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The Narinjara News

(1st June 2009)

www.narinjara.com

 

 

NEWS IN ENGLISH

 

People Anxious About Ailing Daw Aung San Suu Kyi

Burmese Army on High Alert After Unidentified Reconnaissance Plane Spotted

Fifty two Burmese nationals pushed from Bangladesh

 

 

NEWS IN BURMESE

http://www.narinjara.com/burmese.asp

 

Security is tighten in key government institutes as a rumor of bomb attack  

A youth will be on trial after army assault him severely

People Anxious About Ailing Daw Aung San Suu Kyi

 

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Narinjara News

Sittwe, 1 June 2009

 

People Anxious About Ailing Daw Aung San Suu Kyi

 

By Takaloo

 

The wide-spreading news of the deteriorating health of Burma's detained democracy leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi is causing worry among people around the country, report residents in Arakan.

 

"Almost everyone in our locality is worried for her on hearing that she is ill in prison. As she is our sole hope for democratic reform in our country, we hope for her good health and pray for her well-being," said a female shopkeeper in Sittwe, the capital of Arakan in western Burma.

 

Anxious over the trial of Aung San Suu Kyi, most people are listening to the foreign-based radio news from the BBC, RFA, and VOA, so they can keep up with her latest situation. Local media and newspapers, which are heavily censored by the military regime, rarely publish news about political dissent in Burma.

 

"I don't hear people talking about the price of merchandise here for days since the detention of Daw Aung San Suu in Insein prison. They start to open their mouth with the latest news about her heard from the BBC, RFA, or VOA radio programs. People are feeling great concern for her and wish for her good health," said another woman, a cross-border trader from Maungdaw on the border with Bangladesh.

 

Nobel Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi is being detained in the notorious Insein prison and is on trial on new charges of breaking her house arrest conditions after an American man intruded into her lakeside residence earlier this month. She could face a minimum of five years in prison if convicted.

 

Critics say the regime has put Daw Aung San Suu Kyi on trial amid a storm of international pressure in order to keep her in prison during its 2010 general elections, which are widely believed to be an effort to legitimize and entrench military rule in Burma.

 

Her party stated last Friday that it was gravely concerned about her health as she could not sleep due to leg cramps at night and called for urgent medical care for her.

 

"Anxiety for her is clearly growing among the people after hearing the news of her deteriorating health because everyone regards her as a democracy leader and believe that Burma can not become a democracy without her," said U Pinnyadipa, a Buddhist monk from Mrauk-U, an ancient city of Arakan.

 

According to Narinjara reporters inside Arakan, the military authorities have stepped up security measures in the main towns of Arakan Sate, especially restricting the travel of monks and keeping close watch on some big monasteries in case Aung San Suu Kyi's trial triggers social unrest and protests in the area.

 

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Narinjara News

Buthidaung, 1 June 2009

 

 

Burmese Army on High Alert After Unidentified Reconnaissance Plane Spotted

 

The Burmese army in the Buthidaung cantonment has been put on high alert after an unidentified reconnaissance plane was spotted taking photos of military bases in the area last week, said a source close to the army.

 

The source said, "An unidentified reconnaissance plane flew over Buthidaung last week secretly snapping photos but the authorities knew a plane intruded into Burma's airspace on that day."

 

After the incident took place, high army authorities put security forces in the area on high alert.

 

The town of Buthidaung, 80 miles north of Sittwe, is the largest military base in western Burma, with at least 15 army battalions, including an artillery battalion, stationed there. A brigade, called Sakakha 15 in Burmese, and the military operation planning bureau are also stationed in the area.

 

The source reported that a military official said, "The Burmese army officials suspect the reconnaissance plane was from the US Air Force, but have not officially disclosed that this happened."

 

The Burmese military authorities in the area are anxious about the unidentified plan intruding into their territory. 

 

It has also been learned that Kha Kha Kyi, the defense bureau in Burma's new capital Naypyidaw, also knew of the incident and some high technical officials from the air defense force have been sent to Buthidaung to investigate the incident.

 

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Narinjara News

Teknaf, 31 May 2009

 

Fifty two Burmese nationals pushed from Bangladesh

 

Fifty two Burmese nationals, all Muslims, were pushed back by the Bangladesh Rifles, the country’s border security force to their home lands on Saturday through border crossing points, said an official report. 

 

Lt. Colonel Abdul Khaleque, Commanding Officer of the BDR’s 42 Rifles Battalion based in Teknaf said that among the 52 deportees, 20 are children and 10 are women while the rest are men.

 

The BDR pushed back 45 of them to Burma from Naitong Hill Point in Teknaf Township, located on the  bank of Naff River, while seven were sent back to Burma from the Gundum-Taungbro land crossing border point.

 

The Colonel said recently 400 Muslims from Burma were caught at several border points after illegally entering Bangladesh. They were subsequently pushed back to Burma.

 

Earlier, many Muslim people were pushed back to Burma after Bangladeshi border security forces stopped them at the border. Most of the Burmese nationals entered Bangladesh from several border points including Naitong border point on Naff River, St Martian Island located at the mouth of the Naff River, Nila border point and the Gundum –Taungbro border points.

The exodus of Muslims from Burma to Bangladesh has increased after the Burmese junta authorities started to erect barbed wire fences along the border.

 

Bangladeshi border security forces are closely watching the border after many Muslims from Arakan state started entering Bangladesh.

 

Burmese Muslims are entering Bangladesh at a time when the Bangladesh government is preparing to repatriate Muslim refugees from two refugee camps located in southern Bangladesh to Burma.

Bangladeshi Foreign Minister Dipu Moni said at a press conference in
Dhaka on Friday that the Burmese military authorities told her during her latest trip that the country would take back the Burmese Muslim refugees.

During her visit on  May 16 and 17, the junta leaders admitted that the Muslim are Myanmarese and agreed to take them back, she said

She also said the Burmese regime has sought a list from Dhaka on the number of Muslim Refugees living in Bangladesh as part of the repatriation process.

She observed that the influx of Burmese refugees from
Myanmar was not a new development, rather the Arakan people were continuously intruding into Bangladesh for a long time.

Her rather candid comments came as the Bangladeshi media reported massive intrusion of Burma Muslim refugees in Cox's Bazaar and Bandarban districts.

Dipu Moni said the refugee flow would not stop unless
Burma military authorities guaranteed "qualitative change" in Arakan state.

"Muslims from
Burma infiltrating has always been there. They have been coming continuously," she said.

 

 

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Narinjara News (NN) was founded by a group of Arakanese in exile in Bangladesh from Burma in 2001 seeking to voice for the people depriving of human and democratic rights and to pave the way for them who are struggling for those rights. The Narinjara News is an independent organization, not affiliated with any political party or organization. Any opinion or advice relating to our News Agency is warmly welcomed and please email to: narinjara@...

                                                         

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