Press Statement
September 23, 2008
Shan groups denounce regime’s mass prisoner release as a publicity stunt
We, community based organizations from Shan State, denounce the regime’s recent mass prisoner release as a mere publicity stunt, and demand the immediate, unconditional release of all political prisoners in Burma, including Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and the nine Shan State [...]

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_ reported by KAYTHI
Pro-democracy activists led by Burma’s NLD party (exile branch in Japan) this week staged demonstrations in honour of the twentieth anniversary of the foundation of Burma’s main pro-democracy party the Nationational League for Democracy NLD; and also the first Anniversary of Saffron Revolution which is the pro-democracy people power uprising in [...]

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_ reported by Niaing Naing & United Front of Sangha (Bangladesh)

Pro-democracy activists led by Buddhist monks in Bangladesh this week staged demonstrations in honour of the first Anniversary of Saffron Revolution, the pro-democracy people power uprising in 2007 led by Buddhist Monks in Burma, where allegedly upto a hundred monks were bludgeoned to death by [...]

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AP news
The UN General Assembly has rejected a request from the winners of Myanmar’s 1990 elections to replace representatives of the country’s current military junta at the United Nations.
The UN’s legal chief said credentials must be issued [...]

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by P. Parameswaran Sat Sep 27, 10:26 PM ET
UNITED NATIONS (AFP) – World powers have called on Myanmar’s military rulers to make “tangible” progress on political reforms ahead of a planned visit by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to the country.
The first ministerial meeting of the five permanent members of the UN Security Council and mostly [...]

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AP news, Sat Sep 27, 1:02 PM ET
YANGON, Myanmar – About 100 Buddhist monks in a western Myanmar city staged a peaceful protest march Saturday to mark the anniversary of last year’s bloody crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators.
Meanwhile, in the country’s biggest city, Yangon, recently released political prisoners helped celebrate the 20th anniversary of the founding [...]

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By Paul Eckert, Asia Correspondent Sat Sep 27, 5:07 PM ET

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – A U.N. group on Myanmar vowed on Saturday to keep the world spotlight on the troubled country and to press the military rulers of the former Burma to comply with U.N. Security Council resolutions.
The “Friends of the Secretary General on Myanmar” [...]

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Sat Sep 27, 7:06 AM ET
YANGON (AFP) – Myanmar police kept guard outside the headquarters of Aung San Suu Kyi’s pro-democracy party Saturday as it marked its 20th anniversary, joined by the regime’s longest-held prisoner.
Plain clothes officers took pictures of people arriving for the ceremony, attended by some 200 members of the National League of [...]

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By CARLEY PETESCH
AP
UNITED NATIONS -Nations concerned about Myanmar called on its military government Saturday to release all political prisoners, including pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, and to start talking with the opposition.
The so-called Group of Friends, which includes the United States, Britain, China, Southeast Asian countries and the European Union, also called on the [...]

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