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The opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Thursday called for a cease-fire immediately between the Burmese army and several ethnic rebel groups in its first open the new president "civilian" Burmese letter.

The opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Thursday called for a cease-fire immediately between the Burmese army and several ethnic rebel groups in its first open the new president "civilian" Burmese letter.

"I would sincerely request a cease-fire immediately and the peaceful resolution of the recent conflicts in the interests of all ethnic groups" in the country, she wrote in this paper also addressed the representatives of various minorities.

"National reconciliation can not be built by military means," she added, while the regime has recently cautioned against the pursuit of his political activities.

Many minority groups, which represent a third of the 50 million people of Burma have never pacified their relations with the central government since independence in 1948. Since then, a civil war between the capital to some of these groups, who demand more rights and autonomy.

Fighting has intensified in recent months between the army and various rebel groups in the north and east.

"I'm ready to fight as much as I can to support a cease-fire and a peace process," said Suu Kyi.

The Nobel Peace Prize, released from seven years of house arrest a week after the November elections criticized, seems to be testing the limits for a few weeks of freedom, while the regime, through the official newspaper New Light of Myanmar , asked him to stop his political activities.

She announced in June a political tour, whose date has not been specified, then made his first trip in early July outside Yangon, Bagan (center), where she attracted admirers moved. Without departing from a strictly private.

According to a source in the National League for Democracy (NLD), the party dissolved, she plans another trip in early August.

"She's going to meditate for about three days in a monastery in Rangoon, and then she will probably go to Bago", north of Yangon, the source said, without specifying whether the trip would be political or private.

New Light of Myanmar has also cautioned against its proposed policy tour, which can lead to "chaos and riots".

She met Monday for the first time a government minister, an event hailed by observers still doubt that it meets the demands of concrete measures from the international community.

Since the November elections, the junta chief Than Shwe is self-dissolved and has handed in late March a government called "civil" but completely controlled by the military. The new president is none other than the outgoing prime minister and former general Thein Sein.

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The Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi met Monday, July 25 for the first time a minister of the new civilian government

Many observers doubt the sincerity of the Burmese regime in this process considered very symbolic

What is the real significance of the meeting between a representative of the government and the Nobel Peace Prize Aung San Suu Kyi?

The announcement of this meeting had been widely circulated in the Burmese state media last week. The new "civilian" government composed of former military junta wanted to show his good faith after announcing his willingness to enter into dialogue with the Burmese political opposition. In fact, Aung San Suu Kyi, freed in November after seven years of residence monitored and after the last election, very criticized, has met Monday, July 25 Labour Minister Aung Kyi for more than an hour.

Symbolically, many observers welcome this event without seeing a decisive step towards democracy in Burma. In fact, the Minister has just mentioned in an interview that "addressed issues of public policy and the easing of tensions, for the benefit of the people," noting that it was a "first meeting" , suggesting further discussions of this kind. Aung San Suu Kyi about it avoided any direct comment, reaffirming work for the "benefit of the people."

American pressure does play a role in the beginning of the dialogue?

Unquestionably. While U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton ended Tuesday, July 26 a long tour of 11 days in Asia, it sent several clear messages to the Burmese regime calling for an end to military rule and the establishment of a genuine democratic government. "The Burmese authorities can differentiate the previous military regime, showing that they are indeed a" new civil government "that is sensitive to the democratic aspirations and interests of the people," she said in Bali during a meeting with countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean).

For two years, the United States has sought dialogue with the Burmese junta after finding that a policy of isolation of the junta had failed. While maintaining economic sanctions, Washington has repeatedly called for the release of 2,000 political prisoners, dialogue with minorities and democratization. Thus, after the much criticized in November elections, the first in 20 years, the junta was officially disbanded in late March and its powers transferred to a civilian president, former general Thein Sein. However, the military retain control of institutions. In this context, Washington is not fooled but remains convinced that the new system is more conducive to dialogue.

The current regime leave he Aung San Suu Kyi to play a political role?

Here is the question. For now, the Nobel Peace Prize has little room for maneuver. She was able to make a trip outside Rangoon few months ago, but in a strictly private. Its popularity in the province remains strong and the regime does not want to see mobilize crowds against him. For the moment, the political line of Aung San Suu Kyi is to use the margins that the regime gives it, without wanting to break. The scheme takes advantage of this context to give the impression of wanting to talk and get things done.

