The documents report on recent tensions between North and South Korea, with North Korea shelling South Korea's Yeonpyeong Island. They summarize casualties and damage from the shelling according to South Korean military sources. The documents also discuss regional reactions to the conflict and calls for restraint from both sides.
The document outlines the agenda for the 13th Forum of Burmese in Europe (FBE) Conference taking place from June 19-22, 2009 in London. The agenda includes a birthday celebration for Aung San Suu Kyi on June 19th with cultural entertainment and food. The FBE Conference will be held on June 20-21 at the London Southbank University, discussing issues like the SPDC 2008 constitution and 2010 elections in Burma. On June 22nd, there will be a meeting with British parliamentarians at the British Parliament building.
This document provides technical details about a 32-bit Windows executable file, including its machine type, number of sections, import tables, and section details. The executable is designed to run on Windows 95 and Windows NT. It imports functions from several common Windows DLLs, including kernel32.dll and user32.dll.
The document discusses a Polish town building the world's largest statue of Jesus Christ, which will stand 33 meters tall and surpass the famous Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio de Janeiro. The town hopes the giant statue will attract religious tourists and boost their local economy year-round. Engineers face challenges in lifting the statue's head and shoulders into place which may require a helicopter. The article provides background on the project and compares it to other large Jesus statues around the world.
The documents report on recent tensions between North and South Korea, with North Korea shelling South Korea's Yeonpyeong Island. They summarize casualties and damage from the shelling according to South Korean military sources. The documents also discuss regional reactions to the conflict and calls for restraint from both sides.
The document outlines the agenda for the 13th Forum of Burmese in Europe (FBE) Conference taking place from June 19-22, 2009 in London. The agenda includes a birthday celebration for Aung San Suu Kyi on June 19th with cultural entertainment and food. The FBE Conference will be held on June 20-21 at the London Southbank University, discussing issues like the SPDC 2008 constitution and 2010 elections in Burma. On June 22nd, there will be a meeting with British parliamentarians at the British Parliament building.
This document provides technical details about a 32-bit Windows executable file, including its machine type, number of sections, import tables, and section details. The executable is designed to run on Windows 95 and Windows NT. It imports functions from several common Windows DLLs, including kernel32.dll and user32.dll.
The document discusses a Polish town building the world's largest statue of Jesus Christ, which will stand 33 meters tall and surpass the famous Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio de Janeiro. The town hopes the giant statue will attract religious tourists and boost their local economy year-round. Engineers face challenges in lifting the statue's head and shoulders into place which may require a helicopter. The article provides background on the project and compares it to other large Jesus statues around the world.
The document discusses the importance of effective communication in organizations. Communication is key to ensuring employees understand goals, strategies and changes. Regular communication helps build trust and engagement between management and staff.
It is very important to have the functioning parliament in Burma which is an essential part of flourishing democracy. Burma needs to address land and property rights and government must return all confiscated lands to rightful owners.
Corruption is endemic in Burma and posing one of the most serious challenges to the reform process, democratization, and economic liberalization. Transparency and accountability in matters of public finance must also be promoted and limit the effects of Dutch Disease.
The Police Force must be reformed so as to effectively exercise safeguarding rule of law. Respecting rule of law must be fundamental of all reforms and all oppressive laws must be replaced with democratic laws. Judiciary must be independent to strengthen the rule of law.
About 90% of the Burmese people follow Theravada Buddhism. With the arrival of Buddhism, Burma underwent major changes in various phases of her life especially in language, culture, art, literature, and civilisation. Buddhism has played an important role in unifying the people of Burma that ultimately brought the racial groups into one united whole under one religious banner.
Buddhist monks' rights to vote are ignored in junta’s 2008 constitution but Buddhist monks should have the voting rights in Burma. Burmese culture, a sense of deep history and a largely inward-looking national perspective, can be indirectly contributed for the growth of Burma's economy if not directly.
To sustain national security, particular attention must be given to the Arakan State which shares border with Bangladesh. Burmese see anyone calling for to amend Burmese Citizenship Law as the act of infringing Burma’s sovereignty.
