Here’s what’s happening in Burma right now:
The Irrawaddy reports that “Burma’s Ministry of Religious Affairs is effectively prohibiting Buddhist monks from traveling abroad by refusing to issue letters of recommendation…[And] without a letter of recommendation from the ministry a monk cannot apply for a visa to travel to a foreign country.”
Reuters reports that U.N. investigators have said that the junta’s military trial of Nobel Peace laureate and Prime Minister-elect Daw Aung San Suu Kyi “flouts international standards.” The investigators have also “urged the country’s military rulers to ensure [the trial is] open and fair.”
Reuters also reports that “China will start building oil and gas pipelines through [Burma] in September that would enable it shorten the journey time for crude oil imports from the Middle East and Africa.”
Eva Kusuma Sundari, a member of the Indonesian parliament and a committee member of the Asean Inter-Parliamentary Myanmar Caucus, writes for the Wall Street Journal about the Association of Southeast Asian Nations’ “Burma burden.”
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