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Emergency Ministry and police officers examine the site of an explosion in Kizlyar, a town in the southern Russian region of Dagestan, 31 Mar 2010
Suicide Bombings in Southern Russia Kill 12
Blasts came two days after twin suicide bombings killed 39 people on the Moscow metro
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 |  It is political brinkmanship on the part of the NLD. Should they [NLD] succeed and people boycott the poll, it could fundamentally change the political landscape of Myanmar. But if they fail – if voters ignore the boycott and vote for other parties – then it could spell the end of the NLD as a political party.  —Benjamin Zawacki, Amnesty International's researcher on Burma |
Hypocrisy Replaces Hope after the NLD Decision |
| By AUNG ZAW |
| There's no shortage of hypocrites when Burma's the subject, and recent events have given them ample room on the world stage. |
Dam Work Continues on Eve of Mekong Conference |
| By WILLIAM BOOT |
| Chinese construction and electricity companies begin work on hydroelectric dams in Burma and Cambodia on the eve of a regional conference to discuss trans-boundary water resources management. |
600 Karen Refugees Return to Burma |
| By LAWI WENG |
| About 600 Karen refugees returned from Thailand to Burma, despite what has been described as the “very unstable” situation there. |
Burma's Press Censored on NLD Decision |
| By KO HTWE |
| The Burmese regime's censorship board is forcing newspapers and other media to publish the official line on the NLD decision not to contest the election. |
Jailed Burmese MPs Remembered at Bangkok Conference |
| By SIMON ROUGHNEEN |
| The Inter-Parliamentary Union calls for free and fair elections in Burma and urges Asean member-states to take a strong stand in support of democracy in Burma. |
NUP Vows to 'Serve the People' |
| By SAW YAN NAING |
| Since registering for the election on Monday, the pro-junta National Unity Party has vowed it will “serve the people” if elected. |
Indian parliamentarians have applauded the National League for Democracy’s (NLD) ...Fresh crackdown likely, Win Tin warns
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US policy ‘risks legitimising’ Burma elections
Influential think tank warns that new US engagement with Burma could be manipulated by the junta to favour controversial elections this year‘Frankenstein’s’ state?
One spectre threatens to over shadow the junta's experiment with 'democracy' and in turn the country; a spectre that threatens to dominate the nation and define power within for years to come.Interview
အဲဒီအယူအဆနဲ႔ ပတ္သက္ၿပီး အထင္ရွားဆုံး အျဖစ္အပ်က္က ၁၉၆၀ မွာ ျဖစ္ပ်က္ခဲ့ပါတယ္။ နာဇီေတြရဲ႕ ေသမင္းတမန္ အက်ဥ္းစခန္းေတြ ထူေထာင္မႈနဲ႔ ေဟာ္လုိေကာ့စ္ ငရဲခန္းေတြ ဖန္တီးတဲ့ မူ၀ါဒေတြမွာ ထဲထဲ၀င္၀င္ ပါ၀င္ပတ္သက္ခဲ့တဲ့ နာမည္ႀကီး နာဇီအရာရွိတဦးျဖစ္တဲ့ အေဒါ့အုိက္ခမန္းကုိ အစၥေရး လွ်ိဳ႕၀ွက္ေထာက္လွမ္းေရးေတြက အဲဒီႏွစ္မွာ ဖမ္းဆီးရမိခဲ့ပါတယ္။ သူ႔ကုိ ေတြ႔ရွိခဲ့ရာ အာဂ်င္တီးနားႏုိင္ငံထဲက ခုိးထုတ္ၿပီး အစၥေရးႏုိင္ငံကုိ ေခၚေဆာင္သြားကာ အဲဒီမွာ ႐ုံးတင္စစ္ေဆး ၾကားနာပါတယ္။ ေနာက္ဆုံးမွာ သူကုိ႔ ႀကိဳးေပးစီရင္လုိက္ပါတယ္။
“ထီ ….”“ထီ ….”“ထီ ...”စိုးမိုးေက်ာ္ႏွင့္ ဝိုင္းဝိုင္းလည္ ထီဆိုင္ ေၾကာ္ျငာဟု မထင္လိုက္ပါႏွင့္ ...။ ျမရတနာႏွင့္ သန္းဆု ကုေဋ ေၾကာ္ျငာလည္း မဟုတ္ျပန္ပါ။ ခ်ိဳကုပ္ ဒူးႀကီးႏွင့္ ဇနီး ေဒၚကြိဳင္ကြိဳင္တို႔ ေတာ္လွန္ေရးေန႔ ညစာစားပြဲ ခန္းဝင္တီးလံုး 
“ဒုကၡသည္ေတြကို ေမးေတာ့ ဒုကၡသည္အမ်ားစုက ျမန္မာ ဘက္ကို ...” 
စစ္အစိုးရဟာ ပါတီအားလံုးပါဝင္တဲ့ ပြင့္လင္းျမင္သာ လြတ္လပ္တရားမွ်တတဲ့ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲက်င္းပ ေပးဖို႔ ေတာင္းဆိုခ်က္ကို လ်စ္လ်ဳ႐ႈလိုက္ျခင္းအားျဖင့္ ျမန္မာျပည္သူေတြနဲ႔... 
“ေဟ့ ေဟ့.. ။ ေနအံုးကြ။ မင္းတို႔ေတာ့ ေသလို႔မျဖစ္ဖူး။ ေၾကဖို႔လဲ မလိုဘူး။ ရွင္ဖို႔လိုတယ္။ ဒါေၾကာင့္ ဒီ မစ္ရွင္ကို သူေသ ကိုယ္ရွင္တိုက္ပြဲဝင္လို႔ နာမည္ေပးကြာ” ဆရာက ေျပာလဲၿပီးေရာ... 
တေန႔ေတာ့ အဲဒီ ပါတီရဲ႕ ခု ဒု ဥကၠ႒ ဦးခြန္ရဲေနာင္ကို က်မ စိတ္ထဲက မေက်နပ္ခ်က္ကို ဖြင့္ေမးခဲ့ ပါတယ္။ “အန္ကယ္ က်မတုိ႔ေတြအားလုံး လုံးဝပါတီမဖြဲ႔ဘဲနဲ႔ ၾကားျဖတ္အစိုးရကိုပဲ... 
၂၀၁၀ မတ္လ ၃၀ အဂၤါေန႔ ေမ ၃၀ ဒီပဲယင္း ႏုိင္ငံေတာ္လုပ္ၾကံမႈႀကီး ၈၂ လျပည့္ ၀မ္းနည္းျခင္း အထိမ္းအမွတ္ေတာင္းဆိုဆႏၵျပပြဲကို ဂ်ပန္ႏုိင္ငံရွိ စစ္အစိုးရ အခြန္ရုံးေရွ႕တြင္... 
နယ္ျခားေစာင့္တပ္အသြင္ေျပာင္းေရးအတြက္ မိုင္းလားတပ္ဖြဲ႕အား နအဖ၏ စရဖ ၫႊန္ခ်ဳပ္ ဒုဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္ႀကီးရဲျမင့္ ေခၚယူေတြ႕ဆံု၍ ဧၿပီလေနာက္ဆံုးပတ္သတ္မွတ္ရက္ အေျဖေပးရန္၊ သို႕မဟုတ္လွ်င္ မတရားအသင္းျဖစ္မည္ဟု ဖိအားေပးခဲ့ေၾကာင္း က်ဳိင္းတံု - ပန္ဆန္း သတင္းရပ္ကြက္ကဆိုသည္။