"If the Minister takes the conversations with her, says Renaud Egreteau, Burma expert at the University of Hong Kong is that the regime wants to get something from the international community, including the United States and the European Union. "The plan notably calls for the lifting of U.S. and European economic sanctions.

In Washington and Brussels on is cautious. Suspicions of developing a secret nuclear program from Burma, in close cooperation with North Korea, compromise is a senior U.S. official called "international legitimacy", which would allow the country to return in the concert of nations, including taking over the rotating presidency of ASEAN in 2014. It will take more than a new meeting with Aung San Suu Kyi to convince the international community of the good faith of the new Burmese regime.

Dorian MALOVIC

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Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Saturday called on the Burmese authorities, who are at a turning point, to choose between the pursuit of a military regime and the establishment of a genuine democratic civilian government.

Authorities Naypyidaw can differentiate the previous military regime, showing that they are indeed + a + new civilian government, which is sensitive to the democratic aspirations and interests of the people (...) or they can continue their current path, she said in Bali (Indonesia), at a meeting on security in Asia.

After the elections in November criticized the first in twenty years, the junta was officially disbanded in late March and its powers transferred to a civilian president, former general Thein Sein. But the military retain control of institutions.

Washington decided in late 2009 to begin a dialogue with the junta, saying that the policy of the West to isolate the general failed. But the United States had nevertheless decided to maintain sanctions, which have been recently renewed.

The international community expects the Government to make real and measurable progress in addressing our concerns, including unconditionally releasing its more than 2,000 political prisoners, leading a meaningful and inclusive dialogue with the opposition and ethnic minorities, including Aung San Suu Kyi, Clinton said.

The winner of the Nobel Peace Prize has been released from house arrest a week after the November elections in which his party dissolved by the junta, the National League for Democracy (NLD), was not involved.

It was early July made his first trip outside Rangoon, a private trip with his son during which she drew admirers moved.

But the question remains its ability to perform real political tour she announced, after warnings from official newspaper New Light of Myanmar such a trip could lead to chaos and riots.

Clinton also called on the Burmese regime to fulfill (...) obligations of nuclear non-proliferation.

The United States suspects since the early 2000s Burma to develop a nuclear program and develop links for this purpose with North Korea, according to diplomatic notes published by WikiLeaks.

In June 2010, the Democratic Voice of Burma (DVB), a television Burmese exiles based in Norway, had quoted a defector from the Burmese army officer and top secret documents to expose a nuclear program with Pyongyang.

The junta denounced the accusations (...) politically motivated.

A senior U.S. official said Saturday that without these reforms, Burma would lack international legitimacy needed for the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) agreed to grant him the presidency in 2014.

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Robert Cooper is, on paper, one of the most influential diplomats in Brussels. This veteran of the Foreign Office, who seconded long the High Representative of the European Union Javier Solana, is now one of the "Missi Dominici" of its successor to the Spanish veteran: British Baroness Catherine Ashton. Seeing Mr. Cooper landed here just to Rangoon to meet Aung San Suu Kyi in particular therefore suggests that the bloc cogitate. What to do while under control since the elections of November 2010, the Burmese military power again appears to have consolidated its position, taking advantage of the Chinese capital, Thai, Singaporean and other still flock? What to say, especially when the drop in opium production down in Afghanistan, gets more beautiful in the Golden Triangle, the result of bad weather and the strengthening of NATO troops these last twenty months ?

The answer is quite simple and it is not nice to write for now, Western diplomats remain defenseless against the generals in Rangoon. The arguments however do not fail to renew the sanctions, as has been done by the European Union in April for one year. The popularity of Aung San Suu Kyi, the face of global democracy is intact, and his portrait continues to float to the European Parliament in Brussels. But beyond words, any shortfall. The effectiveness of sanctions is reduced. China has only done and continues to advance towards the south, via Burma. India notes, more concerned about the strategic ambitions of Beijing that repression in "Myanmar". The 2200 political prisoners known - the actual number is probably higher - languishing in Burmese jails are among the most ignored of the planet held. The amnesty for prisoners, offered by the authorities on 17 May 2011, proved to be a farce, a year of widespread delivery of it.

