassy was found dead at the premises of the embassy situated at 41, Bolshaya Nikitskaya Street,” the police source said.
The investigation into the incident is underway.