After 12 years, Burma’s so-called National Convention finally seems to be drawing to an end. The military junta has indicated it will wrap up the session with a draft of a new constitution followed by a referendum and national elections.
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A senior Malaysian lawmaker on Friday likened Myanmar’s military junta to the regimes of Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin and condemned nations which trade with the pariah state.
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As Burma faces increasing international pressure over its narcotics production and Australian and Singaporean officials battle over the country’s ties to Burma’s drug trade, thousands of Burmese remain addicted to illegal drugs.
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Police are investigating the case of a Burmese migrant worker whose dead body was found in Thailand’s Tak province on November 30.
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Dozens of Myanmar refugees demonstrated in Bangladesh’s capital Friday to demand U.N. intervention to win the release of Aung San Suu Kyi from house arrest, organizers said.
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Nearly 80 bodies of Burmese victims of the 2004 tsunami can be returned to their families by the end of the year, provided the necessary identification documents are provided, the Thai Tsunami Victim Identification, said on Friday.
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An Asian-based human rights group today released an authoritative report detailing the brutal and systematic torture of political prisoners that for the first time specifically names those directly responsible in Burma’s military regime, as well was reveals the “shocking” scale and severity of the practice.
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Published December 1, 2005

11 ethnic national political parties based in Rangoon, recently issued a statement saying that they have no faith in the constitution drafting ‘National Convention’ sponsored by Burma’s military junta, the State Peace and Development Council (SPDC).
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Published December 1, 2005

The Burmese junta is torturing political prisoners to crush dissent not just using such methods to punish and interrogate, and at least five political detainees have been tortured to death in the past six months, a report published today alleges.
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Gone are the days when ceasefire groups received preferential treatment from Burma’s rulers, according to militia sources in Mongton, opposite Chiangmai.
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National Convention Convening Commission officials in Rangoon have briefed international diplomatic and UN workers on expected delays to the completion of the National Convention.
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