23 March 2010: Fear that India may be putting renewed pressures on Burma’s ethnic opposition groups operating along its international borders with Burma, notably the Chin National Front (CNF), is creeping back following fresh high-level talks between the Indian government and the military junta in January.

19 February 2010: Burma is a beautiful country in South East Asia and is rich in natural resources. The population of Burma is about 50 millions according to 2009 UN estimation. She lies between the Asian two giants India and China, and her neighbours include Laos, Thailand and Bangladesh.

The United Nations rights expert is due to visit Burma for the third time later this month since assuming his position in May 2008. Tomas Ojea Quintana, a lawyer from Argentina, is the fourth rights envoy to be appointed by the United Nations to investigate allegations of human rights violations in Burma. Only a handful of countries in the world that face the most serious allegations, have a human rights investigator appointed by the world body.

Analysis

12 October 2009

The date for junta-orchestrated election is closer as Burma’s military dictator Senior General Than Shwe last week confirmed that plans are going ahead with holding a new election in 2010 in accordance with the new Burmese constitution that was passed in a referendum last year.