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Look To You 4. All I Need Is You 5. All For Love 6. Shout Unto God 7. There Is Nothing Like 8. Only One Till I See You Rest In You Awesome God. Hillsong United - More Than Life One Way 2. Light 3. Evermore 4. Open Up the Heavens 5. The opposition leader met with ethnic armed group leaders at her house in Yangon on August 18 to dis- cuss the peace process and the consti- tutional amendment process. Daw Suu was interested in our peace process plans and promised she was ready to participate when we in- vite her, said Nai Han Tha.
Also under discussion were the campaign to amend the constitution to allow her to become president, and the possibility of a proportional repre- sentation electoral system. We asked her how to approach the election, how to solve the problem of the PR system and how to use the signature campaign to amend section [of the constitution], said Colonel Khun Okkar, secretary of the United Nationalities Federal Council UNFC.
The National League for Democ- racy made no statement about this meeting, and ethnic leaders declined to comment when asked whether they sought advice from Daw Aung San Suu Kyi concerning their talks with the government on the national cease- re agreement. The signing is expected to take place in October following discussion of a second draft of the agreement in September.
Photo: Aung Htay Hlaing IN another step towards introducing the controversial proportional rep- resentation PR electoral system, a parliamentary commission decided last week to recommend to the Amyotha Hluttaw that an open-list proportional representation system should be introduced for next years general election. If approved, PR would replace the current rst-past-the-post sys- tem, by which the candidate who receives the most votes in any con- stituency becomes the member of parliament.
The opposition Na- tional League for Democracy op- poses PR because they believe the governments purpose in introduc- ing it is to reduce the size of an an- ticipated NLD majority in the elections. We decided to recommend the open-list system after considering various kinds of PR systems in use around the world. Now we will prepare a draft electoral law for submission to the coming session, said commission member U Phone Myint Aung.
The member commission was formed on July 11 to study PR sys- tems. Its recommendation follows a three-day debate over a proposal from National Democratic Force candidate Daw Khin Wai Kyi to change the electoral system from rst-past-the-post to PR for the general election. Parties who support PR told hluttaw they wanted to introduce the system so that all parties could have a voice in parliament.
Howev- er, the National League for Democ- racy and ethnic parties who oppose PR say the change would be pre- mature and inappropriate for the transition to democracy, and asked parliament not to change the vot- ing system. People think representatives elected by PR cannot represent them because they are not directly elected. Thats why we decided to introduce an open-list system, so that people can vote both for the party and its candidates, said U Phone Myint Aung.
Under the proposed system, vot- ers choose individual candidates from a list provided by each party. The commission was tasked with identifying a suitable electoral design and proposing it to parlia- ment, but the nal decision depends on the Union Election Commission and parliament, said commission chair U Zaw Myint Pe.
The commission formed on July 29 by the lower house, Pyithu Hlut- taw, to analyse the electoral system for the countrys regions will meet on August Most observers agree that the in- troduction of a proportional repre- sentation system would benet the ruling USDP at the expense of the NLD, and critics say a switch to PR could violate the constitution and electoral law.
Speaker Thura U Shwe Mann told a press conference on August 11 that if parliament approved a PR system, committees would draft a new elec- toral law. Any contradiction with the constitution would be sub- ject to a decision from the constitu- tional tribunal court, he said.
YE MON yeemontun gmail. The pledge came as the ethnic armed groups, the government and the military discussed the last few sticking points in the latest draft of the nationwide ceasere accord at the Myanmar Peace Center in Yan- gon on August The government] has accepted the federal military demand in prin- ciple.
The details will be discussed during the political dialogue. While the Tatmadaw has said it will discuss the possibility of a feder- al army, they made it clear that they dont want it to be labelled as such. Major General Gun Maw of the Kachin Independence Organisation KIO said the military had insisted on the title of Pyidaungsu Tatmadaw or union military, instead of the fed- eral military, the title that the ethnic armed groups had pushed for.
