“Aung Shwe, chairman of the detained pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy Party, delivers a speech during the party’s meeting.” Photo by the Associated Press. [This post has been updated as of 5:50 p.m. PST on 5.4.09.]
Here are today’s headlines about Burma:
The Irrawaddy reports that “sixty-three senior officials of Burma’s opposition National League for Democracy (NLD) and 95 elected members of parliament from the party gathered on Tuesday for their first general meeting in more than a decade.”
The Agence France-Presse reports that “emotional survivors gathered in [Burma] to remember the 138,000 people left dead or missing by Cyclone Nargis, despite authorities largely ignoring the storm’s first anniversary.”
Over at The Huffington Post, Al Eisele posts thoughts about “how to really help the Burmese people” from Dr. Werner Peters, “a prominent German author and political scientist.”
The Irrawaddy also reports that leaders in Japan have joined with the European Union in calling for “an inclusive political process in Burma and the release of political prisoners ahead of the 2010 election.”
The BBC asks, “Did the cyclone change Burma’s junta?”
The Irrawaddy also reports that the junta’s Burma’s Press Scrutiny and Registration Division (PSRD) has “severely restricted Rangoon weekly journals publishing reports marking the anniversary of Cyclone Nargis, which devastated the southwest of the country on May 2-3 last year, leaving about 140,000 people dead in its wake.”
CNN reports on the film festival favorite and soon-to-be-released Burma VJ – Reporting from a Closed Country.
“Aung Shwe, chairman of the detained pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy Party, delivers a speech during the party’s meeting.” Photo by the Associated Press.
It is always so sad when I read about Burma, how such little light is shed on the brutality that is and has been taking place for so long.
Thanks for this!