“Crowds gather again outside Rangoon’s Insein Prison as the trial of Aung San Suu Kyi enters its third day.” Photo by Aung Thet Wine for The Irrawaddy.
Here’s the latest from Burma:
The Irrawaddy‘s Aung Thet Wine offers “a reporter’s diary” from Insein Prison in Rangoon, where Daw Aung San Suu Kyi’s military trial is currently underway.
The Washington Post reports that the ruling military junta said today that reporters and foreign diplomats would no longer be welcome to attend the trial, “even as the United Nations’ top diplomat said he was hoping to travel to Burma and urge the release of political prisoners.” The article continues:
Diplomats and Burmese journalists were permitted to observe Suu Kyi’s trial on Wednesday, a move that observers said showed the junta’s growing confidence in its legal case for continuing her incarceration. But the openness was short-lived.
The Times Online has more on UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s expressed hope to go to Burma and concern for Suu Kyi.
Voice of America brings us the news about a new report from Harvard’s International Human Rights Clinic at the Law School, entitled “Crimes in Burma”. The report says that the junta should be investigated for war crimes and crimes against humanity.
Based entirely on analysis of 15 years of United Nations’ documents, the report notes sexual violence, forced displacements, torture, and extrajudicial killings…[and says] there are indications human rights abuses in Burma are widespread, systematic, and part of state policy.
Lastly, the Telegraph reports on the “many orphans…still fending for themselves” a year after Cyclone Nargis, and the documentary filmmaker who “risked 30 years in jail to defy the junta’s blackout [on the issue].” See some footage here:
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“Crowds gather again outside Rangoon’s Insein Prison as the trial of Aung San Suu Kyi enters its third day.” Photo by Aung Thet Wine for The Irrawaddy.
