Sunday 27 February 2011

Dear Friends,

Date: 27.02.2011

Re: Burma Democratic Concern (BDC) News Letter February 2011
Burma Democratic Concern (BDC) is the global campaigning and lobbying organisation to restore democracy, human rights and rule of law in Burma where everyone can enjoy the freedom of speech, press, beliefs, assembly and rule of law that emphasizes the protection of individual rights. Burma Democratic Concern (BDCs) have the firm determination, dedication and devotion to keep on working until the democracy restored in Burma. Burma Democratic Concern (BDC) believes the power of butterfly effect and we would be very happy if our works could be a useful tool triggering the domino effect resulting in emergence of the peaceful, progress and prosperous Burma.

Burmese Campaign Video TV-Series “Hay Man Oo Mar SHOCK Shi Tae”

Burma Democratic Concern (BDC) is humbled to present the new Burmese campaign video TV-Series "Hay Man Oo Mar SHOCK Shi Tae" to educate, empower and encourage the new generation activists working for the democratisation of Burma. In the video there will be information regarding expanding political space, institution building, strengthening civil society organisations (CSOs), establishing networks, revolution of the spirit, people power, mass movement; freedom from fear, as well as the information regarding reforming and modification of the Burma's military with new generation activists who value professionalism and respect people.









Radio Free Asia (Burmese): အရပ္ဝတ္ စစ္ဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္ေတြနဲ႔ အစိုးရသစ္ 2011-02-13

Burma Democratic Concern (BDC) director Myo Thein participated in the discussion on RFA (Burmese) together with U Tin Maung Htoo of CFOB, U Myint Hlaing of Burma Today and U Min Zin of Burma Analyst, regarding the so-called new government, current situation of Burma and future prospect.

http://www.rfa.org/burmese/commentaries/sunday_round_table-02132011084401.html/b0212wrap
http://soundcloud.com/myo-thein/radio-free-asia-burmese-sunday


Burma Democratic Concern (BDC)’s Campaigning Activities

Since 12 Feb is the Union Day of Burma and so Burma Democratic Concern (BDC) organised the demonstration calling for National Reconciliation in Burma.


Burma Democratic Concern (BDC) attended and show solidarity with Kachin brothers celebrating 50th Anniversary of Kachin Revolution Day.


February 13 is the Burma's Independence Hero, and father of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi's father, Bogyoke Aung San's birthday. In honour of Bogyoke Aung San's birthday, it is the Burma Democratic Concern (BDC)'s honour to produce Bogyoke Aung San's Birthday video.


BDC-TV Knowledge Bank Videos

Please see the following Knowledge Bank Videos. Burma Democratic Concern (BDC) is pleased to announce that BDC-TV Knowledge Bank Program is reading articles, novels, information, poems and essays etc which we believe help assisting working for democratisation of Burma.

Pha Yar Suu Pa Say Ta Kae A Phit Lay

Arab Revolution & Facebook

Freedom Is Not Free


The Universal Declaration of Human Rights


The Essence Of Being Partial

The Characteristics OF The Effective Organization

Civil Society Organisations (CSOs)


Questioning Obedience နာခံမႈကိုစမ္းစစ္ျခင္း




BDC-TV News

Mandatory Military Service in Burma in Burmese


Mandatory military service in Burma in Chinese

Mandatory Military Service in Burma in English


BDC-TV Entertainment

Burma Democratic Concern (BDC) is working consistently to restore democracy in Burma and we are pleased to announce that we have expanded the BDC-TV entertainment program and hope you like it. Please enjoy the following videos.



Radio Free Asia (Burmese) Politics & Today Youths

It is very imperative to educate new generation activists not only for the democratisation of Burma but also for the world peace and stability and Ko Myo Yan Naung Thein is one of the leaders working at the forefront educating people. Ko Myo Yan Naung Thein is the 88-Generation student, principle of the BAYDA Institute which enjoys support from Daw Aung San Suu Kyi’s led NLD and he is the instrumental in establishing the National Youth Network which was founded under the guidance and leadership of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi’s desire to build the democracy networking society so as to communicate with people around the world.

