Tom Lantos, Top Democrat on International Relations Committee, To Deliver 6,000 Birthday Cards Demanding Release of World’s Only Imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize Recipient Aung San Suu Kyi

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June 13: We wish to use this opportunity, on the occasion of Aung San Suu Kyi’s 60th birthday, to reaffirm our solidarity with the people of Burma and their legitimate struggle for democracy, human rights and civilian rule.

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Sections of youth members and intelligentsia of Burma of late have been vociferous in their demand for radical changes in the party leadership of the National League for Democracy. 

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Phayao: Myanmar‘s detained Nobel peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi could be released early next year after the military junta finishes drafting a new constitution, Thailand‘s foreign minister said Tuesday. 

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Thai military officers yesterday travelled across the border to Myanmar for the 41st meeting of the local Thai-Myanmar Border Committee (TBC), in which Thailand requested Myanmar to assist with the repatriation of Myanmar refugees and in the fight against the cross-border narcotics trade. 

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Akyab: Burmese authorities recently surveyed the population of Hindu people in Arakan state, but other communities were excluded from the survey, reported a Hindu community leader from Akyab.
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The ceasefire group Shan State National Army denied on Monday allegations by the regime that the SSNA merged with another Shan rebel group because it feared legal action for alleged misuse of funds intended for regional development.
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The Burmese government will move at least five of its ministries and almost all state media north from Rangoon to Pyinmana, in Mandalay Division, according to sources in Rangoon. The army headquarters are already widely believed to be moving there.
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June 13: Four National League for Democracy (NLD) members and one pro-democracy activist from Rangoon have all been given life sentence by Rangoon‘s Insein jail special court on 13 June, according to their family members. 

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Yangon: Myanmar’s Supreme Court has begun hearing the junta’s case against former premier and military intelligence boss Khin Nyunt, who was sacked in October and accused of corruption, legal sources said Tuesday.

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