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Aung San Suu Kyi is planning a "peaceful" revolution

Only two days after being freed from her house arrest Aung San Suu Kyi has just... more

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Heroin traffickers elected in Burma

Six successful candidates backed by the junta in Burma's controversial elections... more

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Suu Kyi 'ready for talks' to resolve Burma's problems

Burma's pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi has told the BBC she is ready for... more

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Aung San Suu Kyi is free

Aung San Suu Kyi is finally free. After 15 years of jails and house arrest is now a... more

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Myanmar Activist and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Aung San Suu Kyii Released After 15 Years Under House Arrest

Myanmar activist Aung San Suu Kyi released November 13th, 2010 06:00 AM ET... more

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Aung San Suu Kyi Released From House Arrest

Myanmar activist Aung San Suu Kyi was released from house arrest Saturday, police... more

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Burma's Poll Called 'Yes Vote' for Junta Rapes | Womens eNews

The victory of the junta-backed party in the Nov. 7 elections for Burma--which the... more

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Aung San Suu Kyi: the private photo album

The Guardian website has shared the private photograph collection of Aung San Suu... more

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Burma's Aung San Suu Kyi freed after 15 years house arrest

Update: Saturday 13th November

The military authorities in Burma have released the pro-democracy leader, Aung San Suu Kyi.
She has appeared in front of a crowd of her supporters who rushed to her house in Rangoon when nearby barricades were removed by the security forces.

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Reports are coming out of Burma that the country's leading generals are believed to have sanctioned the release of pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi who has spent 15 of the last 21 years under house arrest.
It's been a week full of rumours and speculation if and when the Nobel Peace Prize winner will be released, but with police activity growing outside her home in Rangoon and agency reports of government officials making 'necessary security preparations', it is believed she could be free this weekend.
Her sentence officially ends tomorrow: "There is no law to hold her for another day. Her detention period expires on Saturday and she will be released," her lawyer, Nyan Win, told reporters. "They should release her for the country."
Earlier this week, he said Ms Suu Kyi would "not accept a limited release". "[It] must be unconditional. As we all know, she never accepted limited freedom in the past," he added.
She was originally due to be released last year, but a case involving an American who swam across Inya Lake to her home, claiming he was on a mission to save her, prompted the latest 18-month detention.
Her supporters, who have been publicly counting down the days to the end of her current term of house arrest, have been gathering at the headquarters of her political party, the National League for Democracy (NLD), in anticipation of her release.
Reports of the democracy icon's release come after a state media announcement on Thursday that the pro-junta political party had secured a majority in both houses of Parliament in last Sunday's elections.
The partial results showed the Union Solidarity and Development Party had won 190 of 219 constituencies reported in the 330-seat Lower House and 95 of 107 seats in the 168-seat Upper House. Update: Saturday 13th November The military authorities in Burma have released... more

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Burma Hit By Massive Net Attack Ahead of Election

Huge amounts of traffic easily overwhelmed Burma's links to the net An ongoing... more

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Burma: Myo Yan Naung Thein on Junta's Sham Constitution

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Burmese Traders Seek Peace in Troubled Manipur

Tamu (Myanmar), Sep 22 : Myanmar’s traders and officials at Tamu town are... more

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Burmese Army Soldiers Trespass Into Mizoram For Rations

Aizawl, Sep 21 : Soldiers of the Burmese Army belonging to LIB 304 from Sebawngte camp... more

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Burmese Video: "Ar-Yone-Oo-Mar SHOCK Shi-Tae" Ads

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BDC: BBC Burmese, Sham Constitution & Planned Sham 2010 Election

2nd September 2010 is the 70th Anniversary of BBC Burmese Service Broadcasting and Burma Democratic Concern (BDC)'s Director Myo Thein shares the knowledge of Burma crisis and congratulate the BBC Burmese service for its dedicated neutral, impartial and up to the last mintue reporting.

