Burma is forcing homeless cyclone survivors out of the nation’s monasteries, monks from the disaster zone said on Thursday, as the junta rebuffed international pressure to allow in foreign aid workers. The reports from the monasteries came as the regime announced overwhelming public support in its recent national vote.
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/ 18 October 2007
Burma’s ruling junta on Thursday night announced the formation of a Constitution Drafting Commission, another step in the government’s ”road map” to democracy that is supposed to lead to free elections some time in the future. The move came after the junta brutally suppressed pro-democracy demonstrations last month.