Saffron uprising 2007

၂ဝဝ၇ ခုႏွစ္ ေရႊဝါေရာင္လႈပ္ရွားမႈၾကီးႏွစ္ပတ္လည္ေန႔ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ အဲဒီရက္ေတြမွာ ကြ်န္ေတာ္က အိႏၵိယႏိုင္ငံ၊ နယူးေဒလီျမိဳ႕မွာ NCGUB ေခၚ စင္ျပိဳင္အစိုးရတာဝန္ရွိပါတယ္။ ၾကိဳးစားလုပ္ေဆာင္ခဲ့တာေတြကို MPU ေခၚ ျပည္သူ႔ လႊတ္ေတာ္ကိုယ္စားလွယ္မ်ားအဖြဲ႔ စတုတၴအၾကိမ္ညီလာခံကိုတင္သြင္းခဲ့တဲ့ မွတ္တမ္းရွိပါတယ္။

၂ဝဝ၇ ခုႏွစ္ ေရႊဝါေရာင္လႈပ္ရွားမႈၾကီးအတြင္း ေဒါက္တာတင့္ေဆြေဆာင္ရြက္ခဲ့သည့္ ေဆာင္ရြက္ခ်က္အခ်ိဳ႕

ေဆာင္ရြက္သည့္လုပ္ငန္းအမ်ိဳးအစားမ်ား၊
၁) လူထုစည္းရံုးေရးလုပ္ငန္း၊
၃) (ဝက္ဘ္ဆိုက္) မ်ား၌ ႁမန္မာႁပည္အေရး ေဆာင္းပါးမ်ားေရသားႁခင္း၊
၄) မီဒီယာလုပ္ငန္းမ်ား၊
၅) သံတမန္မ်ားႏွင့္ေတြ႔ဆံုႁခင္း၊
၆) အိႏၵိယႏိုင္ငံေရးပါတီေခါင္းေဆာင္မ်ားႏွင့္ေတြ႔ဆံုႁခင္း၊
၇) ေဒလီႁပင္ပခရီးထြက္စည္းရံုးႁခင္း၊
၈) ႁမန္မာ့အေရးကြန္ဖရင့္မ်ားက်င္းပႁခင္း၊
၉) တကၠသိုလ္မ်ားႏွင့္ ေကာလိပ္မ်ား၌ ႁမန္မာ့အေရးေဟာေႁပာႁခင္း၊
၁ဝ) လူထုလူတန္းစားအဖြဲ႔အစည္းမ်ားႏွင့္လက္တြဲေဆာင္ရြက္ႁခင္း၊

Some activities in India during the Saffron uprising 2007 submitted by Dr. Tint Swe to the 4th MPU Congress

1) Mobilization of Burmese community:
A. General public
• All-group meeting at NCGUB office on 22-8-07
• Biggest ever demonstrations in support of inside-Burma movement on 23-8-07
• Demonstration organized by SYCB on 4-9-07
• Demonstration organized by all women groups
• Demonstration organized by Christian groups
• Demonstration organized by Buddhist monks
• Demonstration by Burmese and Indians on 6-10-07
• Candle light vigil at India Gate by Indian NGOs and Burmese on 6-10-07
• Demonstrations on the visit of Gambari on 23-10-07

B. Core groups
• Weekly news discussion at NCGUB office on 14-7-07
• Weekly news discussion at NCGUB office on 21-7-07
• Weekly news discussion at NCGUB office on 4-8-07
• General meeting to seek support for the letter of 92 MPs on 15-8-07
• Close door meeting with Naing Han Thar (NMSP) at NCGUB office on 31-8-07
• Weekly news discussion at NCGUB office on 1-9-07
• Meeting with selected leaders of Burmese groups at NCGUB office on 17-10-07
• Weekly Situation briefing at NCGUB office on 7-11-07
• Weekly Situation briefing at NCGUB office on 17-11-07
• Meeting with selected leaders of Burmese groups at NCGUB office on 20-11-07

