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officers who were transferred to Supreme Court. U Khin Mg Zaw, the president of Pyinmanar Lawyers' Association, said,"We protest against the entry of people from military in all ministries of Burma including Health and Judiciary. We will continue until all the ribbon movements unite and spread to the whole country." He also said lawyers "want to become a rainbow ribbon campaign with every department coming out their own color". Yellow Ribbon Campaign will be performed by connecting with lawyers' associations all over the country, and Pyinmanar Lawyers' association, Myanmar Independent Lawyers' Association, Upper Myanmar Lawyers' network, Lower Myanmar Lawyers' Network, and Naypidaw Justice Aid Association are planning to make the campaign countrywide. Petitions against these appointments are collected and to be sent to
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exam and become a judge. They should be in leading positions in their own fields. I rose through the ranks to become a credited lawyer and had to start my profession as a legal practice. Some of my peers are now colonels. But it would be impossible for me to take their positions. So military personnel also should not do so.
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We want a system where the right people take the right positions. They should be skilled in Judicial work. Our superintendent should be more qualified than we are. He or she must have enough working experience. It is absolutely impossible that a sergeant could memorise the penal code, pass the judge
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fully supported the ribbon campaigns including the yellow one. On 17 September, lawyers from Sittwe, Rakhine State protested wearing yellow ribbons in Sittwe township and district courts, and this movement would be performed for a month. Not only the lawyers but also the judges and civil servants
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In Naypyidaw, there are about 20 campaign leaders and 100 members who perform Yellow Ribbon Campaign. On September 11, a total of 15 police and military security servants were waiting in front of Zumbu Thiri Court in Naypyidaw council according to the news that lawyers would perform Yellow Ribbon
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on Thursday issued a statement, calling for an end to the practice of appointing military officers as judges by changing the country's constitution to state that only those with legal qualifications and professional experience can become judges of the Supreme Court and other courts. The AHRC also
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the lawyers launched the campaign at the office of lawyer U Aung Soe (the office of Myanmar Media Lawyers' Network) in 37th Road U Aye Myint, a lawyer from Pyay who was just released from the prison, protested to release the arrested 10-10-10 boycotting students and to drive out the military
193:, Naypyidaw Council. Yellow Ribbon Campaign Myanmar Team urges the lawyers, judges, law students and other people who dislike the involvement of military officers in every field to wear Yellow Ribbons. Yellow Ribbon Movements were also performed in front of the courts in 214:. Pamphlets of Yellow Ribbon Campaign state that they were trying to stop militarization of Judiciary which they found as strengthening of the military with purpose to prepare for the periods beyond 2015. The 158:
I have experiences of Martial Law. Confessing to a charge is 3-year sentence and denying it is a 7-year one. No investigation is performed to decide whether a person is guilty or not.
149:. A normal civil servant has to try about 30 years to become a deputy director while it takes about 5 years for a military officer to get that position. A lawyer from 867:[Yellow Ribbon Movement stops for a while in Naypyidaw being informed that the campaigners will be arrested; campaign will continue in Yangon]. 318: 168:
Most lawyers believe that the appointment of military officers whom the authorities trust is just appointing the obedient people in judiciary.
715: 234:, North Shan State, confirming that they protest until the appointed military officers in judiciary resign. 88 generation Students' leader 145:, appointed by Thein Sein, is also a retired lieutenant colonel. Military officers were serving at high positions in judiciary since 1962 1230: 907: 697: 669: 130:. Some of them were appointed as Chief justices of High Court of State. The appointments are against the Civil Service Law signed by 1151: 761: 810: 1126: 585: 583: 581: 579: 122:
In August 2015, about 20 military officers were allowed to retire and appointed at positions as high as deputy directors in
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Lawyers' Association commented on the case that the appointments will cause the judicial practice to be in military format.
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is a movement of lawyers against the appointment of retired military officers to positions in Judiciary Practice in
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urged international human rights organisations to take an active part in supporting the yellow ribbon movement.
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Civil servants from the court informed the protesters that there were plans to arrest the campaigners.
