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Daw Aung San Suu Kyi's Biography. Time Line from October 2, 2003 to February 14, 2004.
Italy has suggested Thailand form a mission of the like-minded to Rangoon in order to move forward the so-called Bangkok Process on democratisation in Burma.``We must encourage reform in Burma, not just condemn them. And that's the reason of my frequent visits to Thailand, because Thailand has taken a very strong leadership role on the matter. And we, as an EU country, are very interested in contributing for a better future in Burma,'' The Italian deputy foreign minister Ms Boniver said.The world's biggest banks are helping the brutal regime in Burma get round tough financial sanctions imposed on it by George Bush.Swift, a technology business owned by leading financial institutions, is setting up Burmese bank accounts in euros just months after the US banned Burma from trading in dollars and US financial companies from doing business with the regime. 'We're shocked that such an important financial institution is doing secret deals with one of the most brutal regimes in the world,' said Mark Farmaner, media and campaigns officer for Burma Campaign UK.
Years
Biography
October 2, 2003
UN envoy Razali Ismail not only failed to persuade Myanmar's ruling generals to free opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi but got no assurance her party would be part of their "road map" to democracy, diplomats said on Friday.The diplomats, briefed by Razali before he left Yangon after a three-day visit today, said neither top military leader Than Shwe nor new Prime Minister Khin Nyunt appeared to have given any ground.Khin Nyunt would not say whether Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy (NLD) would be allowed to take part in a revived national convention aimed at producing a democratic constitution which is one element of the road map, they said. "Khin Nyunt told him it was too early to discuss NLD participation in the national convention," suspended in 1996 after the NLD walked out, one diplomat told Reuters.
October 15, 2003
US Secretary of State Colin Powell says Southeast Asian nations should do everything they can to push for democracy in Burma and the release of opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi. Speaking in Bangkok, Mr Powell said the United States feels strongly about the situation in Burma and the need for Ms Suu Kyi to be released so she can participate in civil society. He said he had raised the issue in all the bilateral meetings he's participated in, and urged Southeast Asian nations to work harder to win Suu Kyi's freedom.
November 3, 2003
UN human rights envoy Paulo Sergio Pinheiro will begin a difficult mission to Myanmar, returning to the military-run country after his last trip was cut short by an embarrassing bugging incident. A United Nations rights envoy has asked Burma's military rulers to let him meet with democracy leader, Aung San Suu Kyi.The request - by Paulo Pinheiro - came at the start of a week-long visit reportedly aimed at persuading the junta to free Ms Suu Kyi. Mr Pinheiro told reporters the government had not replied to his request yet. The envoy is the second high-level UN official to visit Burma since Ms Suu Kyi was confined to her Yangon home in September after major surgery and nearly three months in detention at a secret location.
November 6, 2003
UN rights envoy Paulo Sergio Pinheiro met with Myanmar's democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi. Pinheiro saw Aung San Suu Kyi for nearly two hours at her lakeside residence where she has been confined since September, but details of the meeting were not released. "Apart from confirming that the meeting has taken place, Mr Pinheiro has not commented on it," a United Nations official told to news agency.
November 6, 2003
The MTV music television channel gave a humanitarian award to Myanmar's pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi because she "is an inspiration to us all."Brent Hansen, president and chief executive of MTV Networks Europe, said: "We vehemently support everyone's right to freedom of expression no matter who they are or where they live.
November 6, 2003
Cigarette giant British American Tobacco (BAT) is pulling out of Myanmar after heavy pressure from the British government to withdraw because of rights concerns.The announcement marks a major turnaround for BAT, which had for years resisted pressure from activists to sell a cigarette plant jointly owned with Myanmar's military dictatorship, long condemned for its poor human-rights record.
November 29, 2003
Bhaddanta Vinaya, one of Burma's most revered Buddhist monks and a spiritual adviser to pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, has died at 93. Vinaya - known as ``Thamanya Sayadaw'' or the abbot of Thamanya mountain - died early today at Rangoon General Hospital, where he had undergone treatment for the last week. He had diabetes and reported heart problems.
December 10, 2003
Daw Aung San Suu Kyi's driver on 30 May, Kyaw Soe Lin, who is recently released from Khamti Prison recalled what happened on that day.When NLD supporters were attacked by the SPDC, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi was urged by other NLD members to leave the scene. But she refused to leave her supporters. Although some NLD members wanted Kyaw Soe Lin to drive away, he would not want to drive without Daw Aung San Suu Kyi's permission. Finally, he decided to drive Daw Aung San Suu Kyi away from the scene because the situation became too threatening to the personal safety of the NLD leader who got some cuts on her neck. Later, they were stopped by SPDC near Yeoo, a town in Dipeyin. Immediately, the SPDC arrested everyone who were with Daw Aung San Suu Kyi. The military junta took Daw Aung San Suu Kyi away. 17 NLD members were immediately sent to Shewbo Prison. Two days later, they were transferred to Khamti Prison by air. In July, Kyaw Soe Lin's father, U Ko Ko Gyi, one NLD leader from Mandalay Division was also arrested by SPDC after he returned from visiting his son in prison. (DVB's Interview with Daw Aung San Suu Kyi's driver from 30 May case)
December 23, 2003
Amnesty Group said "Specifically, we were not permitted to visit Daw Aung San Suu Kyi ... currently under de facto house arrest," said mission leader Catherine Baber, deputy director of Amnesty's Asia-Pacific regional program. "The explanation given was that it was not convenient at this time," she told a Bangkok press conference.
