Burma’s opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi marked six years in detention on Wednesday as her supporters freed birds and prayed for the Nobel laureate.
Allies of Aung San Suu Kyi gathered outside the Rangoon prison on Monday where the Nobel Peace laureate faces trial.
Burma’s pro-democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi is in good health and ready to defend herself against new charges, her lawyer said.
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/ 30 January 2009
Burma’s junta stepped into the Rohingya crisis on Friday, denying any of the people washing up in Thailand, India and Indonesia were from its soil.
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/ 21 November 2008
A secret court in military-ruled Burma sentenced popular comedian and activist Zarganar to 45 years in prison on Friday.
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/ 11 November 2008
Burna’s military junta sentenced at least 11 dissidents involved in monk-led protests last year to 65 years in jail on Tuesday.
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/ 2 November 2008
Six months after Cyclone Nargis slammed into army-ruled Burma, killing more than 130 000 people, many continue to rely on handouts to stay alive.
Foreign aid groups pressed Burma on Tuesday to stop closing cyclone relief camps as international experts kicked off a mission to pin down the scale of the devastation a month after the storm. Cyclone Nargis is officially thought to have left 134 000 people dead or missing and 2,4-million destitute.
A large ”Happy World” sign hangs above a dilapidated food market in Rangoon, Burma, but on the streets shoppers are far from content. A month after Cyclone Nargis scythed a path of destruction through Burma’s former capital and Irrawaddy Delta, leaving 134 000 dead or missing, those spared by the storm are struggling to cope.
Western governments lashed out at the extension of Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi’s house arrest, but the outrage at Burma’s generals was tempered by concern over disrupting aid flows to desperate cyclone victims. Burma has been promised millions of dollars in Western aid after Cyclone Nargis, but this cut no ice with the junta regarding the opposition leader.