You can enjoy the Ko Myo Yan Naung Thein’s program, Politics & Today Youths, on Radio Free Asia (Burmese) on every Thursday at 7:00 am. Please stay tune in.

Ko Myo Yan Naung Thein on Ethnics' Rights, Unity & Mandatory Military Service in Burma
Ko Myo Yan Naung Thein on Duties of the Genuine People's Government & Duties of the Citizens

National Youth Network News

National Youth Network which was founded under the guidance and leadership of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi’s desire to build the democracy networking society so as to communicate with people around the world. You can join and show your support here on facebook at

http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_120388354697897



BAYDA Institute News

NLD-affiliated school forced to move (Mizzima) – The Bayda Institute in Tamwe Township in Rangoon Division, an education group associated with the social networking program supported by Aung San San Kyi, is moving to Sanchaung Township, according to principal Myo Yan Naung Thein.
http://www.mizzima.com/news/inside-burma/4893-nld-affiliated-school-forced-to-move.html

ေဗဒါေက်ာင္း ေနရာသစ္မွာလည္း ဖိအားေပးခံေနရ (2011-02-23) ကုိမ်ိဳးရန္ေနာင္သိန္းနဲ႔ ေစတနာရွင္ လူငယ္တစု စီစဥ္ ဖြင့္လွစ္ထားတဲ့ ေဗဒါ သင္တန္းေက်ာင္း ေနရာအသစ္မွာလည္း မယက ဥကၠ႒က ဖိအားေပးေနတဲ့အတြက္ အခက္အခဲ ရွိေနေၾကာင္း သတင္းရရွိပါတယ္။
http://www.rfa.org/burmese/news/volunteer_school_in_trouble-02232011143019.html

BDC on the Media

On the very day and the very time when the Daw Aung San Suu Kyi was released from house arrest, Burma Democratic Concern (BDC) director Myo Thein was interviewed live on BBC TV News simultaneously commenting on her release, what she meant of her very first ever message and the future of Burma. Burma Democratic Concern (BDC) director Myo Thein is regular in media TV/Radio interviews not only with Burmese exile media but also with international media such as BBC TV, Aljazeera English, etc.

Myo Thein on BBC TV regarding Aung San Suu Kyi released (13/11/2010).

Upcoming Events

Burma Democratic Concern (BDC) is organising the Burma’s Human Rights Day Demonstration on 11 March 2011 from 12:30-14:30 in front of the Burmese embassy in London, UK.

Burma Democratic Concern (BDC) is organising the Burma’s Resistance Day Demonstration on 25 March 2011 from 12:30-14:30 in front of the Burmese embassy in London, UK.

You are cordially invited to join with us and thank you very much for your unwavering support.

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Saturday 12 February 2011

Burma Democratic Concern(BDC): BDC-TV Knowledge Bank Program

Burma Democratic Concern(BDC): BDC-TV Knowledge Bank Program



Burma Democratic Concern(BDC): BDC-TV Knowledge Bank Program




BDC-TV Knowledge Bank Program: Freedom Is Not Free



Burma Democratic Concern(BDC): BDC-TV Knowledge Bank Program



Kachin Revolution Day 50th Anniversary Speech by Myo Thein



50th Anniversary of the Kachin Revolution Day Held in London (05 Feb 2011)

Burma Democratic Concern(BDC): BDC-TV Knowledge Bank Program

Social networking group linked with Suu Kyi asked to move
Mizzima
11 Feb 2011

Chiang Mai (Mizzima) – The BAYDA Institute in Tamwe Township in Rangoon Division, an education group associated with the social networking program supported by Burmese pro-democracy leader Aung San San Kyi, has been asked to leave its location, according to the principal of the institute.

The landlord informed the principle of the institute on February 8 that she had been threatened by the authorities, and he would have to vacant the premises located at Seitta Thukha Street, No. 23.

