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Daw Aung San Suu Kyi's Biography. Time Line from June 1, 2003 to June 26, 2003.
British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw signaled further pressure on Burma to release the country's pro-democracy campaigner Aung San Suu Kyi, calling its military rulers brutal, corrupt and incompetent. Straw wrote in the Financial Times newspaper that an existing asset freeze, embargoes on arms and a suspension of high-level contact might be taken further.The junta has held Nobel peace laureate Suu Kyi virtually incommunicado since a May 30 clash between her supporters and a pro-junta group, saying it is for her own safety. "Far from Ms Suu Kyi being in protective custody, the only people being protected by her detention are those in the military regime itself," Straw wrote."They hope that by keeping her, and the democracy movement, incarcerated, they can cling to power. The military government.. is not only brutal, but corrupt and incompetent."
Years
Biography
June 1, 2003
Burma's military junta closed universities and shut down offices of pro-democracy leader Ang San Suu Kyi's party on Sunday, after she and some of her key aides were detained. Burma's universities, the heart of the repressive country's democracy movement, were scheduled to start a new semester Monday, and authorities likely feared students would protest Suu Kyi's arrest.
NLD claims up to 70 people were killed and many more were seriously injured, including Opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, when pro-government supporters attacked her motorcade at the weekend.
But the military Government says only four people died and 50 were injured.
June 6, 2003
FBC has heard that U Tin Oo, the co-founder and Chairman of the National League for Democracy died from injuries.
Dissident groups said National League for Democracy (NLD) vice-chairman Tin Oo, 76, was accompanying Aung San Suu Kyi on a political tour of the region when their car was attacked by a pro-junta mob on May 30. Sources in Yangon said the opposition leader was injured in the head and shoulder when the gang smashed the car's windscreen, and that in the absence of any news about Tin Oo they feared rumors of his death could be true. Finally a minister from the exiled National Coalition Government of Burma said that the Vice-chairman of National League of Democracy, U Tin Oo, is being jailed in Kalay (an India border town).
June 6, 2003
A United Nations special envoy met one of the most powerful men in Myanmar in a bid to secure the release of pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, who has been detained by the military regime for over a week. Envoy Razali Ismail met military intelligence chief Khin Nyunt at about 8:30 a.m. (0200 GMT) and talks were still on an hour later.
June 10, 2003
A United Nations envoy said Tuesday that despite reports to the contrary the Nobel peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi was not injured and was "in good spirits" after more than a week of being held incommunicado by Burma's military government. Actually, he just had a chance to talk to her for a few minutes when she did not have a chance to say anything.
June 15, 2003
Myanmar's junta foreign minister said Sunday that Aung San Suu Kyi is being kept in custody to protect her from a possible assassination attempt, and added that no time frame can be given for the pro-democracy leader's release.
Foreign Minister Win Aung refused to say who the possible assassins would be or why they would want to target Suu Kyi. "We have heard there were assassins coming in the country. I don't know who their target will be," the minister told reporters in Phnom Penh where he will attend the Association of Southeast Asian Nations conference beginning Monday.
June 16, 2003
Universities were reopened.
June 19, 2003
Daw Aung San Suu Kyi's 58th. Birthday.
Foreign Office Minister Mike O'Brien said ''particularly disturbed'' to hear Suu Kyi was being held under Section 10(a) of the 1975 State Protection Law. He described this as the ''most draconian'' of the Burmese military regime's laws, allowing detention without access to family or lawyers for 180 days at a time, for up to a total of five years, with no prospect of appeal. "This completely discredits the regime's claim that she is being held in 'protective custody'. It is totally unacceptable that she should be detained in this manner, and I call upon Senior General Than Shwe to release her, and all other political prisoners, immediately,'' O'Brien added.
The director of the Burma Campaign UK, told Reuters "This law (Section 10a) has been used to put people in prison indefinitely,''
''Insein Prison is more than a prison in Burma (Myanmar). It represents the full apparatus of state repression inside the country. So symbolically it's a pretty hefty move,'' he added.
June 21, 2003
An Red Cross delegation is in northern Burma to meet with imprisoned supporters of opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, who were detained after violent clashes last month. A Red Cross official, Alfredo Mallet, said Sunday that the six-member Red Cross team will stay in the area for about a week, checking the well-being of opposition National League for Democracy supporters who were rounded up after a clash on May 30 with a pro-government group. He said the military government has given assurances that Red Cross officials will be able to meet with anyone they wish, except for the jailed leader of the National League of Democracy, Aung San Suu Kyi. The government says she is being held in protective custody.
However, Mr. Mallet said Red Cross officials expect to see NLD vice chairman Tin Oo, who is rumored to have been injured in the clash.
June 23, 2003
U Tin Oo (NLD Vice Chairman) and some political prisoners who were detained in Kale [Kalay] Prison, Sagaing Division were transferred to Mandalay-Ohpho Prison.The military government has said that only 4 people were killed and 50 people were injured in the incident but eyewitnesses and opposition groups in exile are stating that up to 70 people were killed and more than 200 people are missing and being detained. In order to overcome the disputes, Burmese political organizations in Burma and abroad are demanding the military authorities to allow an independent organization or a UN-led organization to investigate the incident but the SPDC is still refusing the permission.
