3 BLACK FRIDAY: A SLAP IN THE FACE OF ASEAN: Asean � Paying the Price of Constructive Engagement; Plans for the Future - Another �Road to Nowhere'; SPDC Reshuffle � Rise of the Hardliners; The Big Picture � Nationwide Crackdown & Military Buildup; Attack was Premeditated; Chronology - the Attack & its Aftermath; SPDC Cover-up & Damage Control; Partial List: Dead, Arrested, Detained, Releases; International Response; Rogues Gallery for Black Friday... 36 DEMOCRACY AND DIALOGUE: Razali Locked Out; NLD Trip to Chin State � SPDC Turns Up the Heat; Tissue of Lies; 38 MILITARY THREAT: Building Capacity; Good Friends & Neighbors; Forced Conscription On Rise; Bomb Blasts; Navy Extortion... 41 DRUGS: WA; US Report: SPDC Link to Drugs; EU & Japan: More Money for Drug Aid, Boycott; Regional Threat... 46 ECONOMY: Funny Numbers; Bank Crisis Continues; SPDC Ends Rice Procurement Policy; Petroleum & Hydro � Yet Another Plan; Foreign Trade; Foreign Investment Figures on Decline; Pressure and Divestment; Tourism: Mixed News... 54 AID: Japan: Aid Suspended; Australian Ambivalence; ICRC Pushes for Greater Access; Britain, Sweden, and Norway to Support AIDS Program; UK Wildlife Aid; Aid for UN Drug Reduction Program; UN Development Gap Plan... 56 INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS: Unhappy With Empty Promises; Asean; China � Friendship First; India: Engagement for Security; Bangladesh: Warming Up; Japan Delicately Pushing; US Complains Dialogue Has �Ground to a Halt'; EU: Dashed Hopes; UN: Human Rights Resolution... 62 THAI-BURMA RELATIONS: Economic Links; Border: Murder, Porn, Intrusion; Crackdown Against Thai-Based Dissidents. Refugees... 67 ETHNIC RELATIONS: KNU Protests International Support for Junta; ICG Report: Ethnics Need More Political Influence; KNU Attacks SPDC to Incite Talks; Ethnics: Black Friday Will Bring �Catastrophe'... 68 HUMAN RIGHTS: Forced Labor; Political Prisoners; New Arrests; Student Fracas in Mon State; Right to Food; Freedom of Information... 72 WOMEN AND CHILDREN: Rape; Trafficked Woman Granted Asylum in Australia... 73 RELIGIOUS FREEDOM: 6 Muslims Arrested, Madrassa Destroyed; Burmese Muslim Supplying Weapons to Al-Qaeda? Muslim Leader Calls on Neighboring Countries to Help... 74 DISPLACEMENT: Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs); Refugees; Bangladesh: Rohingya Repatriation Continues; Migrant Workers; Trafficking... 80 EDUCATION: South Korea to Cooperate in Maritime Training; ABSFU Releases Education Report; 80 HEALTH: Repression & Disease... 81 ENVIRONMENT: New Construction in Pagan; Logging; 82 CHRONOLOGY: 1 APR ~ 30 JUN 2003 96 APPENDIX I: RECOMMENDATIONS & EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: "NO SAFE PLACE� 99 APPENDIX II: AUNG SAN SUU KYI'S TRAVELS BEYOND RANGOON.