* The Second Panglong Peace Conference concludes with plans to meet again. * Clashes between the joint forces of the Tatmadaw and the Border Guard Force, and the Na Ma Kyar, cause the displacement of about 4,000 villagers in Karen/Kayin State. * Protests greet the Advisory Commission, led by Kofi Annan, on its first trip to Arakan/Rakhine State. * The Arakan State Government issues an order to demolish ?illegal” mosques, homes and schools. * Prisoners continue to face forced labor, exploitation, and extortion in labor camps. * Parliament votes to dismiss three members of the National Human Rights Commission for mishandling a case in which two underage domestic workers were abused. * A man is jailed for nine months for calling President Htin Kyaw ?crazy” on Facebook. * The hydropower commission finishes reviewing the Myitsone dam contract, but a decision will not be made soon. * The Tatmadaw releases 68 child soldiers. * A military tribunal finds members of the Tatmadaw guilty of murdering local villagers in Northern Shan State in July. * President Obama announces the lifting of economic sanctions against Burma/Myanmar and its reinstatement to the Generalized System of Preferences during Aung San Suu Kyi?s first state visit to US. * For the first time in twenty-five years, the European Union is not tabling a human rights resolution on Burma in the United Nations General Assembly.