Maj Gen Gun Maw said that he believed the government and mili- tary commanders will endorse the agreement. We have found that the mili- tarys sentiments have changed, es- pecially in this round of meetings.
We have seen that the military of- cials have held very patient discus- sions, he said. The military had continuously opposed a federal military structure, arguing that the current military fairly represents the country. But ethnic groups continue to view the military as overly representative of the countrys ma- jority ethnic group, the Bamar.
Only if the military is restruc- tured into a new one representing all races, will they [ethnic groups] see it as their own military, said U Sai Paung Nut, the chair of the Wa National Democratic Party. The current military includes a considerable number of ethnic peo- ple but the inuence of the Bamar is still huge, said U Man Aung Pyi Soe, the vice-chair of the Palon-Sawor Democratic Party.
When the restructuring of the military is discussed in the politi- cal dialogue, the future of existing ethnic armed forces will also be dis- cussed, U Naing Han Thar said.
But ethnic leaders admitted that there is still a considerable amount of work to be done on the issue, as it is still unclear what a federal mili- tary would look like. Details on the specic structure remain scarce. Both sides said there are now four main sticking points in the seven chapter accord.
There is no agreement on who will sign the accord; on how long the political dialogue on designing the new federal state and federal army will last for; on who will monitor the ceasere; and on whether it will be legal for the armed groups to recruit soldiers during the political dialogue period. The armed groups want the presi- dent, the commander-in-chief and the parliamentary speaker to all sign the accord. We [ethnic groups] have to decide who should be involved in signing on our side.
U Hla Mg Shwe, the governments senior adviser to the talks, said that, while president U Thein Sein will sign the agreement, whether the commander-in-chief will sign de- pends on the presidents decision. The military representative, Lt Col Myint Soe, refused to give any com- ment to reporters, leaving by a rear door with other military representa- tives as soon as the meeting nished.
The ceasere agreement is planned to take efect 24 hours af- ter being signed, but who exactly will monitor it and whether they are from the UN, the EU or any regional states has not been nalised, both sides said. The political dialogue is expected to begin soon after the signing to de- sign the new federal state which will give greater autonomy to the ethnic regions and incorporate their mili- tias into a federal army.
The independent Myanmar Census Observation Team has warned that the omission of the Rohingya from the count could leave signicant holes in data on the marginalised group. The resulting undercount will not only have a negative impact on the cen- sus results at the state and region levels but also at the national level if the miss- ing population is not included, based on a proper count.
Daw Khaing Khaing Soe, the direc- tor of the Ministry of Immigration and Populations census technical team, declined to comment on the reports ndings. A spokesperson for the UN Popula- tion Fund UNFPA , which supported the census, said that the census tech- nical advisory board had discussed a number of options to rectify the un- dercounting in Rakhine State during a meeting in July.
One option would be to estimate populations based on mapping done prior to the census. Other possible solutions are still being considered. The census, which ran from March to April, was the rst nationwide count to be conducted since Originally the government had said that it would allow for Rohingya to choose Other on the question of ethnicity, then self-identify.
But on the eve of the census the government back- tracked, saying that it would not count those who attempted to identify as Rohingya. The government does not recognise the term Rohingya. The group is not one of Myanmars ofcial ethnic groups, and Rohingya are barred from becoming citizens under the Citi- zenship Law. The government uses the name Bengali to refer to the group.
This refusal to accept self-identi- cation, the Census Observation Team said, led to enumerators not collecting any data, or collecting only partial data, from some households that identied as Rohingya. The UNFPA accused the govern- ment of reneging on its commitment to the census process when it announced in March that it would not accept Roh- ingya as an ethnicity.
In its agreement with the United Nations It explicitly agreed with the condi- tion that each person would be able to declare what ethnicity they belong to. Data on ethnicity collected during the census will not be released until af- ter the elections, according to Daw Khaing Khaing Soe.