C. Women groups meeting on 29-8-07 at NCGUB office attended by:
• All Burma Democratic Lushai Women Organization (ABDLWO)
• Burma Women Union (BWU)
• Chin Central Women Organization (CCWO)
• Chin National League for Democracy (CNLD) Women
• Chin Women Organization (CWO)
• Federation of Trade Unions- Burma (FTUB Women)
• Kachin Women Association, India (KWAI)
• Khumi Women Advancement Organization (KWAO)
• Kuki Women Human Rights Organization (KWHRO)
• National League for Democracy/Liberated Area (NLD-LA Women)
• Rakhaing Women Union (RWU)
• Tavoy Women Union (TWU)
• Women League of Burma (WLB)
• Women League of Chinland (WLC)
• Women Rights and Welfare Association of Burma (WRWAB)
• Zomi Women Union (ZWU) and
• Zotung Women Development Network (ZWDN)

D. Religious groups:
On 27-8-07 Meeting of all Burmese Churches at NCGUB office attended by the following Burmese Christian Churches and Joint Prayer Meeting was held on 10-9-07:
• BCA - Pu Thawng Do Cin
• CBC -  Pu F. Chan Hmung
• CCF - Rev. David Ral Thang
• DBCF - Pu Run Bik
• DMCF - Pu Van Tu
• GBC - Pu Ngun Lian
• KCC - U K Naw Bawk
• LCC - Pu Lian Mang
• LFBC - Pu Thang Ling
• MCF - Pa Lian Thang
• SDA -  Pu Thang Deih
• SDA (Sitapur) - Run Ngu Hlu
• UPC - Pu Bawi Lian Thang

E. Literary circle:
• 14-12-07 Burmese Literary Day at Burmese Community Resource Centre
• 5-12-07 Literary evening at India International Centre (IIC), New Delhi organized by Indian Society of Authors (INSA); Burmese activists read out Burmese pro-democracy literary pieces

2) Writing in the India-based websites
• SAAG http://www.saag.org/ (12-7-07 Burma/Myanmar: The Role of India and China)
• SAAG http://www.saag.org/ (27-7-07 Burma/Myanmar: Its Strategic importance)
• Burma Digest http://tayzathuria.org.uk/
• Intelligence Brief http://intelligencebrief.net/news.htm

3) Media strategy: Live interviews to
• Aljezeera TV x 4 times 22-8-07; 27-8-07
• BBC TV, London x 3 times 28-9-07
• Sky News TV, London x 2 times
• Radios: VOA, BBC, RFA, DVB
• Indian TV
• Times India x 1 time
• CNBC x 1 time
• French paper (2-9-07 Chat with Sophie Besse at http://forums.nouvelobs.com/1177/Tint_Swe.html)

4) Meeting with diplomats
• British embassy on 16-11-07, 23-11-07
• German Heinrich Böll Foundation 18-10-07
• Director General of Czech foreign ministry on 19-11-07
• Counselor of Spain Embassy on 12-12-07

5) Meeting with Indian political parties
• Leader of Opposition Rajya Sabha Shri Jaswant Singh on 3-8-07
• Former minister Shri George Fernandes and former Prime Minister Shri IK Gujral on 6-10-07
• Policy consultation with BJP/RSS on 12-10-07
• Solidarity meeting with All India Forward Bloc on 12-1-07 and ---
• Solidarity meeting with JDU (Sharav Yadav on 12-11-07)