‘The landlord gave us an eviction notice and said we were doing ‘political movement’ work here. She cried and requested us to vacate otherwise she said her room would be sealed by the authorities. She said the authorities threatened her’, principle Myo Yannaung Thein told Mizzima.

‘Her husband is a sailor and her father-in-law and mother-in-law are retired school teachers. She requested us not to ruin their lives’, he said. He said the landlord did not disclose who had threatened her, but he speculated that it was likely the Tamwe Township authorities.

After Suu Kyi announced a National League for Democracy plan to form social networking organisations across the country, called the ‘Nation Youth Network’, led by 88-Generation leader Myo Yannaung Thein, many people and groups have expressed interest.

The BAYDA Institute is one of 104 groups in the social network group, which was formed on January 6, sources said.

The Institute offers two-week training courses in Social Science, Global Conflicts, South East Asia Studies and Basic English.

Recently, at a ceremony on February 4, which concluded a course, NLD Vice Chairman Tin Oo attended and presented a message from Suu Kyi.

The Institute has provided short training courses since November 2010. The first training course was an introduction to international relations. About 100 people have enrolled in the courses.

Source: Social networking group linked with Suu Kyi asked to move

ဖိအားေပးမႈေၾကာင့္ ေဗဒါသင္တန္းေက်ာင္း ေခတၱ ပိတ္မည္

မင္းႏိုင္သူ FRIDAY, 11 FEBRUARY 2011 13:37

လူမႈသိပၸံ ဘာသာရပ္မ်ား သင္ၾကားေပးေနသည့္ ေဗဒါ သင္တန္းေက်ာင္း (Bayda Institute) ကုိ ေနရာမွ ခ်က္ခ်င္း ဖယ္ရွားေပးရန္ အာဏာပုိင္မ်ားက ဖိအားေပးေသာေၾကာင့္ သင္တန္းေက်ာင္းကို ေခတၱရပ္နားမည္ ျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း သိရသည္။

ေဗဒါသင္တန္းေက်ာင္း အတြင္းျမင္ကြင္း

ရန္ကုန္ၿမိဳ႕ တာေမြၿမဳိ႕နယ္၊ ေက်ာက္ေျမာင္းရပ္ကြက္၊ စိတၱသုခလမ္း၊ အမွတ္ (၂၃) ငါးလႊာရွိ အခန္းတခန္းကုိ ရန္ကုန္ရွိ လူငယ္တစုက၂၀၁၀ ျပည့္ႏွစ္ ႏုိ၀င္ဘာလမွ စတင္ငွားရမ္းခဲ့ၿပီး လူမႈသိပၸံဘာသာရပ္မ်ားကုိ ပညာဒါနျပဳဆရာမ်ားျဖင့္ သင္ၾကားေပးေနျခင္းျဖစ္သည္။

“ၿပီးခဲ့တဲ့ အဂၤါေန႔က ည ၁၀ နာရီေလာက္မွာ သင္တန္းေက်ာင္းရဲ႕ အခန္းပုိင္ရွင္အမ်ဳိးသမီး က်ေနာ့္အိမ္ေရာက္လာၿပီး သူ႔ကုိ အာဏာပုိင္ေတြက က်ေနာ္တုိ႔ သင္တန္းေက်ာင္းဟာ အစုိးရဆန္႔က်င္ေရး လုပ္ေနတဲ့အတြက္ ေက်ာင္းကုိ ခ်က္ခ်င္းဖယ္ရွားေပးဖုိ႔ ဖိအားေပးေနပါတယ္လုိ႔ ငုိၿပီးလာေျပာတယ္” ဟု ေဗဒါသင္တန္းေက်ာင္းမွ ဆရာတဦးျဖစ္သူ ကုိမ်ဳိးရန္ေနာင္သိမ္းက ေျပာသည္။