International community should increase more direct engagement with the Burmese government, as well as broader societal groups, to improve the practical framework for human rights protection, poverty alleviation and working to achieve sustainable development but pressure must be kept to end all human rights abuses and permit democracy as well as to offset China’s influence over Burma.
The principled engagement combines pressure for reform with positive support, typically through a mix of advocacy, technical cooperation and financial support, as well as programs aimed at empowering local agents of change. For successful re-engagement, Burma needs to implement comprehensive economic and political reforms that are characterized by human-centred, rights respecting, sustainable, inclusive, and balanced economic growth.
Sanctions inevitably infringe Burmese people right to development due to the spillover effect and reputation risk.
Since the beginning, it is wrong to have active-duty soldiers occupy a quarter of the seats in the parliament in Burma (Myanmar) which are directly appointed by the military commander-in-chief. Burma Democratic Concern (BDC) expressed this view on 27 November 2014. The document criticizes the disproportionate representation of active military in Burma's parliament.
Self-identification Clarification
Recently, we have seen some lobbyists are saying self-identification is the human right when they are lobbying for Bengali (so-called Rohingya) when Burmese government is conducting census or when Burmese are refusing to recognize the term using so-called Rohingya.
We would like to highlight that these lobbyists have omitted important fact of information.
Self-identification can be done if group of people are the indigenous to the land but not immigrant or migrant since they have their own ancestral roots of ethnic identity.
Definition of the indigenous means originating or occurring naturally in a particular place; native.
Immigrants or migrant who are not native to Arakan cannot do self-identification since they belong to their ancestral root ethnic background.
For example, in USA any Spanish or Spanish speaking background people are called Hispanics by US government and sometimes US government is referring them with their countries of origin such as Cuban-Hispanic, Mexican-Hispanic or Colombian-Hispanic.
If international community including USA keep on offending Burmese by using the term so-called Rohingya referring to Bengali which Burmese don't agree might push Burmese closer towards China.
[Burma Democratic Concern (BDC)]
18 November 2014
The document discusses democratization, good governance, and Burma as a case study. It provides background on Burma under military rule, including repression of citizens, poverty, and lack of access to basic services. It then discusses steps toward democratization, including elections and reforms in recent years. However, it notes there are still challenges to establishing rule of law and reducing military influence. The document concludes by listing attributes of good governance that Burma should work toward, such as respect for democracy, human rights, independent judiciary, freedom of press, education, religious freedom, and economic development.
World-systems theory views the world as a single historical system with three types of countries: core countries that control global capitalism, semi-peripheral countries that have some characteristics of both core and peripheral countries, and peripheral countries that focus on low-skilled labor and resource extraction. This international division of labor reinforces the dominance of core countries over time. World-systems theory emerged in the 1970s as an alternative to modernization theory, criticizing its focus only on states and assumption of a single development path. Dependency theory, influenced by world-systems theory, holds that the global capitalist system serves to maintain underdevelopment in peripheral and semi-peripheral countries.
• Burma has the population of 60 millions mainly Buddhists. Burma shares border with China, India, Bangladesh, Laos and Thailand.
• Human beings live in the world but they have the different religions, faiths, perceptions, beliefs, traditions, customs and languages. We are part of the family of humans but all humans are not Burmese.
• Neither the U.N. nor any country's government has the right to impose laws or regulations on us. Our entire Constitution describes how to function as one nation.
• For example, private property has boundaries called property lines. The property owner is responsible for everything within those lines. No unauthorized persons have the right to cross over those lines. Likewise, no unauthorized persons have the right to enter our country. We have a responsibility to limit how many people may enter. We have the responsibility to determine whether or not they will be an asset to our nation.
• If I, as a property owner, protect animals on my property, I will prevent a hunter from trespassing and hunting them. It's the same situation with our country's immigration laws. If my personal property is so large that I can't protect it from unwanted people or animals from coming in, then I fence it off.