January 19, 2004
The world's biggest banks are helping the brutal regime in Burma get round tough financial sanctions imposed on it by George Bush.Swift, a technology business owned by leading financial institutions, is setting up Burmese bank accounts in euros just months after the US banned Burma from trading in dollars and US financial companies from doing business with the regime. The sanctions came into force last August. They forced the Burmese government, which is the world's largest producer of illegal opium and denies a nation its most basic rights, to find alternative currencies to dollars so it could trade with the rest of the world.It emerged last year that Burma was trying to convert its financial dealings into euros. Now The Observer has confirmed that the regime has been successful and that Swift, via one of its regional offices in Singapore, has helped supply software and other key data to do this.Swift members include the biggest names in world banking: Citibank, JP Morgan, ABN Amro and Credit Suisse.A spokeswoman for the Belgium-based business, which generates ?500 million a year in revenues, confirmed that Swift was working in Burma to set up new banking systems and added that, from this March, the organization was asked to bill the country's central bank in euros. The co-operative business is used in 200 countries across the gamut of financial services, from derivatives to e-commerce.'We're shocked that such an important financial institution is doing secret deals with one of the most brutal regimes in the world,' said Mark Farmaner, media and campaigns officer for Burma Campaign UK.
'Those sanctions are designed to cut off finance to this oppressive government but Swift are helping to undermine this. We believe any US directors of Swift are in breach of US law and could be prosecuted.'
February 9, 2004
Burma's Foreign Minister Win Aung yesterday said Suu Kyi could be freed before a landmark national convention planned for this year, and that her crippled pro-democracy party would be allowed to operate normally by then. This story has been told again and again...
February 14, 2004
The military government has released U Tin Oo, the vice chairman of the opposition National League for Democracy from jail and placed him under house arrest. He was arrested in May last year together with dozens of fellow party members, including party leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, after an NLD convoy touring northern Burma was attacked by a pro-government mob.
Italy has suggested Thailand form a mission of the like-minded to Rangoon in order to move forward the so-called Bangkok Process on democratisation in Burma.``We must encourage reform in Burma, not just condemn them. And that's the reason of my frequent visits to Thailand, because Thailand has taken a very strong leadership role on the matter. And we, as an EU country, are very interested in contributing for a better future in Burma,'' The Italian deputy foreign minister Ms Boniver said.The world's biggest banks are helping the brutal regime in Burma get round tough financial sanctions imposed on it by George Bush.Swift, a technology business owned by leading financial institutions, is setting up Burmese bank accounts in euros just months after the US banned Burma from trading in dollars and US financial companies from doing business with the regime. 'We're shocked that such an important financial institution is doing secret deals with one of the most brutal regimes in the world,' said Mark Farmaner, media and campaigns officer for Burma Campaign UK.
Years
Biography
October 2, 2003
UN envoy Razali Ismail not only failed to persuade Myanmar's ruling generals to free opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi but got no assurance her party would be part of their "road map" to democracy, diplomats said on Friday.The diplomats, briefed by Razali before he left Yangon after a three-day visit today, said neither top military leader Than Shwe nor new Prime Minister Khin Nyunt appeared to have given any ground.Khin Nyunt would not say whether Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy (NLD) would be allowed to take part in a revived national convention aimed at producing a democratic constitution which is one element of the road map, they said. "Khin Nyunt told him it was too early to discuss NLD participation in the national convention," suspended in 1996 after the NLD walked out, one diplomat told Reuters.
October 15, 2003
US Secretary of State Colin Powell says Southeast Asian nations should do everything they can to push for democracy in Burma and the release of opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi. Speaking in Bangkok, Mr Powell said the United States feels strongly about the situation in Burma and the need for Ms Suu Kyi to be released so she can participate in civil society. He said he had raised the issue in all the bilateral meetings he's participated in, and urged Southeast Asian nations to work harder to win Suu Kyi's freedom.
November 3, 2003
UN human rights envoy Paulo Sergio Pinheiro will begin a difficult mission to Myanmar, returning to the military-run country after his last trip was cut short by an embarrassing bugging incident. A United Nations rights envoy has asked Burma's military rulers to let him meet with democracy leader, Aung San Suu Kyi.The request - by Paulo Pinheiro - came at the start of a week-long visit reportedly aimed at persuading the junta to free Ms Suu Kyi. Mr Pinheiro told reporters the government had not replied to his request yet. The envoy is the second high-level UN official to visit Burma since Ms Suu Kyi was confined to her Yangon home in September after major surgery and nearly three months in detention at a secret location.