The government has insisted that the delay is due to data-input difcul- ties after a higher-than-expected num- ber of people chose not to identify as one of the listed ethnic groups dur- ing the census. But critics of the census have said that there are political motives behind withholding the data particularly a fear that it could iname tensions in Rakhine and other ethnic states. Members of the independent ob- server team visited all 14 states and regions of the country, where they ob- served a total census interviews being conducted.
The president said he wanted to maintain momentum in ghting cor- ruption for the remainder of his term. It is necessary to change many things, even the mindset of civil serv- ants, U Thein Sein said, urging the cabinet to step up its action to end bribery and corruption over the com- ing year.
Good governance has been a prominent theme of the presidents term, and earlier this year parlia- ment passed an Anti-Corruption Law and formed the Anti-Corruption Commission. But the com- mittee has yet to publish any of its reports. And critics have questioned the efectiveness of another body, the member Anti-Bribery Commis- sion, headed by U May Win and com- prising retired senior government ofcials.
We have no power to take action, just analyse complaints, U Thinn Maung, head of the commissions in- formation team, told The Myanmar Times on August The law requires the commission to receive complaints relating to brib- ery and corruption from the presi- dent, the two speakers of parliament and from citizens.
The commission appears to be largely clerical, simply passing along complaints to other of- cials, rather than acting on cases of suspected bribery. Most of the complaints the commission has received from the public as of the end of July relate to land-grab issues, said U Thinn Maung. But he did not elaborate on the commissions activities. Neither the President nor the speakers have referred any com- plaints to the commission, said U Thinn Maung.
U Thein Nyunt, Pyithu Hlut- taw representative for Thingangyun township, Yangon Region, said that he had questioned anti-corruption activities, but had not received any clarications. I have asked many questions about corruption cases in parliament, but no government body has given me a satisfactory answer, he said. I have asked about the activities of the anti-bribery commission be- cause it is the focal point for corrup- tion issues.
I hope the commission will explain its activities in parlia- ment. If the law doesnt allow them to combat corruption efectively, we should try to amend the law. A day later, the co-founder of the Movement for Democracy Current Force, Ko Htin Kyaw was sentenced to one year of hard labour in Dagon Seik- kan township court for his role in dis- tributing political pamphlets.
Dagon Seikkan is one of nine townships where Ko Htin Kyaw is scheduled to be tried for his crimes. His combined sentences already total eight years in prison. While the two court dates were hundreds of miles apart, the UK-based watchdog group Frontline Defenders warned that the cases highlights the ongoing use of the courts and legal system to target activists and human rights defenders, a favorite strategy of the military regime that appears to have remained prevalent under President U Thein Seins administration period.
It shows that the leopard has not yet changed his spots, said Jim Loughran, a spokesperson for Front- line Defenders. It is all very well for President Thein Sein to talk about reform or human rights but there is a huge gap between that rhetoric and the actual functioning of state agen- cies which are still largely controlled by the military.
Recognition for the legitimacy of the work of human rights defenders, like U Kyaw Hla Aung, is a key indica- tor of how far Burma has come along that road [and] the case against Ko Htin Kyaw is another example of how the legal system is used against hu- man rights defenders. The charges against U Kyaw Hla Aung stem from an incident on April 26, , when a group of young Mus- lims in the Boduba IDP camp refused to ll out an immigration department form that identied them as Bengali.
The situation escalated to the point where the youths allegedly attacked several immigration police. Shortly afterward U Kyaw Hla Aung was arrested and accused of in- citing the group to attack the police.
Many observers say the charges are directly related to U Kyaw Hla Aungs longstanding political activism and le- gal assistance on behalf of imprisoned Muslims in Rakhine State. He has been detained since July last year.