Myo Thein said "As the democratic activist who value and respect democratic principles, I agree to disagree. I also value the media's impartiality since in Burma current military regime as well as its pre-successor use the media as the propaganda tools. So for us we have to rely on independent media like BBC Burmese to have the reliable information".

Regarding about the junta planned 2010 election Myo Thein said "There will be no single democratic genuine change coming out from junta's planned 2010 election. Before we possibly address the 2010 election, we have to look at the 2008 constitution which is adopted and drafted unilaterally by the junta which designed to cement military rule forever in Burma which took 14 years long to draft it. If we look at the referendum, adopting process, they do it unilaterally even in the mist of the cyclone Nargis. When we look at the constitution itself, that constitution is designed to legitimise military rule in Burma. If we look at the constitution 25% of the parliament seats are reserves for the military personnels, addition, the president must have the military background as well as the president can dissolve the parliament at any time holding the absolute authority. If we look at the constitution it is designed to cement military rule forever in Burma. So we need to declare that constitution as NULL & VOID by the UNSC."

regarding about hope for the Burma future, Myo Thein said that "It is all down to both parties, I mean Daw Aung San Suu Kyi led Democratic Forces and Military Regime. There is always the door is open for the national reconciliation in Burma. Even recently Daw Aung San Suu Kyi said she also hope for the national reconciliation. So if we truly wanted to see the national reconciliation in Burma, the International Community also find out the way to facilitate the national reconciliation process a success".

For more information please visit Burma Democratic Concern (BDC) at http://bdcburma.org/2nd September 2010 is the 70th Anniversary of BBC Burmese Service Broadcasting and... more

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Thai-Burma Border: Misery & Hope

Mitch St.Pierre heads to the Thai Burma border to witness some of the impacts caused... more

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Transocean Questioned on Burma Deal

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An election in Myanmar: The junta names the day

Why it has taken the junta ruling Myanmar so long to name the date of its promised election is as mysterious as most things decided by its leader, the “senior general”, Than Shwe. The junta has long said that an election would be held this year, under a constitution approved, in a farcically rigged referendum, in 2008. Yet only now has state-run radio confirmed precisely when: November 7th.

Perhaps it wanted to keep its opponents guessing—though with so many other advantages, it hardly needed that one. More likely, its fortune-tellers had something to do with it. The generals are notoriously superstitious and given to weighting numbers and dates with astrological import.

This will be only the fifth election in the history of independent Burma (whose name the junta changed to Myanmar in 1989), and the first since 1990. That was a disaster for the generals, who promptly inflicted its consequences on their people. The electorate plumped by a big majority for the democratic opposition, the National League for Democracy (NLD). Even at the time, the NLD’s leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, daughter of the country’s independence hero, was in detention, as she has been for most of the two decades since.

The junta never permitted the NLD to take power, insisting in retrospect that the election was not for a parliament, but for a constituent assembly that would draft a constitution (in 1995, the NLD boycotted the constitutional convention as, in Miss Suu Kyi’s words, “an absolute farce”). Ever since, exiled activists and lobbyists in the West have called for the 1990 results to be honoured, and for the sanctions imposed on Myanmar by America and the European Union to be maintained until they are.

So rigged is the election that it prompts questions as to why it is being held in the first place. One possibility is that the junta wants to mend fences with the West and appear more legitimate. But even the generals must know that a poll as fraudulent as this one is unlikely to achieve that end; and, as we have argued elsewhere, they seem in fairly confident mood at the moment.

Another suggestion is that it is part of a process of succession from Than Shwe, who is 77. This will involve distributing power among various interests, including a small but thriving class of business cronies enriched under the junta.

http://www.economist.com/node/21009534Why it has taken the junta ruling Myanmar so long to name the date of its promised... more

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Burma's Ethnics: Score One for the Good, er, No-So-Bad Guys

Revolutionary movements have lost their luster. Their leaders will never be... more

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