Here are today’s headlines regarding Burma:
Predictably, the junta has denounced two recent and scathing reports on human rights and drugs in Burma. The Agence France-Presse has more.
The Associated Press reports that U.N. human rights chief Navi Pillay has urged Burma’s neighbors to accept Rohingya refugees instead of sending them back to sea.
The AP also reports that the junta has released attorneys Aung Thein and Khin Maung Shein after four months of captivity. The two were arrested after representing “several prominent dissidents, including some Buddhist monks who were arrested after pro-democracy demonstrations last year.”
Finally, Mizzima tells us that a new report issued by the Geneva-based International Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC) says “at least 451,000 people have been internally displaced as a fall out of the continuous conflicts between the Burmese Army and ethnic armed rebels and the subsequent human rights violations.”
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