Britain's assertion last week that the Nobel peace laureate was being held at Insein under a draconian internal security act, after the junta said she was in "protective custody", drew widespread international outrage.However, the ruling military junta has told a Japanese envoy that Aung San Suu Kyi was not being held at the infamous Insein prison as stated by the British government. Who is saying the truth??Japan's Deputy Foreign Minister Tetsuro Yano said military intelligence chief General Khin Nyunt had made it clear to him during talks that Aung San Suu Kyi was not being held in the jail.Asked if Aung San Suu Kyi was being held at Insein, Yano said: "Secretary Khin Nyunt made it clear that he is aware of this kind of information, however, (he said) it is not a fact, it is not a fact." See the next page July 1, 2003 for the true info.
June 24, 2003
United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan calls on Burma's military junta to release pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi from the "truly deplorable" conditions in which she is being held.Mr. Annan expressed grave concern over Ms. Suu Kyi detention, saying the Nobel Peace Prize winner is being held incommunicado and without charges in a jail outside of Burma's capital city. In a statement released by his spokesperson, the secretary general urged Burma's military leaders to "heed the calls of the United Nations and the international community, including members of the Association of South East Asian Nations, to immediately release" Ms. Suu Kyi and other detained members of her National League for Democracy. They were arrested May 30 after her supporters and pro-military groups clashed. The government says four people were killed in the violence, but the NLD says at least 70 people died. The military says Ms. Suu Kyi is being detained for her own protection. But diplomats says she is being held under a law that protects the state from subversive elements. Ms. Suu Kyi has already spent years under house arrest.
June 25, 2003
Stepping up international pressure on Burma, France announced on Wednesday it had invited detained pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi to the Bastille Day reception at its embassy in Rangoon on July 14.''We are counting on the Myanmar authorities, who control her living conditions, to not put any obstacles in the way of her attendance,'' Foreign Ministry spokesman Herve Ladsous said.
June 26, 2003
The Japan government plans to freeze official development assistance to Myanmar until pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi is released from detention, a senior government official said. Senior Vice Foreign Minister Tetsuro Yano said the Japan government found it extremely difficult to extend additional ODA to Myanmar under the current circumstances. The Japan government extended about 2.1 billion yen of grants-in-aid to Myanmar in fiscal 2002, but has not made any payments during this fiscal year. To >> (Part-9)
British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw signaled further pressure on Burma to release the country's pro-democracy campaigner Aung San Suu Kyi, calling its military rulers brutal, corrupt and incompetent. Straw wrote in the Financial Times newspaper that an existing asset freeze, embargoes on arms and a suspension of high-level contact might be taken further.The junta has held Nobel peace laureate Suu Kyi virtually incommunicado since a May 30 clash between her supporters and a pro-junta group, saying it is for her own safety. "Far from Ms Suu Kyi being in protective custody, the only people being protected by her detention are those in the military regime itself," Straw wrote."They hope that by keeping her, and the democracy movement, incarcerated, they can cling to power. The military government.. is not only brutal, but corrupt and incompetent."
Years
Biography
June 1, 2003
Burma's military junta closed universities and shut down offices of pro-democracy leader Ang San Suu Kyi's party on Sunday, after she and some of her key aides were detained. Burma's universities, the heart of the repressive country's democracy movement, were scheduled to start a new semester Monday, and authorities likely feared students would protest Suu Kyi's arrest.
NLD claims up to 70 people were killed and many more were seriously injured, including Opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, when pro-government supporters attacked her motorcade at the weekend.
But the military Government says only four people died and 50 were injured.
June 6, 2003
FBC has heard that U Tin Oo, the co-founder and Chairman of the National League for Democracy died from injuries.
Dissident groups said National League for Democracy (NLD) vice-chairman Tin Oo, 76, was accompanying Aung San Suu Kyi on a political tour of the region when their car was attacked by a pro-junta mob on May 30. Sources in Yangon said the opposition leader was injured in the head and shoulder when the gang smashed the car's windscreen, and that in the absence of any news about Tin Oo they feared rumors of his death could be true. Finally a minister from the exiled National Coalition Government of Burma said that the Vice-chairman of National League of Democracy, U Tin Oo, is being jailed in Kalay (an India border town).
June 6, 2003
A United Nations special envoy met one of the most powerful men in Myanmar in a bid to secure the release of pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, who has been detained by the military regime for over a week. Envoy Razali Ismail met military intelligence chief Khin Nyunt at about 8:30 a.m. (0200 GMT) and talks were still on an hour later.
June 10, 2003
A United Nations envoy said Tuesday that despite reports to the contrary the Nobel peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi was not injured and was "in good spirits" after more than a week of being held incommunicado by Burma's military government. Actually, he just had a chance to talk to her for a few minutes when she did not have a chance to say anything.
