Daw Aung San Suu Kyi’s home on Lake Inya in Burma. Photo by Khin Maung Win for the Associated Press.
Here’s the latest on Burma:
The Associated Press reports that an American man was arrested for trying to swim across Inya Lake to illegally visit with Nobel Peace laureate and Prime Minister-elect Daw Aung San Suu Kyi at her lakeside home, where she has been under house arrest for thirteen of the last nineteen years. Following the man’s detention, twenty police entered Suu Kyi’s home.
The Democratic Voice of Burma reports that a recent conference convened by the Thailand-based Burma Lawyers’ Council (BLC) and its umbrella organization, Human Rights for All (FIDH), “discussed the government’s indifference to international pressure on human rights violations…[and] said that the extent and severity of crimes committed by the junta warrant accusations of war crimes and genocide [in the International Criminal Court].”
The Irrawaddy reports that both the All Burma Monks Alliance (A.B.M.A.) and the 88 Generation Students have sent a letter to U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, asking her to “consider stiffening the sanctions [against the junta] with additional measures, including visa bans and other penalties on the regime’s crony businessmen and political surrogates. They also called for a global arms embargo by the U.N. Security Council if the junta refuses to implement meaningful change.”
The Irrawaddy also reports that the junta-designated health minister for Burma failed to attend a meeting this week of Association of Southeast Asian Nations (A.S.E.A.N.) member nations to discuss measures to prevent an outbreak of swine flu and other health issues.
The Watchlist on Children and Armed Conflict has produced a scathing, disquieting report on how children are being harmed by armed conflict in Burma.
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Daw Aung San Suu Kyi’s home on Lake Inya in Burma. Photo by Khin Maung Win for the Associated Press.
