http://www.burma-center.org News on Burma from the NGO Burma Center Prague en-us Burma Center Prague Thu, 17 May 2012 11:25:06 +0200 C.A. with PHP http://www.burma-center.org/left.jpg http://www.burma-center.org http://www.mizzima.com/news/inside-burma/7109-unfc-gives-deadline-to-halt-military-offensives.html The United Nationalities Federal Council (UNFC) says it will review the ethnic cease-fire agreements reached with the Burmese government if the government does not halt military offensives in Kachin State by June 10. 55i8VK3xP86K7d7Z7Z18Ix57An27t9 Mon, 14 May 2012 13:52:41 +0200 Mizzima http://www.irrawaddy.org/archives/4089 Around 2,500 Rohingya refugees who had been camped out in front of the Indian office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in New Delhi’s upscale Vasant Vihar neighborhood have been forced to leave. The presence of the refugees, who had been in the Indian capital for about a month, met with growing resistance from local residents. Last week, most moved to an open area in Sultan Garhi, the site of a mausoleum, but were also met with protests there. The refugees are demanding full recognition by the UNHCR. 89p5CDCq7I4xVvP8ETw4B3vUO4aXUn Mon, 14 May 2012 13:51:32 +0200 The Irrawaddy http://www.irrawaddy.org/archives/4074 The Asean Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights (AICHR) will hold its next meeting in Rangoon this June in another transitional landmark for Burma’s reformist government that nonetheless stands accused of ongoing human rights abuses. 4121k2fN7GDG56a66rqZ784C884V5T Mon, 14 May 2012 11:43:24 +0200 The Irrawaddy http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2012/05/2012511115419116373.html Myanmar's government must allow reforms in the judicial system, and the first step is to guarantee its independence. (commentary) jB9i433MpZv5Aq6T3Q9fHYuGgNMM18 Fri, 11 May 2012 09:47:46 +0200 William Lloyd George / Al Jazeera http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/myanmars-grim-unfinished-reform-hundreds-of-political-inmates-languish-in-remote-prisons/2012/05/09/gIQAbCbXCU_story.html In a remote prison in northwest Myanmar, Aye Aung wakes up each day as he has for nearly 14 years — alone in a dark cell on a wooden plank, a prisoner of conscience all but forgotten by the world. For hours, the former student activist meditates and reads the books his father brings from afar every other month. But mostly, he lives in the mind-numbing boredom of captivity. Now 36, he has never seen a cell phone, never surfed the Internet, never married or had children. 63V8828dEQr6dyuKBY8ys5Z1PW82Fl Wed, 09 May 2012 18:02:29 +0200 The Wahsington Post