“A man holds a photograph and a candle during a gathering held to call for the release of Aung San Suu Kyi at the Speaker’s Corner in Singapore May 31, 2009.” Photo by Vivek Prakash for Reuters.
Here’s the latest news about Burma:
The Associated Press, Reuters, National Public Radio, CNN, the Wall Street Journal, and the New York Times all report on the resuming military trial of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, Burma’s Prime Minister-elect and Nobel Peace laureate who currently faces trumped-up charges of violating the terms of her house arrest.
The AP also reports on the “gloom” in the country among onlookers as the trial resumes.
The Agence France-Presse reports on Shepard Fairey’s new poster in support of Suu Kyi.
The AFP also offers a video report on the orphans fleeing Burma for “uncertain refuge” in Thailand.
Aung Zaw, founder and editor of the Burmese exile magazine The Irrawaddy, offers an editorial in the Wall Street Journal about the alliance between the North Korean government and Burma’s ruling military junta, which he says “threatens the Asia-Pacific region and farther-flung shores.”
Nicholas Farrelly, a Southeast Asia specialist in the College of Asia and the Pacific at the Australian National University and the co-founder of the great New Mandala, writes for Inside Story about Burma’s generals, their objectives, and how they have managed to stay in power for so long.
The editors of the Boston Globe also offer an editorial on Burma today in the wake of U.N. Secretary-General Ban ki-Moon’s visit to the country. They write:
If Ban really wants to help the people of Burma, he should side with the 55 members of the US Congress who recently signed a letter to President Obama urging him “to take the lead in establishing a United Nations Security Council Commission of Inquiry into the Burmese military regime’s crimes against humanity and war crimes against its civilian population.’’ Such commissions were instituted for Rwanda and Darfur. Nothing less is needed if the UN, that would-be parliament of nations, is to fulfill its commitment to protect the peoples of the world from criminal rulers.
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“A man holds a photograph and a candle during a gathering held to call for the release of Aung San Suu Kyi at the Speaker’s Corner in Singapore May 31, 2009.” Photo by Vivek Prakash for Reuters.