၎က ဆက္လက္၍ “က်ေနာ္တုိ႔က အစုိးရဆန္႔က်င္ေရး လုပ္တာ မဟုတ္ဘူး။ လူငယ္ေတြ ကမာၻႀကီးအေၾကာင္း ပုိသိလာဖုိ႔၊ အဂၤလိပ္စာ တုိးတက္ ေကာင္းမြန္လာဖုိ႔အတြက္ ပညာမွ်ေ၀ေနၾကတာာ။ ခင္ဗ်ားကုိ ဘယ္သူေတြက ဖိအားေပးေနသလဲ၊ က်ေနာ္တုိ႔ လုိက္ရွင္းျပမယ္ဆုိေတာ့လည္း သူက မေျပာပါရေစနဲ႔၊ သူ႔ကုိပါ ထိခုိက္လာမွာ စုိးလုိ႔ပါလုိ႔ ေျပာတယ္” ဟု ေျပာသည္။

ေဗဒါသင္တန္းေက်ာင္း၏ ဒုတိယအႀကိမ္ေျမာက္ သင္တန္းဆင္းပြဲကုိ ေဖေဖာ္ဝါရီလ ၄ ရက္ေန႔က ျပဳလုပ္ခဲ့ရာ အမ်ဳိးသားဒီမုိကေရစီ အဖြဲ႕ခ်ဳပ္ (NLD) အေထြေထြအတြင္းေရးမႉး ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ႏွင့္ ဗဟုိအလုပ္အမႈေဆာင္ ဦး၀င္းတင္တုိ႔က သင္တန္းေက်ာင္းအတြက္ ေက်နပ္မိေၾကာင္း စာေပးပို႔ခဲ့ၿပီး ဒု ဥကၠဌ ဦးတင္ဦးက သင္တန္းဆင္းပြဲသို႔ ကုိယ္တုိင္တက္ေရာက္ခဲ့သည္။

ထုိသင္တန္းဆင္းပြဲအၿပီးတြင္ အာဏာပုိင္မ်ား၏ ဖိအားေပးမႈ ေပၚေပါက္လာျခင္းျဖစ္သည္။

“စဖြင့္စက ဘာအမည္မွ တပ္မထားဘူး။ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ ျပန္လြတ္လာၿပီးေနာက္ က်ေနာ္တုိ႔ အားလုံးတုိင္ပင္ၿပီး သင္တန္းေက်ာင္းအမည္ကုိ ေဗဒါလုိ႔ အမည္ေပးလုိက္ၾကတယ္။ အမာခံဆရာ ၂၁ ဦး ရွိၿပီးေတာ့ တျခားအလွည့္က် ပညာဒါနျပဳဆရာေတြလည္း ရွိပါတယ္” ဟု ကုိမ်ဳိးရန္ေနာင္သိမ္းက ဆုိသည္။

အခန္းပိုင္ရွင္ ဆက္လက္ဖိအားေပးမခံရေစရန္ ေရွ႕တပတ္အတြင္း ျပဳလုပ္မည့္ သင္တန္းဆင္းပြဲကို ရက္ေရႊ႕လိုက္ေၾကာင္း၊ မည္သည့္အခ်ိန္ မည္သည့္ေနရာတြင္ ျပန္လည္ ဖြင့္လွစ္ႏိုင္မည္ကို မသိေသးေၾကာင္းလည္း သိရွိရသည္။

ေဗဒါသင္တန္းေက်ာင္းတြင္ လူမႈသိပၸံဘာသာရပ္ႏွင့္ အေထြေထြသုံး အဂၤလိပ္စာတုိ႔ကုိ အပုိင္းတပုိင္းလွ်င္ ရက္သတၱပတ္ ၂ ပတ္ၾကာ သင္ၾကားေပးေနၿပီး အပတ္စဥ္ လူ ၅၀ ခန္႔ တက္ေရာက္ သင္ၾကားေနေၾကာင္း၊ ဘာသာရပ္တခုအတြက္ သင္တန္းေၾကး ၃၅၀၀ က်ပ္ သတ္မွတ္ထားေသာ္လည္း သင္တန္းေၾကး မေပးႏုိင္သည့္ သင္တန္းသားမ်ားကုိလည္း လက္ခံသင္ၾကားေပးေနေၾကာင္း သိရသည္။

source: http://www.bdcburma.org/NewsDetails.asp?id=796
Yangon, February 12 -- In his message to the people on the occasion of the 64th anniversary of Union Day today, Chairman of the State Peace and Development Council ( SPDC ) Senior General Than Shwe hailed the sessions of the hluttaws ( parliaments ) being held as the “legislative organs, which are forming administrative bodies for building a modern, developed democratic nation.”