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RFA Burmese news TV uploads on 15th September 2015, Yellow Ribbon Campaign in Mandalay and Taunggyi
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On September 9, Pyinmanar lawyers started the Yellow Ribbon Campaign in front of the Court of
1141: 1121: 865:"ဖမ်းမည့်သတင်းကြောင့် နေပြည်တော်တွင် ဖဲကြိုးဝါလှုပ်ရှားမှု ခေတ္တရပ်၊ ရန်ကုန်တွင် ဆက်လုပ်မည်" 534:[Yellow Ribbon Movement against the appointment of Military officers in Judiciary]. 1080: 592:"တရားစီရင်ရေးကဏ်ဏ္႑မှာ စစ်ဘက်ပုဂ္ဂိုလ်တွေခန့်အပ်မှု ကန့်ကွက်တဲ့ ဖဲကြိုးဝါလှုပ်ရှားမှု စတင်" 131: 72:- To oppose against the direct appointment of the person to the Deputy Director of Union. 839: 594:[Yellow Ribbon Movement against the appointment of Military people in Judiciary]. 8: 785: 649: 647: 1255: 1174: 1168: 1100: 497: 312: 230:
in September 15. On 19 September, about 20 lawyers protested wearing yellow ribbons in
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deterrent principles of shame and fear which guard the world from falling into chaos.
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RFA Burmese news TV uploads on 11th September 2015, Yellow Ribbon Campaign in Yangon
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To protest against the appointment of military officers in various ministries.
716:"Lawyers at forefront of latest ribbon campaign against military appointments" 625: 591: 359: 334:"တရားစီရင်ရေးတွင် စစ်ဘက်မှ ပြောင်းလာသူများကို အလိုမရှိကြောင်း ကန့်ကွက်မှုစတင်" 1209: 1010: 1000: 990: 111: 464: 1030: 980: 970: 940: 336:[Movement against Military Officers in Judiciary Practice Begins]. 235: 745:[Yellow Ribbon Movement to be perform in all court in Naypyidaw]. 743:"ဖဲကြိုးဝါ လှုပ်ရှားမှုများ နေပြည်တော်ရှိ တရားရုံး အားလုံးတွင် ဆက်လုပ်မည်" 1060: 1050: 1040: 950: 742: 384:"တရားစီရင်ရေးမှာ စစ်တပ်အရာရှိတွေ ခန့်ထားမှု ဆန့်ကျင်ရေးလှုပ်ရှားမှု စတင်" 333: 307:] (in Burmese). Director of Myanmar Language Department. p. 437. 531: 1084: 960: 227: 202: 134: 829:"ကိုမင်းကိုနိုင်နဲ့ တွေ့ဆုံမေးမြန်းချက်(ဖဲကြိုးလှုပ်ရှားမှုအကြောင်း)" 811:"ရှေ့နေတွေရဲ့ ဖဲကြိုးဝါလှုပ်ရှားမှု လားရှိုးမြို့အထိ ဆက်လက်ပြန့်နှံ့" 127: 1024: 885: 619: 617: 615: 613: 1074: 532:"တရားစီရင်ရေး ကဏ်ဏ္႑တွင် စစ်ဘက်အရာရှိများ ခန့်အပ်နေမှုကို ဆန့်ကျင်" 223: 198: 58: 831:[Interview with Ko Min Ko Naing (about ribbon movement)]. 610: 448:[Lawyers continue participating Yellow Ribbon Movement]. 107: 1014: 1004: 994: 411: 409: 407: 28: 1104: 1034: 984: 974: 944: 667: 231: 206: 1064: 1054: 1044: 954: 964: 698:"Myanmar lawyers join growing 'ribbon' protest over military" 670:"Myanmar lawyers join growing 'ribbon' protest over military" 404: 813:[Lawyers' Yellow Ribbon Movement Spread to Lashio]. 96:
Motto: Say No to Military Interference in Judiciary Practice
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refers to the yellow badge of civil servants in Judiciary.
847:"ဖဲကြိုးဝါလှုပ်ရှားမြို့ စစ်တွေမြို့အထိ ဆက်လက်ပြန့်နှံ့" 795:[Yellow Ribbon Movement Spread to Shan State]. 793:"ဖဲကြိုးဝါလှုပ်ရှားမှု ရှမ်းပြည်နယ်အထိ ဆက်လက်ပြန့်နှံ့" 507:[Lawyers participates Yellow Ribbon Movement]. 299:
Myanmar English Dictionary Work Committee (1) and (2).
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Pyae Thet Phyo and Swan Ye Htut (10 September 2015).