June 15, 2003
Myanmar's junta foreign minister said Sunday that Aung San Suu Kyi is being kept in custody to protect her from a possible assassination attempt, and added that no time frame can be given for the pro-democracy leader's release.
Foreign Minister Win Aung refused to say who the possible assassins would be or why they would want to target Suu Kyi. "We have heard there were assassins coming in the country. I don't know who their target will be," the minister told reporters in Phnom Penh where he will attend the Association of Southeast Asian Nations conference beginning Monday.
June 16, 2003
Universities were reopened.
June 19, 2003
Daw Aung San Suu Kyi's 58th. Birthday.
Foreign Office Minister Mike O'Brien said ''particularly disturbed'' to hear Suu Kyi was being held under Section 10(a) of the 1975 State Protection Law. He described this as the ''most draconian'' of the Burmese military regime's laws, allowing detention without access to family or lawyers for 180 days at a time, for up to a total of five years, with no prospect of appeal. "This completely discredits the regime's claim that she is being held in 'protective custody'. It is totally unacceptable that she should be detained in this manner, and I call upon Senior General Than Shwe to release her, and all other political prisoners, immediately,'' O'Brien added.
The director of the Burma Campaign UK, told Reuters "This law (Section 10a) has been used to put people in prison indefinitely,''
''Insein Prison is more than a prison in Burma (Myanmar). It represents the full apparatus of state repression inside the country. So symbolically it's a pretty hefty move,'' he added.
June 21, 2003
An Red Cross delegation is in northern Burma to meet with imprisoned supporters of opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, who were detained after violent clashes last month. A Red Cross official, Alfredo Mallet, said Sunday that the six-member Red Cross team will stay in the area for about a week, checking the well-being of opposition National League for Democracy supporters who were rounded up after a clash on May 30 with a pro-government group. He said the military government has given assurances that Red Cross officials will be able to meet with anyone they wish, except for the jailed leader of the National League of Democracy, Aung San Suu Kyi. The government says she is being held in protective custody.
However, Mr. Mallet said Red Cross officials expect to see NLD vice chairman Tin Oo, who is rumored to have been injured in the clash.
June 23, 2003
U Tin Oo (NLD Vice Chairman) and some political prisoners who were detained in Kale [Kalay] Prison, Sagaing Division were transferred to Mandalay-Ohpho Prison.The military government has said that only 4 people were killed and 50 people were injured in the incident but eyewitnesses and opposition groups in exile are stating that up to 70 people were killed and more than 200 people are missing and being detained. In order to overcome the disputes, Burmese political organizations in Burma and abroad are demanding the military authorities to allow an independent organization or a UN-led organization to investigate the incident but the SPDC is still refusing the permission.
Britain's assertion last week that the Nobel peace laureate was being held at Insein under a draconian internal security act, after the junta said she was in "protective custody", drew widespread international outrage.However, the ruling military junta has told a Japanese envoy that Aung San Suu Kyi was not being held at the infamous Insein prison as stated by the British government. Who is saying the truth??Japan's Deputy Foreign Minister Tetsuro Yano said military intelligence chief General Khin Nyunt had made it clear to him during talks that Aung San Suu Kyi was not being held in the jail.Asked if Aung San Suu Kyi was being held at Insein, Yano said: "Secretary Khin Nyunt made it clear that he is aware of this kind of information, however, (he said) it is not a fact, it is not a fact." See the next page July 1, 2003 for the true info.
June 24, 2003
United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan calls on Burma's military junta to release pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi from the "truly deplorable" conditions in which she is being held.Mr. Annan expressed grave concern over Ms. Suu Kyi detention, saying the Nobel Peace Prize winner is being held incommunicado and without charges in a jail outside of Burma's capital city. In a statement released by his spokesperson, the secretary general urged Burma's military leaders to "heed the calls of the United Nations and the international community, including members of the Association of South East Asian Nations, to immediately release" Ms. Suu Kyi and other detained members of her National League for Democracy. They were arrested May 30 after her supporters and pro-military groups clashed. The government says four people were killed in the violence, but the NLD says at least 70 people died. The military says Ms. Suu Kyi is being detained for her own protection. But diplomats says she is being held under a law that protects the state from subversive elements. Ms. Suu Kyi has already spent years under house arrest.
June 25, 2003
Stepping up international pressure on Burma, France announced on Wednesday it had invited detained pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi to the Bastille Day reception at its embassy in Rangoon on July 14.''We are counting on the Myanmar authorities, who control her living conditions, to not put any obstacles in the way of her attendance,'' Foreign Ministry spokesman Herve Ladsous said.
June 26, 2003
The Japan government plans to freeze official development assistance to Myanmar until pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi is released from detention, a senior government official said. Senior Vice Foreign Minister Tetsuro Yano said the Japan government found it extremely difficult to extend additional ODA to Myanmar under the current circumstances. The Japan government extended about 2.1 billion yen of grants-in-aid to Myanmar in fiscal 2002, but has not made any payments during this fiscal year. To >> (Part-9)
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