November 6, 2003
UN rights envoy Paulo Sergio Pinheiro met with Myanmar's democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi. Pinheiro saw Aung San Suu Kyi for nearly two hours at her lakeside residence where she has been confined since September, but details of the meeting were not released. "Apart from confirming that the meeting has taken place, Mr Pinheiro has not commented on it," a United Nations official told to news agency.
November 6, 2003
The MTV music television channel gave a humanitarian award to Myanmar's pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi because she "is an inspiration to us all."Brent Hansen, president and chief executive of MTV Networks Europe, said: "We vehemently support everyone's right to freedom of expression no matter who they are or where they live.
November 6, 2003
Cigarette giant British American Tobacco (BAT) is pulling out of Myanmar after heavy pressure from the British government to withdraw because of rights concerns.The announcement marks a major turnaround for BAT, which had for years resisted pressure from activists to sell a cigarette plant jointly owned with Myanmar's military dictatorship, long condemned for its poor human-rights record.
November 29, 2003
Bhaddanta Vinaya, one of Burma's most revered Buddhist monks and a spiritual adviser to pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, has died at 93. Vinaya - known as ``Thamanya Sayadaw'' or the abbot of Thamanya mountain - died early today at Rangoon General Hospital, where he had undergone treatment for the last week. He had diabetes and reported heart problems.
December 10, 2003
Daw Aung San Suu Kyi's driver on 30 May, Kyaw Soe Lin, who is recently released from Khamti Prison recalled what happened on that day.When NLD supporters were attacked by the SPDC, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi was urged by other NLD members to leave the scene. But she refused to leave her supporters. Although some NLD members wanted Kyaw Soe Lin to drive away, he would not want to drive without Daw Aung San Suu Kyi's permission. Finally, he decided to drive Daw Aung San Suu Kyi away from the scene because the situation became too threatening to the personal safety of the NLD leader who got some cuts on her neck. Later, they were stopped by SPDC near Yeoo, a town in Dipeyin. Immediately, the SPDC arrested everyone who were with Daw Aung San Suu Kyi. The military junta took Daw Aung San Suu Kyi away. 17 NLD members were immediately sent to Shewbo Prison. Two days later, they were transferred to Khamti Prison by air. In July, Kyaw Soe Lin's father, U Ko Ko Gyi, one NLD leader from Mandalay Division was also arrested by SPDC after he returned from visiting his son in prison. (DVB's Interview with Daw Aung San Suu Kyi's driver from 30 May case)
December 23, 2003
Amnesty Group said "Specifically, we were not permitted to visit Daw Aung San Suu Kyi ... currently under de facto house arrest," said mission leader Catherine Baber, deputy director of Amnesty's Asia-Pacific regional program. "The explanation given was that it was not convenient at this time," she told a Bangkok press conference.
January 19, 2004
The world's biggest banks are helping the brutal regime in Burma get round tough financial sanctions imposed on it by George Bush.Swift, a technology business owned by leading financial institutions, is setting up Burmese bank accounts in euros just months after the US banned Burma from trading in dollars and US financial companies from doing business with the regime. The sanctions came into force last August. They forced the Burmese government, which is the world's largest producer of illegal opium and denies a nation its most basic rights, to find alternative currencies to dollars so it could trade with the rest of the world.It emerged last year that Burma was trying to convert its financial dealings into euros. Now The Observer has confirmed that the regime has been successful and that Swift, via one of its regional offices in Singapore, has helped supply software and other key data to do this.Swift members include the biggest names in world banking: Citibank, JP Morgan, ABN Amro and Credit Suisse.A spokeswoman for the Belgium-based business, which generates ?500 million a year in revenues, confirmed that Swift was working in Burma to set up new banking systems and added that, from this March, the organization was asked to bill the country's central bank in euros. The co-operative business is used in 200 countries across the gamut of financial services, from derivatives to e-commerce.'We're shocked that such an important financial institution is doing secret deals with one of the most brutal regimes in the world,' said Mark Farmaner, media and campaigns officer for Burma Campaign UK.
'Those sanctions are designed to cut off finance to this oppressive government but Swift are helping to undermine this. We believe any US directors of Swift are in breach of US law and could be prosecuted.'
February 9, 2004
Burma's Foreign Minister Win Aung yesterday said Suu Kyi could be freed before a landmark national convention planned for this year, and that her crippled pro-democracy party would be allowed to operate normally by then. This story has been told again and again...
February 14, 2004
The military government has released U Tin Oo, the vice chairman of the opposition National League for Democracy from jail and placed him under house arrest. He was arrested in May last year together with dozens of fellow party members, including party leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, after an NLD convoy touring northern Burma was attacked by a pro-government mob.
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