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...when the criticism comes from near neighbors, even juntas may have to take notice. Early last week, Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad raised the extraordinary prospect of expelling Burma from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) if the Nobel peace laureate isn't freed. The frustrated Prime Minister says the junta's continued intransigence "has affected our [ASEAN's] credibility." Mahathir's comments were echoed by Philippine Foreign Minister Blas Ople on the sidelines of a meeting last week of Asian and European foreign ministers in Bali...
...passed a bill last week to impose economic sanctions against Burma, and Japan has cut its economic aid, but expulsion from ASEAN would carry more serious diplomatic and economic consequences. The regional grouping is virtually Burma's only link to the outside world, and membership lends the junta the legitimacy it craves. The government did announce the release of 91 political prisoners, at least 29 of whom were identified as members of Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy (NLD) party. But on Saturday, the regime declared that it had arrested 12 people accused of planning to overthrow the generals...
...interrogation. Montreal-based Kazemi was arrested in Tehran on June 23 while taking pictures at an antigovernment protest and died in hospital 19 days later from a brain hemorrhage. A presidential commission is looking into her death, but officials said it was too early to give an exact cause. Junta Under Pressure BURMA U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan added to pressure on the ruling generals by calling on them to release democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi. His appeal came shortly after the U.S. Congress agreed to impose sanctions on Burmese exports, in response...
...time to reassess our policy toward a military dictatorship that has repeatedly attacked democracy and jailed its heroes." COLIN POWELL, Secretary of State, in an op-ed column on the repression of dissidents by the military junta that rules Myanmar, the former Burma...
...Burma, to the disgust of foreign observers, Aung San Suu Kyi is under detention?a victim of the junta's latest crackdown on her democracy movement. But she and her party have only been cowed, not crushed. In Laos, no political dissent has been allowed in 28 years, nor any right of assembly. Scores of political prisoners and youths have been detained for years in dark cells without trial; many have been tortured. Christians are persecuted, told to denounce their faith under threat of imprisonment. And there is nothing merry about the Hmong women and children trapped in the mountains...