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...absentees, too, most notably Aung San Suu Kyi, the Nobel Peace laureate and leader of the National League for Democracy (NLD), which won a landslide victory in the 1990 general election but was prevented by the junta from assuming power. Many hoped Suu Kyi would be released from house arrest to attend the event, but the generals chose to take their own idiosyncratic approach to democracy: keeping her locked up, while also shuttering her party's branch offices. As a result, the NLD has sent no delegates to the convention, reinforcing the impression that the conference is little more than...
...Meanwhile, outside the convention, the climate of fear across Burma has intensified. Last week, several NLD members were taken into custody for handing out pamphlets marking the one-year anniversary of Suu Kyi's current house arrest. This follows the detentions of a number of activists, including a Burmese reporter turned activist who was sentenced last month to 15 years in jail for sending news reports to foreign media outlets and contacting exiled dissident groups. An activist friend who recently fled to the Burma-Thailand border told me "the government is adding more rooms to the prisons," implying that...
...Haven police initially attempted to arrest the entire band, according to Strauss, but not all of them were able to fit in the police station...
Chalabi stumbled downstairs to find cops rummaging through his effects and preparing to arrest one of his drivers. "What are you doing here?" he said. "Get out of my house." Upon recognizing Chalabi, a police captain put down his gun and produced arrest warrants for seven of Chalabi's lieutenants. The captain insisted that the raid wasn't at his instigation. "He had no idea whose house it was," says Haider Musawi, an aide to Chalabi. "He said they were just following American orders...
...political party and some of its fighters would be incorporated into the Iraqi security forces. Although the U.S. had previously demanded that Sadr be taken into custody to stand trial over his alleged involvement in the killing of a rival cleric last year, the reported deal would delay any arrest and prosecution until after June 30, when it would be up to a new Iraqi authority to pursue...