Malaysia aom Kawlgam Embassy mai ah Zomi te'n lungphona neiding

Asia Pacific Zomi Protest Committee makaihna tawh Malaysia khuapi Kuala Lumpur ah May 28 ciangin Myanmar Embassy mai ah 'Kawlkumpi in Zomi omlo' cih tawh kisai in Zomi te'n 'Zomi om hi' cih lak in nunnem lungphona nei nuam ih hih manin Malaysia a om Zomi akci khempeuh hih hunah pai ciat dingin ih kizasak hi.

Hun hoihtak ih zat theihna dingin KL Police te tungpan phalna kingah zo a, hong nawnkaisak omloh na dingin Palikte hong cing dingin kingen pah hi.

Nunnem lungphona 'Peaceful Protest' ahih mah bangin Numei naupang Zomi khempeuh paitek dingin ih hih manin Zopuan ih neih bang2 silh ciat ni.

Zomi nampi hihna lak ding ih hih manin zatep, khaini, kunza, zukham, cilsiat peuhmah zanglo dingin hihang. TV leh news tuamtuam ih omdan teng kilak ding ahih manin pilvang ciat ni.

Kingak khawpna mun : Pasar Seni, (Zomi Restaurant Taungzalat sai mai) nai 9:00AM hunin tunkim ciat sawm tek ni. Pasar seni pan Embassy paina ding Bus kivaihawm a, mitam ding ahih manin hunlap sawmtek ni.

Mawtaw vai -0129329095, 0173985940 te ah kidawp thei hi.

10:30 AM in hun kipan ding hi.

A mun:
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Two Tibetans burn themselves as fiery protest spreads to Lhasa

Two Tibetans burn themselves as fiery protest spreads to Lhasa

Two Tibetans set themselves on fire near an important Tibetan Buddhist monastery at the heart of Lhasa on Sunday, in the first self-immolation protests reported in the capital city of the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR). 

Tobgye Tseten, a monk from Xiahe, a Tibetan county in southwestern Gansu province, died after he burned himself in front of many worshippers who had gathered at the Jokhang Temple to mark Saka Dawa, an auspicious month for Buddhists, State media reported on Monday. 

Dargye, another monk from Aba county in southwestern Sichuan, where more than half of the self-immolation protests reported in the past year have taken place, survived after his self-immolation attempt and was taken to a hospital. He is in a stable condition. There were more than 30 self-immolation protests last year. 

The two Tibetans attempted the immolations at 2.16 p.m. on Sunday afternoon on Pargor Street in a busy Lhasa area near the Jokhang temple, according to a statement from the publicity department of the Communist Party of China’s Tibet regional committee. The statement, reported by the official Xinhua news agency, said police on patrol put out the flames in two minutes and took the men to a hospital. 

The Chinese government has boosted deployment of police personnel in Lhasa in recent months in the wake of a string of self-immolations reported in Tibetan areas of neighbouring Qinghai, Gansu and Sichuan provinces. 

Residents of Lhasa told The Hindu in recent interviews that security measures put in place in February and March, ahead of the Tibetan new year and the anniversary of the March 14, 2008 riots, were “unprecedented”, with a ring of checkpoints operating around the city and turning away many Tibetans who did not hold Lhasa residence permits. 

Part of the reason for the security arrangements was to prevent the spread of self-immolation protests into TAR, with more than 30 incidents reported over the past year in Tibetan areas in the provinces of Sichuan, Gansu and Qinghai. 

Before Sunday’s incidents, only one self-immolation had been reported to have taken place in the TAR, in Qamdo county last year. Chinese officials have often pointed out that the immolations had largely been restricted to a few monasteries in Tibetan areas in Sichuan and Qinghai, where they blamed the influence of exiled monks – a reflection, they argued, of stability within TAR. 

The spread of the protest to Lhasa, the most important religious centre for Tibetans and the administrative and political capital of the TAR, brought condemnations from Chinese officials who labelled the acts as “separatist attempts”. 

“They were a continuation of the self-immolations in other Tibetan areas and these acts were all aimed at separating Tibet from China,” Hao Peng, secretary of the Commission for Political and Legal Affairs of the CPC Tibet Committee, was quoted as saying by Xinhua. 

