Yangon: Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy has been hit by a spate of resignations it blames on pressure from Myanmar’s military junta, which has threatened to ban the party.
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Four people were killed and 31 injured as Cyclone Mala battered Burma’s Irrawaddy delta, its west coast and the outskirts of the capital, state-run media reported Monday.
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April 29, Rangoon Kawmoo Township’s Htan Manaing villager, Su Su Nway who has been detained for fighting against forced labour practices, is suffering from heart diseases and gastric complaints, according to her brother who went to see her at Insein Jail recently.
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An elected member of Burma’s second biggest party has “resigned of his own accord,” reported The New Light of Myanmar yesterday.
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April 30, A 40-year old Muslim man is in critical state at a hospital in Rangoon after he was shot in the stomach by drunken Burmese soldiers on security duty.
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The Federation of Trade Unions-Burma marked Labour Day today with a call for the release of detained worker’s rights activists in Burma, including Su Su Nwe, Aung Myo Thant and Aye Myint.
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One of Thailand’s respected papers, Matichon, reported yesterday Thailand has already agreed with Burma to build a 40 km road for free as part of its plan to increase its exports to Burma.
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April 29, Washington: The United States strongly condemned Friday the Myanmar military’s offensive against ethnic minority groups, believed to be the biggest crackdown in a decade.
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April 28, Eric John, US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for East Asia and the Pacific has talked of the “horrific descent of the situation in Burma,” in an interview with The Irrawaddy on Friday.
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April 28, The United Nations Security Council today issued a ringing condemnation of all violence committed against civilians during armed conflict, directing its strongest language at attacks on women and children, and pledged to ensure that all peace support operations employ all feasible measures to prevent the scourge.
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April 29, The Italian Trade Union Confederation is honoring a detained Burmese trade unionist with its 2006 human rights award.
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April 29, The United Nations Security Council, fulfilling the promise of an accord among world leaders at a UN World Summit last September, passed a resolution Friday ”On Protection of Civilians in Armed Conflict.” (more…)

There is good reason to believe that the Burmese dictators are on the verge of taking the ultimate step to snuff out legal opposition to their appalling misrule. The generals already have begun saying that the National League for Democracy (NLD) and its leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, exist only at their whim anyway. (more…)