the name myanmar is rejected by Ang san suu kim.
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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>âChained-Kachin Stateâ posters pasted in Myitkyina</b>
http://www.burmanet.org/news/2007/08/08/ac...d-in-myitkyina/
Wed 8 Aug 2007
<b>Several âChained-Kachin State Mapâ posters have been unusually pasted around Kachin Stateâs capital, Myitkyina in northern Burma since Sunday, said local residents.
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The posters were pasted at crowded roadside shops, markets and Kachin Christian Churches in Tatkone, Du Mare, Manhkring and Shatapru Quarters, eyewitnesses told KNG today.
According to Shatapru residents, some posters put up at the local Baptist Church have been taken away on Sunday by policemen from N0 (1) police station in Myitkyina Township.
The posters depict the picture of a hand and the Kachin State map tied by metal chains to a pole. There is a bomb near the map and short sentences written in Kachin language at the bottom of the map, the eye witnesses added.
âThe poster is targetted especially at Kachins and aimed to simulate the Kachinâs current pariah political situation under Burma âs ruling junta,â a resident of Takone told KNG.
So far no organization has taken the responsibility for distributing the posters but underground Kachin political activists may have done it, residents told KNG.
This is the first time that Kachins have started a political movement in Kachin State after the Kachin Independence Organization (KIO) signed a ceasefire agreement with the Burmaâs ruling junta in 1994.
Last month, the juntaâs Kachin Stateâs Commander Maj-Gen Ohn Myint publicly rejected the Kachin Independence Organization (KIO)âs demand for autonomy of Kachin State at the ongoing final session of the National Convention.
At the same time, both the Burma Army and KIO are stepping up fresh recruitment in the military in Kachin State, added locals.
Meanwhile, Commander Maj-Gen Ohn Myint unofficially is trying to convert the name âKachin Stateâ into âNorthern Divisionâ by telling military government personnel in Myitkyina âDonât say âKachin Stateâ and donât use the word âKachin Stateâ in your offices, any moreâ.
Now, residents of Kachin State are worried about inevitable civil war once again between the Burmaâs ruling junta and the KIO, said locals. <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
news interest item on South Korean Christian involvement in Burma:
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->http://www.burmanet.org/news/2007/08/15/kh...orted-to-india/
Khonumthung News: Burmese woman asylum seeker in South Korea to be deported to India
Wed 15 Aug 2007
A Burmese woman Ms. Pari (name changed for security reasons) from Chin state, Burma is likely to be deported to India by South Korea after being detained for a year.
In 2005, A Korean Christian pastor took Ms. Pari (26) and her friend from India to Korea where Pari worked as a domestic help. Later, she left her work because she could not bear the repression by the landlord.
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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>âChained-Kachin Stateâ posters pasted in Myitkyina</b>
http://www.burmanet.org/news/2007/08/08/ac...d-in-myitkyina/
Wed 8 Aug 2007
<b>Several âChained-Kachin State Mapâ posters have been unusually pasted around Kachin Stateâs capital, Myitkyina in northern Burma since Sunday, said local residents.
</b>
The posters were pasted at crowded roadside shops, markets and Kachin Christian Churches in Tatkone, Du Mare, Manhkring and Shatapru Quarters, eyewitnesses told KNG today.
According to Shatapru residents, some posters put up at the local Baptist Church have been taken away on Sunday by policemen from N0 (1) police station in Myitkyina Township.
The posters depict the picture of a hand and the Kachin State map tied by metal chains to a pole. There is a bomb near the map and short sentences written in Kachin language at the bottom of the map, the eye witnesses added.
âThe poster is targetted especially at Kachins and aimed to simulate the Kachinâs current pariah political situation under Burma âs ruling junta,â a resident of Takone told KNG.
So far no organization has taken the responsibility for distributing the posters but underground Kachin political activists may have done it, residents told KNG.
This is the first time that Kachins have started a political movement in Kachin State after the Kachin Independence Organization (KIO) signed a ceasefire agreement with the Burmaâs ruling junta in 1994.
Last month, the juntaâs Kachin Stateâs Commander Maj-Gen Ohn Myint publicly rejected the Kachin Independence Organization (KIO)âs demand for autonomy of Kachin State at the ongoing final session of the National Convention.
At the same time, both the Burma Army and KIO are stepping up fresh recruitment in the military in Kachin State, added locals.
Meanwhile, Commander Maj-Gen Ohn Myint unofficially is trying to convert the name âKachin Stateâ into âNorthern Divisionâ by telling military government personnel in Myitkyina âDonât say âKachin Stateâ and donât use the word âKachin Stateâ in your offices, any moreâ.
Now, residents of Kachin State are worried about inevitable civil war once again between the Burmaâs ruling junta and the KIO, said locals. <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
news interest item on South Korean Christian involvement in Burma:
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->http://www.burmanet.org/news/2007/08/15/kh...orted-to-india/
Khonumthung News: Burmese woman asylum seeker in South Korea to be deported to India
Wed 15 Aug 2007
A Burmese woman Ms. Pari (name changed for security reasons) from Chin state, Burma is likely to be deported to India by South Korea after being detained for a year.
In 2005, A Korean Christian pastor took Ms. Pari (26) and her friend from India to Korea where Pari worked as a domestic help. Later, she left her work because she could not bear the repression by the landlord.
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