His Yangon-based lawyer, U Hla Myo Myint, said the prosecution has yet to produce any witnesses or evidence of their claim. Instead, they have used court petitions and other le- gal maneuvering to draw out the pro- cess as long as possible. Ko Htin Kyaw began his activism during the Safron Revolution in Since that time he has been arrested on numerous occasions, most often for non-violent violations of the Unlawful Assembly Act.
His specic charges related to his role handing out pamphlets in Yan- gon claiming that U Thein Sein had resigned and Daw Aung San Suu Kyi had formed an interim government. His prominent lawyer, Robert Sann Aung, said the whole stunt was meant as a harmless if unorthodox political protest, nothing that merits one year of hard labour. The sentence is com- pletely disproportionate he said.
Both men have been singled out by numerous international rights groups, including Amnesty International and the UN, as human rights defenders who have been systematically targeted for their political activities and beliefs.
Representatives from the Yangon and Rakhine regional governments could not be reached for comment last week. As previously reported by The Myanmar Times, U Aung Thein, the deputy minister of the Presidents Of- ce, has stated publicly that the Presi- dents ofce no longer believes there are any political prisoners left in the nations jails.
Mr Loughran said that the inter- national community had a key role to play in making sure the issue doesnt fall by the wayside. The standard against which the commitment of the international com- munity to human rights will be meas- ured is the extent to which they are willing to act to protect human rights defenders like Ko Htin Kyaw and U Kyaw Hla Aung, he said. Activists on trial Two verdicts last week highlight a justice system that is targeting human rights defenders and the government is only paying lip service to reform, a UK group says.
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AAPP secretary U Tate Naing said the incarceration rate had accelerat- ed this year because the government had sentenced journalists and farm- ers using political provisions. The government says there are no more political prisoners, but political or- ganisations said 29 prisoners not included under the amnesty, as well as about people arrested or being sued this year should be counted. The number of international hu- manitarian staf in Rakhine State de- creased sharply after attacks on UN and NGO facilities in March following accusations that they favoured Mus- lims.
But Mdecins Sans Frontires-Hol- land, which previously had more than staf in Rakhine, has not been able to resume its activities since they were suspended by the government in Feb- ruary, despite being invited to do so last month.
The Rakhine State government an- nounced in July that MSF and Mal- teser could resume operations in Ra- khine, asking them to cooperate with the Ministry of Health in development projects, humanitarian assistance, healthcare and education. Some Rakhine community groups have stated their disapproval of MSFs return and it remains to be seen what the timeline and modalities for resum- ing operations will be.
U Hla Thein, who chairs the Ra- khine State government information sub-committee, said that discussions on the timeline and scope of MSFs re- sumption of work were ongoing. The [Rakhine State] prime minister is still trying to engage with the Rakhine communities, he said. Rainy season has also intensied health problems.
The UN has reported increased risk of water-borne and vec- tor-borne diseases, including malaria and dengue fever. It also reports that heavy rains and ooding in some areas have restricted access for health teams to some isolated communities.
Over , in Rakhine State still need aid Activists compile data on former political prisoners in Yangon. Photo: Yu Yu 29 Number of political prisoners activists say remain behind bars.
The government says all have been released. Hes got the ngers of a pianist ngers that have helped him become probably the nest eye-surgeon in Asia, the winner of countless ophthalmology awards and widely touted as a poten- tial Nobel Prize-winner for medicine. Back in a young, soft-spoken, somewhat nave Ruit met a larger- than-life Australian eye doctor named Professor Fred Hollows, at a World Health Organisation conference in Nepal.
As unlikely as it seemed, they be- came soul brothers and talked long and hard about ridding the world of cataract blindness an afiction that haunted well over 30 million poor people but was hardly ever treated, because surgery was too complicated and replacement intra-ocular lenses were far too expensive.
If you got a cataract in most parts of the world 30 years ago, the best you could expect was minor medical intervention and a prescription for thick glasses. Or in many cases the total removal of the eyeball, cataract and all. There wasnt much incentive to seek out an eye doctor if you were blind.
