Aung San Suu Kyi’s doctor has requested that the detained democracy leader be allowed to receive an ultrasound during her next medical check, Myanmar’s police chief said Thursday. “We gave permission for Aung San Suu Kyi’s personal doctor Tin Myo Win to visit her two months ago for her general medical checkup and for an ultrasound, but he hasn’t visited her yet,” Myanmar’s national police chief, Brigadier General Khin Yee told reporters.
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The parents, other family members and friends of an exiled Burmese labor rights activist, Thein Win, have been arrested and some of them tortured, according to organizations based in London and Bangkok.
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A Myanmar migrant workers’ group said Thursday that a labor activist deported by Thailand had been detained by Myanmar’s military government for campaigning for the release of political prisoners. Ye Kyaw Thu was detained over his involvement in a petition drive seeking the release of political prisoners, said Pranom Somwong, a coordinator at the MAP Foundation.
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Military-ruled Myanmar said Thursday it was still holding talks with the International Committee of the Red Cross on resuming visits to the nation’s prisons, which were suspended last year. “We didn’t mean for ICRC not to visit prisons,” the information minister, Brigadier General Kyaw Hsann told reporters.
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Myanmar’s military government said Thursday that five former student activists held without charge since late September have links with illegal organizations and terrorist groups.
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Myanmar’s military government threatened Thursday to crack down on activists who have been campaigning for the release of political prisoners.
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Myanmar will enact a special economic zone (SEZ) law soon, aiming to absorb inflow of more foreign investment into the country to promote its economic development, government spokesman Brigadier-General Kyaw Hsan told a press conference here Thursday.
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Students in India’s northeastern states have reiterated their support to the campaign against the proposed pipeline project that will connect Burma’s western coast to Kolkata for importing gas from military-ruled Burma to India.
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A group of 34 rebels from Burma’s Arakan state arrested by the Indian Navy in 1998 were produced in Calcutta High Court, India on Wednesday.
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A Burmese official at the UN on Wednesday questioned whether UN special rapporteurs on human rights were necessary under the new Geneva-based Human Rights Council, which this year replaced the much-criticized Human Rights Commission.
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“They said it was only for a short while and took him away, but he is still not returned. I can’t sleep at night. We have been waiting in case they return our little son. His father who is bedridden, shouts in his sleep, my son, my son”.
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October 31,  “As for us, the NLD believe that when it comes to the problem of what kind of extraordinary thing going to happen is, only when the important facts are handled, would there be some extraordinary progress.
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