Here’s the latest on Burma:
CNN is reporting that “[Burma's] highest court Wednesday granted an appeal for more witnesses from the country’s top opposition leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, who is on trial on charges of subversion.”
The Associated Press reports that the junta is ready to host a visit by U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to country next month.
Reuters reports on the petition sent to Secretary-General Ban imploring him to see to it that all political prisoners are released in Burma. It has over 600,000 signatories.
The AP also reports that the junta’s forces have “overrun three Karen rebel positions in an offensive that has forced thousands of refugees across the Thai border…even as the rebels claimed to have killed or wounded scores of government soldiers.”
Christian Solidarity Worldwide’s Benedict Rogers writes for the Telegraph that “it is time to treat Than Shwe as the war criminal that he is, and hold a commission of inquiry into crimes against humanity.”
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