6) Visits outside Delhi
• Bombay press conference and public meeting organized by Peace Mumbai on 15-10-07
• Pune press conference and public meeting organized by Peace Mumbai on 16-10-07
• Amritsar South Asia People's Conclave on 26/27-10-07
• Nagpur Talks on Burma in Nagpur organized by Dr. Laxmikant Tulankar; Principal, B.P. National Institute of Social Work on 28-11-07
• Nagpur Talks on Burma at RTM Nagpur University on 28-11-07
• Nagpur Talks on Burma at Inter-religious Peace Initiative on 28-11-07 (organizations and individuals extended support to Burmese cause are Women Initiative League for Peace and Freedom, YMCA, Student Christian Movement, Students of Nagpur College of Social Work, All India Peace and Solidarity Organization, Nagpur University Law College)
• Nagpur Talks on Burma at Dr. Ambedkar College and Mahabank Staff Employment Institute on 29-11-07
• Madras Talks on Burma at Madras University on 30-11-07
• Madras Talks on Burma at Loyola College http://www.loyolacollege.edu/ on 30-11-07
• Madras Discussion on Burma at Observer Research Foundation (ORF) http://www.observerindia.com/ on 1-12-07
• Calcutta invited by CPI (ML) party http://www.cpiml.in/ on 10-12-07

7) Conferences
• Spotlight on neighbors Mynamar: Recent developments organized by and held at India International Centre (IIC) http://www.iicdelhi.nic.in/, New Delhi on 25-6-07
• Convention for Restoration of Democracy in Burma in New Delhi organized by George Fernandes on 18-8-07
• Democracy in Asia organized by Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS) http://www.csds.in/, at (IIC), New Delhi on 28/29/30-9-07
• Discussion on Burma at India International Centre (IIC) on 12-11-07
• Satyagraha Centenary International Conference, at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi jointly organized by OSI (His Holiness the Dalai Lama released Free Daw Aung San Suu Kyi poster and 2008 calendar) on 13-11-07
• Gandhi Peace Foundation, New Delhi on 16-11-07
• Bheetiharwa of Champaran, Bihar State on 17/18/19/20-11-07
• Peace Education for all in India at Gandhi Bhavan in Delhi University on 4-12-07
• The international conference on “India and the worldwide movement for democracy: What India can learn from other experiences and what it has to give” jointly organized by NED and Institute of Social Sciences on 6/7-12-07

8) Burma talks in Universities and Colleges in New Delhi
• Burma program at Kamala Nehru University, New Delhi on 23-10-07
• Seminar on 'Burma Uprising; Trans-nationalization of Youth Movement in St Stephens College organized by Amnesty International India and Students Union of St. Stephens College, New Delhi on 24-10-07
• Kamala Nehru University, New Delhi on 24-10-07
• Kirorimal College, New Delhi, jointly organized by Parivartan, the Gender Forum and the Burma Solidarity on 29-10-07
• Kirori Mal College, New Delhi on 29-10-07
• Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), School of International Studies (SIS) on 30-10-07
• Lady Sri Ram College, New Delhi on 31-10-07

9) Civil Societies
• Meetings with Burma Solidarity Group burmasolidarity2007@gmail.com
• A meeting of Church and Christian Leaders on situation in Burma jointly organized by NCCI and CNI at CNI Bhawan, New Delhi on 18-10-07
• Coordination with Campaign for Democracy Movement in Burma (CDMB) and Mizoram Committee for Democracy in Burma (MCDB) from Aizawl to submit the memorandum to the Vice President of India to Mizoram on 22-10-07
• Ms Paminder, Amnesty International, London visited NCGUB office and talked about how to press on Indian government on 2-11-07
• Felicitation for His Holiness on receiving Congressional Gold medal on 3-11-07
• Mr. R Upadhyay, consultant, South Asia Analysis Group visited NCGUB office as he was to write on Burmese Muslims on 6-11-07
• Dinner hosted by South Asia Forum for People’s Initiative (SAFPI) at Russian cultural centre, New Delhi in honor of Nepali delegates on 12-11-07
• Janice Cheung from the world needs truth and Shu-Hucy Liaw from source of hope radio network Inc. visited NCGUB office and talked about human rights Olympic torch march in January 2008 and about Furlong Gong on 24-11-07
• Meeting with Emily Jacobi and Mark Belinsky from Centre for Peace Building International from Washington, DC on 8-12-07
• Meeting with South Asian Forum for Peoples’ Initiative (SAFPI) on Burma Conference jointly sponsored by OSI and to be held in Nepal on 24-12-07

Tint Swe (NCGUB)
Member of MPU