Shooting broke out between the Junta Army and the DKBA militia

(Source: ThaMut Chan - KaoWao 19 December 2007)
(News need to Verify)

According to the news, came for the border Area, 5 soldiers from DKBA militia(Pro-Junta splinter group from KNU) were killed, shot by the Junta army group. This DKBA group arrived to KNU 6 Army Corps area for Joint offensive with Junta Army against KNU.

The shooting broke out when there was arguments between the Junta Army and DKBA.

The soldiers from DKBA 901 Infantry commanded by Yan Min, refused to follow order from the Junta Army to ambush KNU and that started the arguments and ended up Junta Army shot and killed 5 soldiers from DKBA. There was no casualties from the Junta side according to the officer from the Cease-Fire team who confirmed about the shooting broke out.

It was happened on 16 December 2007 near Tee-Ka-Htain village in the KNU 6 Army Corps command area. The DKBA soldiers were shot by the soldiers from Junta 44 Army Division.

At the time of this shooting, there were 70 soldiers from Junta Army at the scene and the DKBA 901 Infantry commander Yan Min was away at the Myaing-Gyi-Ngu Army headquarter to attend meeting.

Reddish Bloody Night Music Video, Song, Lyrics and Guiter Chords

ေသြး နီ ည

Reddish Bloody Night
Lyrics/composed by Thiri Nyunt
Copyright ©Thiri Nyunt
Lyrics translated by Bay Dah


Original Guiter Chords and Prounciation Text(english), Please click the photo on the right side.
(Courtesy of Ko Thri Nyunt )



To see the Music Video Double Click on the Play Arrow
below on the Video Box


Listen only to the Song without watching Video, Click here

ေတး စာ သား (Lyrics)

အိမ္ ေရွ ့ေျခ သံ ၾကား ယင္ (Footsteps ...From the front of a house)

အိမ္ တံ ခါး လာ ေခါက္ မယ္ (The Knocks.... would be knocked ..on the door)

ဒီ ည ၊ ည ဆိုး ရယ္ (Tonight ... is the evil night )

မုန္ တိုင္း ထန္ လြန္း တယ္ (Like a heavy .. stormy night.)

Chorus:
ဒီ ည ၊ ေသြး နီ ည (Tonight .... Reddish Bloody Night)
ကူ မဲ့ သူ မ ရွိ ေသာ ည ရဲ ့ အ လယ္ (When noone help, in the middle... of this night)
ညီ ေလး ... မင္း ဘယ္ မွာ လဲ (Oh Brother ..... Where are you right now...)
ဘယ္ မ်ား ေရွာင္ ပုန္း သြား သ လဲ ကြယ္ (Where are you hiding right ...now)
ညီ မ ေလး .. မင္း ဘယ္ မွာ လဲ (Oh Sister..... Where are you right now...)
ဒီ ည မွာ ေပ်ာက္ ဆံုး သြား သူ (You disappear .. on this night )
(end of Chorus)

လ မင္း ကြယ္ ေပ်ာက္ ရင္ (When the Moon disappear...)

အ ေမွာင္ ည သိပ္ သည္း မယ္ (The dark night becomes ... darker)

ဟို မိုး ေပၚ က ၾကယ္ (The stars .. high above the sky.......)

ေၾကြ လင့္ ကာ ေပ်ာက္ ကြယ္ (Fall down ... and vanished )

(Repeat Chorus:)

ohh.. oh..... oh oh oh Oh.... .oh..ohoh..oh.. ohh.. oh oh.oh..Oh... ohhh.. oh oh ...

(Repeat Chorus)

(Repeat Chorus Again)

Ohh oh..... oh oh oh Ohh.... .oh..ohoh..Oh.. Ohh.. oh oh.oh..Oh... ohhh.. oh.. ohOh..Ohh...

88 Generation Students Congress in US

88 Generations Student Congress In Chicago, USA in near Future.
[ News Source : Democratic Information Department (Did) ]

Ko Soe Moe and 88 Generation Students are organising a Congress for 88 Generation Students in Chicago, USA. The Date of the Congress is tentatively around 29 December 2007 to 30 December 2007.

Also there is going to be a 3rd Fort Wayne Congress around February 2008 at Fort Wayne City, Indiana, USA where most of the Burmese revolutionist settle down.

