Myanmar to free all political prisoners. Burma’s Former Spy Opens Art Gallery in Rangoon. Birmanie : la libération des prisonniers se poursuit - Pale Moon. Myanmar frees prisoners in amnesty, dissidents included. Myanmar - President Pardons a Rebel Official. U Gambira released again after detention | TheBestFriend.org. Ashin Gambira apparently returned to Meggin Monastery this evening at around 8 pm after having been detained for several hours today. Between 1 and 2 am this morning, three cars with around 15 plainclothes police and secret service officers entered the monastery where Ashin Gambira was staying and took him to an undisclosed location for questioning. He was accused of unlawfully entering and opening three monasteries in the past weeks. All three monasteries had been closed by the military authorities in 2007.
Actually, the military entered these monasteries unlawfully with force during the crackdown on the 2007 Saffron Revolution, destroying religious and personal items and brutalizing, arresting, and disrobing the resident monks. Many of these monks, including U Gambira, had been in prison since the crackdown and had only been released recently in an amnesty. The Maha Nayaka Sangha Council said that U Gambira had failed to appear at a meeting after he was summoned.
UN makes fresh call for Myanmar to free prisoners | APN News. The United Nations has made a fresh call for Myanmar to free all political prisoners after talks between key countries on how to coax the junta out of its isolation. The call was made at a meeting convened by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Monday after a special envoy visited Myanmar. Participants urged Myanmar’s ruling generals to launch talks with the Aung San Suu Kyi-led opposition following elections and the junta’s release of the long-detained Nobel Peace Prize-winning democracy icon, a UN spokesman said in a statement. “In order for any transition to succeed, it is imperative that this should involve not only those who participated and won seats in the election, but also those who did not or could not,” said the statement. “This must include the release of political prisoners. Addressing concerns about the credibility of the process to date is also essential for any next steps to succeed.”
The international community widely criticized Myanmar’s 7th November election.
L'armée a un rôle à jouer en Birmanie, estime Aung San Suu Kyi, actualité Fil Info Reuters : Le Point. Par Jason Szep, BANGKOK (Reuters) - Dans un entretien accordé à Reuters, Aung San Suu Kyi se dit disposée à travailler avec la junte militaire birmane qui l'a privée de sa liberté pendant 15 ans avant de la libérer il y a une semaine. Par ces propos, la lauréate du prix Nobel de la paix 1991, âgée de 65 ans, signe sa volonté et son intention d'inciter la junte à s'engager dans la voie démocratique. "Nous n'écartons pas le fait de coopérer avec l'armée", dit-elle au téléphone.
"Mais nous devons en parler, voir comment nous pouvons obtenir une transition en douceur et en combien d'étapes. Nous ne disons pas que nous voulons plus d'armée maintenant. " Confirmant sa volonté de revenir à la politique, l'icône de l'opposition birmane se présente comme un responsable politique avant tout. "Je suis une femme politique", a-t-elle dit. Un tel déplacement serait le premier depuis mai 2003 quand son véhicule était tombé dans un guet-apens tendu par des voyous à la solde du régime militaire à Depayin. Why was Aung San Suu Kyi released? 17 November 2010Last updated at 11:21 By Adam Mynott BBC News, Rangoon Analysts say Than Shwe, the supreme commander and ruler, undoubtedly has a long-term strategy Why did they let her out?
The Burmese military autocracy has found plenty of reasons to keep Aung San Suu Kyi in detention for most of the past two decades. If having an American swim across a lake towards your home is enough to add 18 months to the sentence as it did in 2008, the generals could have found a compelling reason to keep the 65-year-old democracy campaigner under house arrest for a few more years without any difficulty at all. But they let her out on the day her extended sentence ended and with no conditions attached to her release. It is impossible to work out the thinking of the military government. There is no way to read between the lines of their policy papers because there are no published lines to read between. Common enemy The election in Burma was the country's first for 20 years.
Aung San Suu Kyi. Hope for dissidents behind bars? - South China Morning Post | simonroughneen.com. November 15th, 2010 Htein Lin's painting based on images of monks currently imprisoned by the Burmese junta BANGKOK – On Saturday, artist and former political prisoner Htein Lin opened a new exhibition in Bangkok, with the event punctuated by word coming through from Yangon that Aung San Suu Kyi, the country’s best-known detainee, had been freed from house arrest. Htein Lin was jailed from 1998-2004, smuggling his art out of prison with the help of sympathetic guards, proof that even amid Myanmar’s seemingly-endless saga of oppression, humanity can prevail. “One guard took a big risk, and even came to my first exhibition in Rangoon after I was released”, he said.
Overjoyed at Suu Kyi’s release, Htein Lin cautioned me that “there are lots of journalists, poets and other dissidents inside”. Show. Aung San Suu Kyi's Speech at NLD Headquarters in Yangon.