BURMA BULLETIN ISSUE 19 - JULY 2008

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KEY STORY: 1 Cyclone Nargis... INSIDE BURMA: 4 Martyrs? Day; 4 At the monasteries; 4 Bombs; 5 Food shortages... HUMAN RIGHTS: 5 Arrests and sentencing; 5 Detention conditions; 6 Forced labor continues... DISPLACEMENT: 6 New Rohingya camps; 6 Karen offensive; 6 Safety in Thailand?... INTERNATIONAL: 7 ASEAN ?disappointed”; 7 SPDC ratifies charter; 7 US sanctions; 7 Gambari to visit Burma... ECONOMY: 8 Foreign investment falls; 8 SPDC fundraisers... 8 OTHER BURMA NEWS... 10 REPORTS..... • ASEAN/UN/SPDC Nargis assessment complete: 138,366 dead or missing (61% female); 89% of survivors have less than a week?s food; 800,000 homes damaged; GDP growth projected to lose 2.7%; US$1 billion needed for recovery. • SPDC steals US$10 million in humanitarian aid funds. • Cyclone survivors face eviction and disease. • Seventy percent of farmland in the Irrawaddy delta misses the planting season because of cyclone damage and shortages. • SPDC arrests eight NLD members, nine monks and sentences ten students to jail terms. • Rohingya refugee camp in Bangladesh relocated, four die. Five-hundred Karen villagers flee to Thailand. Thailand deports 35 others. • ASEAN expresses disappointment over the extension of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi?s house arrest and calls for the release of all political prisoners in Burma. • SPDC ratifies ASEAN Charter but objects to human rights monitoring body. • UN Special Advisor on Burma Ibrahim Gambari briefs Security Council members and announces he will return to Burma in August. • Foreign investment in Burma falls 77% over the past year.

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ALTSEAN-Burma

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2008-07-00

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2008-08-01

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English

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