At Hollows suggestion Dr. Ruit and his wife Randa came to Australia IN just a week he operated on and personally returned sight to My- anmar people, some of whom had been blind for more than 10 years. Daw Tin Nyunt had been blind for 10 years but it took just 10 minutes of surgery for her to regain her eye- sight, see her ve children again and for the rst time set eyes on her new baby grandson. The year-old army widow, who lives in Myeik in Tanintharyi Region with her daughter and four sons, had dark brown cataracts in both eyes.
For all this time she had seen only bright light, like looking at life through the bottom of a thick cola bottle. Until last week, when a brilliant Nepalese surgeon named Dr Sanduk Ruit and his team of eye specialists from Katmandu came to Myeik and gave Daw Tin her sight back. And in three days they did the same for other blind people, from the southern coastal region of Myan- mar. At the invitation of the Myanmar Health Department Dr Ruit along with three nurses, an anaesthetist and three eye technicians from the Talginga Eye Institute spent 10 days in Yangon and Myeik.
In total they successfully xed the eyesight of people. Dr Ruit has also taken the time to teach local ophthalmologists the surgical technique which he has de- veloped so efectively over the past twenty years, using the genius of his hands and top-quality and inexpen- sive plastic lenses which his world- class institute produces in Katman- du.
The Nepalese miracle maker pass- es on his knowledge so that other medical workers can start to elimi- nate the estimated 30 million sufer- ers of cataract blindness the biggest cause of blindness in the developing world.
Its estimated that there are more than , cataract-blind people in Myanmar. While peering through his port- able microscope, delicately dissolving the cataract and injecting a new lens all with the tiniest incision and no stitches Dr Ruit quietly answered a stream of questions from the young Myanmar surgeons who watched him on a video link and had the chance to work with him. What was amazing is that while inspiring fteen local doctors Dr Ruit also managed to operate on blind men and women himself over just a week of surgery.
Thats people who can now see again, who can be productive and no longer be a burden on their families. Just as incredible, Dr Ruits top- class surgery was free, along with The miracle maker Nepalese doctor returns sight to hundreds of people in Myanmar during recent visit where he operated on patients in Yangon and Myeik Sandak Ruit, the ophthalmologist who has returned sight to over , Daw Tin Nyunt reacts moments after having her eyesight restored.
The title The Myanmar Times, in either English or Myanmar languages, its associated logos or devices and the contents of this publication may not be reproduced in whole or in part without the written consent of the Managing Director of Myanmar Consolidated Media Ltd. Myanmar Consolidated Media Ltd. Tel: 02 , Fax: 02 Email: mdybranch myanmartimes. Tel: , Email: capitalbureau myanmartimes. UNODC described the agree- ment as coming at a critical time, as the nations vast and growing illicit economy is undermining larger reform and development ef- forts.
Myanmar is the worlds second largest producer of opium behind Afghanistan, and is the largest methamphetamine producer in Southeast Asia. A report released by UNODC in May said that Myanmars drug production has played a significant role in driving meth abuse and sei- zures of the drug in Asia to record levels.
But drugs are far from the only issue. Porous borders are also vulner- able to migrant smuggling and hu- man, wildlife and timber traffick- ing UNODC said on August The significant financial pro- ceeds generated by different forms of trafficking in Myanmar are laun- dered and distort the legitimate economy, corrupt public officials, and undermine stability.
Criminal activity in Myanmar is undermining development efforts, increasing human insecurity and threatening the peace process, said Jeremy Douglas, UNODCs regional representative for Southeast Asia and the Pacific. While the statement provided few specifics, it said the Ministry will collaborate with UNODC on is- sues of drugs and health, organised crime, corruption and alternative livelihoods for opium farmers.
In addition, the UN hopes the agreement will bring formerly iso- lated Myanmar further into the in- ternational fold. Many crimi- nal activities that impact Myanmar are transnational in nature and require multi-state solutions, Mr Douglas said.
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