Qiangba Puncog, chairman of the Standing Committee of the People’s Congress of TAR, alleged that the protests had been carefully planned. Most of the protests had been carried out by lamas, nuns or former members of the clergy, Xinhua quoted him as saying, adding that “investigators found in many cases photos of the designated self-immolators had been sent in advance to separatist forces abroad”. 

Xinhua reported that the Lhasa public security bureau, or police authority, had set up a special task force to investigate the cases. 

Chinese officials have blamed the exiled religious leader the Dalai Lama of being behind the incidents. Foreign Ministry spokesperson Liu Weimin said on Monday that the incidents were “driven by political motives and are doomed to fail.” “The situation in Tibet is stable, and economic and social development of Tibet have been making continuous progress,” he said. “People of all ethnic groups cherish stability in Tibet. 

Some people, especially some overseas people, have been trying to sabotage such stability, and I believe this is unpopular with all the people in Tibet.” 

Many of the monks who died in the protests were calling for the return of the Dalai Lama and for greater religious freedom, according to videos of some of the self-immolations. 

In recent months, the self-immolations have begun to spread beyond the walls of Tibetan monasteries. In Xiahe in Gansu, from where Tobgye Tseten - the monk who died on Sunday - was from, a Tibetan student Tsering Kyi died after setting herself on fire, while Sonam Dargye, a farmer, burned himself in Tongren, Qinghai in March. 

The Dalai Lama has stressed that he did not encourage the incidents, blaming repressive policies for triggering the self-immolations. He has expressed sympathy with the monks and nuns, and chose not to answer a question last week when asked if he thought Tibetans should stop setting themselves on fire. 

Keywords: Tibetan protests, self-immolation protest

Src  :  The Hindu

Two trucks ambushed by KIA soldiers: state media

(Mizzima) Seven uniformed members of the  Kachin Independence Army (KIA) blew up two trucks heading from Muse to Lashio in Burma’s eastern Shan State over the weekend, official media reported on Tuesday.

A Kachin Independence Army sniper at a frontline base in Northern  Shan State. Photo: KNG

Two large trucks carrying freight were ambushed between Nantpaw bridge and Nantoun village in Muse Township with gunfire, said the New Light of Myanmar, a state-run newspaper.

After extorting about US$ 100 from the drivers and then releasing them, the group tossed two grenades into the driver's cab of each vehicle, the article said.

The incident was the latest in a series of KIA attacks launched on non-military targets including passenger trains, rail tracks and bridges on the Myikyina-Mandalay railroad, according to authorities.

Recently, the KIA was blamed for an attack on four electrical towers on the 230-KV Shweli-Mansan national power grid in Namkham in Shan State, disrupting normal power distribution to Rangoon and other cities.

Peace negotiations between the two sides broke down last month, and fighting has continued since June 2011.