The trap is closed on the West. Too busy elsewhere, Europe and the United States have, in fact, agreed to give the Burmese folder ASEAN since the bloody suppression of the revolt of the monks in September 2007 . dependent for their Asian allies to contain persimmons Devils Naypyidaw, the new Burmese capital. Result: "As long as western governments will find themselves trapped by the largely cosmetic reforms, the impasse will continue," predicted in May, The Economist, ironically on the nickname given to the former Burma by diplomats in Rangoon: "The Chinese Republic of the Union of Myanmar."

It must, in short, find reasons to get tough. Or, conversely, to loosen the grip. And this is, perhaps, that the coming months will bring their small batch of new elements. The resumption of opium production in the Golden Triangle, confirmed by the UN Office in Vienna, presents this view is a risk for the Burmese generals. For even if the local drug lords have, for sure, high complicity placed within the Chinese mafia and neighboring capitals person in Beijing or Washington wants to revisit this area become an opiate abscess. Monitor the sales curve of drugs from Burma is perhaps now one of the most relevant indicators to assess the willingness or not the international community to intervene and redefine a "Burmese politics." Evidence that trade the brown opium paste, white powder or amphetamines more concerned that the Western attacks on human rights governments. As gross as they are.

RICHARDWERLY
Correspondent for business
European Time (Geneva)
former correspondent in Bangkok
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The Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, accompanied by hundreds of his supporters paid tribute Tuesday to his father Aung San, a hero of independence, for his first nine years in the very official "Day of Martyrs".

General Aung San, the then Prime Minister and several of his ministers, were killed July 19, 1947, several months before Britain formally granted independence to Burma.

The winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, 66, was first laid flowers in the morning to the memorial honoring his father and other figures of independence, at a ceremony held amid tight security by the regime to which she had been invited.

Hundreds of supporters gathered outside the headquarters of his party dissolved by the junta, the National League for Democracy (NLD), where Ms Suu Kyi later met with Western diplomats, was a journalist from AFP.

Many of these activists were later followed the dissident who went for the second time at the mausoleum of the martyrs, in the car. The authorities have left hundreds of people overcome these security posts around the site while photographing the crowd.

Ms Suu Kyi was unable to attend the ceremony since 2002, the year before his last arrest. It was released in November 2010 after seven years of house arrest.

"The struggle for the establishment of a new democratic state has been undermined" by the assassination of Aung San and other "martyrs", said the NLD in a statement.

NLD "will continue to pursue its historic obligation scrupulously to the emergence of a truly democratic Union in overcoming any obstacles that will have to face," she added.

The invitation by the regime to Suu Kyi and her supporters rally came just days after his first trip to province since his release, during which it has attracted admirers moved.

But analysts say the plan does not condone future political activities.

This trip to Bagan (center) with his son was described as strictly private. But she also spoke of his desire to organize a tour of the provinces.

An outstanding project after warnings from official newspaper New Light of Myanmar that could lead to "chaos and riots".

Since its release, the junta passed the torch to a civilian regime appearances, but remains in the hands of the military.

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I still find it hard to believe that the junta has no ulterior motives ...

The opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been invited by the Burmese regime Tuesday to celebrate the "Day of Martyrs", in homage to new figures independence murdered in 1947 by his father, General Aung San, it was reported today 'Today Burmese source.

This is the first time in nine years that the winner of the Nobel Peace can participate in this ceremony. She was released in November 2010 after seven years of house arrest. "The invitation to participate in the day of the martyrs was sent Thursday to the home of Aung San Suu Kyi. She should attend, "said a Burmese government source added that the mayor of Rangoon lead the ceremony at the mausoleum. A source close to the opponent confirmed that it would be this. According to sources within the National League for Democracy (NLD dissolved), the opponent had planned an alternative ceremony and a march of activists from the party headquarters to the mausoleum, where she was not invited.

On 19 July 1947, just months before the country's independence, several ministers and the Prime Minister, General Aung San, had been shot. The father of Aung San Suu Kyi is still today considered a national hero.

The democracy icon has just completed his first trip to province since his release, during which it has attracted admirers moved. But analysts say the plan does not condone future political activities.
This trip to Bagan (center) with his son was described as strictly private. But she also spoke of his desire to organize a tour of the provinces. An outstanding project after warnings from official newspaper New Light of Myanmar that could lead to "chaos and riots". Since its release, the junta passed the torch to a civilian regime appearances, but remains in the hands of the military.

source: human rights watch

The abusive and systematic use of prison labor should be an investigation of the United Nations

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A Burmese senior diplomat stationed at the embassy of his country in Washington has defected to the United States.

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