DID will update regarding any news/comments about this Congress on their DID Blog site

(Bay Dah will try to translate all the articles about this Congress which are going to post on the DID blog site)

Interview with Ko Kyaw Thet

Interview with Ko Kyaw Thet (Democratic Information Department)
Copyright© by Ko Si Thu
(Driving for Burma Campaign - http://drivingforburma.blogspot.com/).

Please go this link to listen the interview in Burmese :
http://drivingforburma.blogspot.com/2007/12/interview-with-ko-kyaw-thet-did.html


Ko Si Thu: Please Kindly introduce yourself.
Ko Kyaw Thet: Well, My name is Kyaw Thet and I am from 88 generation student movement.

Ko Sithu: Where were you working before?
Ko Kyaw Thet: During the 8888 Student upring, as a 88 generation student, I am working for the Whole Burma Student Union Headquarter.

After the cracked down of the student, I escape to Thailand and then to US since then I am settle down in US and working together with any organisation which have same vision, same objective and resolution for our country.

Ko Sithu: What do you think about this 7 Steps Road Map which was written by the Military Junta?
Ko Kyaw Thet: If you look at the The Junta policy of 7 Steps Road Map, the one step is writing of Constitution and now they are preparing to write the Constitution. The Constitutions are very important to any one country. It is the Life Line and essential requirement of the country.

But as of today, if you look at the Constitution which they(Junta) preparing to write is not reflect to the people desire nor reflect to the people life, then this Constitution will be considered as not applicable.

Beside that if that Constitution is going to be adopted by the National Congress then we have to check the delegations of the National Congress. Who are these delegations? Who they really represent? That's why for me, I will not accept the Constitution which is written by them(Military Junta).

Ko Si Thu: So who should be written the Constitution?
Ko Kyaw Thet: As for me, The constitution should be written by the Delegations who are truly elected by the people to represent the people wish and desire. Any person or any Organisation or any establishment cannot write the Constitution by themselves to satisfy their own desire and benefit.

Since the constitution have to reflect the people desire and people life, we will never accept any constitution which is written to look after the benefit of the certain group or certain organisation or certain Establishment.

The Constitution MUST be written by the delegations who are truly elected by the people to reflect their desire, their wishes and their life.

Ko Sithu: Recently I heard that there are some movement of creating the Federal Government and writing of Federal Constitution outside of Burma. Do you think it is the right time to do that or it is necessary?
Ko Kyaw Thet: As my OWN personal point of view, the Federal Constitution written outside of Burma is to be considered as DRAFT. One day, when the Constitution which is real and truly reflect the people desire and wishes are written then this Federal Constitution will be submitted as a DRAFT Constitution to be study and considered.

Ko Si Thu: Thank you.
Ko Kyaw Thet: Thank you very much too

Disclaimer:
I translated the interview as best as possible to the original conversation with my best intention.... Bay Dah

Mrs. Bush's Remarks at a Video Teleconference on Burma

Mrs. Bush's Remarks at a Video Teleconference on Burma in Recognition of International Human Rights Day

Roosevelt Room
9:33 A.M. EST
MRS. BUSH: Thanks, Ambassador. Thank you, Dr. Maung, for joining us this morning.

Let me tell you who's here with us. We have Jim Jeffrey*, the Deputy Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs is here by me. Next to him is Elliott Abrams, Deputy National Security Advisor for Global Democracy Strategy; Dennis Wilder, Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for East Asian Affairs. On this side of the table, Anita McBride, who is my Chief of Staff; Ambassador Chris Hill; and Kristen Silverberg at the table with us. (Full Story)

International Human Rights Day Ceremony Held Under Junta's Microscope

Translation Courtesy by Naychiu (Link to her blog)

On December 10, A meeting to mark the International Human Rights Day was held in Kyi' Myin Taing, Yangon, at the home of U Myint Aye's, the leader of the HRDP (Human Rights Defenders and Promoters). The meeting, held from 9:00 until 10:30 am, was attended by about 100 people, the members around the country, diplomats from United State of America, some public members with interest in Human Rights as well as staff members of Sun Arr Shin (Power Rangers) - the government's public movement control officials.
(Read Full Translated Article here)

Original post in Burmese: http://www.dvb.no/burmese/news.php?id=3103

Related Article Link: We Are Burmese And We Are Proud Of It

Letter from United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar(Burma) (Click on the photo to read)