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Thailand to press Myanmar to hold free and fair electiongkok Apr 3 : Thailand will urge Myanmar's military rulers to ensure that parliament elections to be heldar are free and fair and promote genuine national reconciliation.

ai Foreign Minister Kasit Piromya said Bangkok was concerned that the ground rules for the national elenounced by the military regime in Naypitaw were not consistent with the requirements for a free and faictions.

am concerned about national reconciliation and the inclusiveness of the whole political process,'' the Thareign minister said.

ai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva would raise the issue with Myanmar's leaders at next week's ASEANmmit in Hanoi, Mr Piromya said.

e Thai Foreign Minister said he would also discuss the issue with his Myanmar counterpart during therthcoming meeting of the Mekong River Commission of which Myanmar is a member.

r Piromya said the Indonesian foreign minister, who was visiting Myanmar, was also likely to convey toaypitaw, ASEAN's concerns over a free and fair election in Myanmar.

e Myanmar Opposition leader and Nobel Peace Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi has been barred from contese parliament elections which are being held after two decades.

er National League for Democracy which swept the 1990 parliament polls but was prevented from takingthe military junta, has decided to boycott the election.

e Thai foreign minister said the electoral rules set by the Myanmar government appeared to discriminateainst the Opposition.

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Eyes on Burma as India prepares talks with militants/2010

va Thakuria:e military ruled Burma (Myanmar) emerges as an important actor on the projected peace talks between

nion government of India and the banned militant group, United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA). An ad influential underground outfit of Northeast India, the ULFA is fighting New Delhi for its core demand vereignty for Assam (out of India). The three decades old armed outfit is understood to be responsible fo

ling of thousands of people in the State.

e militant outfit reportedly runs few training camps inside the jungles of northern Burma. The cadres ofLFA are using those hideouts, mostly in Sagaing division and Kachin province of Burma, for many years. lhi is worried about the hideouts, which have been used by many Northeast militants, and pursuing thelitary government in Rangoon (now Nay Pie Taw) to take actions against those militants. However thermese junta is yet to initiate for an affective approach to the problem, though they had not hesitated to pcks with the Indian government for their selfish interest time to time.

e Indian Home Minister P Chidambaram, responsible for domestic law and order situation, expressed hoat the Burmese army would launch crack down operation against the Northeastern militants taking shelt

side that country.

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his recent visit to Itanagar, the Tibet and Burma bordering Indian State of Arunachal Pradesh, Chidambserted that the militants using the forests of northern Burma as their hide outs remain security threat to

w Delhi still believes that ULFAs military chief Paresh Barua is hiding some where in Burma-China borde notorious militant leader, as the Indian security agency claims, had recently left Bangladesh for hidingrma. Barua might had come to know about the change of Dhakas heart towards New Delhi that finally

sulted in deporting some top ULFA leaders to India (from Bangladesh) recently.

eanwhile, in response to the voices of local people, the Assam government is tying to create a peaceful

mbience. Recently Dispur played an important role in the release of two top ULFA leaders. Following thevernments submissions at the designated TADA court in Guwahati on February 16 that Dispur had nojection if ULFA vice-chairman Pradip Gogoi and publicity secretary Mithinga Daimary were given bail, bre granted the same on February 23 last. The court only directed them not to leave Guwahati without pri

formation and asked them to report to local police stations if they had to leave for their home towns.

e local media remains speculative but positive about the talks. Similarly, various socio-political and advooups of the State came out with their official statements that they want the peace as early as possible. Theanimous that the common people can not afford the insurgency turned terrorism for decades. Rather thent development and prosperity in a peaceful ambience.

uring his latest visit to Northeast, the Indian Union home secretary GK Pillai expressed hope that ULFAaders would attend the talks. He even clarified that New Delhi would not insist on a formal letter from thtfit expressing its eagerness for discussion.

entionable that, the issue of a formal letter from the ULFA leaders remained a major hurdle for the talkstween the government and the underground outfit. The Indian Union home minister P Chidambaram harlier asked for such a letter and the Assam chief minister supported him.

lking about Paresh Barua, the home secretary Pillai disclosed that he was plying somewhere along the Kaina border. He also confirmed that New Delhi had reiterated its request to the Burmese junta to flush ou

ortheastern militants from their soil. He expected that Burma would soon launch the operation against thlitants.

t the Indian government made it clear that it would go for talks with the militant outfit even without theesence of hard-liner Paresh Barua.

w Delhi maintains that it would continue its effort to bring all the left out ULFA leaders to the negotiatioble, who want to talk to the government under the parameters of Indian constitution, in the coming days

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Nasaka fires on Bangladeshi fishermenkhiya, Coxs Bazar: Personnel of Burmas border security force Nasaka fired on Bangladeshi fishermenril 2, at around 5:30 am, sources said.

rly in the morning, two row boats went to Burmese territorial waters to catch fish while the Nasaka persore patrolling the Naff River.

aving seen the row boats in Burmese territory, the Nasaka personnel signaled the fishermen to stop. But, d not stop for fear of arrest, said a fisherman.

e Nasaka personnel fired two rounds at the fishermen on the Naff River. But nobody was injured in the

ooting. The fishermen arrived in Bangladesh without any injuries.

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ery Thursday, some Bangladeshi fishermen from Gumdum go to Burmese territorial waters to catch fish y fish from fishermen of Burma, said a local.

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Chin political leaders to register political partyApril 2010: A number of Chin political leaders went to Naypitaw, capital of Burma on 29 March to registe

eir political party for the forthcoming 2010 general elections.

e political party will be registered as the Chin National Democratic Party (CNDP). If the authorities do ncept it, then it will be renamed the Chin Peoples Party.

received a telephone call from two Chin political leaders, who are in Naypyitaw this morning. They are trhave the party registered to put up candidates in the election. But I dont know their names, Mr. Nahthaember of the party in Falam town told Khonumthung News.

garding contesting the elections, Chin political leaders in Yangon city and representatives of Chin peopletownships of Chin state have had a discussion. They decided to field candidates in the election from one

litical party, he added.

owever, there is no official information as to who will be selected as candidates from among Chin politicaaders. Though the junta has announced its election laws on 8 March, the date of the election is yet to benounced.

eanwhile, the National League of Democracy has announced that it will not register the party for the elecat will be held after 20 years.Khonumthung News.

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