The duration of the on-and-off going National Convention will not rest on the assurance given by Gen Than Shwe to the UN chief last April that the constitutional process would be completed by the end of 2005 but only on how soon the junta’s quasi-political organization will prove up as a full fledged political party, according to two convention delegates.
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February 22: Burma’s military junta, the State Peace and Development Council (SPDC) Information Minister Brig-Gen Kyaw San warned that effective actions will be taken against all political parties including the National League for Democracy (NLD) as they are operating against the existing laws, according to a report by Xinhua.
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February 22: The State Peace and Development Council has been confiscating land in Mon State to build camps for forced labour for brick kilns. The bricks are used to construct military camps, according to a young Mon environmentalist.
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Officials in Dhaka have expressed their frustration over the slow repatriation of Burmese refugees living in long-term camps in Bangladesh’s Cox’s Bazaar district.
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An association of Thai-Burmese border-based opposition groups today denied the Burmese government’s accusations that they were involved in a series of deadly bombings in Rangoon last May.
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A conference to find a solution to the problems plaguing the Mons will be hold in April. Representatives of Mon nationals worldwide will participate, according to a decision of the implementing committee.
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Indonesia’s President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, who will visit military-ruled Myanmar next month, may raise the issue of its transition to democracy, his spokesman said Thursday.
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Twenty-three years after 17 high-ranking Seoul government officials were killed in a North Korean bombing in Burma, now Myanmar, the full truth may be known soon as one of the Northern communist agents involved wants to live in South Korea, according to a South Korean lawmaker.
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February 22: Aye Tha Aung first told DVB the essence/summary of the latest Committee Representing People’s Parliament (CRPP) in Rangoon as follows:
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