Burma News (9.26.08)

by Danny Fisher

Here’s the latest on Burma:

  • According to the Associated Press, National League for Democracy member Win Htein was arrested seventeen hours after being released by the junta in a massive amnesty in advance of the 2010 elections. Win Htein had served twelve years of a fourteen-year sentence on the charge of “providing false information to the foreign press” before his release yesterday.
  • The AP reports that a bomb has been defused in Rangoon, after another exploded yesterday.
  • The International Herald Tribune reports on the junta’s continued, “iron-fisted” rule.
  • Acknowledging the one-year anniversary of the “Saffron Revolution,” the Boston Globe has an editorial today about “Burma’s unfinished revolution.”
  • BBC Radio’s World Service reports on rampant starvation in the western Chin state.
  • The Los Angeles Times reports that more than two-million Cyclone Nargis survivors are still living on food aid and other forms of assistance, and many still live in makeshift shelters.