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...Right now, the junta needs all the friends it can get. The 60th birthday over a week ago of Burmese pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, who is under house arrest, has again put the spotlight on the repression practiced by the regime. Recent bomb attacks by unknown perpetrators in Rangoon and Mandalay have killed and injured scores of people. Unprecedented pressure exerted by other members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations means Burma is unlikely to take its turn chairing ASEAN in mid-2006. The purge of Prime Minister and intelligence chief Khin Nyunt last October...
...Aung San Suu Kyi, Burmese pro-democracy leader and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, who spent her birthday on Sunday under house arrest in Rangoon. Over the past 16 years she has been detained for a total of nine years and eight months 1,350 Number of political prisoners in Burma, according to Amnesty International...
...Legal Assessment of Human Rights in Burma" is 600 pages long and was three years in the making. The author is British human-rights researcher Guy Horton, who was inspired to do the study by his friend, British academic Michael Aris, the late husband of pro-democracy activist Aung San Suu Kyi. Produced with funds from the Dutch government and non profit organizations, the report draws on material collected from Horton's own trips to Burma plus a wide range of documents, photographs and maps sourced from different Burma-interest groups. It's the first time that alleged abuses...
...Everyone knows there is no democracy there." NAZRI ABDUL AZIZ, Malaysia's Minister for Parliamentary Affairs, urging the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (asean) to block Burma's chairing of the group in 2006 unless it agrees to democratic reforms and releases opposition leader Aung...
...Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) summit. The conclave is the international debut of Burma's new Prime Minister, General Soe Win. A reputed hard-liner, Soe Win has been accused by the U.S. State Department of direct involvement in a mob attack on Nobel Peace Prize winner and opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi last year, in which dozens of her followers were killed. And some members of the regional bloc are increasingly apprehensive about Burma's turn to chair ASEAN in 2006. (The leadership rotates among its members.) "ASEAN is heading toward a very embarrassing situation," says Senator Kraisak Choonhavan...