We, at the Rohingya Youth Development Forum (RYDF), Arakan-Burma would like to express our deep concern on the extedntion of detention for another six months to the Burma’s Democracy icon and Nobel Peace Laureate and leader of the National League for Democracy (NLD), Daw Aung San Suu Kyi.
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The Special Rapporteur of the Commission on Human Rights on the situation in Myanmar, Mr. Paulo Sergio Pinheiro, deeply regrets the further prolongation in the house arrest of the General Secretary of the National League for Democracy and the Nobel Peace Prize Laureate.
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Published November 28, 2005

The United States deplores the extension of Aung San Suu Kyi’s detention.
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Published November 28, 2005

The Secretary-General is deeply disappointed that Myanmar’s authorities have extended the detention under house arrest of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, General Secretary of the National League for Democracy (NLD), for another six months.
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Asean, and Thailand in particular, must abandon its impotent policy of appeasement towards Burma
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“Burma needs a new leader urgently,” said a veteran diplomat who recently returned from Rangoon.
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Japan expressed deep concern on Tuesday [29 November] over the Myanmar [Burmese] junta’s decision to extend pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s house arrest for another year.
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The French oil company Total said on Tuesday that it had reached an out-of-court settlement with a group of villagers from Myanmar who complained they had been used as forced labour to build a gas pipeline.
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A military commander who has launched an offensive against rebels in Karen state and Mon state has directed women in the villages to mark rapist soldiers even if it means stabbing them so that they can be identified.
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The economically weaker section of the people in Chin state, North-western Burma are in dire straits with prices of essential commodities skyrocketing. Many day-to-day necessities have become beyond reach of the common man.
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Published November 27, 2005

Burmese lawyer Aung Thein was allowed to lodge appeals on behalf of one of the nine Shan leaders who were given lengthy jail terms recently.
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According to a map produced by the US Geological Survey, National Earthquake Information Center, Burma’s new military and administrative center in Pyinmana is right on top of what is known as the Sagaing fault system.
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Apart from astrological calculations and American invasion, there are more down-to-earth reasons why Burma’s autocratic rulers have chosen Pyinmana as the new power center, according to civilian officials in Tachilek, opposite Thailand’s Maesai.
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