The Union Day, one of the most important days in Myanmar’s history, marks the signing of famous Penglong Agreement by the architect of the country’s Independence General Aung San and leaders of ethnic national races 64 years today for demanding Independence from the British in unity.

Claiming that the people of all national races in Myanmar now have equal rights, Than Shwe said they now have the right to elect and the right to stand for elections.

“The democracy system introduced to Myanmar is still in its infancy,” Than Shwe said urging the entire national people to safeguard the newly introduced democracy system from all forms of disruptions.

The military supremo also warned the people to be on alert against clandestine schemes, which could be hatched by power craving groups to drive a wedge among national races to destroy national unity.

Than Shwe also reminded the people the importance of non-disintegration of the Union and called on them to defend the national unity with all their might.

Than Shwe’s speech also dwelt at length on the way the colonialists had sown the seeds of misunderstanding between Myanmar and ethnic national races residing in border areas as part of their divide-and-rule policy before Myanmar attained Independence.

Than Shwe’s message was read out to the mass rally in Nay Pyi Taw by Secretary ( 1 ) of the SPDC Thiha Thura Tin Aung Myint Oo ( Ex-Army General ).

Despite being disbanded by the military government, the National League for Democracy ( NLD ) held a rival mass meeting at the NLD head office in Yangon this afternoon during which two-page NLD message for the people was read out by a leader of the NLD.

In contrast to Than Shwe’s message, the two-page NLD message depicted the present conditions of the country as those where ethnic nationalities enjoy no rights what-so-ever.

“The aims of Penglong agreement have disappeared, democratic rights have been lost together with the rights of nationalities,” said the NLD message.

“If we want to build a stable, peaceful, prosperous and truly democratic Union, the solidarity among all the nationalities is imperative. To achieve such solidarity, resolute determination must be made to render all nationalities of the Union justice and fairness in social relations, economy and politics together with the freedom of thoughts, expression, belief and livelihood as well as the equality of status and opportunity,” said the NLD message adding that only then a new peaceful, peaceful and genuine democratic Union would be emerged.

The NLD message reiterated the NLD’s oft- repeated demand for meaningful dialogue with the military junta for implementing national reconciliation.

In her short but strong-worded speech at the above-mentioned meeting, democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi stressed the need to widen the political forum of the democratic groups.

Aung San Suu Kyi warned the military government to stop putting pressure on democratic groups and ethnic nationalities by saying that “so long as the political forum for democratic groups and those of ethnic nationalities is forced to make narrow, there will never be national unity.

Source: http://www.bdcburma.org/NewsDetails.asp?id=797

Monday 7 February 2011

Ko Myo Yan Naung Thein on Ethnics' Rights, Unity & Mandatory Military Service in Burma


BDC-TV NEWS: Mandatory Military Service စစ္မႈမထမ္းမေနရဥပေဒ


BDC-TV: Mandatory military service in Burma (Eng -Chinese Subtitle)


Burma Democratic Concern on Mandatory Military Service in Burma [HD]


BDC-TV: Mandatory military service - Wake up call for all the citizens of Burma


Burma Democratic Concern (BDC-TV Discussion) on Mandatory Military Service in Burma


Daw Aung San Suu Kyi's Special Message to World Economic Forum


Burmese Campaign Video "Hay Man Oo Mar SHOCK Shi Tae" Ads


Burmese Campaign Video "Hay Man Oo Mar SHOCK Shi Tae" Ads

Keepers of Conscience-TRANSLATED

Keepers of Conscience-TRANSLATED
UN aids Terminology Guide
Fulbright ST Annoucement
Daw Aung San Suu Kyi s Letter