Src  : Mizzima

Mexican police find 49 headless bodies

Mexican police find 49 headless bodies

MONTERREY, Mexico: Mexican investigators on Monday searched for perpetrators of a heinous drug-war massacre in which 49 people were killed, decapitated, dismembered and left in plastic bags on the side of a rural highway.
The mutilated corpses, whose hands had been cut off to prevent fingerprint identification, were discovered close to the northern city of Monterrey, 180 kilometers (110 miles) from the US border.
Jorge Domene, a public safety spokesman for the state of Nuevo Leon, said the victims comprised 43 men and six women, and the bodies had been stacked up at the roadside.
Adrian de la Garza, a prosecutor in Nuevo Leon state, said some of the bodies in Sunday's shocking find were naked and their hands had been cut off, though forensic experts were collecting DNA samples.
A note was found at the scene in which the Zetas -- a gang set up by ex-commandos who deserted in the 1990s -- claimed responsibility.
Initial investigations indicate that the victims were killed up to 48 hours earlier in a different location, having likely been transported by truck to where they were found.
"The grisly find was part of what has been happening in the country in general," said Domene, pointing to other mass killings.
"It is a continuation of what has already happened recently in Nuevo Laredo, a few weeks ago in Jalisco and a few months ago in Veracruz."
The gruesome discovery came just days after police found the dismembered, decapitated bodies of 18 people in two abandoned vehicles in western Mexico, in what appeared to be a revenge killing involving powerful drug gangs.
Just a few days earlier, there were 23 killings in the city of Nuevo Laredo, in Tamaulipas state, which borders the United States, with nine people found hanging from a bridge and 14 others decapitated.
On Friday, gunmen attacked the offices of El Manana newspaper in Nuevo Laredo, even though the newspaper long ago stopped reporting on cartel violence out of fear.
The gunmen sprayed the building with high-caliber ammunition and tossed a homemade grenade at the building as the news staff worked to finish the next morning's edition. Amazingly, no injuries were reported.
In Tamaulipas, the cartels are fighting for control of a corridor that leads to US Interstate 35, a highway known as one of the most lucrative routes for drug and human smugglers.
Authorities have blamed much of the deadly violence on battles between the Zetas and groups allied to the Sinaloa Federation of Mexico's most wanted drug lord, Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman.
The state of Veracruz has become a battleground between the Zetas and Guzman's Sinaloa grouping, and journalists have also been targeted.
Last week, the dismembered bodies of three photographers and a news company employee were found, wrapped in plastic bags, in a canal in the metropolitan area of Veracruz, a port city on the Gulf of Mexico.
Several days earlier the Veracruz state correspondent of the national weekly news magazine Proceso was found strangled in her home.
Late last year, 96 bodies were dumped in public squares and alongside roads in the eastern state in a three-week period, with most of the killings attributed to the rivalry between the Sinaloa cartel and the Zetas.
More than 50,000 people have been killed in drug-related violence since President Felipe Calderon launched an all-out war against the nation's drug gangs on taking office in December 2006.

Earlier this month, 15 bodies were also discovered on the road to Chapala, Mexico, a popular retirement community for US citizens in Jalisco state.


 Src  :  Times of India.

UNFC gives deadline to halt military offensives

Chiang Mai (Mizzima) – The newly formed United Nationalities Federal Council (UNFC) says it will review the ethnic cease-fire agreements reached with the Burmese government if the government does not halt military offensives in Kachin State by June 10.

PNLO chairman Khun Okkar, left, and Aung Min, the government peace team leader, opposite. Photo: Mizzima

The UNFC was formed by six ethnic armed groups during on May 12 at a location on Thai-Burma border.

UNFC Joint Secretary (2) Colonel Khun Okkar said Karen National Union (KNU), Karenni National Progressive Party (KNPP) and New Mon State Party (NMSP) would reconsider their cease-fire agreements reached with the government unless the government stopped its military offensives in Kachin State.

“These three major cease-fire groups decided to make this demand to showing solidarity with their fellow KIO at the expense of their [own] cease-fire agreements reached with the government. They demand to stop using force and to seek peace instead,” he told Mizzima.

The delegates from the Chin National Front (CNF) did not attend the meeting because they were meeting with a government union-level peace delegation led by Aung Min in Hakha, the capital city of Chin State.

The UNFC statement dated May 12 said the members would review and reconsider their future plans if the government offensives continue.

The statement said, “The main purpose of the government offensives in northern Shan State and Kachin State is to protect the commercial and economic interests of foreign investments in Burma. We oppose and object to the killing of our own ethnic people in the country for the interests of foreign countries.”

Despite of a presidential order dated December 10, 2011, which ordered a halt to all military offensives in ethnic areas, the government has deployed about 2,000 troops near KIO headquarters in Laiza including artillery and helicopters, said KIA Colonel Khun Okkar.

The renewed fighting erupted between government troops and the KIA on June 11, 201. The KIA said there have been 1,300 clashes.

The statement urged the international community and not to suspend or lift the political, military and economic sanctions imposed on the government.

Khun Okkar said he cautiously welcomed the newly formed peacemaking central committee led by President Thein Sein, but it would not succeed if it continues with the current policy.

UNFC statement said the current policy of President Thein Sein for ethnic groups to form political parties, stand for election and continue the transformation and reform process in Parliament through laws and consensus is not acceptable. The decades-long political disagreements should be addressed through political dialogue, he said.

The UNFC was formed in February 2011 with six core member ethnic groups and six associate ethnic groups totaling 12 ethnic groups that are opposing the government for their right to self-determination.

Among their members, the KNU, CNF, NMSP, Shan State Army-North (SSA-N) and KNPP have signed preliminary cease-fire agreements with the government.


Src  : Mizzima