BURMA BULLETIN
ISSUE 36 – DECEMBER 2009

KEY STORY
• China presses SPDC
• China & SPDC sign key deals
INSIDE BURMA
• Ethnics prepare for conflict
• Opium cultivation increases
• SPDC snubs Daw Suu
• 2010 elections news
• Officials charged with spying
• SPDC dooms Burma’s children
HUMAN RIGHTS
• Detention conditions
• In and out of prison
• Freedom of information
DISPLACEMENT
• Rohingya pushed back
• Burmese migrants strike
INTERNATIONAL
• MPs call for COI
• UNGA condemns SPDC
• Goodbye Gambari
• US sees no progress in Burma
• EU engages SPDC
ECONOMY
• Stiglitz offers advice to SPDC
• From Russia with love
• Power to China
• Credit Suisse sanctioned
OTHER BURMA NEWS
REPORTS