The Free Burma Coalition-Philippines (FBC-Phils) and the Initiatives for International Dialogue (IID) wish to announce that it has reached the number of 8,888 faces and signatures as part of its campaign for the release of all political prisoners in Burma including Daw Aung San Suu Kyi.As of the last count, close to 9,000 signatures, personality sketches, photos and messages of support were gathered by FBC-Phils and IID to conclude the 2-year campaign which began in late 2007 during the 2nd National Assembly of the FBC-Phils. The 8,888 signatures...
May 24, 2009
May 18, 2009
Burma's Aung San Suu Kyi on trial
Burma's opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi has gone on trial at the notorious Insein prison in Rangoon. Undercover BBC correspondent: 'People here are very angry'She is charged with breaching the terms of her house arrest, because of a visit by an American man who swam across a lake to her house earlier this month. Dozens of supporters gathered near the jail as the trial got under way. It has now been adjourned for the day. Many observers...
May 8, 2009
Myanmar arrests US man for entering Suu Kyi home
Myanmar's detained democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi received an unexpected guest while under house arrest — an American who swam under the cover of darkness to her lakeside home, sneaked in, and stayed two nights. Suu Kyi, founder and head of the opposition National League for Democracy party, is allowed virtually no visitors under the terms of her house arrest and her neighborhood, with the U.S. Embassy nearby, is normally one of the most closely guarded areas in Myanmar's biggest city. Even swimming in Inya Lake...
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