• Burma is facing illegal immigrants intruding from Bangladesh for decades. These illegal Bengalis from Bangladesh created fake ethnic name called (so-called Rohingya) unlawfully claiming part of Burma as theirs, committing crimes against humanity and massacring on local indigenous Arakanese of Burma because we can’t control the border securely in the past.
• Tackling corruption of immigration officials, proper and effective patrolling of borders and erecting a barrier along with Bangladesh is recommended. The defence of our citizens is the very first obligation of our government. It must be done at any cost. So, I personally support that there should be the borders between nations and I strongly believe in national sovereignty.
The document discusses International Human Rights Day on December 10th and the continued human rights violations in Burma. It summarizes that the UN established Human Rights Day to commemorate the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, but that the Burmese regime continues atrocities such as denying political freedoms and imprisoning political prisoners. It calls on the international community to take action to stop the Burmese regime's violations of human rights.
The document appears to be a transcript of a chat conversation between two people. It contains exchanges of short messages and references to sending and receiving messages. The conversation includes references to "me", "father", numbers like "2:27 PM" likely representing times, and acronyms like "RR Ï C" that are not defined in the document.
This family tree shows the lineage of Queen Elizabeth II from Victoria in 1819 to the present day. It depicts her direct ancestors and descendants, including her parents, siblings, children and grandchildren. The tree spans over 200 years of British royal history starting with Queen Victoria and Prince Albert and continuing down through the current royal family line.
The document discusses the importance of effective communication in organizations. Communication is key to ensuring employees understand goals, strategies and changes. Regular communication helps build trust and engagement between management and staff.
It is very important to have the functioning parliament in Burma which is an essential part of flourishing democracy. Burma needs to address land and property rights and government must return all confiscated lands to rightful owners.
Corruption is endemic in Burma and posing one of the most serious challenges to the reform process, democratization, and economic liberalization. Transparency and accountability in matters of public finance must also be promoted and limit the effects of Dutch Disease.
The Police Force must be reformed so as to effectively exercise safeguarding rule of law. Respecting rule of law must be fundamental of all reforms and all oppressive laws must be replaced with democratic laws. Judiciary must be independent to strengthen the rule of law.
About 90% of the Burmese people follow Theravada Buddhism. With the arrival of Buddhism, Burma underwent major changes in various phases of her life especially in language, culture, art, literature, and civilisation. Buddhism has played an important role in unifying the people of Burma that ultimately brought the racial groups into one united whole under one religious banner.
Buddhist monks' rights to vote are ignored in junta’s 2008 constitution but Buddhist monks should have the voting rights in Burma. Burmese culture, a sense of deep history and a largely inward-looking national perspective, can be indirectly contributed for the growth of Burma's economy if not directly.
To sustain national security, particular attention must be given to the Arakan State which shares border with Bangladesh. Burmese see anyone calling for to amend Burmese Citizenship Law as the act of infringing Burma’s sovereignty.
International community should increase more direct engagement with the Burmese government, as well as broader societal groups, to improve the practical framework for human rights protection, poverty alleviation and working to achieve sustainable development but pressure must be kept to end all human rights abuses and permit democracy as well as to offset China’s influence over Burma.
The principled engagement combines pressure for reform with positive support, typically through a mix of advocacy, technical cooperation and financial support, as well as programs aimed at empowering local agents of change. For successful re-engagement, Burma needs to implement comprehensive economic and political reforms that are characterized by human-centred, rights respecting, sustainable, inclusive, and balanced economic growth.
Sanctions inevitably infringe Burmese people right to development due to the spillover effect and reputation risk.
Since the beginning, it is wrong to have active-duty soldiers occupy a quarter of the seats in the parliament in Burma (Myanmar) which are directly appointed by the military commander-in-chief. Burma Democratic Concern (BDC) expressed this view on 27 November 2014. The document criticizes the disproportionate representation of active military in Burma's parliament.
Self-identification Clarification
Recently, we have seen some lobbyists are saying self-identification is the human right when they are lobbying for Bengali (so-called Rohingya) when Burmese government is conducting census or when Burmese are refusing to recognize the term using so-called Rohingya.
We would like to highlight that these lobbyists have omitted important fact of information.