849:[Yellow Ribbon Movement Spread to Sittwe]. 1207: 773:(Motion Picture) (in Burmese). 15 September 2015 655:"Yangon lawyers protest judicial militarisation" 446:"ဖဲကြိုးဝါလှုပ်ရှားမှု ရှေ့နေတွေ ဆက်လက်ဆင်နွှဲ" 48:Online plus physical protests in various locals 623: 559:"Yellow Ribbon Campaign Proposal in Mon State" 901: 661: 589: 481:[Yellow Ribbon Movement in Yangon]. 479:"ဖဲကြိုးဝါလှုပ်ရှားမှု ရန်ကုန်မြို့မှာ စတင်" 556: 364:(Motion Picture). Yangon: RFA. Sep 11, 2015 317:: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list ( 61:officers to positions in Judiciary Practice 908: 894: 529: 1152:Yellow Ribbon Suicide Prevention Program 242: 212:the Office of the Union Attorney General 1127:Blue Ribbon Online Free Speech Campaign 740: 505:"ရှေ့နေတွေ ဖဲကြိုးဝါ လှုပ်ရှားမှု စတင်" 1208: 22:Yellow Ribbon Campaign of Myanmar 2015 915: 889: 205:on September 10. On September 11, in 624:Ma Aye Aye Mar (10 September 2015). 91:Website banners and various actions 13: 1231:Internet-based and online protests 590:Ko Yan Naing (10 September 2015). 419:[Yellow Ribbon Movement]. 14: 1272: 1147:Yellow Ribbon Campaign of Myanmar 557:Khittar Non (13 September 2015). 104:Yellow Ribbon Campaign of Myanmar 1188: 1187: 1103: 1093: 1083: 1073: 1063: 1053: 1043: 1033: 1023: 1013: 1003: 993: 983: 973: 963: 953: 943: 853:(in Burmese). 17 September 2015. 799:(in Burmese). 15 September 2015. 626:"ဖဲကြိုးဝါတပ် တကိုယ်တော် ဆန္ဒပြ" 261:Black Ribbon Campaign of Myanmar 27: 871:(in Burmese). 12 September 2015 530:Paing Soe (11 September 2015). 511:(in Burmese). 10 September 2015 485:(in Burmese). 11 September 2015 452:(in Burmese). 10 September 2015 423:(in Burmese). 10 September 2015 392:(in Burmese). 10 September 2015 340:(in Burmese). 11 September 2015 628:[Individual protest]. 292: 273: 1: 741:Min Min (14 September 2015). 417:"ဖဲကြိုးဝါ လှုပ်ရှားမှု စတင်" 286: 216:Asian Human Rights Commission 184:— Maung Maung Naing, a lawyer 117: 7: 1246:Social movements in Myanmar 563:Independent Mon News Agency 254: 171: 141:, current Chief Justice of 110:(Burma) in September 2015. 10: 1277: 305:Myanmar-English Dictionary 163:— Hla Myo Myint, a lawyer 39:9 September 2015 – present 1236:Internet-related activism 1183: 1160: 1137:Self-injury Awareness Day 1114: 936: 923: 95: 87: 65: 53: 43: 35: 26: 21: 301:မြန်မာ-အင်္ဂလိပ် အဘိဓာန် 266: 222:The movement spread to 191:Dekkhina Thiri District 181: 160: 143:Supreme Court of Union 124:Supreme Court of Union 1142:White Ribbon Campaign 1122:ASCII ribbon campaign 657:. 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military
Myanmar
Yellow ribbon
Supreme Court of Union
Naypyidaw
President
Thein Sein
Tun Tun Oo
Supreme Court of Union
Ne Win's Coup
Pyinmana Township
Dekkhina Thiri District
Pyay
Pyinmanar
Mawlamyaing
Yangon
the Office of the Union Attorney General
Asian Human Rights Commission
Taunggyi
Shan State
Lashio
Min Ko Naing
Black Ribbon Campaign of Myanmar
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"တရားစီရင်ရေးတွင် စစ်ဘက်မှ ပြောင်းလာသူများကို အလိုမရှိကြောင်း ကန့်ကွက်မှုစတင်"
RFA Burmese news TV uploads on 11th September 2015, Yellow Ribbon Campaign in Yangon
"တရားစီရင်ရေးမှာ စစ်တပ်အရာရှိတွေ ခန့်ထားမှု ဆန့်ကျင်ရေးလှုပ်ရှားမှု စတင်"
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