July 10: Burma’s main opposition party, the National League for Democracy (NLD) and the International Labour Organisation (ILO) warmly welcomed the release of Aye Myint, the lawyer from Pegu who was jailed for reporting human rights abuses including forced labour to the ILO.
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Six Karen villagers including a Christian pastor from Tawkywe-inn Township in eastern Pegu Division, were arrested at their homes and sent to Khamti Jail in northern Burma, on suspicion of being hardcore supporters of the Karen National Union (KNU).
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July 10: A 40-year-old man from Rangoon Dawpon Township, who was in police detention had disappeared, causing great concern among the local residents.
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Heavy monsoon rains have flooded several areas in Thandwe, a district town in southern Arakan State and submerged the Thandwe-Taungup motor road, said a report from Rangoon.
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Reuters poll of humanitarian experts listed Burma as one of the worst countries in the world for the children along with Sudan, Iraq and Afghanistan.
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The army will today send a protest to the Burmese government against a “hostile act”, after bullets hit a military supply helicopter flying on the Thai side of the border in Mae Hong Son province.
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July 10: As Burma’s military junta, the State Peace and Development Council (SPDC) troops continue to carry out offensives against villages in Nyaunglebin, Taungoo, Thaton and Papun Districts, more innocent Karen villagers are fleeing to the Thai-Burmese border to take refuge.
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Myanmar activists urged a Korean-Indian consortium on Wednesday to quit an offshore gas project they fear could lead to human rights abuses and prop up the military junta with billions of dollars in royalties.
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The Central Bank of Myanmar has set a minimum ratio of the paid-up capital against deposit amount for private banks to prevent probable financial risk, according to Tuesday’s Weekly Eleven News.
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Myanmar’s Southeast Asian neighbors can’t defend the military-ruled nation diplomatically unless it shows progress toward democratic reforms, Malaysia’s foreign minister warned Tuesday.
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China has reached an agreement with Thailand to fund a hydroelectric dam in Burma – the first of five such projects planned along the lower stretches of the Salween River. The dams are designed to meet rising energy needs in the three countries. But environmentalists and rights groups fear the projects will have far-reaching ecological and humanitarian effects.
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In recent weeks and months there have been a growing number of reports of bloody killings of ordinary people by police and other state officers in the cities and towns of Burma. These brutal attacks expose the myth of “state stability” that the military government there uses to justify its prolonged existence.
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