Self-identification can be done if group of people are the indigenous to the land but not immigrant or migrant since they have their own ancestral roots of ethnic identity.
Definition of the indigenous means originating or occurring naturally in a particular place; native.
Immigrants or migrant who are not native to Arakan cannot do self-identification since they belong to their ancestral root ethnic background.
For example, in USA any Spanish or Spanish speaking background people are called Hispanics by US government and sometimes US government is referring them with their countries of origin such as Cuban-Hispanic, Mexican-Hispanic or Colombian-Hispanic.
If international community including USA keep on offending Burmese by using the term so-called Rohingya referring to Bengali which Burmese don't agree might push Burmese closer towards China.
[Burma Democratic Concern (BDC)]
18 November 2014
The document discusses democratization, good governance, and Burma as a case study. It provides background on Burma under military rule, including repression of citizens, poverty, and lack of access to basic services. It then discusses steps toward democratization, including elections and reforms in recent years. However, it notes there are still challenges to establishing rule of law and reducing military influence. The document concludes by listing attributes of good governance that Burma should work toward, such as respect for democracy, human rights, independent judiciary, freedom of press, education, religious freedom, and economic development.
World-systems theory views the world as a single historical system with three types of countries: core countries that control global capitalism, semi-peripheral countries that have some characteristics of both core and peripheral countries, and peripheral countries that focus on low-skilled labor and resource extraction. This international division of labor reinforces the dominance of core countries over time. World-systems theory emerged in the 1970s as an alternative to modernization theory, criticizing its focus only on states and assumption of a single development path. Dependency theory, influenced by world-systems theory, holds that the global capitalist system serves to maintain underdevelopment in peripheral and semi-peripheral countries.
• Burma has the population of 60 millions mainly Buddhists. Burma shares border with China, India, Bangladesh, Laos and Thailand.
• Human beings live in the world but they have the different religions, faiths, perceptions, beliefs, traditions, customs and languages. We are part of the family of humans but all humans are not Burmese.
• Neither the U.N. nor any country's government has the right to impose laws or regulations on us. Our entire Constitution describes how to function as one nation.
• For example, private property has boundaries called property lines. The property owner is responsible for everything within those lines. No unauthorized persons have the right to cross over those lines. Likewise, no unauthorized persons have the right to enter our country. We have a responsibility to limit how many people may enter. We have the responsibility to determine whether or not they will be an asset to our nation.
• If I, as a property owner, protect animals on my property, I will prevent a hunter from trespassing and hunting them. It's the same situation with our country's immigration laws. If my personal property is so large that I can't protect it from unwanted people or animals from coming in, then I fence it off.
• Burma is facing illegal immigrants intruding from Bangladesh for decades. These illegal Bengalis from Bangladesh created fake ethnic name called (so-called Rohingya) unlawfully claiming part of Burma as theirs, committing crimes against humanity and massacring on local indigenous Arakanese of Burma because we can’t control the border securely in the past.
• Tackling corruption of immigration officials, proper and effective patrolling of borders and erecting a barrier along with Bangladesh is recommended. The defence of our citizens is the very first obligation of our government. It must be done at any cost. So, I personally support that there should be the borders between nations and I strongly believe in national sovereignty.
The document discusses International Human Rights Day on December 10th and the continued human rights violations in Burma. It summarizes that the UN established Human Rights Day to commemorate the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, but that the Burmese regime continues atrocities such as denying political freedoms and imprisoning political prisoners. It calls on the international community to take action to stop the Burmese regime's violations of human rights.
The document appears to be a transcript of a chat conversation between two people. It contains exchanges of short messages and references to sending and receiving messages. The conversation includes references to "me", "father", numbers like "2:27 PM" likely representing times, and acronyms like "RR Ï C" that are not defined in the document.
This family tree shows the lineage of Queen Elizabeth II from Victoria in 1819 to the present day. It depicts her direct ancestors and descendants, including her parents, siblings, children and grandchildren. The tree spans over 200 years of British royal history starting with Queen Victoria and Prince Albert and continuing down through the current royal family line.