U KO NI – Melissa Crouch

U Ko Ni and Legal Reform in Myanmar

The International Bar Association has released a report examining the trial of the men responsible for the assassination of U Ko Ni, a prominent lawyer from Myanmar. Here’s a brief recap on some resources available on U Ko Ni, his life and contribution, and the legal system he sought to reform. This article is a personal tributeContinue reading “U Ko Ni and Legal Reform in Myanmar”

Myanmar’s Advocate for Constitutional Reform

‘Saya’ U Ko Ni: Myanmar’s Advocate for Constitutional Reform On 29 January 2017, U Ko Ni, a prominent lawyer and legal advisor to the National League for Democracy (NLD), was brutally assassinated at Yangon International Airport. He was returning from a trip to Indonesia with the Information Minister, U Pe Myint. His untimely death is anContinue reading “Myanmar’s Advocate for Constitutional Reform”

Burmese translation: Tribute to U Ko Ni

[pdf version available here] ဦးကုိနီသုိ႔ တစ္သီးပုဂၢလ ဂုဏ္ျပဳတမ္းခ်င္း မလီဆာ ခေရာက္ခ်္ (Melissa Crouch)၊ ဧည့္ေဆာင္းပါးရွင္၊ ဇန္နဝါရီလ ၃၁ရက္၊ ၂၀၁၇ခုနွစ္တနဂၤေႏြေန႔က ထင္ရွားသည့္ မြတ္စလင္မ္ ေရွ႕ေနတစ္ဦးျဖစ္ၿပီး ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္၏ ဥပေဒအၾကံေပး ဦးကုိနီသည္ လုပ္ၾကံမႈလုိ႔ ယူဆရတဲ့ သတ္ျဖတ္မႈနဲ႔ အေသပစ္သတ္ျခင္း ခံခဲ့ရသည္။ မလီဆာ ခေရာက္ခ်္ (Melissa Crouch)က သူ႔ဘဝ တစ္ေစ့တစ္ေစာင္းနဲ႔ ျမန္မာနုိင္ငံရဲ့ အသိစိတ္ရွိေသာ ဥပေဒေရးရာ အသံတစ္ခု၏ အေမြအႏွစ္အေၾကာင္း ထင္ဟပ္တင္ျပထားပါသည္။ဤရက္သတၱပတ္အတြင္း ျမန္မာနုိင္ငံမွာ ရွိတဲ့ လူေတြဟာ ျဖစ္လာေတာ့မယ့္ တုိင္းျပည္အမ်ိဳးအစားကုိ မ်က္ေမွာက္ျပဳ ထိပ္တုိက္ေတြ႔ဖုိ႔ တြန္းအားေပးခံၾကရပါၿပီ။ ၂၀၁၇ခုႏွစ္ ဇန္နဝါရီလ ၂၉မွာ ထင္ရွားတဲ့ ေရွ႕ေနတစ္ဦးျဖစ္ၿပီး၊ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ရဲ့ ဥပေဒအၾကံေပးလည္းျဖစ္တဲ့ ဦးကုိနီဟာ ရန္ကုန္ အျပည္ျပည္ဆုိင္ရာContinue reading “Burmese translation: Tribute to U Ko Ni”

A personal tribute to U Ko Ni

This was first published at New Mandala, 31 January 2017. On Sunday, prominent Muslim lawyer, and legal adviser to Aung San Suu Kyi, U Ko Ni, was fatally shot by an alleged assassin. Melissa Crouch reflects on the life and legacy of Myanmar’s legal voice of conscience. This week people in Myanmar were forced to confront theContinue reading “A personal tribute to U Ko Ni”

AMCDP tribute to U Ko Ni

Media release by the Australia Myanmar Constitutional Democracy Project The assassination of U Ko Ni, at Yangon airport on 29 January, is devastating, tragic, news. His death will distress all who knew him and all who knew the service he gave his country. U Ko Ni was a distinguished lawyer, a legal adviser to Aung SanContinue reading “AMCDP tribute to U Ko Ni”