U2 Response to Daw Aung San Suu Kyi’s Release

‘There is a cautious joy amongst the campaigners for Aung San Suu Kyi’s release. Over the years we have feared for her life, and until Burma’s leadership better reflects its people, we should continue to be vigilant in our concern.[…]

‘The Lady’ retains potent political role

Tomorrow, Aung San Suu Kyi will have spent a total of 15 years and 20 days in detention. Under Burmese law, she should be released, and it is looking increasingly likely that she will be. Although the regime has a poor track record of keeping its word or upholding its own laws, the regime will want to divert attention away from last Sunday’s sham elections which perpetuate military rule, and give the international community a fig leaf.
The regime has played it well from their point of view – legally they should have released her when her period of house arrest expired last year, but then, conveniently, American Mormon John Yettaw came to the junta’s aid, swam across the lake, and landed Suu Kyi with three years’ hard labour. In an act designed to appear compassionate, Than Shwe reduced this to 18 months’ house arrest – conveniently timing her release for six days after the sham elections.[…]

Myanmar should free all prisoners of conscience following Aung San Suu Kyi’s release

Amnesty International today welcomes the release of Aung San Suu Kyi, but calls on the government of Myanmar to immediately release all of the prisoners of conscience in the country.[…]

UN Human Rights Chief Welcomes Release of Aung San Suu Kyi, Calls for Release of Other Political Prisoners

The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay welcomed Saturday the release of Aung San Suu Kyi at the end of her sentence, and urged the Myanmar authorities to also release the remaining 2,200 political prisoners in Myanamar.

“This is a positive signal that the authorities in Myanmar are willing to move forward with the serious challenge of democratic transition, and the need for national reconciliation,” Pillay said […]

Burmese Political Prisoner In Election Protest Hunger Strike

Kyaw Kyaw Naing, a jailed member of the National League for Democracy, has gone on hunger strike to protest against sham elections being held today in Burma, according to Burma Campaign UK sources[…]

Weekly Political Events Regarding the SPDC’s Election (040-2010)

In this week’s report, you will find:

• UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon demanded the SPDC regime again on October 29 to free all political prisoners and open the way to national reconciliation, saying that it was not late yet to carry out genuine democratization in Burma.

• Local authorities and SPDC army joined hands to extort money through Naungpein village tract headmen on the pretext of polling-station construction and military outpost fencing, local residents reported.

ယခုအပတ္ NDD ၏သတင္းမွတ္တမ္းတြင္ –

• ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံတြင္ စစ္မွန္သည့္ဒီမိုကေရစီအသြင္ကူးေျပာင္းေရးအတြက္ လုပ္ေဆာင္ရန္ အခ်ိန္မေႏွာင္းေသးေၾကာင္း၊ စစ္အစိုးရအေနျဖင့္ ႏိုင္ငံေရးအက်ဥ္းသားအားလံုးကို ျပန္လႊတ္ေပးျပီး အမ်ဳိးသား ျပန္လည္ရင္ၾကားေစ့ေရးအတြက္ လမ္းဖြင့္ေပးရန္ ကုလသမဂၢ အတြင္းေရးမွဴးခ်ဳပ္ ဘန္ကီမြန္းက ေအာက္တိုဘာ ၂၉ ရက္ေန႕တြင္ ထပ္မံတိုက္တြန္း ေတာင္းဆိုလိုက္သည္။ […]

New Book About Burmese Political Prisoner to be Launched in Mae Sot, Chiang Mai

”No Easy Road: A Burmese Political Prisoner’s Story” by Paul Pickrem

On the eve of the November 7 elections in Burma, a new book that relates the life story of a former political prisoner will be published […]

Support Min Ko Naing and his fellow democracy activists

Today Min Ko Naing will spend his 48th Birthday imprisoned and cut off from the people of Burma. This will be the 19th year that he has spent a day, meant for celebration, in incarceration.

Min Ko Naing has become one of the most prominent and outspoken opponents of the military regime […]

Statement on World Youth Day for Democracy

Release all student and youth political prisoners in Burma

October 18 marks World Youth Day for Democracy, a day when students and youth around the world stand in solidarity with young people imprisoned in Burma for taking part in pro-democracy activities. On this day, four student and youth alliances; are urging the international community to put pressure on the Burmese military regime […]

Waihnin Pwint Thon Speaks for Burma and Political Prisoners at the UK Labour Party Conference

[…] the most incredible speech ever given in this country by anyone at any political conference or meeting about Burma. Waihnin Pwint Thon, daughter of jailed 88 Generation Student leader Ko Mya Aye, and one of the leading campaigners for Burma and political prisoners in her own right, gave an extraordinarily powerful speech that not only defied her young age, but deserved the lengthy standing ovation it received […]