U Gambira, the leader of the All-Burmese Monks Alliance who is currently being held in Insein prison, has been charged under the Unlawful Associations Act, according to family members. (more…)

People in two villages in Thandwe Township of Arakan State have been forced by township authorities to work on the construction of lakes if they are unable to contribute financially to the project, reports a social worker from Thandwe. (more…)

A United Nations report released on Tuesday accused the Burmese armed forces, the country’s Tatmadaw, and armed ethnic groups of recruiting children to serve as soldiers. (more…)

Burma’s main opposition political party, the National League for Democracy, plans to launch an essay competition on national reconciliation, party officials say. (more…)

Three hundred illegal Burmese migrant workers were arrested by Thai immigration on Monday in a raid on a garment factory in Bangkok, according to migrant sources. (more…)

Nwe Ni Tun carrying the Human Rights Torch last year. Burmese communities around the world joined the rally in protest of Beijing’s support of the military junta ruling Burma. (more…)

European Union special envoy for Burma Piero Fassino, right, and outgoing Foreign Affairs Minister Nitya Pibulsonggram meet before attending a joint press conference yesterday. (more…)

British tourists to Thailand are being urged to boycott visits to a tribe of long-necked women, amid allegations that they are being held against their will in a “human zoo”. (more…)

United Nations secretary-general Ban Ki-moon urged further measures to combat child military recruitment yesterday, which he said continues to take place in more than 12 countries including Burma. (more…)

The US State Department has condemned the Burmese government’s decision to charge 88 generation student leaders Min Ko Naing and Ko Ko Gyi and eight other activists. (more…)

I recently met a group of influential monks from Burma. I immediately asked them about the monk-led uprising in September. (more…)

The Burma Campaign UK today dismissed as total nonsense claims by the regime ruling Burma that it is taking action on child soldiers. State run newspaper New Light of Myanmar is claiming that hundreds of children have been returned to their families in recent years. (more…)

Burma’s military government, the SPDC, has according to reports from the UN Human Rights Council, Human Rights Watch and the BBC, killed unarmed civilian protesters, recruited child soldiers, tortured, raped and enslaved its citizens and razed 3000 villages to the ground in the past 10 years. (more…)

Myanmar’s military junta has charged 10 activists detained during last year’s fuel protests, including top dissident Min Ko Naing, and they could face up to seven years in prison, legal sources said on Tuesday.
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Reports from Karen State in eastern Burma say that the army’s annual dry season offensive against the Karen National Union is under way. The KNU has been fighting for freedom from the military government for almost 60 years. In the past two years, rights groups say the Burmese army has intensified a scorched earth campaign in Karen State, resulting in a growing humanitarian crisis. Rory Byrne and Wido Schlichting report from the Thai-Burma border.
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Apprehensive of the relentless crackdown by the Burmese military junta, several Burmese bloggers in Rangoon have gone into hiding. The scare follows the arrest of a Burmese blogger, Nay Phone Latt, earlier in the day.
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In what seems to be a renewed effort to control the movement of international aid agencies operating in Burma, the Ministry of Home Affairs (MoH) has established new sets of regulations for aid groups.
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Burma’s English language weekly newspaper, The Myanmar Times, threw its support unequivocally behind the regime’s seven-point “road map” in a commentary in last week’s issue.
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Burma and China began construction on one of the largest dams in Burma some two months ago; meanwhile, villagers in the area are being extorted and abused by the Burmese army, according to sources.
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Three members of the Burmese Housewives Association, including the group leader, have been charged under the Unlawful Associations Act, according to a family member.
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