“A military honor guard marches at Myanmar’s Martyr’s memorial during Martyr’s day ceremonies Sunday, July 19, 2009, in Yangon, Myanmar.” Photo by Khin Maung Win for the Associated Press.
[This post has been updated as of 4:00 p.m. P.S.T. on 7.19.09.]
Here’s the latest news about Burma:
The Associated Press reports that authorities in Burma “detained dozens of opposition party members Sunday as they returned from ceremonies marking the death of the father of jailed pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi.”
The AP also reports on the general tightening of security on this anniversary.
The Financial Times reports that “The European Union [will] impose new sanctions on the Burmese government and its supporters if Aung San Suu Kyi, the Nobel laureate and opposition leader, [is] not freed at the end of her current trial.”
News24 reports that Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, Burma’s Nobel Peace laureate and Prime Minister-elect, “feels the junta’s latest case against her, which may see her behind bars for five years, is ‘totally unfair,’” according to one of her lawyers.
A writer for Mizzima says, “Now or never–the U.N. must act on Burma.”
Aung Zaw writes about U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s “Burma agenda” for The Irrawaddy.
The Irrawaddy further notes that “on the eve of US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s departure for India and Thailand, Senator John McCain urged her to push Burma’s neighbors to do more to support the cause of democracy in Burma.”
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“A military honor guard marches at Myanmar’s Martyr’s memorial during Martyr’s day ceremonies Sunday, July 19, 2009, in Yangon, Myanmar.” Photo by Khin Maung Win for the Associated Press.
