Burma Update: January 22, 2008

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APPPB Update: Burma in Year 2008

Dear Friends,

Warm greeting from the APPPB Secretariat in a new year with lots of hope and inspiration to work even harder as this is 2008 and this year will see 20th anniversary of the 8.8.88 Uprising in which as many as 3,000 pro-democracy markers and protesters were killed within the cause of six month period in 1988.

We got a New Year’s wish from the Danish Burma Committee which said “Envisioning an unstoppable snow ball rolling down a hill getting bigger and bigger we have high hopes that the demonstrations in August and September will be the snow ball enhancing Burma’s democratic transition process... and we will do our best to support this development and keep the snow balls rolling.”

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News from Burmese Media

Shan Herald Agency for News: Burma Announces Ban on Cars with Chinese License Plates
Shan Herald Agency for News: Locals Punished as Porters on False Charges
Shan Herald Agency for News: Junta Collects Illegal Taxes and Fees from Local People
Shan Herald Agency for News: Shan Meet Vows to Protect Non-Shan Rights
Democratic Voice of Burma: Family Members Denied Visits to Insein Prison
Democratic Voice of Burma: Security Tightened on Buses
Democratic Voice of Burma: Two NLD Members Arrested in Taunggok
Kachin News Group: Kachin Villages Told to Relocate for Chibwe Hydropower Project
Irrawaddy News Magazine: Burma Looks to ‘Liberalize’ Fuel Imports
Irrawaddy News Magazine: Sanctions Affecting Burmese Gems Trade
Irrawaddy News Magazine: Minister Hails Burmese Medicines ‘Best in Southeast Asia’
Irrawaddy News Magazine: China Urges Burma to Set Date for Gambari
Irrawaddy News Magazine: US Pacific Command Issues Damning Report on Burma



Opinion/Other

Irrawaddy News Magazine: Who Can Rescue Nilar Thein? [Commentary] - Kyaw Zwa Moe
Mizzima News: Can the U.N. Change the Mindset of the Generals? [Commentary] - Dr. Sein Myint
Asia Sentinel: Who’s Bombing Burma? - Brian McCartan



Report/Briefer

ASEAN Inter-Parliamentary Myanmar Caucus: Myanmar/Burma News Update (Edition 75)