Burma News (9.13.08)

by Danny Fisher

Here are a few Burma-related items to take note of:

  • The Agence France-Presse is reporting today that Nobel Peace laureate and Prime Minister-elect Daw Aung San Suu Kyi will soon submit her “first-ever personal appeal” for release to the military junta that has kept her under hourse arrest for well over a decade.
  • The Daily Telegraph profiles two Burmese monks who participated in last year’s “Saffron Revolution” and are now living in exile in Utica, NY.
  • On the one-year anniversary of the Saffron Revolution, a Burmese citizen offers personal recollections of the uprising for Radio Free Asia.