Monland Update:
Despite the ruling regime declared that they won in the Referendum with 92. 42% with 99. 07% of voters cast their votes in Referendum, but it is very impossible in Mon State.
The Mon State Peace and Development Council also said 93 percent of voters in Mon State supported the draft constitution according to a Mon ethnic activist who went to check in the office. In Mon State, he thought that only about 50 percent went to the polling station. People were busy with their daily work in the farms, rubber plantations, or migrating to neighboring countries and did not go to the polling stations, said a Mon ethnic leader. >> Read More
Activities:
1. Statement on the Cyclone Nargis by Mon community
May 18, 2008
The Nargis cyclone, the worst natural disaster in Burma, resulted in more than 100,000 of death or missing and hundreds of thousand of more people homeless.
Despite the death, suffering, and dying of hundreds of thousands of people, and the demands by the UN and international community to postpone the referendum so that focus can be made on urgent rescue and relief works, SPDC still went ahead with its sham referendum. Governments in other countries would declare days of national mourning for the victims and would postpone >> Read More
Information Sheet:
This order followed a Samut Sakhon public notice on October 26 last year, urging the public and private sectors not to support cultural events held by Burmese migrant workers because such gatherings will strengthen the migrants's sense of community, which would be a political act.
"This is a big misunderstanding," said Sukanya Baonoed, researcher and Fine Arts Department archaeologist, also an ethnic Mon descendant. "A cultural gathering is how we express our cultural identity. It has nothing to do with politics or national security." >> Read More