Burma’s first National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) began work in October, and has since become the focal point of aggrieved Burmese who use the body to file complaints of human…
Day: December 13, 2011
Prisoner amnesty ‘soon’: Shwe Mann
Parliamentary speaker remains coy on date of release but implies that a number of political prisoners may be among those freed
From Map Ta Phut to Burma
In the late 1980s Thailand embarked on an ambitious project to transform a popular stretch of coastline east of Bangkok into the country’s largest industrial estate. Ten years later however…
Indian journalists missing in Burma ‘alive’
Whereabouts of two missing since October after crossing into Burma to meet ULFA chief remains unknown but believed to be alive